McCarthy Ridiculed For Reading Dr. Seuss While Senate Debated Pandemic Relief Bill | Talking Points Memo

As the Senate ramped up its vote-a-rama and battled — to eventually pass — President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic aid plan, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Friday released a five-minute video of himself reading a Dr. Seuss book in an apparent attempt at outrage over cancel culture.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1363659
2 Likes

Let’s bothsider this:

On one hand we have leaders of one party trying to address a pandemic and economic crisis, infrastructure, voting rights, all while still trying to get President Biden’s cabinet in place.

On the other hand, Dr Seuss.

Anyway, we’ll have to leave it at that. Tune in Sunday so we can hear more about what “the other hand” has to say about this, and a caravan of something something.

18 Likes

I admire your restraint overlooking his lavender tie and lilac suit jacket. Of course, better lilac than tan.

14 Likes

On the other other hand, if Kevin McCarthy is finally trying to better himself, who am I to object?

13 Likes

I’m guessing Qevin’s lips were moving, and he was just looking at the pictures.

9 Likes

You still like Dr. Seuss? Nothing wrong with that, Kevin. The problem is I’m pretty sure you also still like eating paste, you stupid motherfucker.

20 Likes

image

6 Likes
13 Likes

Yeah and they’ll keep pushing this until CNN and the WaPo both do stories about who Dr. Seuss really was - a lefty.

hahahahahahahaha

14 Likes

Poor Kevin. Being a Republican means needing to asshole (verb) all the time. Finding opportunities for that is his special gift.

6 Likes

McCarthy is a dope.

9 Likes

It might be even better if Kevin McCarthy, while on the people’s dime, got off his ass and did some constructive work for the benefit of the American People instead of reading children’s books.

But then, maybe this is the limit of Kevin’s capability.

9 Likes

GOP lawmakers and conservative media networks have since directed their ire at Democrats, suggesting that their congressional counterparts were to blame for the private company’s move to halt publication of some of its books.

Well, geez, you’d think Democrats had banned Lolita or something, considering all the fuss.

13 Likes

And the Democrats had absolutely nothing to do with it!

Goddamn, GOP, can you do anything but lie? Go ahead get yourself all the way out on that limb before you saw it off.

16 Likes

Yeah! And was Dr. Seuss even a real doctor or one of those “fake” Jill Biden types?

9 Likes

Perfect optics - Republicans need to have House clerks read the Covid bill for them, but are proud to show they can read Dr. Seuss all on their own!

18 Likes

I know. Perhaps we should tell Republicans if they want to tell a private company what they can and can’t print, perhaps we can dictate that to Fox News as well?

9 Likes

O o - but they are doing it all over. Greg Abbott yesterday said he wants a law in Texas making it illegal for Facebook and Twitter and all social media to censor conservatives.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

11 Likes

Meanwhile, over on Fox:

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-dr-seuss-obsession-reveals-dishonest-desperation-right-wing-war-cancel-culture

8 Likes

This is well said.

16 Likes