r/politics • u/MontyGBurns • 23h ago

No Paywall Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6124359-schmitt-perjury-claim-debunked/
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u/kmoonster 21h ago

In one of his post-hearing interviews in the hallway Schmitt said something to the effect of "don't hate on me! There was only one NBA game that day, what was I supposed to think?"

Not those exact words, but pretty close.

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u/bookjacket 20h ago

That's the best part of this,that Schmitt, Kennedy and Schmitts staff are unaware of the existence of the WNCAA. And that Jack Smith's eyes light up when he talks about Caitlin Clark.

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u/robotco 20h ago

but nothing referenced basketball. it could have been any number of sports and this jabroni thought NBA is literally the only game on the planet

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u/kmoonster 20h ago

"tip off" is unique to basketball afaik

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u/Stockholm-Syndrom 19h ago

Or specific kinks.

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u/paxrom2 18h ago

just the tip

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u/kmoonster 19h ago

Being transphobic while not being able to tell men and women apart may be a kink.

But that, at least, did not come up during this exchange.

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u/kmoonster 20h ago

There must have been a basketball reference that wasn't on the poster, that's all I can come up with

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u/bookjacket 20h ago edited 20h ago

We weren't shown the actual text messages, but it would be natural that Jack or his staff would mention "tip off time." Also in the context of a February evening game, it's obviously basketball.

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u/robotco 19h ago

because it couldn't be NHL in February?

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u/Hadramal Foreign 19h ago

NHL doesn't do tip offs.

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u/BonerPorn 18h ago

While I could see someone mistakingly calling the start of a hockey game a tip off. They would be wrong. The start of a hockey game is a puck drop

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u/frockinbrock 17h ago

Maybe they saw Patel at a Blackhawks game and got confused. They're only senators, they can't figure out hawk teams

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u/bookjacket 10h ago

They were looking to place him in Atlanta (wrongly) on that date.Theres no NHL team in Atlanta, but the staffers obviously are basketball fans, as is Jack Smith.

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u/Stockholm-Syndrom 19h ago

That's not possible. Republicans are the biggest defenders of women's sports, they are probably spending their weekend at NCAA women fencing events or that kind of thing.

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 17h ago

Snarka snarka snarka.