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At the State Dept. dinner for the Kennedy Center honorees Mike Pompeo wondered aloud when he would be loved. Then Linda Ronstadt got up to get laurels, looked the fucker right in the eye and said maybe when you stop enabling Donald Trump. Icon.
9:56 PM · Dec 7, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,737 posts)pepperbear
(5,648 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Great woman!
leftieNanner
(15,179 posts)It's wonderful!
Upthevibe
(8,083 posts)I saw it in the theatre and I don't think it's still out but it's going to be on CNN on New Years Day. I also highly recommend it...
greyl
(22,990 posts)nolabear
(41,995 posts)Pompeo deserves everything he gets.
Hoping something to be true is extra reason to be skeptical about that thing.
If there's proof, hope is irrelevant.
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)Still seems odd there isn't more out there about it, at least audio. Was this a phone in secure bag event?
A Guardian article linked within your CNN link also quotes Variety, giving some more detail beyond the original tweet from Greisman:
Linda Ronstadt got up to get laurels, he wrote, looked the fucker right in the eye and said maybe when you stop enabling Donald Trump. Icon.
Variety saw the incident slightly differently, reporting: Ronstadt rose to the microphone a feet away from the hosts table and looked straight ahead. Id like to say to Mr Pompeo, who wonders when hell be loved, its when he stops enabling Donald Trump. Then she sat down.
Pompeo, who said I just read them after his When Will I Be Loved gag prompted laughter, also said he was a big fan of Linda Ronstadt an icon of folk and country music whom he saluted for 30 albums, 10 Grammys, a bestselling memoir.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/08/linda-ronstadt-mike-pompeo-stop-enabling-trump-kennedy-center-honors
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Amazing artist and human being!
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)and them who never heard of her."
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)back in the day. I was no exception.
pamela
(3,469 posts)Can't even tell you how many guys with Linda crushes would approach me with "Omg! You look just like Linda Ronstadt!" I even went as her for Halloween a few years-roller skates and shorts. Good times.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)I also crushed on Joan Baez. I met her once. She was friendly, but clearly not interested. Monterey Folk Festival. I was a banjo player, and we ran into each other. Nice conversation, but no sparks. I gave her up for Linda.
elleng
(131,197 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Ronstadt is worthy of being honored, I'm not so sure about Pompeo. WTF?
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)msongs
(67,462 posts)no other links to such a showdown at kennedy center
greyl
(22,990 posts)sandensea
(21,688 posts)dustyscamp
(2,228 posts)Instead of shaming them we need to find a good way to punish these shameless crooks.
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)Punk, be thankful we ain't chasin' you down the street wavin' baseball bats and meat cleavers.
love_katz
(2,584 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)I was wondering who he was.