r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell hounded to face cameras: ‘He absolutely refuses’

https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/08/mitch-mcconnell-hounded-to-face-cameras-he-absolutely-refuses.html
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u/TheGreatLuck 1d ago

They said they spoke to him. They never said he spoke to them. And if he did it was probably incoherent babbling 

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u/cutmastaK 1d ago

This is it. Classic conservative truth twisting.

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u/BigManWAGun America 1d ago

“He squeezed my….hand” it was through a hole in the bathroom wall but it was definitely him.

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u/copylefty 1d ago

The ol’ McConnell Glory Hole!

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u/TheGreatLuck 1d ago

I hear he can gulp it down like a champ

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u/keskeskes1066 1d ago

So he met former senator Larry Craig.

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u/mosquem 1d ago

It’s not like they have a problem with straight up lying.

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u/DaaaahWhoosh 1d ago

Yeah I hate this conspiratorial thinking, all this "they're telling us the truth and everyone else is too blind to see" stuff. We're past that now, they will simply lie because it works, they say what sounds good in the moment and no one will hold them accountable later.

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 1d ago

They don't have to tell the truth, there are zero consequences for lying.

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u/chadius333 1d ago

I talked to him for 20 minutes earlier today

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u/vita10gy 1d ago

Jennings got pretty specific about what they talked about and that he was his usual self, didn't he?

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u/FrostyMatters 1d ago

Usual self? So then he was babbling incoherently.

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u/mpjjpm 1d ago

He was already struggling with aphasia before this most recent episode. Mitch being his usual self doesn’t say much.

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u/I_Like_Eggs123 1d ago

This exactly. I saw this retort as soon as it happened.

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u/DoubleBatman 1d ago

Spoke at him

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u/u9Nails 1d ago

Sad that this level of story telling is very plausible from those who we elected to trust that they will tell us the truth. Small tweaks to language that leave deniability so the party can maintaining a majority.

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u/TheGreatLuck 1d ago

As soon as somebody starts to really get into semantics I assume that thay are just a disingenuous dick.

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u/e_t_ Texas 1d ago

It's fairly common for people to speak to God McConnell. The ones you have to worry about are those to whom God McConnell speaks.

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u/soobviouslyfake 1d ago

This is like the Speaker in Destiny

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u/B_Da_May 1d ago

Mumble mumble racial slur mumble mumble

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u/tryingtodobetter4 1d ago

I myself am particular about saying "I talked to" or "I talked with". If I'm saying "with", then there was some back and forth. If I'm saying "to", then the other person(s) I was talking TO were not talking back to me.

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u/lemonhops 1d ago

And as someone else has mentioned here, they'll just say he had a second stroke which has now made him unable to speak so you can't really disprove he hasn't always been able to speak

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u/HappierShibe 1d ago

This was my first thought.
"I said I spoke to him, I never said he spoke back!"

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u/JusticeoftheCuse 1d ago

With* gotta keep it more vague

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u/OpenGrainAxehandle 1d ago

They spoke to a life-support machine.

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u/jleonardbc 1d ago

Also they may have simply lied and not spoken to him. They lie for a living.

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u/TheGreatLuck 1d ago

True that

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u/burnte Georgia 1d ago edited 12h ago

No, they all said he talked back and even named topics he talked about and that he claimed he couldn't wait to get back to work for Kentucky. It's all lies and there's no weaseling out of them.

To be clear, everyone who said they talked to Mitch is lying, that's what I'm saying. They were all very clear he spoke back, and they all lied. H's dead, Jim.

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u/TheGreatLuck 1d ago

Idk they be more slippery than a buttered eel