Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the champion of the "Bridge to Nowhere," got up in front of God and country to defend his stance on the telecommunications bill working its way through Congress.  Here’s a brief excerpt from Wired:

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10
o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially…

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And
again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s
not a truck.

It’s a series of tubes.

And if you don’t
understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by
anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous
amounts of material.

Huh?  Seriously, if the Senator doesn’t mind coming off looking like a dumbass then he’s fine, but if he does mind then he ought to fire whoever got him ready for this appearance.  No one expects him to understand all the technical nuances of the internet, but he should at least know the difference between "email’ and "internet".