Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) wasn’t impressed by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) pointedly eating Kentucky Fried Chicken during a House Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled with Attorney General Bill Barr on Thursday.
Tillis took to the Senate floor on Thursday afternoon to rail against the “theater” of congressional Democrats trying to question Barr on his handling of the Mueller report. Barr ditched the House hearing that day, prompting Cohen to bring in a bucket of KFC to the hearing and place a toy chicken in “Chicken Barr”‘s empty seat.
Pulling out a poster of Cohen chowing down, Tillis said indignantly, “You tell me whether or not the chair of that committee is actually serious about this subject when you’ve got a guy eating fried chicken in place of where they wanted General Barr to be.”
“This guy didn’t even have a good enough sense to have Bojangles chicken,” the senator complained.
As any North Carolinian will tell you, Bojangles is the No. 1 fried chicken joint in the country.
Watch below:
.@SenThomTillis on @RepCohen: "This guy didn't even have a good enough sense to have Bojangles chicken." pic.twitter.com/FsVMC7kQ2m
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 2, 2019
“Tillis took to the Senate floor on Thursday afternoon to rail against the “theater” of…”
With a printed up poster and faux outrage…
Once again proving (as if it is still neccessary) Republicans do not perceive irony.
I wish it were still winter so someone could have pelted him with a snowball.
womp womp
Maybe Rep. Cohen was getting in a dig at one or two Kentucky senators as well.
Tillis gets in a lather about this, but Trump and Barr’s law-breaking is apparently just duckie.
Sure seems he leads a care free life with nothing to worry about.
…Tillis fiddled while Rome burned.
I think Cohen was making the point KFC has 11 herbs and spices -one for each count of Obstruction found by Mueller.