One of Ours

Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky, speaking of Dr. Daniel Mongiardo, a dark-haired, dark-skinned second-generation Italian-American running against him this fall:

"I have to tell you he looks like one of Saddam Hussein's sons... I mean before they were dead, of course...I really mean that he looks like one of Saddam's sons, and he even dresses like them, too."

Bunning made the remarks at a Lincoln-Reagan dinner. After word leaked out, Bunning's campaign denied that he'd said any such thing.

But then it emerged that the event had been videotaped...