Tamron Hall shuts down Tim Carney: 'You're Not Gonna Come On And Insult Me'

The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney probably won’t be getting a call from any of MSNBC’s “NewsNation” bookers about an appearance any time soon.

From Huffington Post: MSNBC's Tamron Hall asked Tim Carney about Mitt Romney's testy reaction to a reporter asking about marijuana on Thursday. Before addressing the question, he alleged that she and the rest of the media were focusing too much attention on the candidate's past -- including his bullying of two classmates in high school.

"What you're doing here is a typical media trick," Carney charged. "You hype up a story and justify the second-day coverage of the story."

That set Hall off. She began to tell him that he didn't have to "answer a single question" she asked or "accept the invitation to come on" and speak. Carney tried to interject, but she told him, "You're kind of in my house," and proceeded to smack him down for over a minute.

“You don’t want me to ‘go’ anything on you because you’re actually irritating me right now,” she said. “I’m going to be honest with you … you knew the topics we were going to discuss. You knew them. You agreed. And we are not talking or demeaning — listen, 50 years ago I was a much tougher kid probably than Mitt Romney was in high school. I’m not talking about the issue of whether he was bullying or not. He said he doesn’t remember. To be fair, I cannot say that he does.”

“What I’m asking you about is how the campaign has handled this decision, handled this situation, how he handled the Colorado reporter, how he handled same-sex marriage where he said he agrees with gay parents being able to adopt but he does not agree with same-sex marriage — just the handling of questions beyond the economy. If you’re not comfortable about that, I am A-OK, but you’re not going to come on and insult me. You won’t come on and insult the network when you knew what you were going to talk about.”

“Done. Let me talk to Jimmy. I’m done.”

Hall immediately became a trending topic on Twitter, as people reacted to the segment. Viewers called her a "badass" and a "hero," and said that she "schooled," "filleted," "checked" and "ripped a layer of skin off" Carney.