Show-Me Sen. Hawley Giving Missouri Reporters The Business Over Mean Tweets

Credit where it's due . . .

So many have wanted to call out critics in real life for their online banter .  . .The Senator was able to live the dream and his detractors seemed stumped in person.

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(Senator) Hawley doubled down on the questions about the reporter’s sobriety later in the exchange, after Maxwell clarified that the tweets were satirical.

“When journalists or so-called journalists refer to people they don’t like as ‘bootlickers’ on a public platform, when they attack folks and then say they don’t necessarily do stuff sober, it does tend to get my attention,” Hawley said. “I mean, we give you a lot of access. I just want to make sure that you’re actually sober and taking this seriously, Good Lord in Heaven.”

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