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Jim Defede is a bulldog and an excellent journalist

Wow. 👏 👏

Thank God, there are some reporters out there actually doing journalism! ["I'm not trying to be a politician." ... JHC!]

Get her!!

"I'll have to ask my staff how I voted." Who does she think she is, Mitch McConnell?

😂 Wow. She should be able to spin why she voted for or against a bill but it sounds like she doesn’t even know how she voted. She’s in the right state! Does she live at Mar-a-lago??!!

uh, no.

There is an option. A good one. It doesn't include putting another republican back in office. Democrat Eliott Rodriguez www.wlrn.org/government-p...

"Listen, that was last cycle..."

is it the palm trees? do coconuts fall on their heads down there? dunno, just wondering lol

She doesn’t know half of the things she voted for! And she did NOTHING to stop those ICE criminals from continuously committing crimes in her community. Hey Florida, VOTE HER OUT! She’s incompetent.

Here's a true instance where you can use the phrase "the worst of the worst", and that label can frankly be used on every single Trump party member.

Wow! He just took her apart!!!

Florida.

Harpy.

All theater.

Yup. I don’t listen. Just watch. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Is she looking for cover? I

But that was last cycle and I don't remember 😕 🙄

It's amazing how easily these folks lie. Yeah, right, she can't remember how she voted. What a bunch of BS.

Someone get ICE on the phone and run this fuzzy foreigner out of here.....

“Ask my staff how I voted”

I can watch this over and over

Someone with such a bad memory shouldn’t be in congress.

She has to ask her staff? Doesn't she know what she voted for?!?! Sure Florida. Make sure you vote for someone whose staff is running the show!

amen to that. if only. cc: @kristenwelker.bsky.social

Can women be assholes? Cause, I think we just found a big one. Wow!

“I’m not trying to be a politician” 🐂💩

She’s awful. But there’s a halfway-decent way to answer that question: “Yes, I voted no because I opposed spending the taxpayers’ money. But once the bill passed, I made sure that my district got its fair share of the spending. And I’ll always fight for my district that way.”

She’s so dismissive and arrogant

She sounds like she has a case of DEMENTIA donOLD! Hold all these sleazeball traitors accountable! Vote blue 🌊 🌊 🌊

Ay señora, qué barbaridad! No le da vergüenza hablar tantas tonterías.

This needs to become common practice across the country for every elected official during local news interviews. The lying has to stop.

LOL good one!

Lying sack of drippy excrement in makeup.

The thing about this is that it's easy, so easy. Any journalist not doing this is making a choice.

Fuck this woman. Be smart, South Florida.

“I’m not trying to be a politician.” Maybe your district won’t want you to be one anymore, Congresswoman.

What a piece of shit she is.

“I’m not trying to be a politician.” also I can’t remember what I voted for and against—you’d have to ask my staff.

That was beautiful

I believe this is called feckless.

She can't remember...that seems bad. Why is not remembering a strategy that works for anyone? Obviously lying anyway, but if not, incompetent.

what it's supposed to look like, but too often does not.

bet she was punchin' air when she walked away from that interview.

#bodylanguage -- arms crossed, legs crossed, finger pointing...she knows what she's done (and voted against), but she is used to the the soft pedal. Good on you @jimdefede.bsky.social for holding her feet to the fire and #notbackingdown

There is such an easy answer to these (legit) questions – when they take credit for a grant after voting against the bill that made it possible – but I've never heard a member give it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

She's trying SO HARD to have it both ways, ain't.

Trying this the next time my boss asks me why my project is 30% over-budget.

Sounds a lot like Regan during Iran Conta testimony…”i don’t recall” over 100 times.

This guy is a rock star! A rare sighting of an MSM journalist doing his job.

#bitch

BINGO…YES SHE IS!! NPR played the clip on the News Hour tonight.

like Kristen Welker. for starters.

“I have no recollection of that.”

it's actually not even difficult if you have a spine that's not made of wet noodles and a voice volume sufficient to resist attempts to yell you down.

Jim DeFede is the real deal!

Please just look at the one thing I want you to look at

Rep Salazar says ICE has gone too far. But she voted for the BBB that shoveled money into ICE. What did she think they were going to do with it?

What a sniveling piece of shit she is.

C U next Tuesday.

Art imitating life or vice versa? m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxz3...

@pulitzerprizes.bsky.social - a consideration since MSM pickings are slim this year….

I will take the bet she knows and is playing the part of being dumb (which, to her credit, is very believable)

Is that a Lawn Guyland accent?

What's amazing to me is how unprepared elected officials are for questions like these which should be expected and mandatory. They're used to being prompted to be able to repeat whatever PR they've prepared for the segment. And she's there with Jim DeFede so she should expect some real questions.

Jim Defede is a masterful journalist!

Maybe we need to elect someone on her staff. She’s obviously not competent.

He destroyed the lying bitch.

bingo.

"I'm not trying to be a politician"

Dear MSM. This is how you conduct an interview with a lying politician.

Rep. María E Salazar (FL-27) Voted to steal your tax $$'s & give them to the Rich Voted to cut SNAP, Cancer research, Senior medicaid healthcare thinking these are the people to F@#K over Voted to give 100's of billions to a Nazi Gestapo Rogue agency called ICE/DHS www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-fz...

Gravy train is about to end.

Ah, that selectively poor memory.

my pleasure James and yes it's like I always say: there is no constituency or readership for normalizing. Americans want pushback and liars held accountable, end of.

More of this. Much more!

She thought this wasn’t going to be the outcome? Seriously The intelligence just oozes out of the clown show

UPDATE: garden rakes that up and smack Maria Elvira Salazar square in face are always placed on the ground by… Maria Elvira Salazar. 🎩 @karijohn.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/theb...

bingo. "aren't you proud of me" is a declaration I hear from my 7-year-old. I don't want that garbage from an alleged adult in congress.

Utterly loathsome.

This is awesome. He does a GREAT job calling out her BS. He needs a promotion.

Nothing says "You need to re-elect me" like I can't remember what I did last time.

She sounds like Celine Dion

One inch and BetaCam!

....she sounds like an immigrant. Is she an immigrant? How can immigrants carry water for an immigrant hating administration?

She needs, if she can afford to, hire Kellyanne Conway.

LIAR LIAR COUNTRY ON FIRE!!!!!!! Reporters needs to stick to their guns and not be distracted......The Trump Family Criminal Syndicate has gotten a free pass whe it comes to direct questions. Always a distraction or two million. "Let.me ask my staff." LIAR LIAR COUNTRY ON FIRE!!!!

"That was last cycle. I don't really remember now." LOL, even Trump voters might smell the BS on that one.

answer, yes.

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😅😅😅

My God she's neurotic - vote her out.

Wow. "That was last cycle."

She’s pathetic.

Why isn’t the national media doing this? National media should be embarassed - but they’re not bc their paychecks are written by the oligarchs.

The CHIPS Act is a good one to highlight in these situations because I think it passed outright. It doesn't give a rep the opportunity to conflate voting for an omnibus package that included a bill they voted against all the way down and publicly opposed when speaking to constituents.

thankfully, local CBS stations have been largely spared from BDubs' wrecking ball. at least for now.