Nunes walks back 'go to your local pub' comments, blames media for creating coronavirus panic

[Zorro]

Source: USA Today

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., appeared on Fox News on Monday night and walked back previous comments where he had contradicted public health experts and encouraged Americans to “go to a local restaurant” during the coronavirus crisis.

Sunday, Nunes said, “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say, one of the things you can do if you’re healthy – you and your family – it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant. Likely you can get in easily.”

"Go to your local pub," he continued.

Nunes' comments came as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, saying people "should prepare to hunker down significantly."

However, on Monday, Nunes, who is one of President Donald Trump’s top allies in Congress, said that "media freaks don't have a clue what's going on out in the real world" regarding the outbreak, and claimed that during his Sunday Fox News appearance, he was encouraging people to do drive-thru or takeout.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/16/coronavirus-devin-nunes-walks-back-go-your-local-pub-comments/5065469002/

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This asshole needs to go away. Preferably to prison.

[Walleye]

1. A drive-thru pub? They can't even lie coherently

[fleur-de-lisa]

9. Drive-thru pub? What could go wrong?

[Walleye]

12. To quote our next president, c'mon man.

[ReformedGOPer]

22. +1

[underpants]

31. Maryland has drive thru liquor stores

At least they did at one time.

[RVN VET71]

34. So does N.C. -- at least on the outer banks.

Also, Pennsylvania.

But you don't "drive-thru" a freaking pub, anymore than you trust a freaking syllable spilling out of mouth of Nunes.

[robbob]

38. You only drive through the pub

After 10-12 drinks when you put your car into “drive” instead of “reverse”. 🤪

[Haggis for Breakfast]

41. So does TX, but the thing there is, they also have drive-thru

GUN STORES.

What could possibly go wrong there ??

[dalton99a]

16. +1

[Shrike47]

19. A lot of people would love, love, love a drive-through pub.

A place in Flagstaff used to sell drive-through package bottles and ammunition. Best combo evah!

[Walleye]

20. Sounds like fun to me.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. They can't even coverup their lies coherently. "likely get IN" is NOT drive-thru. . . . nt

[OriginalGeek]

32. I worked at one.

Well, back in the 90's I worked at a liquor store that had a drive-thru window. I worked the window most days but when I was there it was only for package liquor - although you could buy anything we had in the store which included plastic cups and mixers and ice so I would bet there was some drink mixing going on just off property (we ran off anyone that tried to stop on our property after purchasing anything).

In the 70s there was a lounge attached to the store (the building was still there but we just used it for storage space when I was there) and people could go through the drive through and order mixed drinks.

[Anon-C]

2. ...

[yaesu]

3. these T-bagger terrorists will keep getting voted in by the T-bagger idiots. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

4. He should be worried

that he wasn't considered "important enough to have gotten the memo" with the revised talking points. Like Mulvaney, he's considered "damaged goods" (having been "publicly" caught red-handed during the impeachment hearings) and will soon be able to check out a bus exhaust system up close and personal!

Meanwhile in a county that is in his district -

Link to tweet

TEXT

Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 @DevinCow

Nightmooore 🐮https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2020/03/17/acutely-ill-coronavirus-covid-19-patient-hospitalized-in-visalia-critical/5065656002/ … https: //twitter.com/devinnunes/status/1239274682320207873 …

BREAKING: Coronavirus COVID-19 patient hospitalized, in 'critical condition' in Visalia

This is the third case in Tulare County and the first requiring hospitalization.
visaliatimesdelta.com
Devin Nunes
✔
@DevinNunes

ICYMI ⁦@SundayFutures⁩ with @MariaBartiromo⁩ important Coronavirus info|
-Don’t Panic there’s no food shortage/ stay home if you’re sick/ Elderly folks with health issues are vulnerable/ If healthy, support local workers and economy-shop and eat local!
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2:22 AM - Mar 17, 2020

[The Genealogist]

5. We know what you meant originally, asshole

We know you would love an American version of the North Korean media to be the only outlet available, with nothing but praise for you and your woefully inadeqauate boss, Dainty Digits. Stupid idiots will keep voting for these ridicuous charicatures time and again. The stupid burns.

[marble falls]

6. He remembers the drive thru "Daquiri Factories" in Louisiana.

[LuvNewcastle]

24. I was just thinking about that.

Do they still have those places over there?

[marble falls]

25. Those were the days, I think they finally wised up.

[LuvNewcastle]

27. lol!

Well, it was fun while it lasted. You gotta love Louisiana!

[marble falls]

28. Sometime the stories I got from the old days in NO were alot more fun in the retelling than ...

than the going through!

[Alacritous Crier]

7. Filthy, lying hypocrite....

May Karma treat him accordingly.

[Champp]

8. He's a shirker. One of the worst Republican values is "blaming others for your own failures"

They do it all the time. They are fundamentally irresponsible. Never stand up to show any integrity whatsoever.

Kinda sucks to be a phony who is dumping on classic virtues, like honor, and then claiming to be a Republican "conservative." Hah! What utter hypocritical horseshit. No wonder no one trusts them.

[ffr]

10. I stopped caring what Nunes, tRump, McConnell and the like have to say years ago.

Fuck 'em and anything they have to say. I'm not interested AND IT'S NOT NEWS! IT'S PROPAGANDA!

Yeah, I didn't read the body of the story. Don't have to. It's all self-serving on their behalf.

[Firestorm49]

11. You have to wonder what planet these guys come from!

[TheFourthMind]

13. Because taking responsibility for your stupidity is never an option. Nunes is pathetic Trump trash.

[Scarsdale]

14. My sympathy to Nunes cow.

Must suck to be owned by someone with so few qualities, such as honesty, integrity, intelligence. On the plus side, his hometown newspaper is doing everything they can to expose this arse kisser for tRump.

[Marcuse]

15. "Drive thru pubs! That's what I said, swear to God."

[turbinetree]

17. He is first and foremost a fucking enabling traitor, second he is a fucking idiot

hey "cow" guy you "uttered" the remarks .................no one else spewed the remarks....................

[JohnnyRingo]

18. He forgets how TV cameras work

We can all hear exactly what he said Sunday on Fox News of all places. No one distorted anything. The problem is he didn't know the White House was about to change the messaging.

Leave it to Sean Hannity to help him wash his hands of this. If he doesn't get a check from the RNC, he's being shortchanged.

[LudwigPastorius]

21. Nunes is a shithead and a criminal traitor.

Fuck him sideways and inside out.

[truthisfreedom]

26. Drive-thru pub! What a business opportunity!

Such a great thinker, that Nunez.

[jpak]

29. Clueless fucking Russian Ass-et

Yup

[procon]

30. Yeah, cuz your lyin' eyes didn't see him on video

and your cheatin' ears did not, no way, no how, hear him says the words he said.

Maybe his ignorant fans believe that toddler-level lie, but his amateurish effort to walk back his disinformation that would put people at risk was pathetic. And he's such a political snake that he even put his own kids at risk by using them as crisis actors to prop up his anti-public health views.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Too Dumb To Realize That...

...only the lunatic fringe is blaming the media. So, that nonsense will fall on deaf ears for all but the lunatic drones.

[RVN VET71]

35. 30 million of them, sadly.

[ProfessorGAC]

39. He's A Rep In Just 1 District

He's not the national player he thinks he is. Once the dems took the house, he became just another backbencher.

[BlueIdaho]

36. Moo!

[Mr.Bill]

37. No drive through alcoholic beverages

in California.

[dchill]

40. "..walks back... blames media..."

"What a man what a man what a man
What a mighty good man..."

Walking in his master's footprints.