RAHM EMANUEL ON HIS POLITICAL ENEMIES: "DEAD! DEAD! DEAD!"

"...(Emanuel) is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug. On the night of the Clinton election Rahm Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, Rahm Emanuel grabbed a steak knife, and he began rattling off a list of betrayers. And as he listed their names he shouted, 'Dead! Dead! Dead!' and he plunged the steak knife into the table after every name. This is not a bunch of people that are going to govern from the center."

And,

"According to Washington lore, he once mailed a rotting fish to a former co-worker after the two parted ways, and following the 1996 election, he rattled off Clinton's betrayers at a celebratory dinner, plunging a steak knife into the table and shouting 'Dead' after every name..."