Mike Pompeo is never gonna be President:
chinese state media: nothing can beat our pomposity, idiotic leaps of logic, and inability to meme
mike pompeo: hold my pineapple https://t.co/sEcHvDVVkq— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) April 12, 2021
Pompeo supported leaving the Iran deal, wrongly predicted Iran would not respond by expanding its nuclear program, and then spent 1.5 years blaming Obama for the shrinking breakout time that his own policy caused.
I think I'll look elsewhere for an analysis of Biden's policy. https://t.co/BmfZkWYAgW
— Nicholas Miller (@Nick_L_Miller) April 12, 2021
Seb Gorka is never gonna be Rush Limbaugh:
Sebastian Gorka has been permanently banned from @YouTube pic.twitter.com/JB6iqUYFWe
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) April 13, 2021
Jack Shafer is a toad, but Gorka is the subject he was born to chew on:
New @Politico: Seb Gorka Lays an Egg on TV https://t.co/ks3IHDPtkg
— Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) April 12, 2021
… Since Donald Trump’s defeat, there’s been a TV land rush to capture as much of the Trump base as possible and turn its Trumpian grievances and nostalgia for the past four years into a reliable viewership…
This right-wing gold rush bestowed a show on Gorka, who is both handicapped and blessed by the limited range he brings to the microphone when singing his right-wing hymns. He flattens Trumpism, which is pretty flat to begin with, into an even simpler set of pro-Trump, anti-“Democrat Party” homilies. In other words, he’s the Trump administration’s eternal flame, doggedly burning to illuminate the path to Trump’s restoration for the faithful.
If the one-time Trump administration aide, current radio host, and occasional book author possessed much in the way of broadcast potential, wouldn’t his ideological comrades at Fox have given him a show or, at the very least, let him enter the tryouts the network has been holding to select a host for its currently open 7 p.m. slot?… Gorka has a history at Fox. He worked there as a contributor from November 2017 to March 2019, when he was pushed out. His version of his Fox departure was that he wanted to spend more time on his syndicated radio show and his commitment to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. But according to a 2018 Daily Beast piece, the doctor earned a “soft ban” from producers on the news side (as opposed to the talk side), with one anonymous producer telling the Beast it avoided Gorka because he was essentially “useless” to shows, unable to produce anything but routinized songs of praise for President Donald Trump. When Fox news producers dismiss you as a mere Trump propagandist, it makes sense to move your act to a lesser network like Newsmax where that’s an asset…
And Matt Gaetz *might* be going places, but it won’t be by his choice, or to the places he envisioned…
SPEAK INTO THE WHITE CLAW I AM HOLDING MATT https://t.co/pxf3kpbBca
— the women of kilgore trout’s office (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 13, 2021
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