{"id":357019,"date":"2018-04-16T14:34:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cory-booker-makes-fool-of-self-at-confirmation-hearing-twitters-response-is-hysterical\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:34:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:34:05","slug":"prison-planet-com-cory-booker-makes-fool-of-self-at-confirmation-hearing-twitters-response-is-hysterical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cory-booker-makes-fool-of-self-at-confirmation-hearing-twitters-response-is-hysterical\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Cory Booker Makes Fool of Self at Confirmation Hearing. Twitter\u2019s Response is Hysterical!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louderwithcrowder.com\/cory-booker-hearing-gay-sex-twitter\/\"><strong>Louder With Crowder<\/strong><\/a><br \/>April 13, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today was the confirmation hearing for the new secretary of state, Mike Pompeo. Funsies. As you can imagine, people had plenty of questions for him. Questions that determined his fitness for the important role he\u2019s about to take on. One that stuck out? Senator Corey Booker \u201cgrilling\u201d Pompeo on if he digs gay sex or not. If he squeals in delight at the thought of a bowtied bromance or a few butch boos. It is of utter import that we know the answer before he\u2019s secretary of state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can watch the craptastic ordeal here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoryBooker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CoryBooker<\/a>: &#8220;You do not believe it&#8217;s appropriate for two gay people to marry?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pompeo: &#8220;Senator, I continue to hold that view.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zlGgj3JfpW\">pic.twitter.com\/zlGgj3JfpW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/984476609662025729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So that happened. Cory held Mike\u2019s feet over the fire on that one. There was certainly quite a bit of <em>flaming<\/em> going on.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/ZkZA0AJIuluU\" width=\"480\" height=\"262\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for us, that clip is on the internet and the internet is forever. Twitter delivered a swift mocking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTo verify your tolerance, I now ask that you publicly watch \u2018Brokeback Mountain\u2019 without making a face and that you cry at the end, sir!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/doTzg48QmR\">https:\/\/t.co\/doTzg48QmR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/984534464066813952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDid you enjoy \u2018Moonlight,\u2019 sir? DID YOU?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/984534954678697984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Mr. Pompeo, was CALL ME BY YOUR NAME snubbed at the Oscars? I&#8217;d like to remind you that you&#8217;re under oath.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Tomlin (@TomlinMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinMedia\/status\/984535945838870528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He&#8217;s only asking &#8220;for a friend&#8221; though.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 William Riggs IV (@WSR_IV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSR_IV\/status\/984510872541384705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cory Booker: Do you think gay sex is a perversion?<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pompeo: My respect for every individual, regardless of sexual orientation, is the same. <\/p>\n<p>Cory Booker: I\u2019m going to press play on this gay porno and we are going to watch your face and you better not cringe.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt\u2019s Idea Shop (@MattsIdeaShop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattsIdeaShop\/status\/984496007118446592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I respect all individuals&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/cory-booker-makes-fool-of-self-at-confirmation-hearing-twitters-response-is-hysterical.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louder With CrowderApril 13, 2018 Today was the confirmation hearing for the new secretary of state, Mike Pompeo. Funsies. As you can imagine, people had plenty of questions for him. Questions that determined his fitness for the important role he\u2019s about to take on. One that stuck out? Senator Corey Booker \u201cgrilling\u201d Pompeo on if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}