MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show October 9, 2013
Harpooned the whale. Now heres the thing. The harpoon has a rope attached to it and they tie the rope up to the boat. By virtue of that rope and that harpoon, that little whaling boat is now essentially tied to a very angry whale. Which weighs what, like 40, 50, 60 tons and the whale because it has been stuck with a harpoon, inevitably takes off swimming. And because the boat is tied to it, the whale is towing it, dragging our little 19th century crew in our little boat, across the waves, going ...
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