Republicans versus Reality, Volume MMDXVI: We pick up our story of the ever-aggrieved Congresswoman from Colorado as she takes to social media to give her “Mean Girls” depiction of a conversation with a work colleague she made a hateful, xenophobic remark about during a fundraiser last week. Our antiheroine gave a weak apology “to anyone… offended” by her statement, and the target of her hatred wanted a full, public apology that would cause our antiheroine to publicly admit a mistake. (Gasp!)
“Hey, everyone, Lauren here with a quick update on a phone call I had today with Squad member Ilhan Omar,” performance artist and bratty junior high schooler Lauren Boebert (Q-CO) says, opening like a spokesmodel introducing tonight’s Lotto drawing. “I had reached out to her Friday and three days later I was able to connect with her on the phone because I wanted to let her know directly that I had reflected on my previous remarks. Now as a strong christian woman who values faith deeply, I never want anything I say to offend someone’s religion, so I told her that even after I put out a public statement to that effect.”
Her voice creeping back to the hyper-offended wannabe sorority girl she longs to be, Boebert continues: “She said she still wanted a public apology because what I had done wasn’t good enough.” [Editor’s note: it wasn’t.] “So I reiterated to her what I had just said. She kept asking for a public apology, so I told Ilhan Omar that she should make a public apology to the American people for her anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-police rhetoric. She continued to press and I continued to press back. And then Representative Omar hung up on me.” … which is what one should do when on a telephone call with a ranting, uncontrollable child.
Omar issued her own statement about the interchange:
