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Secretary of Energy Rick Perry is as dumb as a bag of hammers, duped by Russian prank

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-prank-call/?utm_term=.1544d022fff3&tid=sm_tw

Listen to Russian pranksters trick Rick Perry into a conversation about pig manure
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. July 25 at 5:03 PM

Rick Perry, U.S. secretary of energy, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in June. (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg)

It was a winding, wonkish and occasionally obscure conversation about foreign coal exploration, natural-gas pipelines and pig manure as a power source.

But only one of the men on the line — Energy Secretary Rick Perry — held sway over his nation’s energy policy. On the other end of the conversation were Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov, who had just added Perry to their list of high-profile hoax victims.

“Secretary Perry is the latest target of two Russian pranksters,” DOE Spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes said in an email to The Washington Post. “These individuals are known for pranking high level officials and celebrities, particularly those who are supportive of an agenda that is not in line with their governments. In this case, the energy security of Ukraine.”

During the conversation, which was posted in its entirety on Vesti, a Russian news site, Perry was convinced he was talking to the Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, who appears to speak through a translator. Perry talked about a potential pipeline across the Baltic sea for Russian gas, cyber attacks on the U.S. power grid, natural-gas exploration in Ukraine and the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.

“I hope that stepping away from the Paris accord will not have any negative impact with our relationship with the Ukraine,” Perry said. “We tried to divorce the politics from this and really just let our record stand, one that I’m very proud of.”

He also talked about a meeting scheduled for August where they’d let American business executives talk about extracting oil and natural gas in Ukraine.

“What we have seen in Texas is the great increase of productivity, particularly in shale gas because of hydraulic fracturing and the directional drilling,” Perry said.

Perhaps the only giveaway about the true nature of the call was a statement the “Ukrainian prime minister” made about a new biofuel invented by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, according to the Pravda Report newspaper.

The fuel was made from a mix of home-brewed alcohol and pig manure.

Perry said he’d like to get more information about the “scientific development.”

The pranksters seemed to get past Perry’s defenses with opportunistic timing.

On June 20, Perry hosted Groysman and his delegation at the Department of Energy, a meeting that was widely reported in the Ukrainian press, according to the DOE.

Three weeks later, the department received a request for a phone follow-up with the Ukrainian prime minster. That phone call was bogus. So was the lengthier call with Perry that followed on July 19.

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The pranksters say they have a victims’ list that includes several high-profile names: singer Elton John, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Croatian prime minister, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). The rumor debunking website Snopes has said some of those prank claims are unproven, and points out that if the pranksters can impersonate one person on the phone, they can easily impersonate two.
 

danmand

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News?
 

Aardvark154

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This sort of behaviour is childish.



As to Secretary Perry being "dumb as a bag of hammers," even as the article states the pranksters got past Perry’s defenses with opportunistic timing. On June 20, Perry hosted Groysman and his delegation at the Department of Energy, a meeting that was widely reported in the Ukrainian press

Three weeks later, the department received a request for a phone follow-up with the Ukrainian prime minster. That phone call was from the Russian idiots mentioned in the article.
 

mandrill

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This sort of behaviour is childish.



As to Secretary Perry being "dumb as a bag of hammers," even as the article states the pranksters got past Perry’s defenses with opportunistic timing. On June 20, Perry hosted Groysman and his delegation at the Department of Energy, a meeting that was widely reported in the Ukrainian press

Three weeks later, the department received a request for a phone follow-up with the Ukrainian prime minster. That phone call was from the Russian idiots mentioned in the article.
Perry IS pretty stupid. He's the dildo who said that he had three major planks in his platform when he ran for the GOP presidential nomination and then..... forgot the 3rd plank on live TV. Now that IS really, really foolish.
 

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Nothing is as dumb as when McCain fell for that prank call from Ukraine,

OR

FLASHBACK: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Uses Voice Changer to Call Law Firm Suing DNC – Forgets to Disable Caller ID!

DOH! Big Dumb Dumb
 

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Nothing is as dumb as when McCain fell for that prank call from Ukraine,

OR

FLASHBACK: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Uses Voice Changer to Call Law Firm Suing DNC – Forgets to Disable Caller ID!

DOH! Big Dumb Dumb
To be fair, I see NO redeeming qualities in DWS. That hair and the gob in the corners of her mouth really tick me off.
 

Aardvark154

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Perry IS pretty stupid. He's the dildo who said that he had three major planks in his platform when he ran for the GOP presidential nomination and then..... forgot the 3rd plank on live TV. Now that IS really, really foolish.
Being a bad candidate or a candidate I'd never support doesn't ipso facto mean they are actually stupid.

That said it was certainly a memorable television moment!
 

mandrill

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Being a bad candidate or a candidate I'd never support doesn't ipso facto mean they are actually stupid.

That said it was certainly a memorable television moment!
Arguendo, it's hard to imagine a smart man making that mistake. One assumes a smart man - even a nervous smart man - is sufficiently involved with his own platform that he can describe it and list its points. After all he's supposed to have worked on it and made it his own work and he's - supposedly - smart.

Now I may have omitted a detail or two in support when outlining an argument to the Bench. But I don't believe I have ever actually forgotten a main argument, even when very young and inexperienced. And Rick Perry was neither.

Ergo, Rick Perry is a stupid man.
 

mandrill

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This sort of behaviour is childish.



As to Secretary Perry being "dumb as a bag of hammers," even as the article states the pranksters got past Perry’s defenses with opportunistic timing. On June 20, Perry hosted Groysman and his delegation at the Department of Energy, a meeting that was widely reported in the Ukrainian press

Three weeks later, the department received a request for a phone follow-up with the Ukrainian prime minster. That phone call was from the Russian idiots mentioned in the article.
Updated reports are now saying that the pranksters engaged Perry FOR 22 MINUTES!!!!! without the idiot guessing that it was a prank phone call. (LOL!) Now any of us could be fooled for a minute or two. But 22 minutes??!! What TF did they talk about and why couldn't Perry guess that he was being taken??!! That is a very long conversation.
 

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Such "pranks" are always helped along when the person being "pranked" doesn't speak the language of the other party and it is supposedly all being translated.
 

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Well if you want a prank that a great many people fell for look at Sasha Cohen and his Borat movie. He no more looks Kazakh than does Donald Trump, yet I've never seen a report of anyone having said to him you aren't Kazakh, or speaking to him in Russian or Kazakh and when he couldn't speak either language saying you are a fraud!
 

mandrill

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Well if you want a prank that a great many people fell for look at Sasha Cohen and his Borat movie. He no more looks Kazakh than does Donald Trump, yet I've never seen a report of anyone having said to him you aren't Kazakh, or speaking to him in Russian or Kazakh and when he couldn't speak either language saying you are a fraud!
That is because very few people know what or who a Kazakh is. Unless you are familiar with the former USSR countries - and few are in the west - who would know what he was really supposed to be??
 

mandrill

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Such "pranks" are always helped along when the person being "pranked" doesn't speak the language of the other party and it is supposedly all being translated.

Why would that make a difference?
 

danmand

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Updated reports are now saying that the pranksters engaged Perry FOR 22 MINUTES!!!!! without the idiot guessing that it was a prank phone call. (LOL!) Now any of us could be fooled for a minute or two. But 22 minutes??!! What TF did they talk about and why couldn't Perry guess that he was being taken??!! That is a very long conversation.
Oh Boy, Perry would be a sure victim of calls from "Microsoft: your computer has a problem....."
 

mandrill

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Oh Boy, Perry would be a sure victim of calls from "Microsoft: your computer has a problem....."
He's probably waiting for that $10 million cheque from Nigeria as we speak.
 
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