A cringe-inducing moment for GOP Rep. Frank LoBiondo, who confuses the 1st Amendment with Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution when confronted by a voter at a town hall meeting.
Next time, spare yourself the added embarrassment and just say: “I don’t know.”
Video: GOP congressman fails tea partier’s pop quiz on the Constitution
But it has come to light that this guy is a "truther", so the walk-back has already begun.
The questioner, unfortunately, is a 9/11 Truther. Sigh. Well, even Truthers can expose real truths once in a blue moon...
So what are the pre-requisites for being a Tea Bagger? After all Debra Medina aligned herself with the Tea Baggers and they pretty much fed to to the lions once she admitted on Glenn Beck's radio show that she "wasn't sure" the whole 9/11 story was true.
Odd, that these conservatives will defend racial animus, violent threats against politicians and children, yet if you question your government or the direction your country is going too much then you're obviously to crazy for them. I suppose you have to be just crazy enough.
I will offer this caveat though - by all appearances, this guy seems to know his Constitution, but then again he could have just breezed through Article 1 Section 1 hoping to stump the Congressman enough to fake him out on the obvious follow-up. It would be interesting to see what the questioner knows of healthcare reform. Has he read that?
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