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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:23 PM Sep 2018

'Frat boy': Alex Jones taunts Rubio in tense Senate standoff

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/05/marco-rubio-alex-jones-clash-808374

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and InfoWars host Alex Jones clashed outside a Senate Intelligence committee hearing today, with the lawmaker saying he’d “take care of” Jones as the far-right provocateur mockingly called him a “little gangster thug" and "frat boy."

Rubio, addressing reporters outside the hearing room, was badgered with questions by Jones, who made a surprise appearance at the Senate hearing devoted to foreign interference on social media.

The exchange quickly went downhill when the senator warned the conspiracy-peddling host, who was standing beside him in the hallway, to “not touch me again.”

“I’m just patting you nicely,” Jones responded, before accusing Rubio of trying to get him arrested.

Rubio rebuffed the charge, adding: “I’ll take care of you myself.”

"Rubio just threatened to physically take care of me," Jones replied, an insinuation that Rubio disputed.
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peekaloo

(22,977 posts)
2. Scripted like a wrasslin' dust up?
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:28 PM
Sep 2018

Marco's a water boy for the Varsity squad and Jones is a waste of carbon and water.

frogmarch

(12,156 posts)
3. I wondered how long it would be
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:29 PM
Sep 2018

before Jones went from rabble rousing on the Internet to doing it in real life.

Looks like it's begun.

TNLib

(1,819 posts)
5. He's becoming the Westboro babptist of conspiracy nuts
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:18 PM
Sep 2018

I guess he's looking to start trouble so he can start suing. What a cook.

inwiththenew

(972 posts)
9. He did the same thing to The Young Turks at the RNC convention
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:06 PM
Sep 2018

There's video of it on youtube for anyone who really wants to see it.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
10. I wish we could have seen Alex getting rushed to the ground and cuffed by 1/2 dozen bodyguards.
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:42 PM
Sep 2018

Alex is lucky. There are some people who would have been far less tolerant of his antics than Rubio was.

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