Is this the single biggest moment of ownage ever in US politics?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRCWbFFRpnY

Cliche pick, but hard to top.

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

That was wonderful!!!!!

[Eraserhead]

Yeah, an oldie but a goodie.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yeah, an oldie but a goodie.

If only the internet existed at the time. Imagine the reaction on the DailyKos live thread.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Quayle is a mimbo, but am I the only one who finds Bentsen's response assholish and overly affected? Quayle said he had as much experience in Congress as Jack Kennedy; he didn't say he was the second coming of Jack Kennedy.

It was obviously scripted beforehand and Bentsen was just waiting for Kennedy's name to be mentioned.

[Mechaman]

Why Lloyd Bentsen should've ran for president and not Michael Dukakis, Exhibit A.

I mean Bentsen beat Quayle's ass all over that auditorium like the LA Police on Rodney King, granted it was Quayle but the epicness of the asskicking is just astounding. Compare that to Dukakis performance against Bush: pitiful.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Probably.  I can't think of any that would top that classic.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Yes it is. There are other great moments of ownage, but this is supreme among them.

[Joe Republic]

Lyod Beinstein's little eyebrow flick at the 0:16 mark was pure classic.  It was virtually an "O RLY?" facial expression.

[Lunar]

Bensten is a great politician and that was all improvised to a memorized stupid quip.  Hard to find anything more brilliant.

[Lunar]

Lyod Beinstein's little eyebrow flick at the 0:16 mark was pure classic.  It was virtually an "O RLY?" facial expression.

And it was such a flash you could see his response was already completed in a millisecond.  The type of response that contains such offense that modern politicians would spend weeks carefully crafting it.

[Rob]

Yes, and Quayle responds like a little bitch ("that was uncalled for..."). He looked like someone just kicked him in the groin.

I can't believe all those well-heeled Republicans in the audience were booing. Retards.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRCWbFFRpnY

Cliche pick, but hard to top.

This is just a classical line. Maybe not biggest moment of owenage (hard to pick a such), but the best known.

Other great moment "where's the beef" phrase, by which Mondale owes Hart.

[Mechaman]

Yes, and Quayle responds like a little bitch ("that was uncalled for..."). He looked like someone just kicked him in the groin.

I can't believe all those well-heeled Republicans in the audience were booing. Retards.

You can tell by their reaction, and their applauding of Quayle's little bitch response that this was during the days of Reagan, hell I think if it happened today Republicans in the audience would've stayed silent in fear of sounding retarded. But you never know........

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Second-best ownage moment for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjw8m7GmIa4

[Mechaman]

Second-best ownage moment for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjw8m7GmIa4

Watching that made me cry inside for Hart.

[HappyWarrior]

This one does it for me as the greatest one liner ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DteDRD6cbbM

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

This one does it for me as the greatest one liner ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DteDRD6cbbM

Mon dieu, how could I forget about this

[Joe Republic]

Second-best ownage moment for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjw8m7GmIa4

Luckily for Mondale, it was a funnier moment than when he Freudian slipped about thirty seconds later.

[minionofmidas]

Yes, and Quayle responds like a little bitch ("that was uncalled for..."). He looked like someone just kicked him in the groin.

That response is quite funny. Though you're laughing at him, not with him.

[JSojourner]

Quayle is a mimbo, but am I the only one who finds Bentsen's response assholish and overly affected? Quayle said he had as much experience in Congress as Jack Kennedy; he didn't say he was the second coming of Jack Kennedy.

It was obviously scripted beforehand and Bentsen was just waiting for Kennedy's name to be mentioned.

Well, I agree -- it was scripted and Bentsen was lying (laying?) in wait.

That said, Quayle looked like the second coming of Little Lord F**kpants when he said, "That was uncalled for..."  I think his prissy, privileged fratboy response did him in more than Bentsen's (prepared and staged) remark.

That's exactly the Dan Quayle I knew.  You would not have gotten that response from Dick Lugar or Quayle's successor -- Dan Coats.

[Joe Republic]

Although it was a classic, I'd have to disagree that it was total "ownage", because Quayle had the last laugh a few months later.  The fact that Quayle later lost re-election and Bentsen then became Treasury Secretary doesn't quite make up for a 426-111 electoral college defeat, IMO.

[Phony Moderate]

That was great, although i think this is better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-zhNiGlogQ

[Rob]

The fact that Quayle later lost re-election and Bentsen then became Treasury Secretary doesn't quite make up for a 426-111 electoral college defeat, IMO.

I want to say this about my state: When Michael Dukakis ran for President, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Definitely.