Watch Tea Party crazy in action
Scottie Neil Hughes is radio personality for USA Radio Network. She’s a Tea Party aficionado. She used to be the director of something called the Tea Party News Network, known for her attacks on things like Black Lives Matter protests like this one:
She also writes gems like this:
Mark Twain was lucky. When he said, “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” he was addressing the first and only time the media prematurely reported his demise. The Tea Party, on the other hand, has been declared dead more times than Bruce Willis in a Die Hard movie.
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Scottie Hughes is a frequent guest on CNN. She has a pundit’s relationship with the network. They put her on TV, she makes some half-logical attempt to defend the indefensible, Wolf Blitzer gets a break from reading cue cards. Scottie Neil Hughes is also a big Donald Trump supporter because of course she is. Wolf hit her with the softball questions—is Trump divisive? Scottie said no he’s not divisive, Hillary Clinton is divisive!
Why is Hillary divisive in comparison to Trump? I am not lying to you—because Trump is unifying the seven or so million people on the right that are scary angry while Hillary keeps on talking about all of these different groups. Seriously, that was her argument. Wolf went in on another softball question after letting Hughes listen to the audio of Trump saying that there will be riots if he wins the nomination and then doesn’t get the nomination. She begins by saying:
The obvious moves that will be made by the establishment Republican party to keep him from this nomination, that right there would cause anger and that would be an obvious backhand to all of the people who have been paying attention and have been engaged in this political process. So you know riots aren't necessarily a bad thing if it means it's because they're fighting the fact that our establishment Republican party has gone corrupt and decided to ignore the voice of the people and ignore the process.
Wolf asks again, because it sounded like Scottie said riots weren’t a bad thing.
It's not riot as in a negative thing what we've seen in the past. The fact is you have a large amount of people that will be very unhappy.
HA! Wolf quickly cuts to commercial saying that they will be back with Scottie Hughes. When they come back, uh oh, technical difficulties! Wolf throws to commercial again. Finally, they come back and a very contrite-looking Scottie gets asked AGAIN by Wolf:
You really didn’t mean you want riots or that riots are a good thing?
Scottie has clearly been on the phone dealing with what just happened and just in case you think this is me being conspiratorial, when you watch the clip you will see she literally looks down to read the “alternative” definition of “riot” that she meant to “mean.”
Thank you for the clarification, Wolf, I'll be the first to apologize. On one side it is, yes, it does mean something to disturb the peace a violent way. But the technical definition is an impressively large display of something.
CNN is pretty garbage these days and The Situation Room has always been a garbage situation. The segment edited into the three parts can be watched below the fold.
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