{"id":1510785,"date":"2022-06-10T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510785"},"modified":"2022-06-10T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T20:36:33","slug":"nbc-news-invites-long-time-gop-congressman-don-young-on-show-twitter-notices-their-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-news-invites-long-time-gop-congressman-don-young-on-show-twitter-notices-their-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC News Invites Long-Time GOP Congressman Don Young On Show. Twitter Notices Their Mistake."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fnbc-news-invites-long-time-gop-congressman-don-young-on-show-twitter-notices-their-mistake%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=1510785&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/search\/news?refinementList%5Btaxonomies.post_tag%5D%5B0%5D=NBC%20News&#038;page=1\">NBC News<\/a> invited the longest-serving GOP congressman in history to appear on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/search\/news?query=nbc%20news&#038;page=1&#038;refinementList%5Btaxonomies.post_tag%5D%5B0%5D=Chuck%20Todd\">Chuck Todd<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press NOW\u201d show on Friday, only to have Twitter users expose their horrifying mistake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The invitation was extended to Rep. Don Young (R-AK), the late Alaska congressman whose death months ago opened up the congressional seat he occupied continuously beginning in the early 1970s. Zack Brown, a former communications director for Young, explained the problem on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cUnfortunately, @chucktodd, I don\u2019t think Congressman Young\u2019s schedule will allow him to be on Meet the Press with you tomorrow, but I\u2019ll circle back if that changes,\u201d Brown responded. \u201cThanks for reaching out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unfortunately, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chucktodd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@chucktodd<\/a>, I don&#8217;t think Congressman Young&#8217;s schedule will allow him to be on Meet the Press with you tomorrow, but I&#8217;ll circle back if that changes. Thanks for reaching out! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NP2QCFNGH3\">pic.twitter.com\/NP2QCFNGH3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zack Brown (@ZackBrownDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZackBrownDC\/status\/1535025131017457665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First sworn in as Alaska\u2019s only representative to the House in 1973, Young held the title of longest-serving member of Congress before his death on March 18, 2022. Although a cause of death was not specified, his office did <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rollcall\/status\/1505000941153656838\">reveal<\/a> that he passed away \u201cwhile traveling home to Alaska to be with the state and people that he loved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When responding to the show\u2019s invitation, Brown clarified that Young\u2019s appearance would simply be impossible and acknowledged the touching tribute they had done in the congressman\u2019s memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly Congressman Young passed away in March, but you all did a lovely tribute to him!\u201d Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZackBrownDC\/status\/1535028149624492056\">wrote<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his lengthy career, Young\u2019s vision centered around providing citizens with the \u201copportunity for a better life not just for today, but also for tomorrow and the future,\u201d as detailed by his <a href=\"https:\/\/ak00forms.house.gov\/biography\/\">official biography<\/a>. This led him to receive a number of career recognitions, including the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) \u201cHero of the Taxpayer\u201d award in 2008 for voting with taxpayers on 85% or more of the issues tracked by ATR.<\/p>\n<p>While reflecting on his former boss\u2019 career, Brown pointed out that \u201cCongressman Young has not only passed two of his bills through the House from beyond the grave\u2026.but he\u2019s also getting Meet the Press booking requests as well.\u201d This, he concluded, amounts to \u201cA successful post-life career by any measure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users responded with amusement to Brown\u2019s posts about the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they pull that off it would be the greatest booking of all time,\u201d replied Fox 5 News anchor Tom Fitzgerald.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If they pull that off it would be the greatest booking of all time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3314SSnBLK\">pic.twitter.com\/3314SSnBLK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Fitzgerald (@FitzFox5DC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FitzFox5DC\/status\/1535036073029652508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His former communications director also believes that if Young witnessed the whole ordeal, he would \u201ccackle about it for 5 minutes before asking me to print it and laminate it so he could show all his friends on the House Floor during votes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News invited the longest-serving GOP congressman in history to appear on Chuck Todd\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press NOW\u201d show on Friday, only to have Twitter users expose their horrifying mistake.\u00a0 The invitation was extended to Rep. Don Young (R-AK), the late Alaska congressman whose death months ago opened up the congressional seat he occupied continuously &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":921,"featured_media":1433916,"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-1510785","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\/1510785","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\/921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}