bobbing in a pool of his own chum is texas state representative larry taylor who is being attacked just because at a hearing last thursday he had harsh words for insurance companies who didn't pay the claims of disaster victims in a timely manner. >> your job is to pay the clients. don't nitpick, don't try to jew them down-- . >> stephen: yes. i think we can all agree that's probably a bad term. i mean come on, this is the 21st century. if a republican wants to criticize in a way that's acceptable, don't say jew them down. say muslim them down. or gay them up. or mexican them sideways. now folks, i want to be clear here. i am not defending what representative taylor said. but there's no need for the media to pile on him like a bunch of cheer keys on a bottle of fire water which is a phrase i regret using. now i would just like to point out, i would like to

chum is texas state representative larry taylor who is being attacked just because at a hearing last thursday he had harsh words for insurance companies who didn't pay the claims of disaster victims in a timely manner. >> your job is to pay the clients. don't nitpick, don't try to jew them down-- . >> stephen: yes. i think we can all agree that's probably a bad term. i mean come on, this is the 21st century. if a republican wants to criticize in a way that's acceptable, don't say jew them down. say muslim them down. or gay them up. or mexican them sideways. now folks, i want to be clear here. i am not defending what representative taylor said. but there's no need for the media to pile on him like a bunch of cheer keys on a bottle of fire water which is a phrase i regret using. now i would just like to point out, i would like to point out how quickly taylor

now folks, larry taylor will be represented by this photo of him. now science tells us that the brain has two lobes. the right side of the brain houses the ethnic stereotype lobe while the left side of the brain contains the knowledge that there is a camera pointed at him. apparently, apparently the connection between these two sides was at some point severed. (laughter) one imagines during an industrial accident where let's say a saw blade went out of control and penetrated his skull cutting the corpos colossum so when he said the probably bad term "jew him down" over here, this side didn't know and could not stop it from emerging from his mouth, whereupon it entered his left ear, thus triggering the medula-i-[bleep]-up-allotta. >> also, also i know how to draw snoopy. (cheers and applause) and that is the miracle of biology. taylor has since issued a written apology saying i inadvertently used a phrase that many people find offensive. i regret my poor choice of words. you see, he inadvertently used a phrase that many people find offensive. meaning