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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBOOM - A republican congressperson from Tennessee jut got taken apart by the guest host on Hardball
Not sure of the ladies name, (guest host) but she set him (Rep. Scott Desjarlais, Douche bag, TN) up, knocked him down, set him up, knocked him down, set him up knocked him down.
It had to be at least six leading questions followed by a smack down.
Started with "How long do you plan to keep doing this? He went on a rant about how HRC, she breaks in and says, "you just used a lot of adjectives, careless, sloppy, unsophisticated, none of which are crimes."
Smacked him for the special treatment meme, with "this statute has been used to prosecute once, for espionage." He tries HRC is above the law, she interrupts, HOW, no one has ever been prosecuted using the statute.
She ended with the question, would Colin Powell be qualified to be Commander in Chief, he thought he had a winner with, "he didn't perjure himself." she immediately shot back, you didn't hold hearing on it. He then tried to squeeze in "Apples and Oranges." She didn't let him and followed up with no, it is Apples and Apples. He looked green!
Catch it on the repeat, or I'm sure Media Matters or Crooks and Liars will have it up.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)handmade34
(22,758 posts)one of the best!
stopbush
(24,397 posts)so it's possible she isn't getting the memos on going easy on Rs these days at the FORMER liberal newschannel.
BTW - they recently gave her a weekend show that is must see TV - AM Joy.
calimary
(81,523 posts)I saw that. She is as sharp as a tack! I'm glad they have her back on the air.
spanone
(135,891 posts)Late in the 2012 election campaign, more events from DesJarlais's personal life became public, making the race against Stewart "one of the ugliest Tennessee congressional races in decades". In October 2012 the Huffington Post obtained a transcript of a recorded September 2000 phone conversation in which DesJarlais pressured a mistress to get an abortion. DesJarlais repeatedly denied that he himself had taped the conversation. In October he wrote to supporters on Facebook, "The media wrongly reported that I recorded the conversation myself. I was recorded unknowingly and without my consent." Nine days before the general election a second woman came forward to state that she began dating DesJarlais while she was his patient. She alleged that the two smoked marijuana together and that he prescribed pain medications for her while at his hous
Two weeks after DesJarlais won the 2012 election, the Chattanooga Times Free Press obtained a full transcript of DesJarlais's 2001 divorce proceedings. The transcript revealed that DesJarlais had admitted under oath to at least six sexual relationships with people he came in contact with while he was chief of staff at Grandview Medical Center in Jasper, Tennessee. Among them were three co-workers, two patients and a drug representative. The transcript also revealed that he and his former wife had had two abortions. The transcript also revealed that DesJarlais had admitted under oath that he and his former wife had recorded the phone conversation with the mistress. "One of the biggest mistakes I made was I commented to the press before I had the opportunity to go back and read a transcript that was 13, 14 years old," he said in an interview with the Knoxville News Sentinel. "It was never my intention to mislead anyone, and had I read this, I don't think the inaccuracies that occurred would have taken place."
Three weeks after he won the election, DesJarlais announced on a conservative talk radio show that "God has 'forgiven me' and asked 'fellow Christians' and constituents 'to consider doing the same'."
Formal reprimand
In October 2012, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) requested that the Tennessee Board of Health investigate evidence that DesJarlais had had a sexual relationship with a patient, in violation of the Tennessee Medical Practice Act. The complaint was investigated and in May 2013 DesJarlais was formally reprimanded by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners for having sex with patients and was fined $500 - calculated by the Board as "$250 per patient" - and $1000 in costs. He did not contest the charge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_DesJarlais
p.s. he's a right to lifer....
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)I'm sorry I missed it the first time around. The clown sounds like a real jerk.
Lance Bass esquire
(671 posts)He was really pissed about neither HRC or Trump Monkey talk about veterans care, just going back and forth ripping each other instead of talking issues was what he was saying.
I liked her taking on the idiot from TN but to be fair she looked stunned and poorly when Montel laid into her.
Just my opinion.
madamesilverspurs
(15,810 posts)His cause is most certainly just, no argument there. But expecting every candidate to share his singular focus is unrealistic, and getting pissy about it doesn't help. He was unnecessarily rude to Reid, as though she was at fault for the candidates' choice of speech topics. Surprising, he's usually better than that.