A conversation hosted by MSNBC’s Katy Tur about the California primary results took a sharp turn Wednesday as a Republican strategist called Los Angeles a “third world, kind of poverty-stricken area,” provoking a volley of insults between him and his Democratic counterpart.
Shawn Steele, Republican national committeeman in California, followed up his smear of the major city by calling his fellow interviewee, Bob Shrum, Democratic strategist and director of USC’s institute of politics, a “partisan hack” when Shrum came to LA’s defense.
“Just shut up!” Shrum shot back.
The exchange blurred into heated crosstalk as Tur tried to wrench the conversation back on track.
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— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) June 6, 2018
Gee… who could have predicted bringing on a GOP twatwaffle would devolve into idiocy?
Did he call Los Angeles a “sh!thole country”?
2nd largest city in the country, 13 million + aka 4 + percent of America aka larger then like 10 states populations combined.
Its amazing how they like to bash places like that, but if a Dem would say that about some rural area…
Of course, when Shawn Steele said “third world” he meant “latinos and blacks”.