Gorka backpedals on Tillerson remarks, blames 'fake news industrial complex

[factfinder_77]

White House Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka retreated Thursday from remarks implying it was "nonsensical" for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to discuss the likelihood of military action against North Korea.

In an interview with BBC radio, Gorka reacted to a statement by Tillerson that a conflict with the isolated communist state was not imminent and that "Americans should sleep well at night."

The idea that Secretary Tillerson is going to discuss military matters is simply nonsensical," Gorka said at the time. "It is the job of [Defense] Secretary [Jim] Mattis, the secretary of defense, to talk about the military options, and he has done so unequivocally ... That is his mandate."

Gorka sought to clarify his remarks Thursday afternoon in an interview on Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto."

"I was admonishing the journalists of the fake news industrial complex who are forcing our chief diplomat into a position where they are demanding he makes the military case for action when that is not the mandate of the secretary of state," Gorka told host Liz Claman. "That’s why we have a department of defense. If a journalist doesn’t know the difference between the secretary of state and the department of defense, they should hand in their credentials. It’s just absurd lack of understanding."

Gorka said that Tillerson had "done an amazing job" to help guide new sanctions against North Korea through the United Nations Security Council, but "when reporters try to force him to make statements regarding military options, they have no idea what they’re talking about, and if they think that’s a story, they’re not journalists."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/10/gorka-backpedals-on-tillerson-remarks-blames-fake-news-industrial-complex.html

[Gothmog]

1. Gorka is a racist and a nazi

Link to tweet

[Moostache]

2. Shitheads with bad beards and fake PhD's should shut up...

That man is more desperately in need of being slapped in the mouth than anyone short of Jared Kushner...

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. This came from Tillerson saying, quite reasonably and as part of his job, "nothing has changed"

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said North Korean threats to respond to a US strike with nuclear weapons “will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” rhetoric that no previous American president has ever used with North Korea. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tried to cool things down, saying "nothing that I have seen and nothing that I know of would indicate that the situation has dramatically changed in the last 24 hours.”

“Americans,” the secretary said, “should sleep well.”

That soothing rhetoric lasted all of a day. On Thursday, top Trump aide Sebastian Gorka said during a BBC radio appearance that Tillerson was not actually speaking for White House. Trump’s threats, Gorka said, were deadly serious.

“You should listen to the president,” Gorka said. “The idea that Secretary Tillerson is going to discuss military matters is simply nonsensical.”

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/10/16126730/trump-gorka-tillerson-north-korea

His comment on the BBC was introduced by "I asked him what the red line was that the North Koreans could not cross". Which, of course, is also something that Tillerson should, as part of his job, talk about.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zzltx (1:53:00 in)

[underpants]

4. "Hyper power" and "FAKE NEWS industrial complex" this guy is a joke.