Botching The Talking Point With Lauren Boebert

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by: Colorado Pols

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R).

Our friends at Right Wing Watch bring us the latest example of freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert doing the thing she does best, which is making stuff up on friendly right-wing media forums who would never think of fact-checking her in real time. Boebert appeared yesterday on the “prime time” streaming channel of far-right personality “Dr.” Gina Loudon:

“I’m really enjoying telling Speaker Pelosi to, ‘Kiss my mask,’” Boebert chortled. “[Rep.] Thomas Massie and I both got warnings, and both of our letters ended up in the same exact place ironically: the trash. Leftists won’t even listen to the bureaucrats at the CDC, and it just goes to show that this party’s ‘Follow the Science’ slogan is a total joke, just like this entire administration, just like the entire Democrat Party. They want to tell you to listen to science and listen to data and facts, but they haven’t done that for more than a year. Two weeks to slow the spread turned into communism really, really quickly.”

“Texas removed their mask mandate two months ago, and Sleepy Joe called it ‘Neanderthal thinking,’” she continued. “No, sir. Republicans are just following the science, and since removing the mask mandate two months ago, Texas has not reported a single COVID death. Not one.” [Pols emphasis]

As you can probably guess without looking up the numbers, this statement is absolute nonsense. Since the repeal of Texas’ statewide mask mandate on March 2 of this year, over 3,400 Texans have died from COVID-19. At this point we have no expectation that Boebert will acknowledge this grievous error, let alone apologize to the families of thousands of Texans whose deaths due to COVID-19 she just erased. But it’s another display of Boebert’s belligerent ignorance having real-world consequences. Boebert doesn’t just get the facts wrong, she makes a bloody ass of herself posturing on this falsehood–while endangering her colleagues by acting out her own misinformation.

With all of this in mind, and in eminent fairness, we think Boebert may have simply mangled beyond recognition a talking point supplied to her by the right-wing Daily Caller the day before her interview with Gina Loudon:

It has been 66 days since Beto tweeted that Gov. Abbot is killing Texans and the state reported zero deaths from covid-19 yesterday https://t.co/z3m5oNDnpN

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 18, 2021

Who reported that for one day this week, there were no COVID deaths in Texas. Which yes, is an isolated data point of good news. It’s possible that the “yesterday” part of this message was lost in translation between the Daily Caller’s Tweet and Boebert’s regurgitation a day later. Either way, Boebert is seizing on a mistaken assumption to justify her boorish, dangerous behavior.

As Rush Limbaugh (peace be upon him) famously observed, “words mean things.”

When words stop meaning things, people like Lauren Boebert get elected.

12 thoughts on “Botching The Talking Point With Lauren Boebert”

MichaelBowman says:

May 20, 2021 at 1:16 pm

She is an empty vessel.

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2Jung2Die says:

May 20, 2021 at 1:32 pm

In fairness, she might've been talking about COVID 1-18.

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MattC says:

May 20, 2021 at 3:22 pm

They need to eliminate climate change too like Florida did.

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Diogenesdemar says:

May 20, 2021 at 4:28 pm

since removing the mask mandate two months ago, Texas has not reported a single COVID death. Not one.”

Well, 3,400 is “not 1” . . .

. . . so there! Pew Pew!

(forthcoming statement from the office of Qbie/Fluffy)

I give her “not 1” ~~Pinocchios~~ Qs with an asterisk . . .

. . . QQQQQ *

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harrydoby says:

May 20, 2021 at 7:08 pm

As has been noted before, there is no cure for stupid. Now, if they started fining her an amount equal to her monthly paycheck, she might finally start paying attention to the House rules.

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notaskinnycook says:

May 20, 2021 at 11:30 pm

The "dr." she was talking to is a piece of work, too. Look at the publisher she had to resort to to get her propaganda into print. I thought I recognized the name; connected to a bunch of other right-wing loonies and charlatans: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing

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1. MichaelBowman says:
  
  May 21, 2021 at 7:40 am
  
  they also published a few works by socialists and Sybil, the famous book on split-personality (now dissociative) disorder.
  
  Reminded me of the crazy duo Sybil and her alter-ego Ruthie that posted on this blog during the early days of the Ritter Administration!
  
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  1. Duke Cox says:
    
    May 21, 2021 at 8:17 am
    
    Sure..I remember her/them.
    
    I think there is no more appropriate description for Congresswoman Lauren Boebert than.."right wing loonie".
    
    Every utterance is click bait…nothing more.
    
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CDW says:

May 21, 2021 at 8:12 am

Boebert may be ignorant (although I doubt it) but she's being. politically astute when she ridicules Democrats. She's spoon feeding the fallacious "facts" her voters thrive on and she will be reelected I imagine.

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1. Duke Cox says:
  
  May 21, 2021 at 8:26 am
  
  With respect, I completely disagree.
  
  One caveat, I will offer is that it is still quite possible for the Democrats to fuck up and lose this seat. CD3 Dems are notorious for running terrible campaigns with less than ideal candidates. And… don’t forget..not all her enemies are Democrats.
  
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Genghis says:

May 21, 2021 at 9:07 am

“No, sir. Republicans are just following the science, and since removing the mask mandate two months ago, Texas has not reported a single COVID death. Not one.”

Over 3,400 is in fact "not a single COVID death" and in fact "[n]ot one." Game, set, and match to Sideshow Boeb.

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1. MichaelBowman says:
  
  May 21, 2021 at 10:36 am
  
  Has The Christian Post become fake news now?
  
  Texas to lift mask mandate for public schools after reporting zero COVID deaths for first time in over a year
  
  Abbott signed an executive order Tuesday following the health update that bans city and county governments and public school districts from imposing mandatory mask mandates, starting June 5, and makes public officials subject to a $1,000 fine if they impose such mandates.
  
  Texas has a population of nearly 30 million people and had close to 50,000 virus-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Texas Health and Human Services.
  
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