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'Call Me Senator!'

Remember Senator Barbara Boxer's (D-CA) admonition to Brigadier General Michael Walsh at a Senate hearing to call her "Senator" instead of "ma'am"? She appeared completely clueless as eyes rolled, and the encounter went viral on YouTube.

A year later the episode has turned into a spoof directed by David Zucker, who did such films as Airplane and An American Carol.


Apparently quickly realizing her faux pas soon after the original "ma'am, general" exchange last year, Boxer called the general and the two reportedly "expressed their respect for each other."