Gosh Josh!..Josh Hawley's Hometown Newspaper Makes Him A Laughing-Stock

 The Missouri 'Hand-Pumper' has gotten his fair share of attention lately People.com

'Fist Pumper to Fleeing Coward': Paper in Josh Hawley's Home State Calls Senator 'Laughingstock' in Op-Ed

“Where’s that fist in the air now?” the The Kansas City Star editorial board writes in a piece about the senator who encouraged Jan. 6 rioters, then ran out of the U.S. Capitol when violence erupted

By Aaron Parsley July 25, 2022 03:46 PM

Video of Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley fleeing rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has inspired a scathing op-ed in The Kansas City Star, a newspaper based in his state.

"Josh Hawley is a laughingstock," reads the first line of the editorial board–authored piece, which is headlined: "Fist pumper to fleeing coward: Jan. 6 video shows Missouri who Josh Hawley really is."

 

Satire from The Borowitz Report

Hawley Concerned That Being a Coward Is Overshadowing His Work as a Fascist

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Senator Josh Hawley is “deeply concerned” that his newfound national reputation for cowardice is overshadowing his commitment to end democracy.

“People see one video of me fleeing like a terrified bunny, and they think that’s all there is to me,” Hawley told reporters at a press conference. “They’re totally forgetting that I’m also a guy who tried to overturn a free and fair election.”

Hawley admitted that, although it is tempting to stereotype him as “a guy who was scared shitless of a mob he had egged on earlier in the day, that’s just one side of me. What about the side of me that wantonly subverts democracy? That should count for something.”

“People are focussing on the totally chickenshit Josh Hawley and ignoring the lusting-for-autocracy Josh Hawley,” he complained.

Hawley’s press conference was cut short after a reporter asked a question and the senator ran away.

 

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Video Shows Josh Hawley Fleeing The Jan. 6 Rioters He Had Just Saluted

During a prime-time hearing, the House select committee investigating the insurrection showed footage of the senator running out of the U.S. Capitol.

By 

Christopher Mathias

Jul 21, 2022, 10:30 PM EDT

Politics

Cop Injured On Jan. 6: 'Josh Hawley Is A Bitch. And He Ran Like A Bitch.'

Former D.C. officer Michael Fanone was beaten, electroshocked and nearly killed by the crowd Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) riled up — then ran away from.

By 

Ryan Grenoble

Jul 22, 2022, 04:09 PM EDT

In the early afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) flashed a fist pump of encouragement at a growing mob outside the U.S. Capitol. Hours later, in never-before-seen surveillance footage released Thursday, the senator, now looking quite timid, is seen literally running away from the same mob.

The striking footage didn’t sit well with Michael Fanone, a D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who was beaten, electroshocked and nearly killed by the insurrectionists.“Josh Hawley is a bitch. And he ran like a bitch,” the 20-year police veteran told Politico in an interview after the Jan. 6 House select committee hearing where the surveillance footage was shown. “The fist pump, combined with what he did in the immediate aftermath, just shows [his] true character ― or lack thereof.”