How a Lindsey Graham Joke Turned into a Coup Plot Against the Government
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) rushes to the Senate chamber to vote on an attempt to override U.S. President Barack Obama's veto of the Keystone XL Pipeline legislation March 4, 2015 in Washington, DC.
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesWell, you can't catch everything. This past Sunday, I was one of a handful of reporters listening to South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham make his first pitch to New Hampshire as a presidential candidate at the inaugural Politics and Pie town hall in Concord. Most of the time, I took notes; for about 6 percent of the speech, I chatted with people at the back of the room. I was slightly distracted during this answer to a question about undoing the automatic defense cuts of sequestration.
The answer, which appears at around 1:13:20 in my tape of the town hall meeting–uploaded here–didn't get a ton of laughs. Some rueful chuckles. Not much else. I didn't write it up, and nor did the Concord Monitor or Fox News, which also had reporters in the room.