In less than 24 hours, unabashed Freedom Caucus member Rep. Matt Gaetz managed to trigger members of the awfully “triggly” left twice. And in both instances, he wound up with the last laugh.
The first triggering happened after he posted a photo to Twitter of himself kicking it at the World Series with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump.
Seats aren’t bad #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/STzKlOR5ku
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 28, 2019
For some inexplicable reason, the photo provoked rage from the very sorts of cognitively dissonant geniuses who literally worshiped former President Barack Hussein Obama.
Among them was Andy Lassner, the executive producer of comedian Ellen DeGeneres’ syndicated TV talk show, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
Look (*Language warning):
Omg this fucking tool https://t.co/37yi3GCEv2
— andy lassner (@andylassner) October 28, 2019
The implication was that Gaetz is a sycophant.
But speaking of sycophants …
I can’t take it https://t.co/Jfc5vRD2Vy
— andy lassner (@andylassner) October 3, 2019
Additional sycophantic tweets that he posted in the past but later deleted — but that still remain archived by Google — show even more sycophantry:
May 7, 2017: “Congratulations on receiving the #ProfileInCourageAward @BarackObama. America misses having a president.”
June 13, 2019: “… to see “Happy Birthday Mr. President” is trending, click on it and realize it’s all people devastated it’s not about @BarackObama.”
Aug. 11, 2019: “@BarackObama. I miss the dignity, patience, kindness, compassion, charisma, intelligence, rationality, fortitude, and”
Look:
Gaetz eventually responded to the Obama sycophant’s tears by taking a shot at NBC.
“I’d ask NBC if they stand behind such a dumb/triggered/profane comment from a senior employee…,” he tweeted. “But I’ve learned after reading #CatchAndKill that accountability isn’t really NBC’s ‘thing.'”
This triggered another round of recriminations and faux mockery because Lassner isn’t technically an NBC employee, given as “Ellen” is a syndicated show.
Look:
I’d ask NBC if they stand behind such a dumb/triggered/profane comment from a senior employee…
But I’ve learned after reading #CatchAndKill that accountability isn’t really NBC’s “thing.” https://t.co/6Jilq9pcXz
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 28, 2019
I don’t work for NBC, but I can’t tell you how much it means to me that you took time out of crashing hearings to respond to me. https://t.co/cnV6k5uQ6B
— andy lassner (@andylassner) October 28, 2019
The sheer number of folks on the right privately and publically thanking me for calling out Gaetz is rather enjoyable
— andy lassner (@andylassner) October 28, 2019
However, “Ellen’s Game of Games,” another show by DeGeneres, isn’t syndicated — it plays only on NBC. And wouldn’t you know it, Lassner is its executive producer. And as its executive producer, it stands to reason he represents NBC to at least some degree.
As of Tuesday morning, Gaetz’s tweet had an additional 13,000+ replies, most of them from obsessed liberals still angry that he’d dared to share a photo of himself kicking it with America’s duly elected president — and now equally mad over him criticizing Lassner and his “employer”:
You stand behind an ignorant, vile, traitorous, serial adulterer and malignant, genitalia grabbing racist. I’m not sure morality is a pressing issue with you, Matty.
Hope whatever you got for your soul was worth it.
The boos and chants are gonna follow you the rest of your life.— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) October 28, 2019
I guess you forgot that Trump has the national inquirer catch and kill tons of stories about him. But here you are balls deep in Trump. #loser
— donaldtrumpnewstoday (@irishrygirl) October 28, 2019
You support and defend Trump. You illegally interrupted a private impeachment inquiry, accountability is not in your vocabulary. By the way, you’re a tool.
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) October 28, 2019
Can we comment on all if your dumb/triggered/profane comments as an elected official ? Where’s your accountability, your responsibility to defend your country, protect your constituents ? You brazenly lie about your own colleagues and defend an obviously criminal « president ».
— Jamie Schler (@lifesafeast) October 29, 2019
Please don’t feel too badly for the stupidity coming forth from Matt Gaetz’ mouth: always remember that if he was not an elected official, he would be unemployed and continuing to rely on Daddy for keeping him out of Jail. (And in that, he might have company with POTUS).
— (((Howard Forman))) (@thehowie) October 28, 2019
I’d ask Matt Gaetz if he could grow a spine, be a man, follow his oath of office and call out the treasonous lying serial sex abuser in the WH, but I’ve learned after observing him for some time, that “doing the right thing” isn’t really Gaetz’s style.
— overthere (@overthere03) October 29, 2019
But despite all the petty mockery and insults from the left, it appears Gaetz got the last laugh. How so? On Monday he was saluted by Orlando’s Orange County Republican party for helping them raise over $100,000 over the weekend.
“The Orange County Republican Party announced Monday that it raised more than $100,000 and netted more than $60,000 from its ‘Trump Defender Gala and 2019 Annual Lincoln Day Dinner’ fundraiser Saturday night that featured a keynote speech from Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz,” FloridaPolitics.com confirmed.
“This is an incredible amount to raise in an off-year election cycle,” Orange County GOP chair Charles Hart said in a statement. “The media has been so busy attacking the President we’ve had time to become stronger and better organized, the party has a plan and didn’t need an autopsy to figure out what was wrong.”
Appearances by @RepMattGaetz and Democrat Sam Ings help Orange Co. Republicans raise $100K at “Trump Defender Gala and 2019 Annual Lincoln Day Dinner” via @ScottFist https://t.co/Ol3qMqCl0q #FlaPol pic.twitter.com/HOq1Hch5xL
— Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) October 28, 2019
Meanwhile, as Gaetz was busy raising money for his fellow Republicans and kicking it with the president, liberal Democrats were busy losing the fundraising battle and crying their hearts out on social media over an otherwise quaint photo. Sad.
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