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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPompeo threatens NPR's Mary Louise Kelly
Team Trump thugs are unhinged and now emboldened...
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msongs
(67,433 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)The aide forgot to tell her the follow up rant was off the record (which she says she wouldn't have agreed to be off the record anyway)
Maraya1969
(22,494 posts)Hekate
(90,773 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)The OP has included only a very small snippet of the entire interview fyi
George II
(67,782 posts)hibbing
(10,107 posts)BKDem
(1,733 posts)The tough guy BS is working for Trump, isnt it? And it comes so easily to somebody whos already an asshole.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)GOOD
Hes the WORST
triron
(22,011 posts)cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)between this, threatening GOP Senators with the "head on a pike" threat, and the recording of drumpf telling Parnas to "take out" Yovanovitch...the chickens have clearly flown the coop...
not fooled
(5,801 posts)[link:
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red don and his band of thugs. I don't know whether he attracts full-blown criminal types or they just have those tendencies before they go to work for him, and he brings out their goon side.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)We can't allow this. It's ridiculous things like this are happening in this country.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)And who will stop it?
Nobody..
ZZenith
(4,126 posts)wnylib
(21,573 posts)BKDem
(1,733 posts)Hekate
(90,773 posts)cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)and was so disappointed when the local team reporter referred to Schiff as "Democrat" Adam Schiff.
I'm done with them.
Maybe their national team (i.e., Kelley, who was fabulous in this interview, which I listened to in the clip) is better.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)Why disappointed?
diva77
(7,652 posts)When in fact, the House voted to impeach. Schiff is representing the HOUSE, not Democrats.
This is in support of a rethug talking point wherein the rethugs claim that the Dems just want to redo the election.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)Didn't explain properly:
"Democrat Senator" Adam Schiff.
The pejorative.
getagrip_already
(14,825 posts)He is the chairman of the house permanent select committee on intelligence, and a us representative.
Now if they say democrat party, those are the fighting words.
cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)"Democrat CONGRESSMAN Adam Schiff."
Sheesh!
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)"Congressman Adam Schiff?"
It removes party and reflects his role as being a member of the House of Representatives.
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)NJCher
(35,713 posts)WNYC. You won't hear stuff like that.
ramen
(790 posts)"Democrat Adam Schiff" seems totally appropriate to me. I understand that we want to avoid "Democrat party" but this is no more inappropriate than "Republican Lindsey Graham" or "Traitor Mitch McConnell"
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)The wife still listens to them and I can't believe the shit they do on that station. They give a platform for these people to spread their bullshit and do it under the guise of being "fair". Fair is reporting on what is bullshit and what isn't. Not allowing bullshit to be spread because people need to make up their own minds. Either something is a fucking lie or it isn't. I understand there are times when things can be murky, but when something is a lie, call it a fucking lie.
No time for National Petroleum Radio.
ramen
(790 posts)Is NPR perfect? Hell no. Are they one of the fairest media organizations that we've got? I think that they are.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)"people will hear about this"
The man is truly the south end of a northbound horse.
tanyev
(42,600 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Pompeo is not the brightest bulb in the box.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Than by our own government
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)deminks
(11,017 posts)Feelin the pressure, huh Mikey?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)Where's Ukraine? It's not a simple question any more.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)You don't have to be able to find Iraq on a map to know that it was wrong to torture people. What is this obsession with finding places on maps anyway?
maxsolomon
(33,383 posts)but Pompeo should know that reporters are, you know, educated. It sounds like he was hopping mad and wanted to polish his toxic masculinity bona fides.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)find Ukraine on a map. Asshole.
volstork
(5,403 posts)his ass with both hands. But he apparently has NO trouble finding trump's ass...
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)My dad used to use that exact same saying! Coincidentally, I was just posting about him on another thread. And, I agree...Pompeo is as far up the MFs ample orange ass as can be.
George II
(67,782 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)Full on fascism! Unaccountable.
PatSeg
(47,567 posts)coming unhinged this week!
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)This is what ANY dictator or authoritarian government does....
look at, China !! PRK.....
BuffaloJackalope
(818 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)yonder
(9,669 posts)uponit7771
(90,359 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Rebl2
(13,542 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)They want to RULE like monarchs and nobles, and really hate it when those around them dare question their actions. My guess is that if/when the senate acquits Dotard, we'll see some VERY nasty crap out of him and his underlings.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)blogslut
(38,009 posts)"Why won't you say the name "Marie Yavanovitch?"
yonder
(9,669 posts)tiredtoo
(2,949 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Next time a journalist is called to a private meeting with Pompeo they
should wear a bug. Assholes like this are not worthy of confidentiality.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)There are only two alternatives : 1) Take someone else with you or 2) demand that the door remain open and then stand right next to it. (Speaking from experience.)
SunSeeker
(51,659 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%22Mary+Louise+Kelly%22
...and Take Her Out is still trending, at #2
Do what you do, America, and keep them trending!!
FREE PRESS
POMPEO
58Sunliner
(4,391 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)...the radio. Chilling. "People will hear about this" reminds me of the veiled threat, "She's going to go through some things."
klook
(12,164 posts)with audit defense!
These assholes thirst for the freedom to execute troublesome journalists at will. Fortunately thats not available to them. Yet.
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)And we cant do a goddamn thing about it until November
H2O Man
(73,592 posts)He sounds a wee-bit testy.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)We live in a full blown authoritarian dictatorship,,,..
"They" will go after anyone now. ACLU, CDC, Democratic politicians, scientists, artists in every discipline, medicare, ss, you, me DU!..
You name it....
bdamomma
(63,918 posts)I will not
Never.
boomer_wv
(673 posts)that tells me he thought it he was going to dunk on her because there's no way anybody would be able to find Ukraine on a map.
Which goes on to tell me that Mike Pompeo, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and current Secretary of State has no idea where Ukraine is or what it looks like.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)go after whatever minor funding NPR still gets from the gov't. Or, seek to have their broadcasting license revoked altogether. Next step on the path to full-on fascism.
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)Danascot
(4,694 posts)Yet another courageous woman telling truth to power and standing up for our country.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)of the Trump regime.
Cirque du So-What
(25,965 posts)this evil regime sees NPR as the enemy - one among many.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Pompeo is a bottom feeder - his bullshit tantrums and cowardly betrayal of his office and America will be his epitaph.
Ohioboy
(3,243 posts)Sounds like a threat made by some authoritarian regime when the press outs them. Oh wait...
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)moondust
(20,002 posts)~In 1995 she completed her masters in European Studies at Cambridge University (Emmanuel College) in England.
~
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Louise_Kelly
Pompous Pompeo asked exactly the wrong person to find Ukraine on a map.
Hassler
(3,389 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)LessAspin
(1,156 posts)The Wizard
(12,547 posts)Everything changes once the lying starts.
Evolve Dammit
(16,758 posts)Millions are also willfully ignorant and don't care about anything except their small, self-indulgent spheres.
Nitram
(22,853 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,158 posts)Pompous Asseo.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)It appears that he just can't handle it when smart, professional FEMALE reporters ask him hard questions and keep on asking them.
Must be something about the roles he believes FEMALE journalists should (and should not) play.
Keep pushing, keep asking, keep reporting and watch the arrogant sack of shit crack.
Blue Owl
(50,487 posts)n/t
progressoid
(49,996 posts)RVN VET71
(2,697 posts)Pompeo may be the most intelligent member of Trump's inner-tribe. Finished first in his West Point class, at least. And I think his responses to Mary Louise Kelly -- at least until the not-off-the-record post-interview -- were as well phrased as they could be, given the fact that he was repeating lies fed him by His Monstrosity and Stephen Miller.
It is disturbing that a man as smart as Pompeo can lie so well. (He is clearly better at it than his boss.) But Ms Kelly did an excellent job of staying on point and, try as he might, he was unable to wriggle off the hook she had lured him with. That, I think, is why he acted like a total dick in the post-interview. Simply stated, the fat s.o.b. lost it because he'd been bested by, OMG!, a liberal journalist -- and a female at that. Does America care about f-ing Ukraine? he asked, giving away his and his bosses actual feelings about an ally being eaten up by Russia? Can you even find Ukraine on a map? he asked. And that, that, that was asked out of smug anger. She answers "Yes, I can." And a sober minded person would have let it go. A true dick would order an aid to get that map of Europe without country's names on it.
When stupid people get into positions of power and act stupidly and say stupid things, it bothers me because people get hurt, nations get hurt. But when smart people act equally stupidly and without honor or honesty, it darkens my mood because it shows how weak and dangerous is the human animal.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)... Does America fucking care about Ukraine?
True?
And your placement of the present participle "fucking" as an adverb, modifying "care" makes more sense than my use of it as an adjective, modifying "Ukraine". Worse, my use could be construed as a gerund, suggesting something Americans might want to be doing to the Ukraine, or better stated, something the Trumpians are currently doing to that nation.
Good catch!
Ilsa
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