Rep. Madison Cawthorn calls nude tape ‘blackmail’

An opposition group that is actively campaigning against Rep. Madison Cawthorn has released a video clip appearing to show the North Carolina Republican naked in bed and, as Cawthorn described it, "being crass with a friend" and "acting foolish." #CNN #News

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  1. “If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.”
    – George Carlin

    1. @nobody that you know He always was. Most of his material still applies today. He used his comic genius ability to point out what so many choose to ignore. One of my favorites was Carlin on The Real Owners of America.

    2. I wish George was still with us to impart his observations on the cluster f that we are currently living in.

  2. Wouldn’t it be just like the times we live in if Cawthorn himself was the one leaking these photos and videos?

  3. I’m sure there must be more serious drug and sex tapes coming or this guy wouldn’t be so worried about his dripping problem.

  4. Ahhh…”just being CRASS.”
    Way to go, North Carolina CONNED-servatives. You’ve got a real “winner” there! 🤣

  5. The GOP is savage. It clearly means that Cawthorn’s statements about orgies and cocaine use it 100% on point.

  6. BTW, this is the second time he’s used “being foolish” as an excuse. When are we supposed to believe he’s a fool? Now? Is now OK?

    1. @nandy Right on the money. Next he’ll be saying he’s not a pastor and the fools will follow with crosses around their necks.

    1. wow, if that was acting he should get in touch with stormy daniels. she could probably find him work in the movies

  7. He’s 26 and has been a congressman for 1 year and already has a lifetime’s worth of scandals. What an absolute dumpster fire of a person.

    1. @John Smithe Because he thinks it’s his business what happens in my uterus? But yeah I’m with you that in general it really is none of anyone’s business what happens behind closed doors between two consenting adults or within our own bodies. It’s just people reveling in returning what he gives out now.

      As the pro-life group would say: if you don’t want to deal with the responsibility, don’t put yourself into that situation in the first place

    2. ​@Alissa VanOchten I think we should be careful in how we respond to this. See, the Republicans WANT us all to hate Cawthorn over this stuff. Why? They want him OUT! And why do they want him out? Because he’s outted them for far worse stuff than what he is currently being accused of. That’s the only reason we know about any of this otherwise private stuff. Republicans are great at op ed research, this is their bread and butter. It’s not so much that Cawthorn is horrible, it’s that they’re all horrible, but they protect each other. Let’s not be blinded to the fact that having Cawthorn in the Republican Party is GOOD for the Democrats. Republicans should have to sleep in the bed they made. From a political perspective you can be as angry as you want about the hypocrisy, but to agree with the Republican narrative that he should be kicked out over the relatively minor infractions they’re pointing out is to play directly into their hands. They’re trying to “purify” their own party. DON’T LET THEM!! Instead of piling onto the guy over some nude video, let’s instead demand that he name names when it comes to those Republican orgies and cocaine parties he mentioned. Let’s talk about which GOP leaders might be pedophiles and sex traffickers and ignore the little stuff like having made naked frat boy videos. Let’s talk about Roe v Wade being overturned and NOT the fact that dumbass Cawthorn tried to bring a gun on a plane, something which we are certain Republicans don’t actually care about at all. Let’s NOT react exactly how the GOP wants us to react. You with me here?? Or am I talking to myself??

    3. Cawthorne on the witness stand wailing in a loud effeminate screechy voice: He promised me that I would not get pregnant!!! Did he lie?

    4. @John Smithe if it was AOC fox would start a new 24/7 network to play it on an endless loop, who you kidding

  8. He’s finding out just how monstrous his party is, the party of hate doesn’t care which side you’re on if you get in their way.

    1. To be fair, nobody did this to him. He did these things to himself. He’s just as monstrous as the rest of them.

  9. Clearly his “friend” released the tape…..blackmail?…..Also, who forced him to drive without a license, twice, and bring guns onto planes, twice?

    1. @Appalachian Patriot Yeah. Lots of life threatening travelers on a plane. You saying he’d shoot a fellow passenger if he were attacked?? ON a PLANE? You DO get the irony of your comment, right??

    2. @Appalachian Patriot “The North Carolina Republican was cited for carrying a loaded gun at a TSA checkpoint in Charlotte” Here’s a coupon for 1 free Google fact check.

  10. The people releasing this material are the people that have it; which is going to mean Madison Cawthorn’s fellow Republicans. So the big question isn’t ‘ Is this stuff true?’ (of course it is); the big question is: why have so many Republicans been covering for Madison for so long?

  11. The fact that this 26-year-old frat boy is a congressman really throws cold water on the whole “American exceptionalism” thing. 😂

  12. If he talks about it, it’s no longer blackmail. Blackmail would be him paying someone to be quiet about it.

    1. @topgrain i mean would it not be a form of extortion if the people who released were seeking some monetary or political gain? Would he now have a due diligence as an elected official to report that and possibly accept the consequences of a release?

  13. Poor Madison. All he wants is to be a party boy on the taxpayers dime and people have the nerve to object to that.

  14. He went from, “Our culture today is trying to completely de-masculate all of the young men in our culture,” to leaks of being in lingerie, being groped and sending Venmo payment notes with sexual tones to another man, and now fully nude with another man?! Doesn’t that go against everything he has said and the views of his party?!

    1. When I was 22 I lent a friend enough money to cover his rent. He thought it would be funny to add “for sexual favors” in the memo line of the check I wrote him before cashing it. Except it was not so funny to my branch manager who got a call from the data processing department that encoded incoming and outgoing checks with the mICR codes along the bottom of the checks for further machine sorting. I worked for that bank that I wrote that check from. It wasn’t funny. But jerks do jerk stuff.

    2. Considering that this video constitutes sexual assault, that of which he has been accused of many times before, I now interpret that quote as him telling us that he thinks men should not be held accountable for sexual assault and should be allowed to behave like this freely. Pressuring men to not sexually assault people is emasculating, according to Cawthorn.

    3. It’s all projection! People who fixate on things most people would deem silly are usually self loathing & vilify the very thing they seem to hate!

    4. @M B Amen!!!! He wants parents to think he is the example of who their sons should be, but hopefully they realize he is 1 of the worst types of monster. On the surface, he’s clean cut and well spoken, but when the curtains are pulled back you’ll see the complete opposite of who they appear to be.

    5. @LazyButCrazy 7ho7 Absolutely, spot on!!!! We’ve heard time and time again about their “anti-everything” at this point. But, it’s always 1 of there own getting exposed for doing it.

  15. He could just have googled what blackmail means. Usually something has to be given up or admitted to in return for NOT doing harmful things like releasing a nude video.

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