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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHOLY FUCK. Richard Painter just smacked the smarm right off Hugh Hewitt's smug mug!!!
Last edited Mon Apr 2, 2018, 08:55 PM - Edit history (1)
Will post details . . . .
But did you SEE that???????
6.45 pm on Ari Melber's hour with Stephanie Ruhle substituting
I apologize. I saw this exchange just as we were sitting down to dinner. This was, truly, a hit and run post. Looks like lots of others saw it too and shared the important parts in the comments below.
Again, mea culpa.
The Raw Story clip, thanks to C_U_L8R, down thread
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/gonna-shut-ex-bush-ethics-czar-unloads-gop-radio-host-disgusting-attacks-flyover-country/
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)trueblue2007
(17,237 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,624 posts)I felt my face turning red and ran for my remote control. The list of people I have to do that for is growing exponentially. If that fuckface attorney Dershowitz comes on I have to run for the remote.
Siwsan
(26,289 posts)I swear I saw steam coming out of his ears!!
spooky3
(34,467 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)which is what I usually do the instant I see Hugh Hewitt, even though I do like Richard Painter. I would have enjoyed seeing Hewitt getting his butt kicked, maybe they'll post it on their web site.
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)It is about time someone put him in his place.
Satch59
(1,353 posts)Hewitt is such an ass...and Painter, a republican, has been on Trump's corruption from day one.
Stephanie sided with Painter but wasn't as boom as Painter...bet Raw Story will have a clip up soon.
mopinko
(70,197 posts)she had quite a smile on her face.
i hate hewitt. some of these never trumpers are interesting. but hughie is not all that never. and he sings a whole different song on his radio show than the number he does for us "libtards".
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Hes not playing.
Will catch clip later, cant wait to see it, thank you!
HipChick
(25,485 posts)ornotna
(10,805 posts)What I want to know, was he wearing a small animal on his head?
Skittles
(153,182 posts)as long as he is smacking Trump humping whores around
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)It's corruption....
Plain as day.
Skittles
(153,182 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)Just now watching my recording.
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)search youtube for Christopher Hitchens Hugh Hewitt.
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)Hewitt was playing the standard repuke line that this is just another unfair political attack on trump. Painter let him have it.
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)But Twitter seems to be ecstatic. Can't wait for video.
on edit, here's the tape....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/gonna-shut-ex-bush-ethics-czar-unloads-gop-radio-host-disgusting-attacks-flyover-country/
pecosbob
(7,542 posts)but the fact that he was W's chief ethics lawyer doesn't speak well for his integrity. Guess it was okay when neo-cons were perverting our system of government but not okay for plain and simple grifters like Donald Gump.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)But look for graft and grifters.
Much as Bush was a policy disaster, he did not used the Office as a self enrichment tool like Trump is.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)won't be able to watch till later.
Mr.Bill
(24,317 posts)Something along the lines of "That's why you're in Minnesota and not in Washington DC."
spooky3
(34,467 posts)Hewitt wanted to argue that there was nothing wrong with it as the ethics office said, then attacked Painter for not respecting the ethics office pronouncement. Painter was having none of it and really went off when Hewitt made some crack about how people in MN couldnt understand how things were done in DC (wish I could remember this more clearly).
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)catbyte
(34,433 posts)spooky3
(34,467 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)Painter dressed him down about disrespecting Minnesota. Painter is a badass.
ejbr
(5,856 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)the closer they get, the walls are closing in on many of them
onecent
(6,096 posts)revmclaren
(2,529 posts)Hewitt is an ass on steroids. Seeing him being taken down was bliss!
SansACause
(520 posts)I lived in DC 2015-16. I had an apartment that was $1600 per month. That's $53 per night.
catbyte
(34,433 posts)spooky3
(34,467 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 2, 2018, 08:24 PM - Edit history (2)
Location, location, location...
And, how long was your lease? A year? DC area landlords charge a huge premium (sometimes 20-50%) if you commit to less than a year, or are on month to month, etc., like Pruitts. I had a $2500 per month lease on a 2 BR in a less central area than CH and if I wanted to extend it month to month, it was to go up to $4200 in 2016.
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)nevermind a 2 bedroom on Capitol Hill. 487 square feet. A 20 foot by 20 foot room.
spooky3
(34,467 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 2, 2018, 08:26 PM - Edit history (1)
There, which worked out to about $1020 per month for 6 months.
Marcuse
(7,505 posts)spooky3
(34,467 posts)cmeneer
(253 posts)My daughter lives in the DuPont area now...studio--$1,800/mo. Nice, but nothing fancy! I repeat--A STUDIO!
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)that you only had to pay for the nights you stayed in your apartment? Because that's the deal Pruitt had. It's corruption, pure and simple. And it's not just the apartment. It's about a trip he took to Morocco to try and push liquified natural gas:
That trip cost $40,000 because Pruitt and his top aides all flew first class. But heres an obvious question: Why was he even there? That isnt his job. The EPAs job is not to sell other countries on buying American products, thats why we have the Department of Commerce. Thats Rick Perrys job as the Secretary of Commerce. Pruitts job is to make sure that the capture and production of LNG and other forms of energy is done in a way that is safe for the environment and public health. So why did Pruitt take that trip at all? This may be the answer:
Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2018/03/30/today-in-corruption-pruitt-takes-trip-to-morocco-to-do-perrys-job/#dIE1TILLyAjmbZCS.99
And who owns a company that sells liquified natural gas? THE OWNER OF THE APARTMENT OF GAVE HIM THE SWEETHEART DEAL. You'll only look foolish trying to defend this disgusting piece of crap as there is NOTHING UNFAIR about the heat he's getting.
catbyte
(34,433 posts)Translation from the original German: "A face badly in need of a fist."
kentuck
(111,110 posts)..and Richard was a little pissed.
He said that for Pruitt to rent a room from a lobbyist for $50 per night was an obvious ethics violation. Hewitt said Pruitt was a long-time friend of his and that he could have stayed with him for no money but rules forbid it.
Then Richard went into a righteous rant about "fly-over" country like Minnesota and that the people were going to throw out the entire corrupt bunch. Hewitt nervously laughed.
nahant
(93 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Why does MSNBC have to insult and assault us with that republican toadie?
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,135 posts)TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)that neither of them countered, in that the ethics chief of the EPA signed off on this apt $50 rental.
Yes he did, but before he found out the daughter lived there too and it was basically the whole apartment and I think's it's under review again now.
Hugh repeated this important fake point 6 times and neither the host or Painter corrected him.
They only focused on the $50 price of a room and what do you pay for rooms and Hugh wasn't falling for that one.
They corrected his lie about staying with Friends, when it's lobbyists you can't stay with, but Hugh got em on the point that "the ethics chief approved it"
That's the only talking point the GOP cares about with this scandal right now.
You can tell because he said it 6 times.
spooky3
(34,467 posts)action and Hewitt unsuccessfully tried to attack him for it.
To me, all the EOs action did is raise a question about how inept and/or corrupt employees in that office are.
On edit:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mediaite.com/tv/richard-painter-goes-off-on-hugh-hewitt-in-heated-msnbc-fight-i-am-fed-up/amp/
See the lame slander remark.
BannonsLiver
(16,439 posts)Old Hugh would have been great in the inner circle. The Berghof set. True to Der Fuhrer until the last cyanide capsule was cracked open. What a crazy fuck he is. Born in the wrong place, and well after his time.
LiberalFighter
(51,044 posts)The Wizard
(12,547 posts)either had a bad makeup artist or his plastic surgeon should be sued for malpractice.
spanone
(135,861 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,044 posts)spooky3
(34,467 posts)But since someone could interpret it that way, maybe you should revise?
As a professional destruction not personal.
We dont need to tippy toe around the fact most of us want these people GONE.
[ as in out of MY FACE].
No revision needed.
spooky3
(34,467 posts)Adding professionally before it would work.
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)It was a thing of beauty.
I often send MSNBC tweets complaining about Hugh Hewitt - apparently it does no good, but I took an extra amount of pleasure watching Richard give him hell.