MSNBC Guests: Sen. McConnell Was ‘Drunk’ and Playing Bigot ‘Bingo’
By Nicholas Fondacaro | February 9, 2017 | 12:30 AM EST
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Things got very twisted on MSNBC’s The Last Word Monday night, as two giggly journalists smeared Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for invoking Rule 19 against his colleague from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren. CBS News’ Nancy Giles described McConnell as on a power trip, “I mean, it's like I think they are drunk with power. It's not ‘like,’ they are. They’ve got the House and they’ve got the Senate.”
The Daily Beast’s Erin Gloria Ryan took it a step farther and joked that Senate Republicans really were drunk Tuesday night. “They're acting kind of drunk. This is a drunk thing to do,” she said excitedly playing off Giles.
Those weren’t the only ridiculous comments made by the duo. Right out of the gate, Giles claimed that the real reason McConnell had Warren ‘silenced’ was because she was reading the words of a black woman in the month of February:
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