Month: April 2022

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Fox News GOP

Mike Pompeo Gets Roasted For His ‘Freudian Slip’ During An Appearance On Fox News

During an appearance on Fox News Thursday evening, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said something he probably wishes he could take back.

Pompeo, who served in the Trump administration, was speaking with Fox host Laura Ingraham, who asked him:

“Why does the left act as if conservatives are a bigger threat to America than the” Chinese Communist Party?

Pompeo replied:

“Because, in fact, we often are.”

Damn! Mike said the quiet part out loud. And there’s definitely a case to be made that conservatives are indeed a bigger threat to the United States and China, if only because the conservatives are holding positions of power where they routinely work against the best interests of their own country.

It’s also important to note that Ingraham didn’t ask if Pompeo thought Russia was the biggest threat to the U.S. at the current time. Failed, one-term former President Donald Trump certainly didn’t think so, and he cozied up to Russian mass murderer/war criminal Vladimir Putin every chance he got.

Twitter quickly reminded Pompeo that he’d finally said something truthful:

https://twitter.com/davidmweissman/status/1517340134248783872?s=20&t=l1n6FKX8SxCShbl1nmQH9A

 

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Crime Justice Department

Justice Department Accuses Alex Jones Of Potential ‘Abuse Of The Bankruptcy System’ In Court Filing

On the eve of a bankruptcy hearing for InfoWars founder Alex Jones, the Justice Department has weighed in and accused Jones of possible “abuse of the bankruptcy system.”

According to Elizabeth Williamson of the New York Times, a DOJ trustee in Texas filed a formal objection to Jones’s bankruptcy petition, claiming that it may be fake and an attempt to avoid paying compensation to the families of the children who were killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary. Jones accused the families of being “crisis actors.”

Williamson reports:

On the eve of tomorrow’s hearing on Jones/ Infowars’ bankruptcy case in Texas, DoJ’s regional trustee files an objection with the judge: Why aren’t Jones and his company, both defendants in Sandy Hook defamation suits, named as debtors?

Jones asked the bk court to approve a paltry “litigation settlement trust” without any input by the families, nor any view of his finances. That risks “purposefully stacking the deck against the most vulnerable of creditors,” trustee writes.

On Sunday, Bloomberg was the first to report that Jones planned to file for bankruptcy as a way of avoiding complete financial collapse:

Companies owned by far-right radio host Alex Jones are getting advice from restructuring advisers and considering options including a potential bankruptcy filing after being hit by lawsuits over Jones’s conspiracy theories, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

A Chapter 11 filing would aim to allow Jones’s businesses, such as Infowars and Free Speech Systems, to keep operating while pausing civil litigation against them, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.

 

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Fox News Media in America

Jeanine Pirro’s Cell Phone Goes Off During ‘The Five’ – The Ringtone? ‘I Love This Bar’

In what may well be the ultimate example of perfect irony, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro got humiliated on the air Wednesday during an edition of “The Five” when her cell phone began going off.

According to HuffPost:

Just before (Greg) Gutfeld began his recurring “Animals Are Great” segment, the former judge’s phone rang, causing her ironic ringtone to blast through the moment and prompting laughter from her Fox News co-hosts.

“What the hell’s going on?” Gutfeld asked as Pirro wrestled with her cell phone while trying to turn the ringer off.

The irony, of course, is that Pirro has been accused of broadcasting while she’s inebriated. For example, there’s this example from March of this year:

During a discussion of Hunter Biden’s laptop (Yes, conservatives are STILL beating that dead horse), Pirro looked and sounded like she was two sheets to the wind, unable to pronounce the name of former CIA Director Leon Panetta.

Twitter had some thoughts on Jeanine’s ringtone:

 

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Donald Trump Viral Video

WATCH: Fragile, Sweaty Trump Storms Out Of Interview When Told The 2020 Election Wasn’t ‘Stolen’

There was a time when every Fox News reporter who interviewed failed, one-term former President Donald Trump made an effort to defer to him and indulge even his wildest conspiracy theories.

But those days are long gone, as soon becomes clear from excerpts of an interview Trump gave to Piers Morgan for the streaming service Fox Nation.

A clip of the interview was made public by The New York Post on Wednesday, and in it Morgan tells Trump the 2020 election was “free and fair” and reminds him, “You lost!”

In response, a sweaty, agitated Trump remarks:

“Only a fool would think that.”

Morgan asks, “You think I’m a fool?”

The twice-impeached, disgraced ex-president responds:

“I do now, yes.”

At the end of the clip, Trump ends the interview prematurely:

 “Turn the camera off. Very dishonest.”

The full interview will air on Monday, April 25.

Morgan said afterwards the person he interviewed was very different than the man he met years ago:

“Normally, he’d greet me with a cheery smile and the words, ‘How’s my champ?,’ because I was his first ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ on the series that made him a TV superstar. But this time, there were no such welcoming niceties. I’d never seen him so livid or felt so uncomfortable in his presence as I did right now in his office. He was almost foaming at the mouth and kept shaking his head slowly and menacingly at me, like Don Corleone when he felt he’d been disrespected.”

As you’d expect, the MAGA faithful were enraged by the clip, and they vented their impotent rage on Morgan.

https://twitter.com/JustinCombs88/status/1516888543628599296?s=20&t=TKKlg6oEF3Uw4fAQUQhl5w

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Capitol Insurrection Congress GOP Whining

WATCH Marjorie Taylor Greene Have A Full-Blown Meltdown On Live TV Over Being Forced To Testify In Lawsuit

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is angry and scared because it’s starting to look like she won’t be allowed on the ballot in Georgia for reelection if she loses a lawsuit filed by voters in her district wanting to disqualify her for being a participant in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Appearing on One America News (OAN) Tuesday, Greene sounded stressed out as she began ranting about how she’s being forced to testify in court on Friday as part of the suit filed against her:

“They are actually putting me on the witness stand on Friday! I am the first Republican member of Congress that is going to be forced to take the witness stand under oath and defend myself against a lie and something I never did.”

Well, if you didn’t do anything wrong, then you should welcome the opportunity to make that clear, Margie.

She then added:

“And so this is a precedence [sic] — it’s a very dangerous precedence [sic]. I cannot believe that I’m being forced to do this! I can’t believe this judge has not thrown this case out and seen it for what it is, which is nothing but a big funded scam for the Democrats trying to control our elections here in Georgia!”

Greene also claimed that her constituents are angry and flooding her office with calls.

“These radical leftists, these progressives want judges in the courtroom and bureaucrats to decide our elections! I’m not going to tolerate it! I’m going to be fighting back.”

And then Greene began begging for money, her voice rising to a shout as she told the OAN host:

“I have to pay for all of this myself. Anything people are willing to chip in I’m so grateful for because I have to pay for my attorneys, I have to pay for this entire defense!

“You know, you want to talk about it? It’s a big lie! They want to talk about the Big Lie. This is the big lie and they’re destroying democracy.”

However, it was what Greene had to say about cameras being allowed in the courtroom that revealed exactly what she and other Republicans are really afraid of: Sunlight and transparency:

“You know what the Democrats and the media are going to do. They’re going to cut and paste so they can sell a lie on their networks every single night on CNN and MSNBC because you know what? They claim they’re against destroying democracy. But they’re the very people that are destroying democracy.”

She sounds terrified, doesn’t she? Good. She deserves to be.