Pompeo Defends Booting NPR Reporter | Talking Points Memo

During his trip to Kazakhstan Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denied that a “confrontation interview” was behind his decision to boot an NPR reporter from his travel press pool.


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What…what…how…?

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Hey, Mike! Fuck you very much!

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When asked what kind of message his behavior toward NPR sends, Pompeo replied that “it’s a perfect message about press freedoms.”

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“And that’s simply telling my truth … and when they’ll do that, they get to participate,” Pompeo said. (Edited for accuracy.)
A pretty bald power play with no other intention than controlling the reporting.

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" Booting NPR Reporter From Press Pool Sends ‘A Perfect Message’"

That we are a bunch of Fascist fucks.

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Screaming and yelling profanities at a reporter is certainly confrontational, mister. Who do you think you’re gaslighting, here?

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Sure, if the message is “I am a colossal butt-hole”.

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Fixed.

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The worst kind of Evil…a sniveling coward unless the Boss is right beside him.

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Can’t wait until he is under investigation when a real AG is in charge of DOJ.

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From the Everything’s The Opposite Dept.

These snowflakes are actually making the press more trustworthy and more popular. Go figure.

https://this.kiji.is/595278625121715297?c=592622757532812385

He’s still pissed because she could find Ukraine on an unmarked map while he and his staph, er, staff proved wholly incapable of doing so.

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Where does a country go to get her reputation back? Because there’s no reason for any other country to listen to a future American president, no matter how sincere they may be.

As Colin Powell once said, “you break it, you own it.” And Trump supporters have shattered America’s ideals.

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All to please Trump and gain access to powers. That’s Mike Pompeo. He doesn’t care that the ass kissing of some one as despicable as Trump makes the ass kisser more despicable than the kissee. He also thinks he can outsmart a madman and that Trump’s fecal king midas touch won’t happen to him. He’s wrong. It already has. Plus Pompeo is a stupid Christo fascist end timer. An end timer coated in Trump shit. Way to go Mike.

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I hear a Nazi drumbeat. This guy, NPR is milk toast now compared to 20-30 years ago.
November can not come fast enough and if these cretins are in, I’m out.

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Exactly. He’s the Secretary of State for a party of one. I have more contempt for him than even Trump.

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To the courts, through prosecutions of every crime committed by these curs, which was something the Obama failed to do with the Bush Administration, much the country’s diminishment.

As an aside, I really liked it when Warren said as president she would see they all be prosecuted.

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Crappiest. Low Rent. Secretary of State. Ever.

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Like his daddy Trump, Pompeo’s bloated carcass belches nothing but toxic fumes.

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I have a perfect message for you as well, Mikey: Eat shit, you theofascist prick.

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