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tblue37

(68,095 posts)
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 01:13 AM Oct 21

Congresswoman Lisa McClain's appearance on CNN's The Situation Room was a bit of a car crash:

Congresswoman Lisa McClain’s appearance on CNN's The Situation Room was a bit of a car crash.

Ian Fraser (@ianfraser.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T22:30:18.615Z
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Congresswoman Lisa McClain's appearance on CNN's The Situation Room was a bit of a car crash: (Original Post) tblue37 Oct 21 OP
So, CNN anchor didn't bother to counter/question her? Some trainwreck... hlthe2b Oct 21 #1
So, a member of Congress said on National TV that seven million unmasked "communists" came out to demonstrate? DFW Oct 21 #2
She got the meme and is speaking right off the cue cards. Boomerproud Oct 21 #3
This Dumb Idiot needed to be asked... Cha Oct 21 #4
You're against 'antisemitism', Lisa? Mc Mike Oct 21 #5

hlthe2b

(112,609 posts)
1. So, CNN anchor didn't bother to counter/question her? Some trainwreck...
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 01:29 AM
Oct 21
With apologies to Mark Twain, but current rephrasing of his famous quote: a mass series of lies that goes unanswered goes around the nation, around, the world endless times before truth gets its pants on... IMO, that is all these unquestioned interviews manage do. CNN becomes complicit.

DFW

(59,678 posts)
2. So, a member of Congress said on National TV that seven million unmasked "communists" came out to demonstrate?
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 01:43 AM
Oct 21

I wonder—with such a wide abundance of people to choose from, surely she could shore up her credibility, and name a few of those Communists, so that we can be sure she wasn’t being a National Socialist, and just making shit up on the spot.

Cha

(316,406 posts)
4. This Dumb Idiot needed to be asked...
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 03:51 AM
Oct 21

Last edited Tue Oct 21, 2025, 03:29 PM - Edit history (1)

So who's your brainwasher, Stupid? GD Propaganda on American tv.

Mc Mike

(9,248 posts)
5. You're against 'antisemitism', Lisa?
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 09:54 AM
Oct 21

Any thoughts on those young repuglican "kids' " text messages?

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