The Internet... "It's a series of tubes"

For this week's comic relief I give you Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska.

Yep, it's simply amazing that tubes... I mean people... can actually be this friggin' stupid...

It's a series of tubes, you know.

Senator Ted (Tube) Stevens Audio
The Internet... "It's a series of tubes."

No, Ted, YOU are a tube. And you're totally clogged.

The scary thing is that this moron is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation which is in charge of all Senate matters relating to, among other things, communications and commerce!

Since this taping, many writers and commentators mockingly cited several of Ted Stevens' total misunderstandings of Internet technology, pointing out that his speech showed that he had apparently formed very strong opinions on a topic which he knows very little about!

Now for the funny stuff...

The Daily Show Video
Jon Stewart Exposes Stevens on Net Neutrality

What is Net Neutrality? Here it is in a nutshell.