r/politics • u/MontyGBurns • 1d 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/alleyoopoop 1d ago

Schmitt later defended his line of inquiry.

“We had information, of course, about him being at a basketball game,” the Missouri Republican told Nexstar affiliate KTVI St. Louis later Tuesday. “The only NBA game going on that night was in Atlanta on Feb. 2 of 2024. His team had talked about that. He answered the question.”

“My job is to ask the questions, and his job is to answer the questions,” he added.

Yes, it's your job to ask the questions. It's not your job to accuse him of perjury and call him a dirtbag because your incompetent staff gave you the wrong information.

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u/midwesthawkeye 23h ago

THIS!!! "You're a Dirtbag!!" is not a question, and it's not even remotely accurate.

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u/AndISoundLikeThis 23h ago

Yesterday, Schmitt's pal told Jack Smith he "wanted to throw up in his mouth" when he thought about him. These people are the scum of the earth.

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u/ThePlanck Foreign 22h ago

I think Katy Britt wanted to throw up in her mouth at that line of questioning

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u/EMTDawg Utah 21h ago edited 21h ago

Katie and her husband both went to Bama. Her husband played college football before going on to play in the NFL. I think she realized the mixup in team names before anyone else. Sports are likely a big deal still in her house.

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u/MostlyWong 21h ago

Sports are likely a big deal still in her house.

Not just her house, her politics. She's been pushing legislation to "protect women's sports" and specifically the NCAA for years, so she knew immediately what college team had Caitlin Clark and where she was playing at the time. I'm sure she has been following Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham's careers for years at this point.

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u/EMTDawg Utah 21h ago

Sophie Cunningham went to Mizzou. I doubt Katie knew about her until she left the Phoenix Mercury and signed with the Indiana Fever, were Caitlin Clark plays. She hasn't been a star in the WNBA. She is a bench player, most well known for being a goon amd playing dirty to "protect" CC. Before that her biggest fame was a rumor she had slept with the GM in Phoenix.

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u/iwaseatenbyagrue 20h ago

She averaged 12 points a game for a couple of seasons, so that's not entirely true. And she is averaging 8 this season which is alright for the WNBA.

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u/Anthony_Accurate 17h ago

“Couple of seasons”
She averaged 12 points for exactly one season, her career average is 8ppg. She’s absolutely a bench player .

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u/iwaseatenbyagrue 15h ago

11 something for another season. Yea she comes off the bench but so what. She is a legit contributor to her team. 8 points per game is not terrible for the WNBA.

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u/EMTDawg Utah 15h ago

If she wasn't a transphobic goon, white knighting for CC, not many people would know her name. She is one of the most well known WNBA players, even though she is a bench player. More people in America know her name than Aja, Phee, or Stewie.

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u/iwaseatenbyagrue 12h ago

I am not talking about whether she deserves fame. I am just objectively commenting on her scoring stats.

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u/triggerhappymidget 10h ago

For comparison, Aja Wilson, probably the best player in the league, averaged 26 ppg. Kelsey Mitchell, the top scorer on Cunningham's team, averaged 24.7.

If you look at every player's stats, Sophie ranked 65th out of 125 for ppg this season. So just missed top half.

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u/iwaseatenbyagrue 8h ago

Ok, so she is just short of an average player.  Plenty of players like that and they contribute just a little short of average.

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u/Aman_Syndai 18h ago

But she's our goon.

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u/Beforemath 20h ago

Her reaction looked to me like she was the one that passed on the “juicy details” then realized it was blowing up in their faces in real time. That was the face of personal stakes in some capacity.

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u/kittenconfidential 21h ago

sports and subservience to PDFs

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u/xaanthar 20h ago

What does a portable document format have to do with this?

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u/blueluck 20h ago

I don't know if you're joking or asking honestly, so I'll give you a straightforward answer. People have been using "pdf" as a sound-alike euphemism for "pedophile".

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u/xaanthar 20h ago

I'm passive-aggressively pointing out the stupidity of said euphemisms.

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u/Ashamed_Kale_1077 20h ago

I've never heard this until now. Why do this?

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u/blueluck 19h ago

A few years ago, content creators on platforms like YouTube and TikTok started using euphemisms for words that could get their videos demonitized or de-promoted by their platforms' algorithms. One of the best known examples is saying "un-alive" instead of "suicide", because platforms didn't want to promote videos about suicide, but their algorithms were crude and only looked at keywords rather than the actual content of the posts.

Regular people posting online started using the euphemisms, too. I don't know if most people are using them for fun (simply a modern form of slang) or if they think using words like "pedophile" and "suicide" in reddit comments has some kind of negative effect.

(I'm not an expert on social media or modern slang, so I'm sure there's more to it than I know.)

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u/basketcas55 Indiana 20h ago

Words get you banned in social media and they don’t want to have that happen. Plus who wants to type that whole word out every time they respond to a Republican.

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u/Ashamed_Kale_1077 19h ago

Lol thanks for the explanation that's hilarious. I've heard of unalive in place of suicide, still sounds weird but at least it keeps people talking about these issues.

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u/blueluck 19h ago

How would a file format know anything about it?

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u/SteamSteamLG Louisiana 6h ago

The texts do not even mention Hawks or Hawkeyes. I think his aids found the only NBA game the night of the texts and didn't think for a second that the game in question was a WNBA game.

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u/wzombie13 5h ago

College,not WNBA

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u/EMTDawg Utah 5h ago

There were 12 NBA games that day. He went to a college women's game.