A local Colorado news anchor has officially had it with Rep. Lauren Boebert.
Kyle Clark anchors for 9NEWs in Denver and is also the host of “Next with Kyle Clark.” He’s a well-liked, well-respected, Emmy-award winning journalist. He’s also D-O-N-E done with Boebert.
Last night, Clark tore into the racist, homophobic QAnon congresswoman for “the cruel, false, and bigoted things she says for attention and fundraising.”
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He was responding specifically to Boebert’s disgusting Islamophobic attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar on the House floor this week, during which she accused her colleague of being a terrorist and member of the “jihad squad” and peddled untrue rumors that she was married to her brother.
“We hold Congresswoman Boebert to a far lower standard,” Clark said. “If we held her to the same standard as every other elected Republican and Democrat in Colorado, we would be here near-nightly chronicling the cruel, false and bigoted things that Boebert says for attention and fundraising.”
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He added: “This is not about politics–assuming politics is still about things like taxes, national security, health care, jobs and public lands. This is about us, as journalists, recognizing that we’ll hold a politician accountable if they say something vile once, but we won’t do it if they do it every day.”
Watch.
Omar responded to Boebert’s remarks in a tweet, writing: “Luckily my dad raised me right, otherwise I might have gone to the floor to talk about this insurrectionist who sleeps with a pervert. I am grateful I was raised to be a decent human and not a deprived person who shamefully defecates & defiles the House of Representatives. “
Luckily my dad raised me right, otherwise I might have gone to the floor to talk about this insurrectionist who sleeps with a pervert. I am grateful I was raised to be a decent human and not a deprived person who shamefully defecates & defiles the House of Representatives. ?? God https://t.co/F5W9LBzjCZ
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 17, 2021
Omar appears to be referencing the 2004 case involving Boebert’s then boyfriend/now husband, Jayson, who was arrested for exposing himself to a group of women, including a 16-year-old girl, at a bowling alley.
Jayson told police he “displayed his thumb pretending it was his genitals in a gesture of fun,” but witnesses disputed his account and said it was definitely his penis because “thumbs aren’t 6 inches long.”
According to the New York Post, Jayson later pled guilty to public indecency and lewd exposure and was sentenced to four days in jail plus two years probation.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Mister P
Good for him. She is not being held to a very high standard as she should be.
dwick
I’m curious as to why her sex offender hubby didn’t end up on the sex offender registry.
Gnarfield
Boebert is a whiny, little drama queen that has no business being an elected official. There has to be some standards since Americans can’t be trusted to vote sane people into office.
trojanboy
Shes a great advert. For something.
Jon in Canada
A “Why Abortion Is Necessary At Times” advert.
scotty
Retroactive abortions.
SDR94103
C*NT.
m
A very qunty qunt ass mofo!
barryaksarben
He is sooo right. Where are the standards that the right so loves to protect. She is supposed to be a pol who is working for the benefit of her constituants and not there to just try to demean others which by the way she is terrible at since she has such a trashy life with no standards at all
Doug
Both Boebert and Greene have consistently gotten away with insulting and humiliating their peers. Gosar was censured, why haven’t they been?
groinpull
Not sure where you’re going with your comment, but shouldn’t Ohmar, Talib, AOC and Bush all be censored? All of them have voiced hate narratives towards the people of this country and the country itself.
Karlis
I know this is not the main point here, but when did it become OK for news anchors to appear on TV without a tie on?
Sageone
When did it become acceptable for news women to appear without a girdle?
Jack
This crazy trailer park b*tch needs to be expelled. She’s a danger to our democracy and she’s a danger to other members of the house. And she’s MENTALLY ILL. “We need to investigate how many puppies were eaten on Fauci’s watch” ?? Bring the straight jacket and a ball gag.
groinpull
And the members of the squad are the intelligent one’s. Please, everyone of the squad members have the intelligence of roadkill.
chat fisher
Just a Kolorado Kunt.
johncp56
I,m still shocked she and the other moose knuckle MTG are not fired for disgusting comments almost daily, insane if any of us did that in this day and age at work we would be out!!!!! and rightfuly so hate talk is just that and it gets people hurt, and worse
Tombear
Lauren Boebert is a living and breathing reason why abortion should be kept safe and legal!
groinpull
Yea what a shame you made it through.
scotty
And retroactive.