{"id":1027396,"date":"2021-11-18T12:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027396"},"modified":"2021-11-18T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:28:48","slug":"i-dont-know-whether-to-call-you-professor-or-comrade-john-kennedy-grills-bidens-marxist-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-know-whether-to-call-you-professor-or-comrade-john-kennedy-grills-bidens-marxist-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Don\u2019t Know Whether To Call You Professor Or Comrade\u2019: John Kennedy Grills Biden\u2019s \u2018Marxist\u2019 Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-dont-know-whether-to-call-you-professor-or-comrade-john-kennedy-grills-bidens-marxist-nominee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027396&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy blasted President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, during a Senate Banking hearing Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsSpencerBrown\/status\/1461367581843984390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked<\/a> Omarova about allegations of her membership in past membership communist groups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/28\/joe-biden-nominated-marxist-regulate-banks-saule-omarova-toomey-tester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Omarova<\/a>, who grew up in the Soviet Union, said that growing up, everyone was a member of communist organizations because it was part of the academic curriculum. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/17\/saule-omarova-shoplifting-joe-biden-tj-maxx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Treasury Nominee Saule Omarova Was Once Arrested For Shoplifting At TJ Maxx, Police Records Show)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.3587786259542\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) grills Biden nominee Saule Omarova on allegations of past membership in communist groups: \u201cI don\u2019t know whether to call you professor or comrade.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XjcAeawBBl\">pic.twitter.com\/XjcAeawBBl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsSpencerBrown\/status\/1461367581843984390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked if she resigned from the communist organizations, Omarova responded by saying \u201cyou grow out of it with age.\u201d Kennedy pressed further, asking for records of her resignation, which triggered Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown to interrupt Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy then questioned her academic and professional history, which included the thesis she wrote at Moscow State University, titled \u201cKarl Marx\u2019s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital,\u201d and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=013858372769713515008:m9uq4uupsfm&amp;q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/20\/quintessential-ahole-industry-biden-treasury-nominee-financial-service-jobs\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiumsLVr6L0AhWDoHIEHaSnDtIQFnoECAEQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw0CLz6tCVa2a_ZrckCUp1Gy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comments<\/a>&nbsp;she made in 2019 calling the financial sector \u201ca quintessential asshole industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy acknowledged that Omarova has the right to believe in theories and principles in her past works, saying \u201cI don\u2019t mean any disrespect, but I don\u2019t know whether to call you professor or comrade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator, I am not a communist, I do not subscribe to that ideology, I could not choose where I was born, I do not remember joining any Facebook group that subscribes to that ideology, I would never knowingly join any such group,\u201d Omarova responded.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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John Kennedy blasted President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, during a Senate Banking hearing Wednesday.Kennedy asked Omarova &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}