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Cory Booker slammed for 'mansplaining,' insulting DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen

[FOXNEWS] Republicans are slamming Democratic Sen. Cory Booker for "mansplaining" to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in a sharp and one-sided exchange Wednesday before a Senate committee.

The New Jersey politician blasted Nielsen's "silence and amnesia" after failing to get the response he sought on her recollection of statements President Trump made in a meeting last week. Booker's hostile tone prompted Republican National Committee Rapid Response Director Michael Ahrens to invoke the millennial term for males talking down to women.

"Picture it," Ahrens said in a news release. "A male Republican senator spends his entire 10 minutes ’mansplaining’ the female DHS secretary about immigration policy, throws around the term ’conscientious stupidity,’ yells at her the only time she tries to speak, and concludes his diatribe without even asking her to respond."

During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Nielsen said she did not recall the president describing some African and Latin American nations as "s***hole" countries.

Booker was not satisfied.

DHS boss hit with 's--load' of questions about President Trump's language

"The commander-in-chief, in an Oval Office meeting, referred to people from African countries and Haitians with the most vile and vulgar language," Booker said, raising his voice at Nielsen. "Your silence and amnesia is complicity."

He added that Trump’s language proves that "ignorance and bigotry aligned with power is a dangerous force in our country."

Booker also quoted Martin Luther King Jr., saying that "nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

The RNC, though, slammed "Derogatory Cory," and suggested that because Booker is a Democrat, he was not being criticized for how he spoke to a woman.

"Because the party affiliations were reversed, Derogatory Cory got nothing but praise from the selectively-outraged base he was clearly performing for yesterday," Ahrens said.

Booker’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

Posted by Fred 2018-01-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Its all "noise" to keep some really interesting stuff about the FBI and DoJ under Zero and how they tried to fix the election for Shillary.

Seems there is some newsworthy stuff flying around Congress about this and the MSM is running the Squirrel play from their book.

The roof is about to fall in and they are grasping at twigs to come up with ANYTHING to keep the soon to be released IG report and the "memo" from being news.

As if Donald's BMI and how big a trashpile Haiti is, is worth the ink and band width devoted to it.

I wonder if Haiti is somehow sacrosanct because of all of the wonderful things the Clinton Scamorama did in Haiti.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-01-19 00:23|| 2018-01-19 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Booker also quoted Martin Luther King Jr., saying that "nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Cory...What MLK say about a senator with a "total lack of self-awareness?"

Posted by anymouse 2018-01-19 00:57|| 2018-01-19 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Haiti

Ohh, and that is under investigation too.
Not enough Officers to assign all these additional duties to.
What are you going to do when all the lawyers in DC are fully employed?

I would say prepare a few cells in Quabtico for what is nearing.

Posted by newc 2018-01-19 01:03|| 2018-01-19 01:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Cory Booker

Posted by newc 2018-01-19 04:13|| 2018-01-19 04:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Booker embarrassed himself with his self-righteous indignation and mansplaining to Kirstjen Nielsen in a heavy-handed way. Booker is definitely not suitable for prime-time (i.e. Potus). However, the guy does represent the Dem Party well in all of its unhingedness.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-01-19 10:50|| 2018-01-19 10:50|| Front Page Top

#6 "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity shown by Cory Booker."

I'd have fun with calling him racist too.

Posted by Woodrow 2018-01-19 15:17|| 2018-01-19 15:17|| Front Page Top

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