Laughing at, and respecting, Sebastian Gorka

[ by Charles Cameron — Seb Gorka follows me on Twitter, and I have an affectionate appreciation of the man and his history, despite my strong disagreements with many of his policy utterances ]

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I pulled this out of one of my longer chyrons and metaphors posts, so you’ll find screen-grabs aplenty here. Laugh at Seb Gorka in a liberal way you may, but if you do, please hang in there for the life-story Seb Gorka tells at the end of this post. It’s where I firm up my respect for the man.

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Special: let’s have a little fun with Seb Gorka, then hear his story:

Chris Hayes:

The one and only Sebastian Gorka

Chris:

The one and only Sebastian Gorka, late of the Trump White House, still has the Art War mobilr

Is that Sun Tzu, or Picasso‘s Guernica?

Chris:

although after his speech today, the time on his parking meter is over

Chris:

What kind of jackbooted thug would ticket the Gorka??

Enough fun. I have considerable sympathy for Seb Gorka because of the life-story he narrates in this clip around 0.57, from which I’ll just post one or two sentences here:

Russia, we have to remember, is run by a former KGB colonel. That’s the sort of person who would be torturing freedom-fighters like my father in the basement of the Headquarters of the KGB.

Seb Gorka:

That’s the reality.

His hatred of Russia is personal, tragic, and well-founded.