Adam Kinzinger slaps Britt Hume on Twitter

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Link to tweet

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Revealing what a screwed up partisan hack he truly is, and not one for the Country obviously.

hume is a piece of garbage.

[TheBlackAdder]

35. He either lacks objectivity or chooses not to be objective. Neither are traits of a journalist.

[calimary]

37. He's always sounded rather constipated to me.

Looks like it, too.

[leftieNanner]

2. Somebody want to explain to Brit

That this is not a trial?

There is no cross examination in a hearing. There will be no criminal charges coming out of this. The DOJ is the one who would convene a trial.

In those "50 years", did no one explain any of this to you?

It is a bi-partisan committee, Brit.

Sheesh. No wonder Fox viewers are stupid.

[JohnSJ]

8. The other thing that Hume and others like him leave out is they initially agreed to a committee of

5 Democrats and 5 republicans, and McCarthy rejected any investigation, on orders probably from trump.

Once the committee started to proceed, he then changed his tune pushing to have people who supported the big lie. Pelosi told him to go fly a kite. You had your chance and reject. You no longer get a say in these proceedings

The other point made in the OP is the majority of witnesses are republicans, that were part of the trump administration

Those such as Flynn and Eastman took the 5th, and others such as Navarro refused to even appear

Hume is an idiot distorting facts which his network does so frequently. They are an embarrassment to journalists everywhere

[leftieNanner]

20. Great Post

Clarification.

Thanks.

[JohnSJ]

26. I am agreeing with you Nanner

[Mike Nelson]

3. Ha-ha!

... Brit's needed to be slapped for years, now! I wish Liz and Adam would change political affiliation!

[wnylib]

42. Adam maybe, but Liz never.

We do not need more Manchins and Sinemas.

[LoisB]

4. "Cross-examination"? Why do people keep thinking of these hearings as a trial...and what

"both sides"? There was only one "side" attempting a coup that day.

[Grokenstein]

15. Because Sad Weak Orange Poop Man keeps calling it a "partisan show trial"

and fascist toadies always march in lockstep.

[LoisB]

22. Can't do anything except shake my head. Seems as if 25-33% of the country is lost

in the rabbit hole.

[Brainfodder]

5. Just more framing for their STUPID AF base of viewers STILL watching?

...and if you are one, reading this....



FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!




THAT AGED WELL HUH?

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Is that cadaver still on teevee? Worthless

[Mr. Ected]

7. Brit, your "side" are American fascists attempting a coup

Our "side" is utilizing its constitutional imperative in bringing them to justice.

Our side speaks. Your side does too, on film and 5th Amendment testimony.

See Brit? Both sides are participating. But only yours are going to jail.

[Fritz67]

9. Hume's just doing his job...

...because keeping Republican politicians from facing consequences for all of their criminal actions is why former Nixon media advisor Roger Ailes formed Fox "News" in the first place. He wanted to make sure that what happened to Nixon never happened again.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

10. Hats off to Adam Kinzinger

I’d like to see him and Cheney join our party. We have some conservative Dems who who make worse choices than these two.

[markie]

25. yes, good on Kinzinger

however, merely because he and Cheney recognize treasonous behavior when they see it, doesn't mean their politics are any good

[Sucha NastyWoman]

29. It's not just that they recognize it

They have the strength of character to do something about it.

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Adam Is No Dem!

You're spot on. I've spoken with him on 5 or 6 occasions. He's no liberal or dem.
He's a true believer in supply side, thinks balancing the budget always requires spending cuts but never revenue increases.
What he also is not, however, is a brainwashed moron, frothing at the mouth with imagined grievances.
They tried to primary him 3 times with spectacular failure as the result. It took redrawing the map to move him into more braindead red regions to get him out. And, our dem legislature drew that new map.
The Rs never shed him. He's leaving, but for the Rs that was just luck.

[Botany]

11. Yes, Brit it is very one sided. Trump and all his guilty people on one side and the bipartisan ...

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.. committee looking into what those people did on the other side. aka people who support the rule of law and the
US Constitution on one side and those who do not support the rule of law and the US Constitution on the
other side.

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. Both sides means reality vs perception.

[nuxvomica]

13. Remember his twisted argument dismissing troop deaths in Iraq?

It has always stuck with me as a transparent example of how completely a propagandist he is, and how little respect he has for the intelligence of his audience. He compared troop deaths in Iraq at 1.7 per day (based on 160 days) to a rate of 6.6 murders per day in California (based on a year), saying the comparison was reasonable because Iraq is roughly the same geographic size as California, even though California had 240 times the population of Iraq!

More detail:
https://fair.org/extra/are-2000-u-s-deaths-quotnegligiblequot-2/

[robleb]

14. I didn't realize ???

Brit Hume is still alive?
I didn't realize that.
It's a shame.

[SergeStorms]

16. I'd heard....

that Hume swallowed his nose and choked to death. People are saying it's the truth, so I don't know who this guy is pretending to be Hume on Twitter.

[rurallib]

17. One reason Democrats aren't testifying is because

THEY WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE INSURRECTION OR THE COVER-UP
Capiche, Brett?

[Beartracks]

38. Excellent point.

[Paladin]

18. Retire, Brit. Let some other RW asshole take your place. (nt)

[BootinUp]

19. Waaaaa uhh Waaaaaaaa

[Bucky]

23. TBF, the near "all Republican" testimony has been consistently anti-coup

This exposes the January 6 Committee's clear bias against the violent overthrow of the American government. And in that respect it's clearly discriminating against 98% of the Republican Caucus 🤔

[Cha]

24. Epic World Class Samckdown!

Rt💕TY & Adam Kinzinger!

He does have some Zingers!

Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[Me.]

32. Yes It Was

These people need a lesson in analytics, how do they keep their jobs.

[Cha]

33. Aloha, Me!💙

Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[halfulglas]

27. Brit Hume is a pompous pretend journalist all puffed up.

He makes a lot of money pretending to be the serious journalist to Fox's attack dogs. But he's like Ted on Mary Tyler Moore. All puffed up admiring himself for pretending to be a serious journalist. Like he knows what the sides are. There is the reality of the moment but there are never just both sides and if you're insisting on both sides, you're not covering reality. There are as many sides as there are stories. He's just looking for the Republican and the Democratic sides. There was no Democratic side because we weren't involved in the coup. There were the people actively assaulting the Capitol and the people who planned it and are still currently working to affect the outcome. Did we see any Democrats involved in the coup? Would he like to cross-examine the legislators trapped in the House Chambers? "What did you do to cause this?" Is that what he means by both sides because letting what good would it do to let people like Gym Jordan question the witnesses? They would agitate to question Nancy Pelosi about whatever the newest thing is going around. This is like covering the Ukraine war by asking the Ukrainians why they don't hand over their country to Putin. He either doesn't know what he's talking about or he's deliberately obfuscating the issue.

If he wants to make it both sides, the reality was both sides were Republican. There was the Trump Republican assaulting the ultra-conservative Republican in order to stop the certification. Oh, I don't doubt they were ready to do serious harm, even murder, to Democrats if they were to lay their hands on them, but their real objectives were fellow Republicans, especially Mike Pence. That's why it is very fitting to have Cheney and Kinzinger play a prominent role on this committee.

I'm glad there are people like Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney on the panel. I wish we had more like them, but unfortunately over the years most have just gone into politics for the power trip. I might not agree with Kinzinger and Cheney politically, but I don't question their love for our country.

[Rebl2]

28. No cross

examination? This isn’t a trial Brit.

[LiberalFighter]

30. I don't recall the Watergate Hearing being a trial.

Or try to hide the truth.

[Deminpenn]

34. Fun fact

Brit Hume's early career was doing reporting work for Jack Anderson's column.

[lastlib]

36. What is this "both sides" of which you speak, Brit?

There IS no "both sides" here. There is truth; there is Falsehood. Care to take a guess where the falsehood is coming from? If you have been doing this for so many years, as you claim, and can't figure it out, you're an idiot, and you need to get out of the journalism business. You know damn good and well that *one side* REFUSED to participate in any spirit of finding truth, except for L. Cheney and A. Kinzinger. So that side can just proceed with self-fornication, and you have our permission to join them.

STFU.

[BobTheSubgenius]

39. Never heard of a grand jury, have ya, Brit?

Even if this tilt is as you say, it happens all the time. What's happened to the Right's refrain about govt. overreach in warrant-less eavesdropping of various kinds? "If you don't have anything to hide, it doesn't matter.

[ashredux]

40. Haaa... Don't beat up on poor Brit.. Fox News is having a hard time spinning this one

They’re doing the best they can to turn that sows ear into a purse

[Submariner]

41. Hume was insulting to RBG back in '93

RBG had just given her Rose Garden acceptance speech, and Hume of ABC crushed the atmosphere of the event with a humiliating question to the Big Dog about her selection process.

I saw it on TV and have despised him since.

His ilk burn out at the networks and end up downgraded to Fox like Geraldo, George Will, Chris Wallace, etc.