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hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 02:47 PM Jan 2020

TRUMP THREATENS NPR AFTER POMPEO DISASTER INTERVIEW (HUFFPO)

Trump Suggests NPR Shouldn’t Exist After Heated Mike Pompeo Interview
The president went on the attack after the secretary of state’s foul-mouthed tirade was reported by the nonprofit media organization.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-npr-mike-pompeo-interview_n_5e2db132c5b6779e9c34fc02

President Donald Trump has once again questioned why National Public Radio exists after it reported on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s foul-mouthed interview with one of its reporters who asked him about Ukraine.

Trump on Sunday agreed with comments posted on Twitter that labeled the nonprofit media organization a “big-government, Democrat Party propaganda operation” and asked why it receives government funding.
“A very good question!” Trump responded.

Trump has repeatedly called to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which contributes to funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
According to NPR’s website, fees paid by NPR’s member stations make up the largest portion of its revenue. Less than 1% of NPR’s annual operating budget is covered by grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments.

Trump pushed his latest attack on NPR after reporter Mary Louise Kelly, who co-hosts the news program “All Things Considered,” revealed on Friday that Pompeo yelled at her while using the “F-word and many others” after she questioned him about the war-torn country in an interview that she was asked not to audio-record.



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TRUMP THREATENS NPR AFTER POMPEO DISASTER INTERVIEW (HUFFPO) (Original Post) hlthe2b Jan 2020 OP
O M G mzmolly Jan 2020 #1
What's he going to do? Hold up the money that the House appropriated for NPR? no_hypocrisy Jan 2020 #2
Yes, unless they do him a favor. Mme. Defarge Jan 2020 #18
Exactly Metro135 Jan 2020 #24
Your mouth to God's ears. It cannot happen soon enough. Texin Jan 2020 #35
A better question is why an immature, illiterate thug punk shit for brains narcissist punk... Guilded Lilly Jan 2020 #3
everything he touches dies bdamomma Jan 2020 #7
It is beyond belief how one hideous human stain is not ever held accountable for the... Guilded Lilly Jan 2020 #9
THIS malaise Jan 2020 #23
Thank you GL, you nailed it. BKDem Jan 2020 #39
another article bdamomma Jan 2020 #4
But the nightmare won't end if we still think we can work with these people and nominate in2herbs Jan 2020 #5
I guess you'll be staying home then. nt UniteFightBack Jan 2020 #15
Okaaay... PandoraAwakened Jan 2020 #31
The poster I was responding to said: nobody gets my vote that says there are some good R's UniteFightBack Jan 2020 #33
So, okay for some to infer ulterior motive, but not others? PandoraAwakened Jan 2020 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author ahoysrcsm Jan 2020 #42
What? ahoysrcsm Jan 2020 #43
What? PandoraAwakened Jan 2020 #44
This message was self-deleted by its author ahoysrcsm Jan 2020 #45
Thanks for the laughs. ahoysrcsm Jan 2020 #46
But they are correct on one point paleotn Jan 2020 #34
I agree. At this point, it really is naive to think we can work with today's Republican Party. KPN Jan 2020 #17
Vote for the best Democrat you can get. Elect that person. Then give them hell TryLogic Jan 2020 #32
Mike Pompeo Doubles Down On NPR Reporter Attack. No One Buys It. hlthe2b Jan 2020 #6
Walter Shaub: hlthe2b Jan 2020 #8
pompous Pompeo needs to go ... Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2020 #12
So Pompeo went whining to trump EleanorR Jan 2020 #10
Just when I think they can't be more pathetic.... hlthe2b Jan 2020 #16
would fatnixon just touch himself ... dweller Jan 2020 #11
Is there a way to hear that interview? cwydro Jan 2020 #13
NPR website has it. irisblue Jan 2020 #28
In Pompeo's defense, he didn't have a Sharpie handy. rickford66 Jan 2020 #14
Hear this MSM? MontanaMama Jan 2020 #19
+1. Amen! yonder Jan 2020 #36
this motherfucking nazi. EveHammond13 Jan 2020 #20
NPR and the state versions made a mistake years ago. They showed they were willing to buckle to usaf-vet Jan 2020 #21
So that 43% of republicans would approve a democrat shutting down Fox news? keithbvadu2 Jan 2020 #22
NPR, you have earned my respect and donation. Thank you for all you do. SWBTATTReg Jan 2020 #25
+++ hlthe2b Jan 2020 #27
If the Senate Republicans let Trump walk then we are going to be looking @ a hellscape of ... Botany Jan 2020 #26
He's such a big A-Hole....... onecent Jan 2020 #29
Kick Mike 03 Jan 2020 #30
He doesn't know who he is up against. She has as degree in Euro studies, but is a woman (trumps all) Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2020 #38
Looks like it's time to bring back the campaign to save Big Bird democrattotheend Jan 2020 #40
Hah! Yes hlthe2b Jan 2020 #41
Ugh he is such a piece of shit. Initech Jan 2020 #47

Metro135

(359 posts)
24. Exactly
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 04:58 PM
Jan 2020

God forbid anyone should criticize a member of "the family." We don't have a president. We have a godfather. He should only drop dead in the rose garden like Corleone.

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
3. A better question is why an immature, illiterate thug punk shit for brains narcissist punk...
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 02:53 PM
Jan 2020

Has been allowed to embarrass, dismantle and trash the standings and reputation of a country of such immense respect and Uplifting potential and turn it into junk.

bdamomma

(63,875 posts)
7. everything he touches dies
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 02:58 PM
Jan 2020

that has been said a number of times.

No person is above the law, and he is a risk to others.

The Psychiatric/Psychology Professionals need to have a conference with Ms Pelosi and other committees about how dangerous he can get. .

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
9. It is beyond belief how one hideous human stain is not ever held accountable for the...
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 03:00 PM
Jan 2020

Ugliness he exudes.
Wretch.

BKDem

(1,733 posts)
39. Thank you GL, you nailed it.
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 08:39 PM
Jan 2020

This man grows more disgusting and dangerous with each passing day — and he’s been a horror show for decades.

in2herbs

(2,945 posts)
5. But the nightmare won't end if we still think we can work with these people and nominate
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 02:54 PM
Jan 2020

and elect politicians who "want us to all get along." Nobody gets my vote who says there are some good Rs.

PandoraAwakened

(905 posts)
31. Okaaay...
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:31 PM
Jan 2020

Feels a tad aggressive, but I'm just sensitive like that. Not inferring anything at all about you or anyone else. Just expressing how this made ME feel, personally, upon reading.

Should we be encouraging others to not vote at all---you said "guess you'll be staying home"? Just curious...

 

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
33. The poster I was responding to said: nobody gets my vote that says there are some good R's
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:34 PM
Jan 2020

Well we all know Joe Biden made that comment and Biden will get the nomination so therefore I assume that poster shall be staying home.

PandoraAwakened

(905 posts)
37. So, okay for some to infer ulterior motive, but not others?
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:43 PM
Jan 2020

You said, "I assume that poster shall be staying home."

Can we openly assert that another member is not going to vote at all? Just curious...

Response to PandoraAwakened (Reply #37)

ahoysrcsm

(787 posts)
43. What?
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 11:07 AM
Jan 2020

It's as if you can't read the sarcasm in both posts. Lighten up, take a break if you need to, too many things have gone to shit recently to be so uptight.

Damn, just replying to you is making me want to take a break from the news. Too serious around here.

PandoraAwakened

(905 posts)
44. What?
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:49 PM
Jan 2020

It's as if you can't read the sarcasm in my defense of the first poster being picked on.

As the second poster admitted, they had accused someone of being a person who isn't going to vote at all (assigning ulterior motive) when, per their own decidedly serious and nonsarcastic response, what they actually meant to say was that...

...they were really, really mad that the first poster had dared to indicate that HE/SHE IS GOING TO VOTE---IN THE PRIMARY...just NOT for a certain person "whose name shall not be spoken" except in the most sycophantic terms.

And yes, that too was sarcasm on my part...so I'm sure no one is going to be "uptight" (your description) about said sarcasm because, as you say, you think others should "lighten up" in the face of sarcasm. So, thanks for defending me! My thoughts exactly!

Response to PandoraAwakened (Reply #44)

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
34. But they are correct on one point
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:39 PM
Jan 2020

There are no good Republicans anymore. None. Zero. What few reasonable, decent, patriotic Republicans that remained were finally banished in 2016. All that's left are the dregs. A collection of hacks, hicks, religo-nuts and sociopaths. And no.....you can't work these people, unless you're cooking up some kind of "drug deal" as Bolton would put it. They're hopelessly lost.

KPN

(15,646 posts)
17. I agree. At this point, it really is naive to think we can work with today's Republican Party.
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 03:32 PM
Jan 2020

It's not a party anymore. It's a conglomeration of cults with one evil character who has found a way to appeal to each of them -- have no morals, have no principles, and give them the results they demand so long as they support you 100%. And they are doing that.

TryLogic

(1,723 posts)
32. Vote for the best Democrat you can get. Elect that person. Then give them hell
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:31 PM
Jan 2020

if they try something stupid.

hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)
6. Mike Pompeo Doubles Down On NPR Reporter Attack. No One Buys It.
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 02:57 PM
Jan 2020

Twitter critics called BS after the secretary of state indicated Mary Louise Kelly misidentified Bangladesh as Ukraine in the president’s map challenge.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-pompeo-mary-louise-kelly-bangladesh-ukraine_n_5e2cc63ec5b6779e9c33f29a

Some observers speculated that it was Pompeo who made the geographical goof in his attempt to call out Kelly — by confusing Bangladesh with Belarus, which borders Ukraine.

The Washington Post blasted Pompeo’s tale as a “blatant gaslighting attempt.”

There is “absolutely no way” Kelly mistook Bangladesh for Ukraine, the Post declared. To mention just a couple of issues, the countries are on different continents, and Bangladesh clearly doesn’t share a border with Russia, so it would be difficult to engage in a border war with that nation, something a journalist would know.

In addition, Kelly is a former national security reporter who has traveled extensively abroad and has a master’s degree in European studies from prestigious Cambridge University. “The mere fact” that Pompeo challenged Kelly to begin with suggests he didn’t “know who he was dealing with,” the Post wrote.

Former White House ethics chief Walter Shaub blasted Pompeo’s statement as possibly the “most breathtakingly childish” ever issued by a secretary of state in “over two centuries.”

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,355 posts)
12. pompous Pompeo needs to go ...
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 03:07 PM
Jan 2020

I have yet to read a report that indicates any member of this administration is competent to do their assigned job.

EleanorR

(2,393 posts)
10. So Pompeo went whining to trump
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 03:02 PM
Jan 2020

“He called out for his aides to bring him a map of the world with no writing, no countries marked,” Ms. Kelly said. “I pointed to Ukraine. He put the map away. He said, ‘People will hear about this.’”

What a baby.

MontanaMama

(23,322 posts)
19. Hear this MSM?
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 04:45 PM
Jan 2020

Do your jobs. He’s coming for you. Don’t invent a horse race that isn’t there. Fight for a free press like everything depends on it because it does.

usaf-vet

(6,189 posts)
21. NPR and the state versions made a mistake years ago. They showed they were willing to buckle to
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 04:55 PM
Jan 2020

threats from the right-wing.
I used to make regular contributions to WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio) until they folded to the pressure and started having two guests to discuss issues one on the left and one on the right spewing GOP talking point.

Daily talking points that were crammed down our throats on national news, RW radio, even RW consolidate home town newspapers. I stop sending money. They were no longer an alternative news source. They became RW lite radio.

Sorry but that is the way I saw it then and now.

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)
22. So that 43% of republicans would approve a democrat shutting down Fox news?
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 04:56 PM
Jan 2020
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142128590

“Freedom of the press may be guaranteed in the Constitution. But a plurality of Republicans want to give President Trump the authority to close down certain news outlets, according to a new public opinion survey conducted by Ipsos and provided exclusively to The Daily Beast.”

So that 43% of republicans would approve a democrat shutting down Fox news?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-poll-43-of-republicans-want-to-give-trump-the-power-to-shut-down-media?via=twitter_page
--------------------

What if Clump declares a national emergency and takes SNL off air?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211830112

SWBTATTReg

(22,143 posts)
25. NPR, you have earned my respect and donation. Thank you for all you do.
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:06 PM
Jan 2020

I went out to the NPR website and donated to them today. It wasn't much ($25) but I thought it was worth it man, these people report so well and unbiased and for rump and his ignorant cronies to attack one of the linchpins of the radio industries, this rankled me to no end. Scumbags.

The reporter is simply doing her job and for pompeo and rump to attack her for reporting on the truth, it reveals a lot about the character of both these two scumbags.

Donate!

Botany

(70,516 posts)
26. If the Senate Republicans let Trump walk then we are going to be looking @ a hellscape of ...
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:06 PM
Jan 2020

.... "Trump payback."

BTW although wrong on all the issues Mark Levin is very smart and he knows exactly what he is doing and the
shit he is stirring up for his own personal wealth. Levin and the GOP know that Trump was installed by Russia,
that he is crook, and that he is a mentally ill con man but they don'e care and are using him to pack the courts
and rig our elections.

The man needs a good a** *******. Wraps himself in the flag as he sells out America.


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