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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Frat boy': Alex Jones taunts Rubio in tense Senate standoff
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/05/marco-rubio-alex-jones-clash-808374Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and InfoWars host Alex Jones clashed outside a Senate Intelligence committee hearing today, with the lawmaker saying hed 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.
Im just patting you nicely, Jones responded, before accusing Rubio of trying to get him arrested.
Rubio rebuffed the charge, adding: Ill 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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'Frat boy': Alex Jones taunts Rubio in tense Senate standoff (Original Post)
steve2470
Sep 2018
OP
Who's the woman with the orange shirt asking these websites should be regulated? nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Sep 2018
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Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)1. Who's the woman with the orange shirt asking these websites should be regulated? nt
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)2. Scripted like a wrasslin' dust up?
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
before Jones went from rabble rousing on the Internet to doing it in real life.
Looks like it's begun.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)6. Gadflies gotta gad
What can ya do?
UTUSN
(70,715 posts)4. Bwah HAH!1 Can't pick a side in this one!1
TNLib
(1,819 posts)5. He's becoming the Westboro babptist of conspiracy nuts
I guess he's looking to start trouble so he can start suing. What a cook.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)7. Jones is desperate not to be forgotten. n/t
maxrandb
(15,336 posts)8. Hey Marco, you and the Retrumplicans built that!!! n/t
inwiththenew
(972 posts)9. He did the same thing to The Young Turks at the RNC convention
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.
Alex is lucky. There are some people who would have been far less tolerant of his antics than Rubio was.