In this week’s first episode of The Editors, Rich is joined by Charlie, Jim, and Noah. Our panelists cover numerous topics, among them Lauren Boebert’s repulsive activities and actions during a recent outing.
Jim is disgusted, saying, “I try hard not to think about Lauren Boebert or allocate any more brain cells to her than I have to. I haven’t written about this particular controversy. I don’t think I will, but I’m as appalled as anybody else. You’re a public figure. You have a duty, a responsibility to behave appropriately in public.”
He doesn’t stop there, though, and points out that Boebert and some others see their place in the Senate very differently. “In the end,” Jim says, “Lauren Boebert is playing a different role than most of us would expect a member of Congress to play. . . . Policy bores the Lauren Boeberts of the world. . . . What they want to do is they want to be a star. They want to be a reality-show star. So what I’d really love to do is to take her and a half dozen other members of Congress and just have them step down, shuffle them out or something, and we can create a reality show. . . . Let’s just let them be reality-show stars, because that’s what they really want in life. . . . They want to be stars. You know what, go off and do that and leave the government to people who actually care about these things.”
Listen to the whole thing.