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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

2/12/18 A&G Hr. 2 Why So Much Fawning Over North Korea

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this hour of A&G, Jack & Joe debate the need to discuss some of the very serious bad Olympic stories during live coverage of the events. Plus, why are so many prominent news outlets fawning over North Korean cheerleaders? Kim Jo Un?

Transcript

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0:00.0

So the most amazing thing happened at the opening ceremony is North Korea, which just

0:29.2

wants to be friends with South Korea. Well, they sent, I guess, their president sister

0:34.4

and she was so pretty and she smiled so much because she just wants to be friends with

0:38.8

South Korea and she was sitting next to Mike Pence, why her date's case. And Mike Pence,

0:44.2

whose Trump's vice president is such a bully. He mean mugged her, he looked so mean because

0:50.0

the US, see North Korea doesn't like America because America is always trying to tell

0:54.0

him what to do. And they just want to be friends with South Korea and she was so pretty.

0:58.0

And so pretty and just was like, I want to be friends and she brought a bunch of pretty

1:01.8

cheerleaders with her. And Mike Pence is so mean and Trump is so mean. Back to you in

1:07.8

the studio.

1:09.8

God, what a moment this is. What a moment. I saw the headline in the New York Post, the

1:15.5

perverse faunting over brutal Kim Jong-un sister at the Olympics. It is how they gave her

1:20.7

the TMZ treatment they called it. Absolutely shocking. The New York Times without a word,

1:27.5

only flashing smiles. Kim Jong-un's sister outflanked by his president Mike Pence in diplomacy.

1:33.3

The Washington Post is calling Kim Yo-Jong the Ivanka Trump of North Korea, described

1:38.5

as captivating. CNN Trumpeted, Kim Jong-un's sister is stealing the show at the Winter

1:44.2

Olympics. That is absolutely wonderful. Kim Yo-Jong who's in charge of the propaganda

1:52.0

machine for one of the deadliest most brutal regimes in human history has really captivated

2:00.0

everyone here at the Winter Games. She gave a deadly side eye to Mike Pence, giggled

2:07.1

Philip Bump of the Washington Post and a Twittery later had to delete. Absolutely shocking.

2:13.9

There is no parallel according to the UN Commission of Inquiry to North Korea in the modern

2:19.6

world in extermination, murder and slayment, torture and prison and rape, forced abortions,

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