In clips that went viral on social media, Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) threw down Wednesday morning with CNN’s dead man walking Jim Acosta over January 6 and President Trump’s commutations and pardons for all those charged in the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. Near the end of the squabble, Burchett ripped CNN as being crushed in the ratings by the likes of Cartoon Network and Spongebob Squarepants reruns.
The high point came at the end when Acosta first grossly conjured up some fear porn that those released from prison are going to commit violent crimes. Burchett clapped back that, as part of the probe, he had constituents whom the FBI visited “and harassed them” in a “political thing from the start” even though “[i]t was a bad day in America.”
Acosta came back by accusing Republicans of refusing to truly “back the blue” while…
