Meditations on The Green Weenie

Rachel Maddow tonight did a segment about former Sen. Allen Simpson's interview on CNN. Simpson, now co-chairman of President Obama's debt commission, told Candy Crowley that one way to deal with critics is "stick your finger down your throat and give them the green weenie."



Rachel went into all sorts of explanations about what "The Green Weenie" is. Some of them can be found in the comment section of her blog

But here's one she missed:





(And yes, that's the late, great Jimmy Carl Black, the Indian of the group, on drums.)