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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“I would like to also enter into the record a screenshot of a text message I received from the esteemed professor from Vanderbilt Michael Eric Dyson after my CNN interview, begged me for photos. In this text, he says, after calling me racist on CNN, ‘shh don’t tell anybody, we look good together.’ And sent me a kissy emoji,” Mace said.
“The guy says I’m gorgeous in all these photos. I don’t think he’s that bent out of shape on how anyone pronounces Kamala,” Mace said.
“And if we’re going to have that standard, you gotta hold it to both sides, not just one or the other.”
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) September 19, 2024
During the Aug. 15 CNN show, Dyson stated Mace was being disrespectful to Harris by “saying you will call her anything you want,” claiming the behavior was connected to the “history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of black people.”
Mace previously engaged with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in March for “shaming” her while having a tense exchange over her political choices as a rape victim
This professor(?) will never use email again. Moron!
She stated it correctly. It wasn’t just ‘fake outrage’, it was an attempt to silence everyone/anyone for any reason – including ‘mispronouncing’ someone’s name. They’re using the same strategy as they did to get ‘hate crimes’ legislation and into law. There is no such thing as a hate crime, therefore ANY law ‘defining’ hate crimes is (in itself) – ILLEGAL. It’s against the 1st Amendment to prosecute ANYTHING said to ANYONE at ANYTIME. I can call you anything I want. It’s called freedom of speech. If I threaten you, that’s something else. But calling you names, or mispronouncing? NO! It’s nothing more than a form (or excuse) to censor what others want to say. Please take note:
For those who want to start censoring others, they may want to think of possible – consequences. Maybe I have a physical speech impediment, and I can’t pronounce certain words correctly…and maybe I have a big brother who has a mental defect, which (correlates in his head) that it’s absolutely correct and just (when triggered), to level heavy, negative consequences onto those who attempt to censor himself or those entrusted to him.
If you want to conjure up designed strategies to facilitate an objective, be ready to understand and realize life is a two-way street…and there will be those who disagree w/ you…and if you insist on attempting to facilitate onto others your idea of how things should be – you are NOT immune to negative consequences which may befall you. Heavy, negative consequences. js
How about calling the bitch a traitor; is that OK?? The flagrant opening of our borders was a crimial violation of law. And, that’s going to get both her and that Biden sell-out