"Do you not speak English?" -- Nazi Gorka to BBC Host

[Kid Berwyn]

Twisted fascist turd calls the US “a banana republic,” January 6 was a peaceful exercise of civil rights, and Orange Dip’s not getting a fair shake.

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“Do You Not Speak English?”

Trump Former Aide Sebastian Gorka Tears Strip Off BBC Journalist

by Caroline Frost
Deadline, August 5, 2023

Donald Trump’s former aid Sebastian Gorka gave short shrift to the BBC’s political editor this week, eventually asking him, “Do you not speak English?”

In an increasingly terse exchange during the BBC’s flagship early morning current affairs Today Programme on radio, Gorka accused the BBC’s Chris Mason of “putting words in his mouth” and not listening to what he had said.

Gorka, who worked for Donald Trump in the White House between January and August of 2017, was defending his former boss following charges against Trump of attempting to overturn the 2020 US election. After Mason suggested that “no one should be above the law”, Gorka grew more agitated.

“Why are you putting words in my mouth? I’m talking about the absolute opposite. Do you not speak English? I’m talking about equality before the law. Did you not listen to what I said? President Trump hasn’t committed a crime,” he said.

“I want equality before the law. Why don’t you, is it because you work for the BBC? We don’t have the opportunity for a fair trial. You need to do a little bit of homework.”

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/not-speak-english-trump-former-124310715.html

So. That’s a Gorka.

I mean, “Dr.” Gorka.

[niyad]

1. We speak English. They speak trump.

I do wish people would learn the difference between "aide" and "aid".

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Whatever the lingo, they do not like their "authority" being questioned.

Sebastian Gorka’s PhD adviser:

‘I would not call him an expert in terrorism’

By Curt Devine, Drew Griffin and Scott Bronstein
CNN Investigates, August 18, 2017

EXCERPT...

Gorka, a British-accented tough-talker who until Friday served under now-fired White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, considers himself an expert on the topic.

But that opinion is not shared by a dozen international security experts and scholars interviewed by CNN, including a professor who advised Gorka on his PhD dissertation and considers him a friend.

“I would not call him an expert on terrorism,” said Stephen Sloan, a retired professor of political science who spent much of his career at the University of Oklahoma. Though he said Gorka is “knowledgeable” about terrorism matters, “his level of expertise does not match the level where he stands in the White House.”

Sloan said Gorka “does a very good job being the bulldog, if you will, for the administration … but as an adviser, I have some discomfort.”

It’s Gorka’s ability to do battle with journalists, sources say, that has kept him in good standing with the President and out in front of the cameras. But beyond being a spokesman on national security matters, his duties at the White House remain unclear.

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https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/politics/gorka-credentials/index.html

[TheBlackAdder]

40. Ticket his ass for being more than a foot away from the curb. And what's with the stolen valor?

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The guy is a foreigner. What's he going with US Military stickers on his car?

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[TheBlackAdder]

39. Seb Gorka🤡. His undergraduate and graduate schools are rated amongst the worst in the world.

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Heythrop College (BA) -- was 163 of 165 in UK. 5,007th ranking in world. - Now Defunct.

https://www.4icu.org/reviews/4701.htm


Corvinus (MA & PhD) -- 8 of 41 in Hungary. 1,745th ranking in world.

https://www.4icu.org/reviews/9315.htm



The shittiest community college in the USA is far better than any of Sebs schools.

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[Kid Berwyn]

41. Explains why he parties with Brett Kavanaugh with Matt Gaetz, the Schlapps, GOP royalty...

Honest. Friends with Boof Boy



Brett Kavanaugh Raises Ethics Concerns After Attending Holiday Party With Ex-Trump Officials, Hard Righters

By Ken Meyer
Mediate, December 13, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s judicial ethics came under scrutiny after it was reported that he attended a holiday party with former Donald Trump officials and numerous other prominent right-wing operatives.

Politico Playbook reported on a Christmas party held on Friday at the home of American Conservative Union leader Matt Schlapp and his wife, Trump White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp. Kavanaugh was at the top of the guest list, among several other prominent names flagged by Politico.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Ginger Gaetz, Sean Spicer, Alex Acosta, Sebastian Gorka, Stephen and Katie Miller, Chad Wolf, Greta Van Susteren and John Coale, Laura Schlapp and Bryan Wells, Brendan Carr, Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY), Erin and Nick Perrine, Erik Prince, Ziad Ojakli, Peter Davidson, Steve Holland and Ben Terris.

Bloomberg noted that Kavanaugh’s attendance lends to concerns about his involvement in partisan activities, especially when the trust in the Supreme Court has been in a continuous decline, according to recent polls. Supreme Court justices are frequently critiqued for attending functions that coincide with their political views.

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https://www.mediaite.com/news/brett-kavanaugh-raises-ethics-concerns-after-attending-holiday-party-with-ex-trump-officials-hard-righters/

“Beer. I like beer.” Throws us off the trail of those who like vodka.

Most importantly: Thank you, Edmund, for the ratings on Sebastian the cowardly nazi's academic credentials. Like his Boss, the guy is a fraud.

[sellitman]

2. I tried.

I couldn't listen to this Rat Bastard Nazis any longer.

[Kid Berwyn]

16. The injured voice of eternal condescension is useful for turd identification.

The second he speaks, one knows he's a Nazi Rat Bastard.

So, Salem Media Group gave him a radio show.

Dr. Gorka has briefed the CIA, the DIA, the US Navy Seals, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, served as an expert for the DoJ during the Boston Bombing trial, and testified before Congress on the threat of Global Jihadism. He remains a guest instructor at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, at Fort Bragg, the home of the Green Berets.

https://salemmedia.com/conservative-websites/dr-sebastian-gorka/

Reminds me we got to decommission Tuberville.

[usonian]

3. Reminds me of a line of questioning from Benny Hill

Q. Don't you know the Queen's English?
A. Oh, I'm sure she is.

And Gorka is a piece of nazi shit.

[Kid Berwyn]

20. Benny would rip the Nazi shitshowman a new one.

"That's what show business is, sincere insincerity." -- Benny Hill

[Emrys]

4. I have no idea why the BBC keeps trotting Gorka out as a commentator on US politics

He's always an asshole, always evasive, always insulting, and as crooked as they come. When was the last time he had a meaningful role in anything other than shooting his mouth off and projecting spittle?

It doesn't even make for "good" television because he's so fucking predictable.

As a Brit passingly familiar with US politics, it drives me crazy. If the object is to portray US politics as largely bonkers, mission accomplished. It's not "balance", which would be the probable excuse. I suppose these freaks tend to be a bit more colourful and even more floridly deranged than some of our own native nutjobs.

The BBC and other UK TV channels have also tended to go for the likes of John Bolton as a spoke with unseemly regularity over the years (though nowadays he's one of the saner US pundits they have on, grading on an enormous curve).

[SharonClark]

6. The BBC (radio) always has the most extreme and insane GQPers on, even before trumpism.

I often thought it was so they could make Brits sound sane by comparison.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. He was being used as the "spokesman for the lunatic fringe"

They followed it with Joe Walsh, the former Republican congressman who ran against Trump in the 2020 primary (got nowhere) and then resigned from the party (and endorsed Biden). With whom Mason had a sane discussion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001p7jt

And they started (about 2h12m) with a former Federal prosecutor before Gorka's rant.

The trouble is: who are the sane people on Trump's side?

[Emrys]

21. I suppose my main criticism is "What was achieved by this interview?"

For us in the UK, it confirmed that Trump's core support - indeed, his bevy of spokespeople - are revolting, certifiably bonkers and will say anything, and in the end have nothing other than frothing bollocks. I think we'd already grasped that.

For Gorka and his Klan, what did this interview achieve? It's not geared to an American audience - if he speaks for anyone, it's the already terminally irredemiable - and I doubt his rote performance gained any converts outside the USA. I expect he got some sort of glow because he got to stick it to and speak "truth" to the Brits. That's his world. We don't have to co-inhabit it. Especially now, when he has no influence nor credibility, if he ever had any.

Meanwhile, there are a large number of developments on the current US scene that would be far more illuminating to cover, and might offer insights into the UK's own internal struggles.

That's just one reason I don't rely on the UK MSM for my coverage of any international affairs, let alone US ones. Hell, I hardly rely on it for domestic coverage! We know the BBC has been taken over by the UK government thanks to its many placepeople. It should have freer rein over its news coverage of what's happening in the rest of the world, so I see no excuse. This is what passes for "news" from what was once a respected outlet.

I pay for it. It sucks.

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. Well, the imminent charging of Trump was news, by anyone's standards

The question was how to cover it. Gorka had about 2 minutes, so it's not like it hugely distracted from other things in a 3 hour news programme. It was, as you said earlier, there for "balance". I don't think Mason gave in to him, or gave him an easy ride. Whether all Today listeners assume they'll get bonkers, frothing bollocks from those supporting Trump, I don't know (I did - I turned off when they said Gorka was about to start - but some might still have thought "we have to listen to the pro-Trump side" ).

I don't see the interview as a problem, if the BBC still has to make a show at "balance". Which it does, and which the pro-Trump loons like Farage would no doubt complain about if no-one pro-Trump ever appeared.

[Emrys]

30. Well, look at the headline from the interview (OK, filtered through Yahoo News), copied in this OP

It's not "Chris Mason stands up to/rebuts/marmalizes/destroys [insert DU standard hyperbole here to taste] Sebastian Gorka in all-too-predictable incendiary interview". It is what it is. Sebastian Gorka "Tears Strip Off BBC Journalist".

I doubt a significant proportion of the BBC's listenership at that hour of the morning recalled who Gorka is and anything about his "colourful" background, largely because he's rabid but insignificant in the UK (and not much more significant in the USA), as are his views, which we've been hearing ad nauseam for years on the UK airwaves, accompanied by almost identical repetitive headlines about his obnoxious behaviour when interviewed.

You don't "balance" anything by engaging with Gorka and affording him the credibility of ranking alongside even the likes of Joe Walsh, let alone a former federal prosecutor, because he's way out on the fringe.

I didn't hear Mason's intro to the interview, but unless it ran along the lines of "And now we're going to hear from Sebastian Gorka, and here I'll quote from Wikipedia, 'Various national security scholars in academic and policymaking circles have characterized Gorka as fringe. Some critics have challenged his academic credentials, his views on Islam and radicalization, and his motives for identifying with the Order of Vitéz and supporting Magyar Gárda, an organization banned by the European Union. ... In 1998, Gorka served as an adviser to Viktor Orbán. ... From 2014 to 2016, Gorka was an editor for national security affairs for Breitbart News, where he worked for Steve Bannon' - listeners may have heard of Bannon - 'In April 2021, Gorka was permanently banned from YouTube for repeatedly violating the company's policy on spreading misinformation related to the 2020 presidential election.' And here he is, apparently the best that Donald Trump's campaign can field to us as a spokesperson, and the most enlightening figure we can find at this point to set out the Trump campaign's stances, take it away, Sebastian," I'm left somewhat unimpressed by the BBC's attempt at "balance".

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. Yeah, the headline is an American media clickbait headline

and irrelevant. I don't think Gorka gets credibility with anyone but Trump fanatics with an appearance like this. And I think he did Trump's side more damage, in the UK, than if they had found someone who was able to control themselves and put the talking points over in a measured fashion. So I don't regret the BBC getting him.

[Kid Berwyn]

36. BBC is trying to get to Trump's real "thinking."

Bannon is Trump's brain. Trump's biggest beneficiaries want a worldwide fascist internationale. To do that, he needs people who speak a language other than English. From what I understand, the British born Gorka was raised in a home where they spoke several languages. Weird how instead of discovering the wonders of the world, he focused his energies on making it look like he knows how to kill communists while getting rich at the same time.

Gorka is Bannon's brain. Bannon isn't just a dried-out drunk, he's an angry, bitter and divorced ugly, ugly human being. His best days and ideas are way behind him and he knows it. To fill the vacuum for fresh ways of feeding the "mind" of speechwriter and fellow fascist Steven Miller would tire even a 27-year-old Caitlyn Jenner. So, the nazis use their loot to hire who they can, a really angry guy who's well-versed at reading, but knows little about reality. Shouting his lines like in the worst traditions London stage with an "educated English" accent, he's perfect for disseminating the Big Lie that Trump is strong.

Job #1 is make a shit volcano of fascism seem "strong." What makes me sad is it's so effective.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Mason said "I suppose the argument some might make, looking in on America from outside ...

... seeing a rich and vibrant democracy, with a legal system that is willing to challenge anyone ..."

and Gorka claimed that was "putting words in my mouth". Which really shows that it's Gorka who has problems speaking English. Yes, it was the opposite of what Gorka had claimed. That's the point - the interviewer was putting the opposing side to Gorka.

Oh, and to save everyone have to listen to Gorka's words, he went on to call Washington DC a "stinking hellhole" - apparently on the grounds that over 90% of its vote went to Clinton and Biden against Trump.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. "Stinking Hellhole" is code for "Detroit."

Home to a significant population of people of African American cultural, to borrow a word from Herr Doktor, heritage.

[Kid Berwyn]

37. I see the exact same behavior all the time when talking politics.

Rather than answering a question or making a point, the interlocuter redirects attention to a side issue of their choice, giving full credit for their libel or smear to me, of course.

Mr. Gorka is not interested in even acknowledging what the BBC interviewer observed: the USA is the Light of the World™. The disgraced, goateed- and once-taxpayer paid nazi wants to use his airtime with the BBC as an opportunity to make hay. That means spreading the Big Like that his Boss trump is not the deranged moron the record has proven him to be, but strong like bull.

Mentioning how the cult's leader is always the victim of the courts, media, mean Democrats also helps his side enlist more nazis. Like the grand strategist he is at the drive through, Gorka knows more hands on deck mean more hands to ask for money with which to generate chaos.

When he calls DC a "stinking hellhole'" he's talking African Americans. Dimdonnie and the rat bastards consider Detroit and America's great cities "hellholes" in order to blame Trickle Down Economic's failures on the under-funded New Deal. The good people living in the nation's urban areas also serve as handy targets for blaming election fraud. Wait until the Atlanta indictments come down. Trump won't know what hit him.

Gorka is no anti-commie. He is an agent for Putin.

[Maraya1969]

7. Does tfg really say, "We'll walk peacefully and patriotically"? I've never heard it

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. He did, at one point

As the Jan 6th report put it:

"“[A]fter this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you,
we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down,” he said to the crowd.
“[W]e’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on
our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not
going to be cheering so much for some of them.” 63

President Trump used the phrase scripted for him by his White House
speechwriters, “peacefully and patriotically” once, about 20 minutes into
his speech.64 Then he spent the next 50-or-so minutes amping up his
crowd with lies about the election, attacking his own Vice President and
Republican Members of Congress, and exhorting the crowd to fight. “And
we fight. We fight like hell” the President said to a crowd that had already
spent the day chanting, “Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump!,” and that
would keep up the chorus when storming the Capitol.65

Finally, he told the crowd where to go to “take back our country”: “So
we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love
Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to the Capitol, and we’re going to try
and give . . . we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones
because the strong ones don’t need any of our help. We’re going to try and
give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our
country. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” 6"

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-REPORT/pdf/GPO-J6-REPORT-2-7.pdf

The full transcript is here: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial

The context was:

Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

After that, it's a tedious retelling of all the claims that had already been rejected by the courts. He suggests forgetting the Constitution and "the rules":

The Constitution doesn't allow me to send them back to the States. Well, I say, yes it does, because the Constitution says you have to protect our country and you have to protect our Constitution, and you can't vote on fraud. And fraud breaks up everything, doesn't it? When you catch somebody in a fraud, you're allowed to go by very different rules.

So I hope Mike has the courage to do what he has to do.

[Maraya1969]

12. Thanks for that.

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

11. The only thing I give the BBC credit for anymore

[Kid Berwyn]

38. Oh, you might like Blackadder's chum, Lord Flashheart

Wish the US had its own BBC.

[Carlitos Brigante]

13. You don't mess with the "Colossus of the Danube'"!

[Celerity]

19. Sebastian Gorka interrupts Sandwich Night

[Carlitos Brigante]

25. You laugh, but you haven't lived until you feel the raw

power of the ceiling fan of transcendence!!!!

[Celerity]

26. lol

[Carlitos Brigante]

32. I wish people would stop booking this Steven Seagal Fan Club president. And instead

book the James Adomian version. Way more interesting and level headed.

[Celerity]

33. +1

[Carlitos Brigante]

35. .

"The Vitezi Rend shall rise again!!!!! HAHAAAHAAA!!!"

[SamKnause]

14. Lying, snobby assed, arrogant, whining baby.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Hungarian Nazi says what?

[Takket]

18. speech is speech. Destroying things is destroying things. one is legal one is not.

and its not hard to tell the difference

[Initech]

22. What a fucking piece of shit Gorka is!

[Midnight Writer]

23. Gorka has his own show on the AM radio. His BS is broadcast to America every day.

His advertising pitch is that "he clarifies who our enemies are and how to defeat them".

Spoiler Alert: We are the enemy.

Gorka is only one of dozens of RW Hate Talkers that continue to have a national platform to spew hate over the public airwaves.

[milestogo]

24. I've always wanted to say that to a Brit

and see them get really pissed off.

[stuck in the middle]

27. The alpha-males are back, huh? (nt)

[TexasBushwhacker]

29. Does he even know what a bah--nah-nah republic is?

Or does he just like to toss around buzzwords?

"In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically and economically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of natural resources."

"As the term banana republic has evolved in the last century, it is no longer limited to countries in Central America or the tropics. Key characteristics of a banana republic in the modern world include:

widespread government corruption - yes, during Trump's term

tyrannical government - yes, during Trump's term

unstable government - not especially

civil unrest - yes, by Trump's minions

coup attempts/insurgency - yes, by Trump's minions

economic dependency on exporting a limited natural resource (which may or may not be bananas) - nope

infrastructure owned/supported by out-of-country interests - nope

overall economic dependency on foreign investment or business entities - yeah, like Trump selling his condos to Russians and other foreign adversaries

widespread poverty - yes, but only the Democrats want to do anything about it

enormous gap between the ruling class and the working class (no middle class)" - yes, but only the Democrats want to do anything about it

Again - PROJECTION PROJECTION PROJECTION

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

34. You're from Texas

So you should know that one of your answers isn't entirely a "nope."

infrastructure owned/supported by out-of-country interests - nope

My step-siblings have told me that a foreign company was a major player in funding and running the toll road from near San Antonio all the way up to Dallas (?) it was a Spanish corporation. I seem to recall a controversy when I was down there about how much of the tolls they were raking in for themselves, and how little they were giving to the state of Texas.

I was only there on vacation, though, so I got only bits and pieces of the story.

[TexasBushwhacker]

42. yes, it didn't go so well

I believe the private part of the public-private partnership filed for bankruptcy. i live in Houston so I'm not that familiar with it beyond knowing Rick Perry was involved.

[Dirty Socialist]

43. I bet

I bet BBC’s Chris Mason drew the short straw