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Nunes Now Claims He Never Urged People To Go Out To Restaurants And Bars (Despite Evidence To Contrary)

Posted by Ellen -7849.80pc on March 17, 2020 · Flag

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After Rep. Devin Nunes recommended Americans “just go out … you can get in easily” to a restaurant in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, he ran to Fox’s Hannity show to claim he meant people should get take out, and that it was the dishonest “media freaks” who are “endangering lives.”

What Nunes said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, with host Maria Bartiromo’s approval, by the way, was recorded for all to see. The video is below this post.

NUNES: I will just say, one of the things you can do -- if you're healthy, you and your family, it's a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant -- 

BARTIROMO: Yeah.

NUNES: Likely you can get in easily.  There's -- you know, let's not hurt the working people in this country, that are relying on wages and tips to keep their small business going. 

[…]

[J]ust don't run to the grocery store and buy, you know, $4,000 of food.

BARTIROMO: Right, they're cleaning off the shelves.

NUNES: Go, you know, go to your local pub, yeah.

Unfortunately for Nunes, at around the same time he and Bartiromo were offering their amateur advice, real infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci was making the rounds of the Sunday shows recommending people avoid restaurants. Poor Nunes was even harshly criticized by Fox News’ own medical contributors.

But World’s Biggest Snowflake Nunes, not only failed to own up to his own mistake, he pretended he never said what we heard him say - and attacked those who reported it.

He whined to a sympathetic Sean Hannity last night:

NUNES: [T]hese media freaks don't have a clue what's going on out in the real world.

HANNITY: The mob. Yeah.

NUNES: We have a problem out here because we have people standing in line for 45 minutes at Costco. And so, what I was saying is you have empty restaurants. You can go through the drive-thru, you can do take-out. It's a great place to go.

The media freaks can do that they want, but, you know, they're endangering lives here by continuing this panic when we have no food shortage in this country. The farmers of America produce an abundant food supply. We have more food than we can eat in this country. And we have to stop panicking and ensure that people know they don't have to wait in a line at Costco for 30, 45 minutes. They need to stay calm.

If either Nunes or Bartiromo had wanted to make the point that people should get take out instead of eating in, you’d think they would have been sure to make that distinction, rather than to repeatedly suggest otherwise. Only a rank partisan or maybe Nunes’ mother would think that saying “it’s a great time” for healthy people to “go out” to a restaurant where they can likely “get in easily” during a pandemic was a suggestion to get takeout.

But speaking of rank partisans, in the opening of his show last night, Hannity boasted about his fidelity to truth:

HANNITY: We on this program, we are going to be dedicated to bringing you facts without fear. We are Americans. We start this program every night with the facts first without fear. We'll call out those that are so corrupt that have nothing but a political agenda. That would include the media mob, many of them.

Yet minutes later, there was Nunes lying to Hannity’s viewers without a word of pushback. Sadly, nobody should be surprised.

You can watch Nunes try to rewrite history below, from the March 16, 2020 Hannity show, via Acyn Torabi, and his original remarks, from the March 15, 2020 Sunday Morning Futures, via Media Matters.

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Devin Nunes clarifies his comments from this weekend and says he meant you could go for takeout/drive-thru despite saying you could take your family and get in easy. pic.twitter.com/GizfR1BvT0

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 17, 2020


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Milord Cutter commented 2020-03-18 21:00:47 -0400 · Flag
He just lies about what is provably false. He figures the Impeached Imbecile gets away with it, so can he.
Mark Da Costa commented 2020-03-18 17:54:37 -0400 · Flag
What’s new about Nunes. He constantly lies, even though he has it down in writing or recorded on video. He clearly told people that it was ok to go to your local restaurant and even said it was ok to go to the pub. You can’t “takeaway” from a pub by the way…No amount of “clarification” will changed the truth!
w d commented 2020-03-18 11:45:16 -0400 · Flag
Nunes follows the NewSpeak Orwellian model: say something stupid, then go on Fox and call everyone else stupid for mis-understanding {sic} what you actually literally said. Nunes is a goof. Also – Dev… Mexico is cutting back on it day-laborer workers, which means the farmers just may not have enough food. But hey – Dev. Take the family down to Friday’s or Applebees tonight. I’m sure your own constituents will give you plenty of social distance…
John McKee commented 2020-03-17 19:50:52 -0400 · Flag
Of course, we all take our families with us to pick up what we call takeaways…








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