Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., lashed back at accusations she “weaponized” a social media post with Dave Chappelle, arguing the comedian had already waded into the political debate over transgender issues.<\/p>\n
“Dave Chappelle can have his little counseling session with NPR,” Boebert told Fox News Digital, referring to an interview Chappelle gave earlier this week when he criticized a post of the two of them together at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n
“That’s fine. You know, I took a photo with 50 Cent, a lot of people and posted about them. And none of them cried over it,” Boebert said.<\/p>\n
Boebert snapped a picture with Chappelle in November 2023 and posted the image to Twitter with the caption, “Just three people who understand that there\u2019s only two genders.”<\/p>\n
DETRANSITIONER CHLOE COLE ACCUSES MEDIA OF \u2018TRYING TO SUPPRESS\u2019 COVERAGE OF TRANSGENDER SHOOTERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The original tweet, which also included Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., has since been deleted.<\/p>\n The incident resurfaced earlier this week when Chappelle told interviewers he resented the moment.<\/p>\n “I was on Capitol Hill, and everybody ran up to take pictures with me from every congressional office. I didn\u2019t ask how they vote or what their voting record is. And then here comes Lauren Boebert,” Chappelle recalled.<\/p>\n “And she said, ‘Can I get a picture?\u2019 And I had already taken 40 pictures, I didn\u2019t want to say no in front of everybody. \u2026 She instantly weaponized it \u2014 or politicized it. You should never do that to a person like me.”<\/p>\n CHLOE COLE ACT AIMED AT BLOCKING MINORS FROM UNDERGOING LIFE-ALTERING TRANSGENDER SURGERIES, GOP LAWMAKER SAYS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Chappelle has repeatedly tackled transgender issues in his Netflix specials<\/a>, including “Sticks & Stones,” “Equanimity” and “The Closer,” material that has drawn both backlash and support and put him at the center of the broader cultural debate he now says Boebert pulled him into.<\/p>\n COLORADO TRIED TO SILENCE ME FOR HELPING GENDER-CONFUSED KIDS. THE SUPREME COURT JUST RULED 8-1 IN MY FAVOR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Boebert noted as much, suggesting Chappelle has already inserted himself into these national conversations through his comedy.<\/p>\n “I think he’s done that quite a bit, has he not?” Boebert said.<\/p>\n When asked if she believed she had politicized the moment with Chappelle, Boebert said she believes the gravity of the issue merits political discourse.<\/p>\n “They’re castrating our children and destroying them, absolutely ruining their lives over it. In Colorado<\/a> … we castrate bulls, not baby boys. OK? And that’s what it should be,” Boebert said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., lashed back at accusations she “weaponized” a social media post with Dave Chappelle, arguing the comedian had already waded into the political debate over transgender issues. “Dave Chappelle can have his little counseling session with NPR,” Boebert told Fox News Digital, referring to an interview Chappelle gave earlier this week when … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}