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During
a contentious congressional hearing on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric
Holder disdainfully told Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) “good luck with
your asparagus.”
Many, including TheBlaze, assumed Holder was mocking Gohmert for
seemingly fumbling his words back in 2013 when he said, “The attorney
general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus!”
Gohmert was ridiculed at the time by Comedy Central’s “The Colbert
Report,” the Washington Post, the U.K. Guardian and more for the
“famously embarrassing” moment.
But Gohmert told Glenn Beck on Wednesday that he did not fumble his
words back in 2013, and was in fact using a quote that goes back
decades.
“Percy Foreman was a very, very liberal criminal defense
attorney, but he was incredible in the courtroom,” Gohmert said on
Beck’s radio show. “When somebody started attacking his integrity, he
stood up and said, ‘I object, he’s casting aspersions on my asparagus!’
And people would scratch their heads, but it brought down the level of
the rancor. I was using a Percy Foreman line from criminal trials back
probably 50 years ago.”
Other research confirms that the line was used in
decades past. A 1973 book by John Dos Passos includes a letter where an
individual says, “don’t think that I’m ‘casting asparagus’…”
And in “The Three Stooges,” a chef even parodies the
line by demanding, “Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?”
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