Does Max Baucus really call handheld video cameras “YouTubes”?

As he traverses the state he has represented in the Senate for 31 years, Mr. Baucus, the Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, never seems far from being buried under some rhetorical avalanche.

After speaking at a preventive-care conference here last week, he was swarmed by protesters. Or, in Mr. Baucus’s words, “agitators, whose sole goal was to intimidate, disrupt and not let any meaningful conversation go on.” There were a couple of people in the crowd “with YouTubes,” Mr. Baucus added (meaning cameras), and he posited that the agitators were paid and probably from out of state. (“I could just sense it,” he said.)

I love that the reporter has to translate for Baucus. He’s apparently been getting up to date on the latest technology with John McCain (“it’s a Google”), George Bush (“the Google”), and Ted Stevens (the Internet is “a series of tubes”).