Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace entered apparent flirty text messages into Congress’ record on Thursday during a hearing, claiming they were sent to her by CNN panelist Michael Eric Dyson who had publicly criticized her during a show.
During a segment of “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip” on Aug. 15, Dyson, a Vanderbilt University professor, had ripped into the lawmaker over her pronunciation of Vice President Kamala Harris’s first name. At the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s hearing Thursday, Mace criticized Democrats for their outrage over mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris’ name, citing party figures who have been reported to have done so.
“My colleagues across the aisle said that those that can not pronounce Kamala’s name correctly are elementary aged children. I would like to enter into the record an article by Newsweek saying Bill Clinton pronounces Kamala Harris name wrong during [his] DNC speech,” Mace said.
“Bill Clinton along with Al Sharpton, rapper Lil John — let’s not forget that Joe Biden can’t say her name right, neither can Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor,” Mace continued. “And this morning on ‘Morning Joe,’ Joan Baez called her a camel. So I don’t want to hear it. It’s fake outrage.”
The lawmaker then continued as she held up alleged screenshots of text messages sent to her from Dyson, stating he had called her “gorgeous” after claiming she parroted white supremacist language.
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