Acosta and MTG have heated exchange outside Capitol

[WV222]

https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1519754182894497794?s=20&t=vL9PCjiHmIfikjA...

[Hermit For Peace]

She said: "You know what your problem is? You're a liar." I don't know, Acosta seems to call them as he sees them, he doesn't have to lie.

MTG, on the other hand.... says things like, I don't remember stuff that has already been recorded for me to see in actual reality. I'd rather argue that you are a liar. Because I don't really know what I'm talking about except that Satan is in Churches. She reasons like this, it appears to me.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

She said: "You know what your problem is? You're a liar." I don't know, Acosta seems to call them as he sees them, he doesn't have to lie.

MTG, on the other hand.... says things like, I don't remember stuff that has already been recorded for me to see in actual reality. I'd rather argue that you are a liar. Because I don't really know what I'm talking about except that Satan is in Churches. She reasons like this, it appears to me.

how dare you imply there isn’t a Jewish space laser!!!!!

[Hermit For Peace]

She said: "You know what your problem is? You're a liar." I don't know, Acosta seems to call them as he sees them, he doesn't have to lie.

MTG, on the other hand.... says things like, I don't remember stuff that has already been recorded for me to see in actual reality. I'd rather argue that you are a liar. Because I don't really know what I'm talking about except that Satan is in Churches. She reasons like this, it appears to me.

how dare you imply there isn’t a Jewish space laser!!!!!

I don't keep up with all the weird stuff she says. I just keep wondering what the people are like in her part of the state that voted her in? Are they just as seemingly crazy as she?

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

She said: "You know what your problem is? You're a liar." I don't know, Acosta seems to call them as he sees them, he doesn't have to lie.

MTG, on the other hand.... says things like, I don't remember stuff that has already been recorded for me to see in actual reality. I'd rather argue that you are a liar. Because I don't really know what I'm talking about except that Satan is in Churches. She reasons like this, it appears to me.

how dare you imply there isn’t a Jewish space laser!!!!!

I don't keep up with all the weird stuff she says. I just keep wondering what the people are like in her part of the state that voted her in? Are they just as seemingly crazy as she?

She got in similar to Cawthorn. An open safe seat in a runoff primary state. About a dozen people run and she just happened to be in the top two so could consolidate the far right vote over the establishment vote

[ProudModerate2]

Does she not consider that the "way she behaves" makes people "sick to their stomach"?

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Lots of alternating between “that’s not what the text means” and “I didn’t say that” lmao

[7,052,770]

I think she would come out better if she said "yeah I wanted martial law, what about it?" then the "I don't know what I said" silliness.

[Inmate Trump]

There are people who like this woman.

People on this forum.

It's mind-boggling.

[MarkD]

Can somebody please explain to me why in recent years, more and more first-term members of Congress are getting so much attention in the press? It happened 2-3 years ago with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now it's happening with MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn. First-termers should be quietly casting votes and angling to get on a prestigious committee (Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Rules, or Ways & Means), but the press should be ignoring the freshmen and focusing their attention on members of Congress who have more seniority.

Just my beef du jour.

[Ferguson97]

Can somebody please explain to me why in recent years, more and more first-term members of Congress are getting so much attention in the press? It happened 2-3 years ago with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now it's happening with MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn. First-termers should be quietly casting votes and angling to get on a prestigious committee (Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Rules, or Ways & Means), but the press should be ignoring the freshmen and focusing their attention on members of Congress who have more seniority.

Just my beef du jour.

Because they are very active on social media and are going out of their way to get into the news.

You don't hear about Sara Jacobs or Cliff Bentz or Victoria Lange because they just do their job quietly. (Case in point - 2 of those 3 people are real freshman members of congress, 1 is made-up. Can you tell which it is?)

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

The way she's talking in this video is reminiscent of gaslighting.

[DrScholl]

So now she doesn't act so tough. If she was really as tough as she claims to be she would own all those text and everything else she's done by saying "sure enough did".

[ProudModerate2]

Lots of alternating between “that’s not what the text means” and “I didn’t say that” lmao

She goes back-and-forth in the video about her demand to Acosta to just read the text, to see what it says verbatim ... but yet makes claim that it's not her text. So then why the (her) huge defense of wanting to know exactly what it says? If it's not her text, she should not be interested in trying to defend what it "actually says."
She is such a NutJob Fool.

[Schiff for Senate]

Can somebody please explain to me why in recent years, more and more first-term members of Congress are getting so much attention in the press? It happened 2-3 years ago with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now it's happening with MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn. First-termers should be quietly casting votes and angling to get on a prestigious committee (Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Rules, or Ways & Means), but the press should be ignoring the freshmen and focusing their attention on members of Congress who have more seniority.

Just my beef du jour.

Because they are very active on social media and are going out of their way to get into the news.

You don't hear about Sara Jacobs or Cliff Bentz or Victoria Lange because they just do their job quietly. (Case in point - 2 of those 3 people are real freshman members of congress, 1 is made-up. Can you tell which it is?)

Maybe it's just because I'm a nerd about politics, but it's Lange who's fictional. I was skepitcal there was a Victoria Lange in Congress even before I read the bolded section of your post (though there is a Ukranian-American first-term Republican, Victoria Spartz, from IN05 north of Indianpolis), but I do know of Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and Cliff Bentz (R-OR02).

[Schiff for Senate]

Can somebody please explain to me why in recent years, more and more first-term members of Congress are getting so much attention in the press? It happened 2-3 years ago with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now it's happening with MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn. First-termers should be quietly casting votes and angling to get on a prestigious committee (Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Rules, or Ways & Means), but the press should be ignoring the freshmen and focusing their attention on members of Congress who have more seniority.

Just my beef du jour.

That's how it should be, yes, that's how it used to be and that's how it still is most of the time. However, certain newer members of Congress - Cawthorn, MTG, and Omar and Tlaib when they were in their first term - crave attention and, to use Washingtonian lexicon, are more interested in being showhorses than workhorses. Especially Cawthorn - he's a clown who's spet a lot less time legislating than he in the news for saying and doing dumb and dangerous things. And when he is actually in Congress, he can't resist attention-seeking behaviour:

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Acosta is extremely punchable, but so is she.

[Schiff for Senate]

Acosta is extremely punchable, but so is she.

Say this about a Democrat/liberal and the red avatars would be all over you for "EnDoRsInG vIoLeNcE aGaInsT wOmEn". Not that I disagree (by the way, Jimmy Kimmel also agrees with you).

Can somebody please explain to me why in recent years, more and more first-term members of Congress are getting so much attention in the press? It happened 2-3 years ago with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now it's happening with MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn. First-termers should be quietly casting votes and angling to get on a prestigious committee (Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Rules, or Ways & Means), but the press should be ignoring the freshmen and focusing their attention on members of Congress who have more seniority.

Just my beef du jour.

That's how it should be, yes, that's how it used to be and that's how it still is most of the time. However, certain newer members of Congress - Cawthorn, MTG, and Omar and Tlaib when they were in their first term - crave attention and, to use Washingtonian lexicon, are more interested in being showhorses than workhorses. Especially Cawthorn - he's a clown who's spet a lot less time legislating than he in the news for saying and doing dumb and dangerous things. And when he is actually in Congress, he can't resist attention-seeking behaviour:

Yes, I can readily understand why they SEEK attention, but my question is why do the media GIVE them attention? Reporters can choose who deserves to get attention and who doesn't, and lately the judgment of most reporters seems so questionable.

Can somebody please explain to me why in recent years, more and more first-term members of Congress are getting so much attention in the press? It happened 2-3 years ago with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now it's happening with MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn. First-termers should be quietly casting votes and angling to get on a prestigious committee (Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Rules, or Ways & Means), but the press should be ignoring the freshmen and focusing their attention on members of Congress who have more seniority.
Just my beef du jour.

Because they are very active on social media and are going out of their way to get into the news.

You don't hear about Sara Jacobs or Cliff Bentz or Victoria Lange because they just do their job quietly. (Case in point - 2 of those 3 people are real freshman members of congress, 1 is made-up. Can you tell which it is?)

Maybe it's just because I'm a nerd about politics, but it's Lange who's fictional. I was skepitcal there was a Victoria Lange in Congress even before I read the bolded section of your post (though there is a Ukranian-American first-term Republican, Victoria Spartz, from IN05 north of Indianpolis), but I do know of Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and Cliff Bentz (R-OR02).

Thank you. I didn't feel like joining Ferguson97's enticement to join a Sesame Street game of "Which of these things is not like the other?"

I will be deleting this post later today.

Because it generates more views and it's what people want to hear. Why not give/tell the people what they want to hear and report on stories they're interested in? And in all fairness, I can't blame Americans for being less interested in something obscure in Congress than they are in a member of Congress discussing being invited to an orgy.

That said, journalists really should focus more on government instead of headline-grabbers from attention-seekers and horse race journalism, whether or not it helps with the base.

[President Johnson]

People should realize she's a just shameless attention wh*re doing all this BS for publicity and ignore it.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Not a fan of MTG, but it was great when she forced him to actually read the text he was lying about and exposed his dishonesty. Acosta kept saying her text called for martial law but when he read it she clearly did NOT call for martial law. This is the DeSantis strategy of making dishonest "journalists" actually read out loud on camera the stuff they are deliberately misinterpreting. There is plenty to attack MTG on without lying.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Not a fan of MTG, but it was great when she forced him to actually read the text he was lying about and exposed his dishonesty. Acosta kept saying her text called for martial law but when he read it she clearly did NOT call for martial law. This is the DeSantis strategy of making dishonest "journalists" actually read out loud on camera the stuff they are deliberately misinterpreting. There is plenty to attack MTG on without lying.

What does the text mean in context?

[Mr. Reactionary]

Not a fan of MTG, but it was great when she forced him to actually read the text he was lying about and exposed his dishonesty. Acosta kept saying her text called for martial law but when he read it she clearly did NOT call for martial law. This is the DeSantis strategy of making dishonest "journalists" actually read out loud on camera the stuff they are deliberately misinterpreting. There is plenty to attack MTG on without lying.

What does the text mean in context?

That she didnt have a position on other people calling for martial law.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Not a fan of MTG, but it was great when she forced him to actually read the text he was lying about and exposed his dishonesty. Acosta kept saying her text called for martial law but when he read it she clearly did NOT call for martial law. This is the DeSantis strategy of making dishonest "journalists" actually read out loud on camera the stuff they are deliberately misinterpreting. There is plenty to attack MTG on without lying.

What does the text mean in context?

That she didnt have a position on other people calling for martial law.

Wait, did news media make up the text, whole cloth?

[Mr. Reactionary]

Not a fan of MTG, but it was great when she forced him to actually read the text he was lying about and exposed his dishonesty. Acosta kept saying her text called for martial law but when he read it she clearly did NOT call for martial law. This is the DeSantis strategy of making dishonest "journalists" actually read out loud on camera the stuff they are deliberately misinterpreting. There is plenty to attack MTG on without lying.

What does the text mean in context?

That she didnt have a position on other people calling for martial law.

Wait, did news media make up the text, whole cloth?

She sent out a text and said "some people have called for martial law but I am not decided on that matter."

[Ferguson97]

Not a fan of MTG, but it was great when she forced him to actually read the text he was lying about and exposed his dishonesty. Acosta kept saying her text called for martial law but when he read it she clearly did NOT call for martial law. This is the DeSantis strategy of making dishonest "journalists" actually read out loud on camera the stuff they are deliberately misinterpreting. There is plenty to attack MTG on without lying.

What does the text mean in context?

That she didnt have a position on other people calling for martial law.

Wait, did news media make up the text, whole cloth?

She sent out a text and said "some people have called for martial law but I am not decided on that matter."

Okay so no, Acosta didn't lie. "I don't have a position on Trump declaring martial law to stop the peaceful transition of power" is code for "I want Trump to declare martial law, but won't say it out loud." This is not exactly the type of thing that you remain neutral on!