Read this unrolled Ian Millhiser thread to the end to find out who this insane congressman was:
So I have a story about one of the greatest villains of our time. It begins, as so many tales of evil and wingnuttery do, in the Fox News greenroom.
I was booked for an 10:20pm segment. The guest in the segment before mine was a Republican member of Congress.
The way that cable news typically works is there's a makeup room right next to the greenroom. Shortly before your segment, they slather makeup on your face. Then, when your segment is over, you go back to the makeup room to get some wipes to remove it all.
So the congressman does his segment before mine -- again, this was a late night segment -- when he's almost done I get shuffled into the studio. I do a maybe 6-7 minute segment with the host and a conservative guest. Then I get back to the makeup room around 10:30.
When I get there, the congressman is in the middle of the makeup room, ranting about some bizarre conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton and Russia (I think), and he's going on about how Jim Jordan is about to uncover it all.
He's not really talking to anyone in particular.
The poor makeup artists are just trying to do their job as this unhinged man is just standing there ranting. They just sort of walk around him when they have to. He doesn't really engage with them. He just rants.
If he wasn't wearing a suit and a Member of Congress pin, I would've assumed he was just some random person with a very serious mental illness who had somehow gotten past Fox's security and then set himself up, street preacher-style, in the first room he found with people in it.
Anyways, I spend a minute or two removing the makeup from my face. And he's still there, ranting. I duck into the bathroom to take a dump. When I'm done, he's still there, ranting.
Again, this is a member of Congress, and he has nothing better to do on a random weeknight.
Friends, the unhinged man, who was ranting in the general direction of the makeup ladies at 10:40pm on a weeknight, was Ron DeSantis.
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