Sorry to be such 5 year-olds here, but yesterday during Race for the White House With David Gregory on MSNBC, Tim Russert farted, rather loudly, on the air. We re-winded the moment about 25 times to make sure we weren’t hallucinating, and sure enough, the fart – which occurs about 14 seconds into the clip – was both real and magnificent. See for yourselves, and spend the rest of the afternoon making “windbag” jokes in the comments. (Even though Russert’s fart was so awesome it sounds like a special effect of some sort, this audio in this clip was in no way edited or altered from what aired on TV. We can’t stress this enough.)

(Thanks to our own Christian Finnegan for the tip!)

UPDATE: There has been some comment controversy over whether the noise we heard was actually a fart or not. Help us settle the Broken Windgate scandal by taking our poll after the jump!