Just looking for an excuse not to address the issues or questions. He probably new it would happen and it allows him to avoid accountability on the issue under discussion. Don’t let him change the narrative.
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Meadows has been talking through his hat his entire career, so what’s wrong with talking through a mask?
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The less that moron talks the better off the world is.
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Will we see a headline in The Post or the Times or at CNN saying “Meadows exemplifies WH’s reckless disregard for lives of reporters”? We will not. It’s as if Trump and his top aides were publicly getting shitfaced drunk and doing donuts around Washington DC every day, to headlines reading “White House aides assert right to enjoy a beverage, drive a car.”
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More like “WH Chief Meadows Walks Away After Reporter Asks Him To Wear A Mask.”
I am appalled as everyone else by his refusal to wear a mask, but c’mon, this was hardly a “tantrum.” Click-bait titles like this are unworthy of TPM, which is a reliable sources of news and opinion.
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The simple pleasures of a turbulent era: won’t it be nice to have decent, calm, well-intentioned people back as the public face of the national government?
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Ahem. Pardon me. I’ve got my mask on, so please listen to what I’m about to say.
Reporters should rig up a portable plexiglass booth…put it on temporarily lockable wheels if you must…and roll it around. Yes, it would look like a plexiglass shower stall, but who really gives a damn about appearances anyway? Certainly not a Republican politician who associates with The Dotard. Ask Mr. Meadows to enter the booth to speak. He can take off his mask inside the booth and speak into a microphone in the booth. He can be totally oblivious to who was recently in the booth if he likes. In this way the reporters can be free of infection and Mr. Meadows can catch whatever airborne disease du jour is readily available inside the booth.
Hey, give it a try. Like Trumplethinskin says, “Whattaya got to lose?” Other than your health, that is…
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Excellent!
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Fuck these turds. These guys need the press a lot more than the press needs them. Every reporter should insist on masks.
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“I’m not gonna talk through a mask!”
“Well, I’m not gonna talk to my wife through a telephone while dying of COVID, just cause some fool thinks only of himself!”
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Well said, oongtimelbserver.
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If we’re lucky, we’ll never hear another word from Mark Meadows again.
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UTTERLY UNPROFESSIONAL!
just a total ASS! really - it is a PANDEMIC! and he & the rest of the lunatic fringe of the GOP are still in a delusional state pretending that it is some sort of charade - “play-acting” exercise.
It really seems like they have lost their mind - they have said screw-it to actually rolling up their sleeves and doing the heavy lifting to beat this thing … they are behaving like petulant children who thinks they can just wait it out and it will all go away… sort of like a kid who never did the big project - gambled on being able to talk their way out of having to do it … of finding a magic no-effort escape … and is just thinking that the semester will end and they will not get hurt for their failure to do the work - and this nightmare will all be behind them.
Meadows is not up to this job … and the asshole obstructionist approach will bite the GOP - right in the heart… tear it out and toss it in a wood chipper.
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How about hissy fit? He certainly wasn’t acting like a reasonable adult who really ought to be quarantining himself.
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You got that right.
“Why should we die just because of some selfish cracker?”
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Dear Leader’s policy has changed. Neither he, nor his subordinates, are to attempt to control the spread of the virus among the hoi polloi.
That lucky majority who’ll have the disease wash through them.
And, yes, that group includes reporters.
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Sounds like a tantrum to me. Is there a defined length of time or marks to hit?
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I’ll bet the reporter who asked him to keep his mask on made the request through a mask.
What makes Meadows so fucking special?
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Hissy fit = Lindsay
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