‘Are You Going To Call Me A Sick F**k?!’ Sen. John Kennedy Presses Climate Professor Over Tweet Attacking Joe Manchin

Phillip NietoMay 1st, 2024, 2:50 pm
 

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) grilled a professor over a post that he retweeted in which Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was called a “sick fuck” by climate protestors.

During a Budget Committee hearing regarding the fossil fuel industry on Wednesday, the Louisiana lawmaker questioned Dr. Geoffrey Supran regarding a post that he shared on X where an activist confronted Manchin.

Back in March, Manchin was confronted by a group of climate activists at Harvard University, where one protester called him a “sick fuck” before he was forcibly removed from the room. Supran retweeted a post by the organization responsible for disrupting Manchin’s visit at the university.

The climate professor noted that he did not tweet the phrase attacking Manchin, leading Kennedy to launch into a tirade:

SUPRAN: May I clarify one final point…These are not my tweets. These are retweets.

KENNEDY: Oh, you often retweet stuff you don’t support. Is that what you’re telling me, doc?

SUPRAN: I did not say that I do not support this. I simply did not tweet it, which as you were alleging. I’d like to make very clear that this is form of character assassination is characteristic of propaganda techniques-

KENNEDY: You retweeted it, didn’t you!? Are you going to call me a sick fuck?!

Watch the interaction below:

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