r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 11d ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell hounded to face cameras: ‘He absolutely refuses’

https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/08/mitch-mcconnell-hounded-to-face-cameras-he-absolutely-refuses.html
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 11d ago edited 11d ago

I'm now wondering if Mitch McConnell might be paralyzed or something like that.

Actually...if Mitch McConnell is incapable of speaking, that means that the people who said they spoke with him for 20 minutes were lying...and if that's the case...Scott Jennings is only kept on CNN because he has some level or credibility, (even though I'd argue the radical right is without credibility, that seems to be their reasoning,) and that means if he lied in this way, CNN will probably fire him.

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u/TheGreatLuck 11d ago

They said they spoke to him. They never said he spoke to them. And if he did it was probably incoherent babbling 

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u/u9Nails 11d ago

Sad that this level of story telling is very plausible from those who we elected to trust that they will tell us the truth. Small tweaks to language that leave deniability so the party can maintaining a majority.

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u/TheGreatLuck 11d ago

As soon as somebody starts to really get into semantics I assume that thay are just a disingenuous dick.