A video clip of an exchange between conservative talking head Hugh Hewitt and U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-CT, is circulating on social media. The complete interview was broadcast yesterday on Hewitt’s podcast. The subject: the Republican budget plan that was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives in support of the Trump/Project 2025 agenda. You can see the clip here.
Here’s my version of the conversation:
HEWITT: The GOP has completed the recipe for a sandwich they want to serve the American people for lunch every day. How ‘bout that sandwich! Does it make your mouth water?
MURPHY: No, it doesn’t. Have you read the recipe? It’s for a shit sandwich.
MURPHY: Um … First of all, there are no pickles. Not a single pickle. You’re lying.
HEWITT: OK, but there will be! If there are pickles in the sandwich, even though it’s not actually part of the lunch plan, would you eat the sandwich then? I mean, heyyyyy. Pickles!
MURPHY [sighing]: But there ARE no pickles on the sandwich. None. No pickles. Besides, pickles or no pickles, we’re talking about, literally, a SHIT SANDWICH. That’s what’s in the recipe. Shit slathered on slices of bread. Cheap, white bread-and-shit sandwiches. These people spent all this time planning lunch, and what they came up with are these disgusting sandwiches. Without, by the way, pickles.
HEWITT: Well, I’d argue with you about whether the sandwich is disgusting, but this is an interview, not a debate. Back to the point, though. I’m sure there will be pickles in the sandwich.
MURPHY: Wha—!? How? How could you possibly know that?
HEWITT [condescending tone]: Because, as I’m sure you know, the recipe that was just approved will go to the guys who make the sandwiches – and they’ll put in the pickles. They promised! So, when they do, in fact, put pickles in America’s sandwich, will you eat it?
HEWITT: Well, again, I would debate you on that point, but *burrrrp* I’m too busy eating this snack the White House sent over …
MURPHY: Is that where that awful smell is coming from??!!
HEWITT: … and dreaming of pickles.