good, but they are rarely this specific kind of challenge for the moderator to keep a straight face. the statement he made, yeah, it s a slur, it s a vulgarism, it doesn t bother me. that s not the issue. have you ever called anyone a putz yourself? i may have, but i tell you something, i wouldn t lie about it. that was 1998. he lied about it. he did lie about it. that was the issue. 1998, the incumbent senator from new york was a republican, he d already been elected three times, he was running for a fourth term and along came this feisty democrat challenging him for his seat and that democrat was so aggressive, he raised so much money, he went after senator al d amato so relentlessly that it drove the senator to distraction. he s a three-term senator that everyone thought was so tough but he lost it. he calmed his opponent a putz-head at a public meeting and he did lie and his democratic challenger got it on the record, nailed him with it to the point where he was answeri
dictionary of yiddish, putz he says is, one, a term of contempt for a ass, fool, or jerk, or two a term for a simplen the or yokel. an easy mark. it literally means the male sex organ but it that s rarely used. so it gets down to one simple issue. did you use the word to describe your opponent? yes, i did and i used it in the context of being silly and foolish. did you mean it as a term of contempt for your opponent? a term of foolishness. yes, i did call him a putz-head. political debates are always good, but they are rarely this specific kind of challenge for the moderator to keep a straight face. the statement he made, yeah, it s a slur, it s a vulgarism, it doesn t bother me. that s not the issue. have you ever called anyone a putz yourself? i may have, but i tell you something, i wouldn t lie about it. that was 1998. he lied about it.
it doesn t bother me. that s not the issue. have you ever called anyone a putz yourself? i may have, but i tell you something, i wouldn t lie about it. that was 1998. he lied about it. he did lie about it. that was the issue. 1998, the incumbent senator from new york was a republican, he d already been elected three times, he was running for a fourth term and along came this feisty democrat challenging him for his seat and that democrat was so aggressive, he raised so much money, he went after senator al d amato so relentlessly that it drove the senator to distraction. he s a three-term senator that everyone thought was so tough but he lost it. he calmed his opponent a putz-head at a public meeting and he did lie and his democratic challenger got it on the record, nailed him with it to the point where he was answering for in the the debates. that incumbent senator didn t know what hit him. incumbents, especially rich, high-profile incumbents, they should be basically unbeatab