dayton maddowFormer U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton might want to reconsider whether “Glory” is his favorite motion picture. Newly salvaged C-SPAN footage from 2002 showing him getting cut off by John McCain on the Senate floor has given Dayton free national media — a potentially valuable commodity for a guy aspiring to be governor.

The Dayton-McCain moment provides a glimpse into Dayton’s own glory days — and a Gopher State coda to the Al Franken-Joe Lieberman exchange last week that inspired an outraged McCain to claim he’d never seen a senator cut off a colleague after the allotted time for a floor speech.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow makes the most of the shaggy dog story that brought the ancient clip to light. [Via MinnPost]

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