{"id":36027,"date":"2019-03-24T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T17:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36027"},"modified":"2019-03-24T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T17:40:52","slug":"republicans-on-parade-3-24-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/24\/republicans-on-parade-3-24-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade – 3\/24\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the one hundred fifty-fourth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian, Secretary of Reich, Mike Pompeo. He is so honored for holding a press conference, in which he banned reporters from media he did not consider sufficiently “faith based”.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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\"0324Pompeo\"The State Department not only barred reporters from nonreligious outlets from covering a briefing call about international religious freedom with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday but also refused to release a list of people who participated in the event or even a transcript of what Pompeo said<\/strong>, according to CNN<\/a>. <\/p>\n

CNN reported that only \u201cfaith-based media\u201d were allowed to take part in the event and that the State Department wouldn\u2019t answer questions \u201cabout whether a range of faiths was included<\/strong>.\u201d Pompeo adheres to a fervent brand of evangelical Christianity<\/a> and once characterized politics as \u201ca never-ending struggle … until the rapture.\u201d\u2026 <\/p>\n

\u2026In a statement to CNN, a State Department spokesperson justified barring reporters from Monday\u2019s event by characterizing it as \u201cdesigned\u201d for \u201caudience-specific media,\u201d as opposed to \u201c[d]epartment press briefings, teleconferences on a myriad of policy issues, briefings and sprays by the Secretary of State and other officials\u201d that are open to all media outlets… <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Because of Pompeo considers the world as a jihad between good (people who share hid pseudo-Christian heresy) and evil (everyone else), I doubt that anyone with other than pseudo-believers were invited.<\/font><\/p>\n

Watch how he squirmed when Corey Booker grilled him<\/a> during the confirmation process.<\/font><\/p>\n