Thanks, Senator, for that internets primer

I almost posted this on the political blog, but it's really just straight humor, no matter the source.

First, a little background. Senator Ted Stevens is the guy who DEMANDED that a $223M bridge be built in his state of Alaska, to serve the 50 or so people that live on the island to be bridged to. This was part of a bill that included the down payment on a half BILLION dollar bridge to a nearly deserted port in Anchorage. He threw a fit on the floor of the Senate when it was suggested that some of that money would be better served rebuilding the Interstate 10 bridge across Lake Ponchartrain wiped out by hurricane Katrina. (ok, brief political commentary: with extreme big-governement-spending waste like that at the expense of people in need, there's no problem guessing which party he's with)

Here's part of his explanation on why internet services like Google should be taxed out of existence, and those taxes be given to the giant telecom corporations:

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...


They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

It's a series of tubes.


And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Really, you can't make stuff this bizarre up. What a loon. I don't begrudge him for not knowing anything about "the internets", but if you don't know, don't make up something so bizarre.
Anyhoo, here's a link to that reference on boing boing, and the longer quote on Wired.