Turning to another right wing white woman making offensive remarks.
This time it's coming out of Washington and
the woman in question is Representative Lauren Boebert, and
this happened to be another elevator encounter for her at the capitol.
The congresswoman out of Colorado while she was at the capitol when she ran into
a group of Jewish visitors who were touring the capitol building yesterday.
And instead of greeting them like a respectable,
dignified human being who can exercise common sense.
Instead, Bogart decided to go ahead and say to them,
are you conducting reconnaissance?
Here's the intel from Buzzfeed on this.
So members of the group which was meeting with rapped soc well,
they were wearing Yarmulkes and
the person coordinating the group is Orthodox with the traditional beard.
One witness said the group along with other members of Congress was waiting for
an elevator.
When the doors opened, Boebert stepped out of the elevator and
looked the group of visitors from head to toe,
the witness said Barber then asked if they were there to conduct reconnaissance.
Of course,
Boebert's response was essentially as terrible as her offense itself.
Boebert told Buzzfeed news that she was referencing the many comments that had
been directed at her from Democrats about Capitol Tours prior to
the January six attack, adding that some people present, got it.
I saw a large group and I made a joke sadly when Democrats see the same,
they demonized my family for a year straight, she said in a text,
I'm too short to see anyone's Yamashita's, she added.
So here is essentially what she is referring to
when she says that essentially Democrats have been coming at her.
In the wake of the January 6 assault on the Capitol Democratic Rep Stephen Cohen
of Tennessee and John Yarmuth of Kentucky said they saw Boebert leading a large
group through a tunnel connecting the Capital to house office buildings in
the days before the attack.
Their accusation came amid a broader discussion about reconnaissance
tours at the capitol and Boebert called the remarks slanderous at the time.
Now, despite Boebert's insistence that people got her joke and everybody was
really on board, it seemed like no one was really catching the reference here.
And that's essentially per quote of a rabbi who was in that group.
Well, he told Buzzfeed news when I heard that in terms of Boebert's comment,
I actually turned to the person standing next to me and asked,
did you just hear that, I'm not sure whether to be offended or not.
I was very confused.
And representatives Swazi, who brought the group to the capital to do this
tour really was commemorating the 41st anniversary of the end of the Iran hostage
crisis, was not amused when it came to Boebert's statement, her purported joke.
And he said that the bottom line is that everyone, especially members of Congress,
have to be very, very thoughtful in the language they use, because when you're
a member of Congress, you have an important role to play in society.
You can't be cavalier in the comments you make,
especially if they could be perceived as being antisemitic, or discriminatory.
But as we know, the antiques aren't anything new for
Boebert as she essentially wage some comments before in November, insinuating
that Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was a suicide bomber.
Jack.
>> Well, she's an equal opportunity offender bringing Muslims and
Jews together.
Ironic.
So should you be offended?
Of course, why did she pick that group?
Let me ask you guys a couple of simple questions.
Why did she pick that group out of all the groups that are in the capital,
too short to see the amicus, really, if anyone turns their head at all and you
see the from the back, you know the two short has nothing to do with it, right?
You can't see it from the back, of course you can.
I don't know what vantage point she had, but the two short defense is hilarious.
And you know, is BS the minute you hear it, that makes you think, okay.
She's clearly lying.
So she picked this group for a reason.
And so, the reason that the articles telling you that they're Orthodox is
because sometimes folks dressed differently if they're Orthodox, and so
that's what makes them stand out.
So are you here to do reconnaissance?
That means you're an outsider.
You're not like me, you're not like us.
And I'm worried you're gonna do reconnaissance for someone else.
So who would those Jewish Americans be doing reconnaissance for?
Come on.
Look guys, the number one problem here is they are so
emboldened, that they have now normalized antisemitism.
They always thought it, they always started, but it felt acceptable to beat
up on transgender people, Muslim people, Latino immigrants, etcetera.
And there's gradations,
then they started being more outwardly open about their hatred for black people.
And now we're at the Jews, and so there is no bottom to this barrel.
>> No, not at all.
Bridget.
>> Yeah, I completely agree.
I mean if she's the kinda person who thinks this is an appropriate kind of joke
to make, then she has no business being in Congress.
And I agree, if it's like the joke really relies on the fact that,
you look different than I do.
Like the whole joke is about mothering people.
And I just think that like this is what she does.
Like this is all she has to offer the American people is these kinds of
childish, show called jokes.
She doesn't have anything else to offer.
She doesn't know how to govern.
She doesn't know how to lead.
She doesn't know how to like get policies through.
And so it's kind of sad to me that this is how low she stoops,
trafficking in these so called jokes that are just, islamophobia,
antisemitism, transphobia this is all she has.
And so I think it's really so embarrassing.
We should all be embarrassed that she's an elected official that this is
the only thing that she has to really traffic in and offer the American people.
>> Absolutely.
And especially what coming off of last weekend where there there was that attack
at the Texas synagogue.
It's like the fact is that she really likes to other people and to essentially
communicate to them that they're a threat because of their difference,
and by attacking religious minorities.
That's essentially what she does.
And she attacks individuals who are gender minorities, racial minorities.
Like this is really the playbook for these people.
As you mentioned, Bridget the mothering of others and
suggesting that they pose a threat somehow to our society.
If you're not Cis white hetero, Christian and you're following all the playbooks
of this GOP party line, then you are the problem according to Bowker.
But of course loving to say that it's a joke which is often kind of the way these
people will go when they are really just communicating something with an ism
on the end of it.
And it's not a joke.
It's not funny and it's not acceptable.
And as you mentioned,
Bridget it should not be something that a US Congressman engages in.
>> Okay guys, again, I can prove why her defense is absurd.
So are we against all joking?
Of course not.
In fact I think you should give wide berth to people who are friends to
joke with each other in any way they like.
If you guys wanted to make jokes about my Muslim background,
I wouldn't care one bit.
You know why?
Cuz you're my friends, and I trust you, and that makes a giant giant difference.
Whereas if Donald Trump jokes about Muslims,
well he doesn't love Muslims, he wanted to ban them.
Then that joke is coming from a hateful place, and that so
called joke is saying ha ha look at them, aren't they different?
And and so if you wanna make a joke about your own church and
you're among the love and community and people laugh because all right,
the pastor said talks too long etcetera, that's fine.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Of course I want people to joke around, right?
But if somebody from the outside came in and made fun of Christians,
here's what I guarantee you.
You would all catch feelings.
In fact I was gonna do one just to show you how you catch feelings.
But I was so worried about the feelings you'd catch that, but I didn't do it,
[LAUGH] okay?
But when you do it about Jews or Muslims, everybody goes yeah who cares?
Yeah let's laugh at him.
No that's not a funny joke, that's just an insult.
>> That's right, and hopefully someone will do something but it's Congress, so
probably not.