Well this is probably not a request the U.S. Attorney General gets everyday.
MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry asked outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder to quack like a duck near the end of her one-on-one interview with him Sunday, following questions about the Voting Rights Act and use of police force.
“You know, we call you ‘The Duck’ in nerdland,” Harris-Perry said.
“The duck?” Holder replied.
“We call you the duck,” she explained. “We say you have a very sort of placid and even way of presenting, but you are just working for justice underneath.”
“Would you quack for us?” Harris-Perry asked.
“Well, I’m not sure I’m going to do that,” Holder replied.
But Holder said that he liked the analogy.
“I was born and raised in New York City, in the 50s and 60s. And for an African-American guy, the thing was to be cool, you know? You gotta be cool,” he said.
“And so on the surface I like to think that’s the way I appear to be. But you’re absolutely right, those little duck feet are just moving as fast as they can underneath and things are going as fast as they can behind the scenes.”
Watch the clip below:
