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A GOP Rep Just Delivered a Haymaker on CNN
townhall.com ^ | January 23, 2025 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 01/23/2025 6:37:59 AM PST by V_TWIN

"Jim Acosta: "This is this is not Fox, congressman. You can't just spin a tale and pull the wool over people's eyes. This is CNN. This is the news. We are asking you to come on and tell the truth."

Tim Burchett: "And that's why more people are watching the Cartoon Network, SpongeBob reruns right now. Jim, look, I left the White House during a riot. My life was threatened. My life has been threatened within the last few weeks, yet there's no coverage of that. And you all continue this, this narrative of attacking Trump. You just can't stand the fact that he won and that America spoke and that your view is very diminished."

Acosta: "That's not the case at all!"

Burchett: "And your view is very diminished!

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: acosta; cnn; cnnfakenews; jimacosta; lol; media; rofl; spongebob; spongebobacosta; spongebobjim; timburchett
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
I am mystified why Republicans still go on CNN.

It's Bongino's third party theorem. You talk with leftist nutcases, not because you think you willl change them, but because other people are listening/reading, and they may never hear the truth unless a truth-teller is there.

21 posted on 01/23/2025 6:52:55 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: V_TWIN

💯.


22 posted on 01/23/2025 6:54:07 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Im am too.

I have no idea why GOP goes on that garbage netwrok.

My thought is they just need to pass on it and help suck the oxygen out of the network.

They are not reaching ANYONE that will be swayed by their debate...and best case they get out usncatherd.

Worst case...they embarrass themselves and give the left soundbites and talking points.


23 posted on 01/23/2025 7:00:47 AM PST by suasponte137
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To: Dilbert San Diego

KO


24 posted on 01/23/2025 7:03:22 AM PST by OKSooner ("I'd be safe and warm, if I was in LA... " Mama Cass Elliott, 1966)
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To: V_TWIN

Tim Burchett of Tennessee has long been one of my favorite members of Congress.


25 posted on 01/23/2025 7:07:50 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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To: V_TWIN

Woulda liked him to have said

“Jim, you are being sent to the Siberia of broadcasting because of your rediculous unhinged tds bias, don’t lecture me about fake news because you sir, are the queen of fake news!”


26 posted on 01/23/2025 7:11:34 AM PST by Bob434
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

He needs to hold training courses on how Republicans should handle these media Aholes


27 posted on 01/23/2025 7:13:53 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Acosta is such and ass


28 posted on 01/23/2025 7:17:23 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: V_TWIN

Ah yes, CNN the same clown show that stood outside burning building in Minneapolis lying about “mostly peaceful protests”


29 posted on 01/23/2025 7:24:08 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: V_TWIN

It’s funny how the aw-shucks Southerners like Tim Burchett and John Kennedy disarm their opponents with country charm and then demolish them with brilliance.


30 posted on 01/23/2025 7:36:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: RoosterRedux

Born and raised in the South it’s been my experience that people from other parts of the country equate the Southern accent with having a low IQ......Never understood it because some of the accents I hear coming out of northeastern states don’t exactly sound like they are the brightest bulbs in the shed.

During my time in the workforce occasionally I had people make that mistaken assumption......more times than not they ended up totally embarrassed and having learned a hard lesson about judging a book by its cover.....or in this case accent.

No idea what music your into but Tom Petty wrote a song called “Southern Accents” it describes perfectly how Southerners feel about being mocked for the way we talk.


31 posted on 01/23/2025 7:51:47 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: V_TWIN
the only time I have ever watched CNN is when I was waiting on a flight in a airport.
32 posted on 01/23/2025 7:52:30 AM PST by Eternally-Optimistic (anything is possible)
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To: V_TWIN

CNN will soon be on the auction block. I’m hoping Musk will buy it at a fire sale price.


33 posted on 01/23/2025 8:01:45 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: V_TWIN

Yep.

As a Southerner who spent most of his career in NYC, I think the “Southerners aren’t intelligent” stereotype stems from a rural vs. urban divide. Rural folks may seem naive about city life, but the reverse is equally true—city folks would be just as lost, if not more so, on a farm, ranch, or range.

Intelligence is contextual, and each environment demands its own expertise.


34 posted on 01/23/2025 8:07:12 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: The Great RJ

Generally speaking......24 hour news channels are probably one of the worst things to ever happen to the television viewing experience.....regardless of which one.

When I was a kid you got maybe 2 hours of news throughout the day and that was more than enough.


35 posted on 01/23/2025 8:08:23 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: RoosterRedux

“Southerners aren’t intelligent” stereotype”

That and we’re all racist card carrying Klan members looking for the next opportunity burn a cross.

Back in the 80s I went to California with my then girlfriend to visit her parents....they had a get together one evening and had invited a black couple they knew. They had been told I was from the deep South and when I met them I could tell they were expecting me to excuse myself at any moment to go change into my sheet and hood because they were there.

It really is unbelievable that people still have that mindset about Southerners in this day and age. SMH


36 posted on 01/23/2025 8:20:01 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: V_TWIN

LOL. I’ve met people over the years that reacted to me in similar ways. I used to tell them just because I was raised on a plantation doesn’t mean that I am in the Klan. “I resigned from the Klan many, many years ago.”


37 posted on 01/23/2025 8:35:24 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: RoosterRedux

“I resigned from the Klan many, many years ago.”

Lol! I’m stealing that! 😁


38 posted on 01/23/2025 8:40:43 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: V_TWIN

Have fun with it. But be ready to run just in case they don’t have a sense of humor.;-)


39 posted on 01/23/2025 8:42:32 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: RoosterRedux

No need to run when Mr Ruger is in your pocket.


40 posted on 01/23/2025 10:07:50 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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