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2018-09-16 Home Front: Politix
David Hogg, the headache that keeps on coming
David Hogg, the teenage Parkland-shooting-sufferer-turned-political activist, took to Twitter to call out U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
 as an audacious failure who ought to resign her post pronto. "Immediately," is how Hogg put it. As in do not pass go, do not collect $200.

If only Hogg’s reasoning were sound, maybe he wouldn’t be such a headache.

No ‐ take that back. Hogg’s a headache, no matter how you slice it. But if only his call for Haley to resign were based on something other than his emotionally driven hatred for all things conservative, maybe he wouldn’t be a migraine of a headache.

His tweet: "Dear Nikki Haley, There are starving children in American everyday and you have the audacity to misappropriate thousands of tax dollars for your own lavish lifestyle. Resign immediately. sincerely, America."

America?

Is Hogg really going to try to speak for the entire nation?

Anyhow, his own bit of audacity (because that’s what his tweet on behalf of America to the U.S. ambassador of the United States was ‐ audacious) falls a bit short of fact. It was based on reports of Haley’s residence at the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
 hanging curtains valued at $52,701 ‐ reports that led Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu to tweet, "this is not okay" and to call for "an oversight hearing on @StateDept spending on @nikkihaley and her deputy."

Turns out: Haley didn’t buy those costly curtains.

Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
’s State Department did. A spokesperson for Haley pointed to the purchase being made back in 2016 ‐ but apparently, Hogg didn’t get the memo.

Ooops.

And as Kyle Kashuv, another student from Parkland, put it beneath Hogg’s own tweet of the matter: "Holy cow. You’re dumber than I thought. You didn’t even bother to read the article."

But don’t expect an apology from Hogg any time soon. His sort ‐ his hyper-partisan, hyper-leftist, hyper-hate-filled ‐ never do.
Posted by Fred 2018-09-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Who?
Posted by Tom 2018-09-16 09:02||   2018-09-16 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Surely some Hollywood producer is working on a biopic script as we speak. Sad thing is Leo DiCaprio is way to old to play him in the movie.
Posted by jpal 2018-09-16 09:13||   2018-09-16 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Samantha Shanty Irish Power ordered them. Gotta love this part:

Kyle Kashuv, another student from Parkland, put it beneath Hogg’s own tweet of the matter: "Holy cow. You’re dumber than I thought. You didn’t even bother to read the article."
Posted by Frank G 2018-09-16 09:30||   2018-09-16 09:30|| Front Page Top

#4 It seems that young Hogg is opinionated but not well-informed.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-09-16 10:28||   2018-09-16 10:28|| Front Page Top

#5 As the old saying goes: "You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-09-16 11:09||   2018-09-16 11:09|| Front Page Top

#6 It seems that young Hogg is opinionated but not well-informed.

Which makes him right at home among the Left.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-09-16 11:17||   2018-09-16 11:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Camera Hogg
Posted by Frank G 2018-09-16 11:35||   2018-09-16 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 It seems that young Hogg is opinionated but not well-informed

Usually goes together.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-16 12:13||   2018-09-16 12:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Can we arrange for Hogg and Schumer to both jockey to be in front of one camera and microphone? Sounds like an annihilation event (in the physics sense) to me...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-09-16 12:26||   2018-09-16 12:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Sad thing is Leo DiCaprio is way to old to play him in the movie.

And too buff.

Maybe Winona Ryder?
Posted by swksvolFF 2018-09-16 12:36||   2018-09-16 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe with a chin reduction
Posted by Frank G 2018-09-16 13:13||   2018-09-16 13:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Everybody who knows how Hollyweird works knows Alec Baldwin will play Hogg...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-09-16 13:25||   2018-09-16 13:25|| Front Page Top

#13 There is George Clooney. Half his body is less than five years old so it kinda averages out.

Seam Penn. He's like 80 pounds right? Spicoli, Hogg, about same same academic record.
Posted by swksvolFF 2018-09-16 14:28||   2018-09-16 14:28|| Front Page Top

#14 This was a hatchet job aimed at Haley 2024 (or 2020 if Trump decides to retire)

The question is, why does the media give that ignorant little dickhead a megaphone?

This was so bad even the NYT had to walk it back.

And they wonder why nobody except progressive idiots believes the media anymore...
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-09-16 14:49||   2018-09-16 14:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Hogg seems like the sort who will have a very public crack up at some point.

Less Dave Hogg, more Boss Hogg please.

Not that Nikki Haley is any great prize, either.
Posted by charger 2018-09-16 15:28||   2018-09-16 15:28|| Front Page Top

#16 So, who's grooming this little turd?
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-09-16 17:33||   2018-09-16 17:33|| Front Page Top

#17 Someone should ask Hogg how much tax money was spent to educate him, and how it was all wasted given he couldn't read an article for comprehension.
Posted by Silentbrick 2018-09-16 19:06||   2018-09-16 19:06|| Front Page Top

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