U.S. politics are getting bizarre, and the 2020 election season isn’t even here yet.
If there was any doubt, an odd incident from Capitol Hill on Thursday should make it clear. Video shared by the leftist group MoveOn appears to show one of their activists following a GOP lawmaker though the halls of his office building, doggedly repeating the same loaded question.
That’s not so strange. But it was Republican Alaska Rep. Don Young’s response that is garnering attention — and a bit of puzzlement.
“As a man repeatedly questioned Young in the Longworth House Office Building, the 86-year-old congressman walked down a hall and toward a section with elevators,” Fox News reported. “As Young waited for the elevators, he walked toward the camera and knocked it with his head.”
Yes, you read that right. An octogenarian just head-butted a camera, apparently on purpose, as his retort to an annoying lobbyist. We’ll give him this, it was certainly creative.
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U.S. politics are getting bizarre, and the 2020 election season isn’t even here yet.
If there was any doubt, an odd incident from Capitol Hill on Thursday should make it clear. Video shared by the leftist group MoveOn appears to show one of their activists following a GOP lawmaker though the halls of his office building, doggedly repeating the same loaded question.
That’s not so strange. But it was Republican Alaska Rep. Don Young’s response that is garnering attention — and a bit of puzzlement.
“As a man repeatedly questioned Young in the Longworth House Office Building, the 86-year-old congressman walked down a hall and toward a section with elevators,” Fox News reported. “As Young waited for the elevators, he walked toward the camera and knocked it with his head.”
Yes, you read that right. An octogenarian just head-butted a camera, apparently on purpose, as his retort to an annoying lobbyist. We’ll give him this, it was certainly creative.
The weirdness started when an unidentified man from MoveOn began following Rep. Young through the hallways, asking over and over about alleged foreign interference.
“Is it okay for the president to pressure foreign governments to interfere in our elections?” the progressive activist asked, obviously trying to bait the Republican on the unproven claims which Democrats are currently using as the basis for impeachment against President Trump.
He repeated variations of that same question several times as Young made his way to an elevator, while one of the congressman’s staff members tried to tell the liberal that he’d have to direct his queries to the representative’s press secretary.
“It’s a simple yes or no question,” the MoveOn questioner pressed.
That’s when Rep. Young calmly turned toward the camera, walked forward, and … well, pressed his forehead into the lens.
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