The Blue Line

Rattling on about the 2004 election

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Correction: Keyes not completely insane; he's a smelly toad

OK, so Keyes was talking about O'Hare expansion -- a big issue for Illinois of which he knows absolutely nothing -- but he could have been talking about himself:

"It's a little bit like you're standing in a room, and off in the corner of the room there is a deeply smelly toad that is filling the room with a nasty odor," he said. "And everybody's holding their cocktails, and they're wearing their ties and they're fastidiously not talking about the smelly toad. But the room is filled with the stink of it."

The quote is weird enough, but you should have seen it on video. Right before he said "smelly toad," he bulged out his eyes and said it with exaggerated disgust. It was truly scary.