Susan Collins caught on hot mic calling Blake Farenthold ‘unattractive’ and ‘fat’

At the end of a hearing before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, which Collins chairs, Collins can be heard talking with Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the subcommittee’s ranking member, about comments Farenthold made during a radio interview.

Collins asked Reed if he saw “the one who challenged me to a duel,” referencing Farenthold.

“Do you know why he challenged you to a duel?” Reed replied. “Because you could beat the shit out of him first.”

Collins then insulted Farenthold’s looks and weight, and made fun of him for posing with a young woman while wearing a blue onesie adorned with yellow ducks.

“Well, fat guy. He’s huge,” Collins said. “He’s so … he’s so unattractive, it’s unbelievable. Did you see the picture of him in his pajamas next to this bunny, this Playboy bunny?”

The subcommittee quickly took the video down.

The remarks were a response to Farenthold, who told a radio station that the GOP’s plan to repeal and replace Obamacare was being held up by a “some female senators from the Northeast.”

Collins, who is from Maine, has come out against a Senate bill repealing and replacing Obamacare, as well as another plan to dismantle the law first and craft a replacement in the next two years.

Farenthold said he would’ve challenged the opposing senators to a duel had they been men from Texas.

In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Farenthold had no comment on Collins’ remarks, but said his statements during the radio interview were not meant to be taken seriously.

“Like the president, I am sick and tired of the left-wing biased media trying to make something out of nothing,” Farenthold said. “This was clearly tongue in cheek. That being said, I’m extremely frustrated with Senate Republicans who are breaking their promise to the American people to repeal and replace Obamacare.”