Posted on 01/05/2023 11:04:20 AM PST by george76
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) started another altercation on social media platform Twitter this week, attacking Fox News’ Tucker Carlson after the latter dubbed him a “surrogate for Kevin McCarthy” and “the snarling face of the donor class.”
“If people oppose you in in a election, you typically try and win them over,” Carlson said on Wednesday. “You assuage their concerns, you promise them things, you wheel, you deal, you trade some horses, you massage their egos. You don’t scream at them.”
“And yet today, Congressman Dan Crenshaw of Texas – surrogate for Kevin McCarthy – did [scream at them],” Carlson continued.
Carlson’s remarks were in response to Crenshaw’s claim that representatives not voting for McCarthy to be House Speaker are “terrorists.”
“So you may like Kevin McCarthy or not, but no matter how you feel you have to acknowledge – if you’re being honest – that people who don’t like Kevin McCarthy have a reason for that,” Carlson added. “They have real concerns, real issues.”
Carlson went to state that “What you just saw, as Dan Crenshaw was speaking, was the snarling face of the donor class.”
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Crenshaw, known for becoming upset enough at critics to attack and insult them with vulgarity, immediately took to Twitter to express the negative emotions he felt towards Carlson’s monologue.
Unclutch your pearls. It’s a figure of speech,” Crenshaw stated. “You can’t insult, slander, and hold everyone hostage with no way out – and not expect me to punch back. Grow thicker skin.”
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Crenshaw became the focus of public ire in September after he attempted to shame and attack a conservative comedian who confronted him over policy differences this week.
Comedian and performance artist Alex Stein confronted Crenshaw over foreign policy differences on Wednesday. Crenshaw responded by trying and failing to grab Stein’s phone, and hurling a slew of insults at the comedian.
“Look, you’re too slow,” Stein jibed. “He’s too slow, Navy Seal. It’s funny Dan how you said I’m small, but I’m so much taller than you, Dan. I’m so much bigger than you.”
After Stein’s footage of the exchange went viral on Twitter, Crenshaw uploaded an edited video of the conversation in which he attempted to portray Stein as attacking him for being a military veteran.
“Well, America, this is what happens when our culture degrades boys and doesn’t teach them to be men,” Crenshaw wrote. “They end up like Alex Stein, a shameless, pathetic provocateur that is so desperate for clicks he will shame a group of veterans for their service.
“Tucker can be brilliant. This was not.”
Crenshaw is rarely if ever “brilliant”.
I don’t even care about Crenshaw. It’s just annoys me when Tucker is being less than candid.
R-Ukraine.
You don’t throw terms like ‘terrorists’ to describe people in your own party in a public forum. And don’t give me its a ‘figure of speech’ nonsense. And that word, coming from a vet is even more egregious.
I don’t support him using the word either. But he did not mean it as an actual domestic terrorist or foreign terrorist. He obviously meant it as the people obstructing the election of the speaker and he used a term that was an exaggeration.
Yeah, I am really surprised at his behavior.
I’m a huge fan of Peter Falk.
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It’s a figure of speech,” Crenshaw stated.
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No, “Terrorist” is not a figure of speech.
It is a Major Federal crime.
I get that reference.
It’s a good one too.
Patch doesn’t need to wear it. No one would know Falk only had one eye.
The media will run it as conservatives being terrorists (or domestic terrorists) something they have been doing for years...see, even a Republican vet thinks conservatives are terrorists...so in my opinion he knew exactly what he was saying because he knew the media would run with it and hoped it would apply pressure on the opposition to McCarthy to cave.
Sorry. I watched it and Tucker was spot on.
Anybody calls me a terrorist, political or not, can expect the gloves to come off.
Crenshaw is scum.
He’s like Liz Cheney….without all the testosterone
Eyepatch McCain
Tucker sounding more and more like Morning Joe. Just one nasty insult after another these days from him.
/eyeroll.
Is this the same Crenshaw who would NEVER call democrats ‘terrorists’ or even object to the almost two years of BLM and Antifa rioting, looking and burning our cities down?
I don’t care what he thinks.
The point is Ukraine isn’t an issue. Whether they win or lose, live or die, it’s not an issue for the West. For them sure. Not for us. There is no Ukraine issue. That’s the point your ilk fail to get.
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