On Monday night's CBS Evening News, senior national correspondent Mark Strassmann stuck his finger in the eyes of Tennessee Republicans who voted to oust two of the three attempted insurrectionist Democrat legislators. The obnoxious gloating came after one of the misbehaved Democrats, Justin Jones, was reinstated by the Nashville council.
Anchor Norah O'Donnell kicked off the report with a racial angle to her gloating and suggesting the GOP voted to oust the two Democrats because of their race. "There’s breaking news now from Nashville where a black Democratic lawmaker was just unanimously reinstated just days after Republicans threw him and another Democrat out of the Tennessee legislature," O'Donnell huffed.
From there, Strassmann took over to pound his chest about Jones getting his job back. "Suddenly the so-called Tennessee Three are everywhere. In the streets of Nashville today, on television, and probably in state Republican nightmares," he crowed
Parroting O'Donnell's racial reporting, Strassmann sneered that "Last week mostly white Republicans in the Tennessee House flexed their supermajority. They expelled two young black lawmakers for mocking House decorum with a bullhorn and bravado."
If the political parties were reversed, Strassmann would not be crying about Democrats "flex[ing] their supermajority."
"Jones’s district included part of Nashville, and in a special session today, the city’s metro council met to appoint an interim state rep. As expected, they named Jones in effect to replace himself until Tennessee's governor sets the date for a special election," Strassmann added.
Ending his report, the petulant partisan reporter gloated that the Tennessee GOP punishing Jones & Pearson for their bad behavior "backfired." "If Republicans here hoped ousting the two Democrats would silence them, make them smaller, their tactic backfired. GOP leadership here got smaller and Jones and Pearson now have a national voice," he said.
Suddenly interrupting a legislative session is a good thing, according to CBS. Anything goes so long as it's in pursuit of the Democrat Party's radical anti-American agenda.
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CBS Evening News
4/10/2023
6:35:34 p.m. EasternNORAH O’DONNELL: There’s breaking news now from Nashville where a black Democratic lawmaker was just unanimously reinstated just days after Republicans threw him and another Democrat out of the Tennessee legislature. As CBS's Mark Strassmann reports the representatives were removed after they led a protest over gun reform.
PROTESTERS: No justice, no peace.
MARK STRASSMANN: Suddenly the so-called Tennessee Three are everywhere. In the streets of Nashville today, on television, and probably in state Republican nightmares. Former Democratic state representative Justin Pearson and Justin Jones.
JUSTIN JONES: So there is no democracy in Tennessee, Tennessee’s the most undemocratic state in the nation.
STRASSMANN: Last week mostly white Republicans in the Tennessee House flexed their supermajority. They expelled two young black lawmakers for mocking House decorum with a bullhorn and bravado.
SPEAKER CAMERON SEXTON: I'm concerned about the House floor following the process and procedures that are laid out that you should follow and not having a protest as it was described over here on the House floor.
STRASSMANN: Jones’s district included part of Nashville, and in a special session today, the city’s metro council met to appoint an interim state rep. As expected, they named Jones in effect to replace himself until Tennessee's governor sets the date for a special election.
If Republicans here hoped ousting the two Democrats would silence them, make them smaller, their tactic backfired. GOP leadership here got smaller and Jones and Pearson now have a national voice.
