Pence Aide Clashes With MSNBC Host While Defending Maskless Crowd At VP’s RNC Speech | Talking Points Memo

Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, got into a heated exchange during an interview on MSNBC Thursday morning as he fiercely defended the large maskless crowd who attended the VP’s RNC speech at Fort McHenry the night before.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1329091

Not wearing a mask is as close as Mother Pence will come to allowing Q-Tip to go commando.

15 Likes

So lessee, entirely unnecessary gathering in the first place, bunch of maskless people jammed together like sardines, only a few that were backstage tested, yeah way to go guys. If you worthless traitors want to get sick and die knock yourselves out. I don’t wish death on many people but there are always exceptions.

29 Likes

Marc Short comes up short…again. Ho, hum.

8 Likes

a Trump campaign official told TPM that a coronavirus adviser has been consulted for in-person RNC events and necessary precautions are instituted based on their guidance.

So they got Kudlow to approve their virus safety plans?

17 Likes

Hmmm, pretty defensive.

2 Likes

Some folks attending a conference in Boston learned that it only takes one, at last count some 20,000 cases worldwide have been genetically traced to that conference.

25 Likes

There are just some people who will never learn, so no use worrying about them since they don’t worry about others.

11 Likes

I believe all GOPers have to take this class:

Obfuscation 101, 102 (second Semester): How to participate in an interview without accounting for anything

11 Likes

You can play Covid roulette for only so long before the virus gets you.

Because the virus will win.

10 Likes

Naw…he was high that day…:confounded:

5 Likes

The follow-up questions should have included simply: “Were the CDC guidelines followed for the event?”

Short could say yes or no, or he doesn’t know because other people took care of that. Either way, Jackson could readily respond and say that clearly the guidelines weren’t followed (no masks, close together, etc.).

Playing gotcha isn’t necessary if the right questions are asked.

2 Likes

Oh I don’t worry about them, I worry about what they can and will do to the rest of us…

9 Likes

If you ask that, the CDC website will be updated before the end of the interview with new guidelines stating that social distancing is no longer needed and crowds can be an unlimited size.

11 Likes

Awwwwww…aren’t they sweet together…

8 Likes

The Pence defense is that he is dense.

And the latest groupthink talking point from these bozos is “_____ gave a really strong ____, and that is why the liberal media is saying ______.” They are so obvious.

8 Likes

Um, Nobody else wants him to go commando either. Yuck.

3 Likes

I like the 2nd picture.
“Mother” sees nothing.
Melania glares at Donald.

5 Likes

Same shit different day

10 Likes

Dunno why they are still pushing R’s to go maskless. Donnie Dropout probably knows better than all the doctors and scientists in the world. Yup.

3 Likes