Lindsay Graham Throws a Tantrum After CNN Anchor Fact Checks Him on Abortion

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Lindsay Graham Shouts at CNN Anchor After She Fact Checks Him on Abortion

Sen. Lindsay Graham just couldn’t keep his cool while talking about his anti-abortion views on the Sunday talk show circuit. In an appearance on State of the Union on CNN, Graham shouted at host Dana Bash after he spit out a bunch of lies and she fact-checked him on one tiny, important Roe v. Wade detail.

Bash tees off the conversation with the fairly boring but centrist question of if abortion is a state or federal issue. Graham—who has been trying to introduce a national abortion ban into Congress since 2015—runs through standard anti-abortion talking points, including saying that abortion at 15 weeks is “dismemberment” (it’s not) and that “50 to 53 European nations limit abortion at 15 weeks or less” (there are only 44 countries generally and 41 have legalized abortion).

“What the democratic party proposes on abortion is barbaric, abortion up to the moment of birth, taxpayer-funded, is barbaric, I welcome this debate,” Graham said after Bash tried to steer him back to her original question about abortion being a state or federal issue. “I think the Republican party will be in good standing to oppose late-term abortion like most of the civilized world.”

Bash then quickly corrected Graham that “Roe went up to viability,” and Graham effectively lost it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lindsay-graham-shouts-cnn-anchor-191500518.html

[Skittles]

1. Lindsey cannot keep his fascism in check

how dare this uppity women fact check him

[Walleye]

2. If they think this is a winning strategy, they are no good at politics

[CrispyQ]

3. "abortion up to the moment of birth."

How did this bullshit get started? I have family members who parrot this shit. Do they know how clueless they sound?

[MagickMuffin]

6. Once a baby is born it generally is considered a live birth

If someone then kills the live birth baby then that would be murder.


These people and mostly men have no idea about how things work but go to the media just to show us all how willful ignorant they are.

[Bayard]

7. One of the ads McConnell ran against Amy McGrath

Said that she was okay with women stopping off for an abortion on the way to the hospital to give birth.

I still haven't heard rethugs explain how a fetus--the size of a dime at 6 weeks--can have a heartbeat.

[ecstatic]

8. I had an argument with someone at work of all places

Brand new employee who insisted that fully developed, 38+ week babies were being born and killed in many abortion centers in Georgia. I don't even know how the hell the topic came up--but I guess it was shortly after Roe was overturned last year.

I said there's NO WAY that's true. No doctor in the country would go along with that. If anything, a corrupt doctor / nurse would sell the baby to an adoption agency and make a lot of money that way. But she kept insisting and I had to change the subject before her ass got fired.

[HariSeldon]

4. Producers need to prep better for rude Rs

They should have uniformed security with instructions to take any abusive guest out of the building, coming on-camera to do so if necessary. To do otherwise could court "hostile workplace" litigation.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Oh blow it out of your ass, Lindsey.

Because that is where you talk out of.

It appears Ole Lindsey cannot stand intelligent women.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. Just watched the clip. Bash could have done a better job calling him on the BS he was spouting.

[Blue Owl]

10. I wish a giant boxing glove would come out of nowhere and punch him in the fucking face