March 11, 2025 09:43 AM UTC

Nobody Keeps It Classy Like Lauren Boebert

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Houston Chronicle’s Michael Garcia reports, Colorado’s carpetbagging controversy-seeking missile Rep. Lauren Boebert couldn’t resist taking one more uniquely hypocritical little swipe at Rep. Al Green, who was censured last week after interrupting President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress–much the same way Boebert herself heckled and hollered all the way through Joe Biden’s State of the Union in 2022 but was never punished for.

And not only did Boebert hypocritically go after Rep. Green for committing the same offense she did three years before, but she managed to up the outrage ante to the extent that Boebert is now the target of a censure call of her own:

In a widely-circulated clip, right-wing cable network Real America’s Voice posted a portion of Boebert’s interview, where she spoke with host Grant Stinchfield about Green, who was removed from the House chamber for shouting that Trump had no mandate to cut Medicaid during his speech.

“Al Green was given multiple opportunities to stand down, to sit down, to behave, to show decorum. And he did not,” Boebert told Stinchfield.

“For him to shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent,” she said. [Pols emphasis]

Needless to say, or at least it should be, there are a few large problems with this comment. Rep. Green is 77 years old, meaning his cane is not some kind of “pimp” accessory but necessary for the man to walk. And of course referring to a respected elder colleague and Black man as a “pimp” is…less than decorous. In short, Lauren Boebert managed to cram a little ageism, ableism, and old-fashioned racism into one rhetorical flaming bag of poo! Served up with a side of hypocrisy that has become Boebert’s unapologetic trademark.

Will it be enough to net Boebert a censure of her own? We’d say she earned it, but the double standard that saw Green censured to begin with is likely to prevail.