Mean tweets haunt Trumps gay nominee at confirmation hearing

[tenderfoot]

Richard Grenell's history of assholery on Twitter came back to bite his Quisling ass today during his Senate confirmation hearing to be US ambassador to Germany.



Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) took issue with Grenell’s remarks — saying he brought it up privately with the nominee and wished to bring it up publicly — referring to the tweets in his role as a Fox News commentator prior to his nomination earlier this month for the role in the Trump administration.

Murphy said the “litany of derogatory comments about women’s personal appearances” were among the “very inflammatory things” said by the nominee, asking him if he regrets the statement and can understand the concern about the impact they’ll have on his role in Germany.

Contrite in his response, Grenell said it was “never my intention to hurt anyone’s feelings” and denied the comments were representative of his character. Murphy said he wouldn’t say aloud Grenell’s remarks, but they were directed at the appearances of Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Callista Gingrich and Rachel Maddow.

One 2011 tweet directed at Maddow, a lesbian news anchor on MSNBC, said she “needs to take a breath and put on a necklace” and another compared her look to that of pop singer Justin Bieber. One tweet directed at Gingrich questioned whether she “snaps on” her hair. At around the same time, Grenell tweeted “Hillary is starting to look like Madeleine Albright.”

Some of Grenell’s most offensive tweets were deleted during the ten minutes he was with Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign before he was forced to resign after hate radio host Bryan Fischer screamed to anybody who would listen. But he soon returned to his dickish ways, generating gasps when he tweeted an accusation that NBC reporter Katy Tur had slept her way into her job.

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/09/29/mean-tweets-haunt-trumps-gay-nominee-hearing/

[OldHippieChick]

1. One might get the impression that no person of quality and integrity is

willing to work for this administration.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Exasctly who we would expect, and of course he is being sent to a country with a WOMAN

leader


Germany should expel all US government people including ambassador.

[gratuitous]

3. So, Grenell should sail through to confirmation without any trouble at all

Democrats: Just because the administration puts these dicksnorts up, doesn't mean you have to vote for them. Let them all be confirmed by a 52-48 vote.