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News: Zinke Says 'Konnichiwa'; Not News: Zinke Staffer Assaulted
Newsbusters ^ | March 16, 2018 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 03/16/2018 6:36:22 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Which is more harmful: Being given a friendly (but arguably distasteful and ill-timed) greeting or being knocked to the ground? 

The answer is obvious to anybody with common sense but, in the mainstream media, the former is currently being reported on with great outrage while the latter is ignored. Both events happened on Thursday during and just after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke testified before a congressional committee. You can see the "horror" of Zinke's greeting below as well as an ABC report on the subsequent outrage:

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; derangeddemocrat; ryanzinke
KONNICHIWA!!!
1 posted on 03/16/2018 6:36:22 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Tempest in a teapot. Much, to much, ado over nothing.

Some adults need to grow up!


2 posted on 03/16/2018 6:58:16 PM PDT by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: PJ-Comix

We must not let them turn us into this sort of madmen.

You got a problem with konnichiwa? FU.

Even genuine racism is not the worst thing in the world. Trying to turn everything into racism is.


3 posted on 03/16/2018 6:58:52 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Should have told them:

You know when sh-t is getting heavy
Like it’s weights a ton
I will run you down like a marathon
Tape you up good
Put you in the trunk
See you next Tuesday
You is a punk

Read more: Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches Lyrics | MetroLyrics


4 posted on 03/16/2018 7:17:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: PJ-Comix

You can be sad because he’s a dork, but the non-reporting of the assault - which is what it was, not some over-eager school boy’s accident - is just another reflection of the media’s bias and partisan censorship.


5 posted on 03/16/2018 8:42:58 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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