U.S. Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) didn’t hold back when a liberal climate professor with a history of attacking him online came to testify at a recent hearing.

A hearing by the Senate’s budget committee, titled “Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change,” invited Democrat-friendly speakers like University of Miami professor Geoffrey Supran to speak about the effects of climate change. Although the committee is chaired by Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), he was not able to reclaim time from Sen. Kennedy before he got a few shots in about the professor’s habit of assassinating his character on X.

Video of the encounter, spotlighted by the Western Journal, shows Kennedy at first appearing to acquiesce as Sen. Whitehouse said his time had expired while “there are other senators waiting.”

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“I’ve got a bunch more tweets. Thank you for your objective advice,” Kennedy said sarcastically as he submitted documents allegedly containing posts by Supran that were critical of him. Kennedy, first elected in 2016, has been a vocal critic of knee-jerk climate alarmism. The jab prompted Supran to fire back. “May I clarify one final point? These are not my tweets, these are retweets,” he said.

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“Oh! You often retweet stuff you don’t support, is that what you’re telling me, doc?” Kennedy asked sharply. “I did not say that I don’t support this, I’m just saying that I did not tweet it as you alleged. I’d like to make very clear that this form of character assassination is characteristic of the propaganda techniques of…” Supran replied while Kennedy shouted over him.

“You retweeted it, didn’t you? … Are you gonna call me a sick f***?” Kennedy shot back.

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Sen. John Kennedy grills climate prof Dr. Geoffrey Supran, claiming he retweeted climate activists criticizing senators.

Supran: "I did not say that I don't support this. I simply did not tweet it."

Kennedy: "You retweeted it, didn't you? … Are you gonna call me a sick fuck?" pic.twitter.com/DTH2pE857H

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Specific posts Sen. Kennedy cited in alleging bias by Supran include one as recently in December of last year in support of Climate Defiance, “an entity that the Brookings Institute has called a radical climate change group,” Kennedy said during questioning. The same group, he continued, has called President Joe Biden a “sick f***” and his colleague Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) a “murderer.”

Kennedy then read from the group’s statement: “We do not do online petitions. We do not do NGO coalition letters. We do not do f****** bus stop ads. We chase fossil fuel CEOs and the politicians who do their bidding. And we do not apologize,” it wrote in a post retweeted by Supran.

The “radical collective” is nationally recognized for disrupting speaking events featuring some of the oil industry’s top executives. In January, a Massachusetts arm of Climate Defiance sprang onstage at an event featuring Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, unfurling banners that read “Bank of Atrocities,” with the Bank of America logo and another reading “Business as Usual is a Climate Disaster.” Their tactics have been used by other far-left collectives, including the Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion.

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