.MaddowBlog: Sec. Pompeo accidentally proves the wrong point with Simpsons reference.
, it's entirely straightforward: Pompeo highlighted an image of Lisa Simpson, sobbing and tearing up a piece of paper. The point, evidently, was for the nation's chief diplomat to compare the House Speaker to a dejected second grader.well, Pompeo may not have fully appreciated the point he was inadvertently making.
While in the nation's capital, however, she overheard a lobbyist paying a bribe to a congressman for the rights to tear down Springfield Forest. Heartbroken, Lisa tears up her essay, replacing it with a new one:"Cesspool on the Potomac."the essay-contest judges,"The city of Washington was built on a stagnant swamp some 200 years ago, and very little has changed. It stank then and it stinks now -- only today it is the fetid stench of corruption that hangs in the air.
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