Tom DeLay Adores a Gay Joke

Notable Sugarland roach killer Tom DeLay and Chris Matthews had a positively grand old time on Hardball today, yucking it up in advance of DeLay's appearance on Dancing With the Stars.

"Look at this shoe," DeLay marvels, his head wagging sassily as he holds the footwear up to the camera. "A Texan doesn't wear a shoe like this ... it's a little pahhhump with high heels!" Matthews responds with an all-too-predictable gay joke about DeLay maybe being too light in the shoes, prompting the disgraced former House Majority Leader to cackle.

Most regarded the news of DeLay joining the Dancing cast with confusion, but we should've seen it coming when, back in 2006, the 62-year-old sent out that urgent letter to his constituency begging them to vote for then-contestant Sara Evans.

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