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A Republican representative is demanding that Saturday Night Live issue a "full-fledged apology" after the show mocked New York Representative Elise Stefanik.

Saturday's episode opened with a sketch parodying the congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. On December 5, the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania discussed measures to address the rise in antisemitism at colleges amid the Israel-Hamas war, with their testimonies prompting uproar online.

An exchange between University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill and Stefanik has gained particular traction, with conservatives—including North Carolina Representative Greg Murphy—blasting SNL for ridiculing Stefanik while being less harsh on the "progressive" college leaders.

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When asked if students "calling for the genocide of Jews" breaks the university's rules against harassment, Magill called it a "context-dependent decision."

"If the speech turns into conduct it, can be harassment, yes," she told Stefanik.

The exchange went viral, with Magill resigning from her post on Saturday. The SNL skit that night starred Ego Nwodim as Harvard President Claudine Gay, Heidi Gardner as MIT's Sally Kornbluth, and Chloe Fineman as Magill, while Chloe Troast portrayed Stefanik.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 4:11 pm I'll never understand why some people loudly demand public apologies when there's no way in Hell they're going to get an apology.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., filed a complaint today alleging judicial misconduct by a federal judge who has overseen various Jan. 6-related cases.

Stefanik, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump and member of the House GOP leadership, formally requested an ethics investigation into Howell over what the New York Republican called a “highly inappropriate political speech” by the judge in November.

Howell is also overseeing Giuliani's trial.

The complaint, submitted to D.C. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan and first reported by NBC News, pertains to Howell’s remarks Nov. 27 when she accepted an award at a Women’s White Collar Defense Association gala. Stefanik argues that Howell’s remarks were “hardly apolitical” and that the judge’s remarks were “plainly inappropriate, consisting of partisan statements, election interference, and improper extrajudicial statements while criminal cases are pending.”

Churchill: Trump and Stefanik? That's the ticket
The North Country congresswoman seems increasingly likely to be Donald Trump's presidential running mate
By Chris ChurchillJan 13, 2024

As I write this, the betting websites are still insisting that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is the person most likely to be Donald Trump’s running mate. I disagree. Elise Stefanik is the frontrunner.

That’s especially true after her controversial appearance last weekend on “Meet the Press,” which felt more like an audition than an interview — and Stefanik passed with flying colors. The North Country congresswoman was everything Trump would want in a vice president.

Reportedly spunky since her days at the Albany Academy for Girls, if not earlier, Stefanik was combative, and, I have to admit, fairly effective at swatting away the questions posed by host Kristen Welker. More than that, Stefanik was intensely loyal — sycophantic is undoubtedly the better word — to the likely Republican nominee, which, as we all know, is Trump’s favorite quality in a person.

That sycophancy was most obviously absurd when Welker mentioned Trump’s use of the word “hostages” to describe some of the people convicted and imprisoned after the riot at the U.S. Capitol.” Soon after, Stefanik parroted the word.

“I have concerns about the treatment of January 6 hostages,” the town of Saratoga resident said, noting what she described as the weaponization of the federal government against conservatives.

Had Welker mentioned that Trump enjoys Alpine musical traditions, Stefanik would have yodeled her way through the interview. Had Welker mentioned that Trump watches the Boston Bruins, Stefanik would have peppered her answers with references to Bobby Orr. Her every sentence seemed directed at an audience of one.

Hostages. That’s quite a word to use so soon after Hamas terrorists swarmed into Israel and snatched up hundreds of men, women and children of all ages. The implicit comparison of the American justice system to rogue evildoers is, I’d argue, deeply and stunningly unpatriotic.

Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender wrote: Rep. Dan Goldman introduces a resolution to censure GOP Conference Chair Stefanik in part for referring to Jan. 6 defendants as “hostages”:

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Acyn @Acyn wrote: Goldman: I rise today to introduce a resolution to censure Congresswoman Stefanik…

'She's a killer': Trump eyes Rep. Elise Stefanik as a potential VP pick
The former president has spoken highly of the New York congresswoman, and his allies say she's high on the list of vice presidential prospects.

During a candlelit dinner with Mar-a-Lago members in late December, former President Donald Trump walked around the table as the conversation turned to one of the biggest decisions he’d have to make should he become the Republican nominee: Whom should he pick to be his running mate?

That’s when Rep. Elise Stefanik, the hard-charging upstate New York Republican, came up, according to a person at the dinner table. Attendees around Trump raved about her viral moment just weeks before, when she grilled three university presidents at a congressional hearing about antisemitism on campus.

At the thought of Stefanik as a possible choice for vice president, Trump nodded approvingly.

“She’s a killer,” Trump said, according to the person at the event.

Ever since then, Trump and a growing group of allies have started to look more closely at Stefanik as a running mate, according to eight people familiar with the matter, including people in Trump’s orbit, Stefanik fundraising bundlers and former Trump administration officials.

Acyn @Acyn wrote: Reporter: Do believe E. Jean Carroll?

Stefanik : No of course not

Reporter: A jury found that Trump sexually abused her

Stefanik: The media is so biased

Reporter: It’s not the media, it’s a jury that found he abused E. Jean Carroll

This has been a truly tragic day for America. And we all join together in fully condemning the dangerous violence and destruction that occurred today in our Nation’s Capitol.

Liz Cheney Goes Nuclear on ‘Crackpot’ Elise Stefanik, Reminds Her of Original Reaction to January 6

My full statement on the sham January 6th Committee’s illegal obstruction of justice:

“As I said from day one, Nancy Pelosi’s sham January 6th Committee was illegitimate and unconstitutional. It should come as a surprise to no one that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney’s fake committee illegally deleted records of their sham investigation and obstructed justice.

The American people deserve full transparency. I applaud Congressman Loudermilk’s efforts to find and decrypt these deleted files and stand by his efforts to bring transparency and accountability.”

This is what ⁦⁦
@EliseStefanik
⁩ said, in a rare moment of honesty, about the January 6 attack on our Capitol. One day she will have to explain how and why she morphed into a total crackpot. History, and our children, deserve to know.

Rolodex wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:29 pm I've seen this claim of the J6 "deleting evidence" floating around. Where did it come from? Made up from whole cloth or a spin on something normal?