Louie Gohmert Reveals the Important History Behind Eric Holder’s ‘Good Luck With Your Asparagus’ Insult

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.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, talks about the impasse over federal funding and the Affordable Care Act, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP)

"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'..."

And in "The Three Stooges," a chef even parodies the line by demanding, "Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?"

Beck said it seems as though Holder was not aware of the reference, and has been holding onto the line to use as an insult for almost a year.

"For a year that's been simmering under there," Gohmert agreed, saying if the Justice Department would just produce the documents it has been withholding from Congress, these constant trials and exchanges would not be necessary.

"The guys had a year to think about that line. He has waited a year. That is psychotic!" Beck said.

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