{"id":1803765,"date":"2023-01-12T12:37:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803765"},"modified":"2023-01-12T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T17:38:04","slug":"fact-check-gop-congressman-slams-rednecks-says-people-shouldnt-be-drinking-on-house-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-gop-congressman-slams-rednecks-says-people-shouldnt-be-drinking-on-house-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: GOP Congressman Slams Rednecks, Says \u2018People Shouldn\u2019t Be Drinking\u2019 on House Floor"},"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%2Ffact-check-gop-congressman-slams-rednecks-says-people-shouldnt-be-drinking-on-house-floor%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=1803765&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-->\n<p><strong>Claim<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p> <em>&#8220;People shouldn\u2019t be drinking, especially when you\u2019re a redneck, on the House floor.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Who said it?<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Tim Burchett, R., Tenn. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katesullivandc\/status\/1611627487712219136?s=46&#038;t=EekK1xhKFAkl-5ukxsttWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talk about<\/a> After the chamber, the House floor witnessed the confrontation between Reps. Mike Rogers and Matt Gaetz (R.-Ala.).&#8221;s 14th failed attempt to elect a speaker.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0is uniquely suited to suss fact from fiction on matters of alcohol and degenerate behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Congress is a pretend high school for people who were bullied in real high school\u2014a bunch of cocky nerds who will never realize how dumb they really are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He would be like a bag of dirt to me.&#8221; Burchett <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KateSullivanDC\/status\/1611627809549570049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bragged<\/a> to a female reporter after the heated exchange of words about the ceremonial vote most normal Americans aren&#8221;They are loved for their meaningful lives.\u00a0&#8220;Nobody&#8221;They&#8217;re gonna grab me. Nobody&#8221;s gonna threaten me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Analyse<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>These hooligan dorks must be allowed to drink on the House floor. Even rednecks! Particularly the rednecks. Congress members should\u00a0<em>Always<\/em> drinking, brawling, and starting wars. This is how America was created.\u00a0This is how America was founded. <em>Why?<\/em> America was founded. Our country performs best when its elected officials are extremely drunk. Burchett should have a good look at the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>4 Clintons<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> Fact Verdict: We rate this claim as 1 Clinton&#8217;s.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People shouldn\u2019t be drinking, especially when you\u2019re a redneck, on the House floor.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Fact Check: GOP Congressman Slams Rednecks, Says \u2018People Shouldn\u2019t Be Drinking\u2019 on House Floor appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1803768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4092,5335,5408,12059,5426,6203,3653,4370,14601,5608,3944],"class_list":["post-1803765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-beacon","tag-check","tag-congressman","tag-drinking","tag-floor","tag-gop","tag-house","tag-people","tag-rednecks","tag-shouldnt","tag-slams"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803765","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}