Smoothie enthusiast Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) had some advice on Monday for GOP presidential candidate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: pipe down and stick with real fruit.
Asked by a TPM editor on Twitter for his comment on the weekend report that Christie was booted from an Amtrak train quiet car for being too loud – all while drinking a McDonald’s strawberry smoothie – Rangel delivered, posting a video of himself attempting to whip up a fruity beverage.
@nickmartin since you asked: https://t.co/iYSJzvdhWc
— Charles Rangel (@cbrangel) October 26, 2015
Unlike @GovChristie I keep quiet in quiet car & blend my own smoothie w/ real fruit (tho it 2 may not go smoothly) pic.twitter.com/lrKy0bdplr
— Charles Rangel (@cbrangel) October 26, 2015
In the 20-second video posted to Twitter, Rangel attempted to use a small blender to make a smoothie, but appeared to be experiencing some technical difficulties.
“I wasn’t here, I haven’t touched it,” the New York Democrat said in the video.
While his mumbling to himself is mostly unintelligibly – likely consumed by the task at hand – Rangel has established himself as Congress’ foremost authority on smoothie making, often posting about the beverage on social media.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Hannah Kim, a spokeswoman for Rangel, clarified the Representative’s remarks in the video in an email to TPM. He was affectionately calling the blender “baby,” and saying: “unless someone has come in here and abused my baby when I wasn’t here. I haven’t touched it.”
Kim also said while the video doesn’t depict a smoothie Rangel made today, he would likely blend one when he “gets to the office in DC from NYC via Amtrak.”
I’m with Charlie and his smoothies with fruit,
When you’re on a train, you might as well toot!
Damn, this is some insightful news coverage!
Lame. Here’s a suggestion. If you’re trying to make a point and something goes wrong…don’t post your dumb video showing how you didn’t get you point across or how not to make a smoothie. Just tweet out the fucking recipe…Then we can decide if you got it right.
Charlie Rangel got a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart saving the lives of 40 men in Korea, defending among other things my right to be a trolling asshole on the internet.
I’m willing to give him a respectful listen on anything.
How this made it into TPM, much less a front page article on TPM mobile is baffling.