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RACHEL MADDOW: Welcome back to the Rachel Maddow show, where this next story makes my sheep friends very uncomfortable.

Alright, there is a former Republican Governor of Nevada; former Republican Senator, as well.  His name is Paul Laxalt.  l-a-x-a-l-t – I think how you say it is, if I’m wrong, I’m very sorry.

Laxalt is in the Washington Post today because every year for the past 28 years, he hosted a dinner at the Georgetown club in Washington, DC.

This year, the dinner ended up being newsworthy.  Because there were lots republican bigwigs there; as always. Dick Cheney, for example was there.  Ed Rollins who ran Huckabee’s White House campaign. This guy was there – Ted Stevens

TED STEVENS: The internet is not something you that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

RACHEL MADDOW: Ted Stevens there, Cheney there, Ed Rollins, the former V.A. Secretary Jim Nicholson, the White House counsel is there – Fred  Fielding, all at this Paul Laxalt dinner at the Georgetown club.  And the dinner makes the Washington Post today because at the dinner, the White House counsel Fred Fielding.  Choked.

He got something stuck in his throat while he was eating. He got a very public administration of the heimlich maneuver from a Mitt Romney campaign guy named Ron Kaufman, who ran up behind Fielding and heimliched him – then Ed Rollins the Huckabee campaign manager took over and he started heimliching him.  Then Rollins pulled over a chair and jumped up on it to try to get a better angle for heimliching the White House counsel – and finally – after all this ...

Boink!  The offending, choking thing, either pops out of the Fred Fielding’s mouth, or it pops down his gullet, one or the other.  There are conflicting reports.   But it’s good news.  The White House Counsel, Fred Fielding – successfully heimliched... Not dead.

The reason this story is on this radio show today?  Is because of what we’ve learned about this dinner – by virtue of the fact that Fred Fielding’s choking got it into the newspapers.  This dinner? Paul Laxalt’s annual dinner at the Georgetown club?

Is all male.  And all sheep balls.

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RACHEL MADDOW: The Washington Post today describes the dinner as an “all male annual lamb fry dinner at the Georgetown club”  And it’s not just any lamb fry –  this is the annual all-male Georgetown-club republican powerbrokers lamb testicle fry.

They get together every year and eat fried lamb balls together without women…hmmkay?