theblaze | During a contentious congressional
hearing on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder disdainfully told
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) “good luck with your asparagus.”
Many, including TheBlaze, assumed Holder was mocking Gohmert for
seemingly fumbling his words back in 2013 when he said, “The attorney
general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus!”
Gohmert was ridiculed at the time by Comedy Central’s “The Colbert
Report,” the Washington Post, the U.K. Guardian and more for the “famously embarrassing” moment.
But Gohmert told Glenn Beck on Wednesday that he did not fumble his words back in 2013, and was in fact using a quote that goes back decades.
“Percy Foreman was a very, very liberal criminal defense attorney,
but he was incredible in the courtroom,” Gohmert said on Beck’s radio
show. “When somebody started attacking his integrity, he stood up and
said, ‘I object, he’s casting aspersions on my asparagus!’ And people
would scratch their heads, but it brought down the level of the rancor. I
was using a Percy Foreman line from criminal trials back probably 50
years ago.”
Other research confirms that the line was used in decades past. A 1973 book by John Dos Passos includes a letter where an individual says, “don’t think that I’m ‘casting asparagus’…”
