Rep. Bobby Rush Bobby Lee RushCongress should investigate OAS actions in Bolivia Rep. Bobby Rush introduces legislation focused on addressing racism, lack of diversity in the federal government House Democrat introduces bill to replace Confederate monuments nationwide MORE (D-Ill.) slammed National Rifle Association (NRA) spokeswoman Dana Loesch on Friday after she said she was a victim of a “public lynching” at a CNN town hall earlier this year.

“Lynching represents one of the most horrific, despicable, and racist acts in our nation’s history and to trivialize it by comparing it to a heated town hall is disgusting,” Rush said on Twitter.

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“Emmett Till would have been 77 years old this year had he not been lynched,” Rush added, referring to the black teenager killed in 1955 after a white woman falsely accused him of whistling and making a sexual advance at her.

Lynching represents one of the most horrific, despicable, and racist acts in our nation’s history and to trivialize it by comparing it to a heated town hall is disgusting. Emmett Till would have been 77 years old this year had he not been lynched. https://t.co/09dC5izrxQ — Bobby L. Rush (@RepBobbyRush) August 3, 2018

The lawmaker was responding to Loesch's remarks in which she criticized CNN reporter Jim Acosta for being “upset that someone yelled CNN sucks.” The remarks were made in a video featuring Loesch released by liberal group Media Matters for America.

NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch claims she was a victim of a “public lynching” at CNN’s post-Parkland violence town hall https://t.co/YCKBlpeRUq pic.twitter.com/wvvLrEnJrz — Timothy Johnson (@timothywjohnson) August 3, 2018

“Jim Acosta is upset that someone yelled CNN sucks,” Loesch said in the video, referring to a crowd at President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE’s rally on Thursday night that broke out into chants of “CNN sucks” when the president blasted "fake news.”

“Imagine how he would feel if his network set up a public lynching of him as they did of me and [Sen.] Marco Rubio Marco Antonio RubioGOP lawmakers distance themselves from Trump comments on transfer of power McConnell pushes back on Trump: 'There will be an orderly transition' Graham vows GOP will accept election results after Trump comments MORE, wherein people called me a murderer and they screamed ‘burn her’ and they rushed the stage and grabbed at me as I left,” Loesch said, referring to a CNN town hall on gun violence she attended shortly after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.

During the CNN town hall, the NRA spokeswoman had criticized gun control advocates and blamed the FBI for dropping the ball in preventing mass shooters from obtaining weapons.

“I wonder if Acosta can imagine what it feels like to sum up when his network allows guest after guest day after day to refer to you as a murderer,” Loesch added.