Witness: Interior Secretary Threatened Reporter

Questions surrounding a horse deal with Mexico may have sparked his anger

Ken Salazar, the country's 50th official Secretary of the Department of the Interior, is officially one hot-tempered son of a gun. Or so says a witness to his recent engagement with the media.

Salazar threatened a Colorado Springs reporter who pried too deeply into Salazar's possible knowledge of a horse buyer who allegedly sold 1,700 of the animals to Mexican slaughterhouses. The tense exchange took place during Salazar's visit to the city on Election Day to boost Obama's campaign, Politico reports.

According to witness Ginger Kathrens, Salazar fielded two increasingly irritating questions from reporter Dave Philipps before promising to punch his lights out. "Don't you ever ... You know what, you do that again... I'll punch you out," Salazar is alleged to have warned.

While no hard evidence exists of any threat of physical harm, a spokesman for the Dept. of the Interior told Politico that whatever the details may be, Salazar "regrets the exchange."

Via Politico.

Do you believe that Salazar acted wrongly?

[DARSB]

Rates about a -3 on the Dick Cheney Scale of Rude Remarks.

[CanisCanemEdit]

Rates about a -4 on the Rahm Emmanuel scale of Fbomb Threats...and about a -6 on the Hillary Clinton Tanturum Scale.

[DARSB]

@CanisCanemEdit I like the Emmanuel scale. Let's give it little sexier name, something like "REFBombs."

[dances-weebles]

well, at least he didn't shoot him

[Canoochee]

Well then if that's the case alrighty then.

[CanisCanemEdit]

@dances-weebles - They aint gone hunting together.......yet.

[PNWest]

Is this worthy of discussion? How many people even knew that Salazar was Secretary of the Interior? Or even what the Secretary of the Interior is responsible for?

[MRMacrum]

I do I do ohh ooh I do.

[martydotcom]

If nothing else he's got a set of

[MRMacrum]

Well the man does wear a cowboy hat. And those cowboys well, once they are pissed, doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. I think it is funny.

[geronimo]

cartel members in new mexico are buying race horses to launder money. they're also buying business's for the same purpose. our government is in bed with mexican cartels.

[CanisCanemEdit]

BTW - You do know that both Canada and Mexico have thriving horse-meat industries, right? I've have eaten horse meat across both borders. Not bad.

[dances-weebles]

i've eaten horse meat in france, mexico, canada japan and australia. not only that, but for two decades it was sold in the u.s. as well. the problem was that, in order to get past the a.r. public, they labeled it as beef. that was stupid.

[CanisCanemEdit]

@dances-weebles - Really? The USDA let them get away with that? Amazing.

[dances-weebles]

@CanisCanemEdit they didn't. that's what put the lid on the sale of horsemeat in the u.s. if they had labeled it as such, then the finicky 'americans' would have eaten it. when it was finally discovered that they were intentionally mislabeling it they were shut down.

[CanisCanemEdit]

@dances-weebles - I was trying to think of how to describe it, then I found this:

"sweet, rich, superlean, oddly soft meat, closer to beef than venison"

Great discription of the meat, from wikipedia.

[dances-weebles]

@CanisCanemEdit it's more popular than beef in some locations of the world. i think that americans can't stop thinking of 'my friend flicka' and other children's stories. *lol*

[jessejaymes]

Everyone who follows the BLM wild horse issue knows Salazar sells mustangs for horse meat. I don't know why this is even an issue if nobody cares enough to do anything about it. He's been doing this for years on end. Making good money doing it.

[Penn1699]

Doesn't matter to me what party they are from. They feel privilaged and above the citizens that they work for.
Get rid of these old coots!
Term limits!!!!

[MRMacrum]

His position is an appointed one. Don't worry, he will be leaving most likely when Obama leaves.

[woodtick57]

the secretary is appointed,not elected.

we have term limits every two, four, and six years...

[dances-weebles]

well, gee wiliker wiskers... imagine that. someone got mad at some irritating reporter.

[martydotcom]

Does anyone need a translation of BFD

[PayThatCEO]

Getting rich selling horses to Mexican slaughterhouses? What a dick.

[LGRepublican]

So Ken gets peeved about a deal with Mexico involving horses. I wonder what his reaction would be if questioned about a deal with Mexico involving firearms... Hmmm...

[Canoochee]

So why isn't this idiot in jail on assault charges? Is this a glimpse of what we can expect from the Obama administration?

[2b1ask1]

Typical, hot headed liberal. They hate being asked anything about how crooked they are....Take our amateuristic, liberal, leftist, America hating, terrorist loving so-called "president" for instance.

[bsking]

that reporter had no right to question him about anything... for god sakes he works for Obama.. I think there's going to be some re education in that reporters future.If that reporter wants to stay in the business he better realize that he works for Salazar not the other way around

[mimi57]

No, I think he should have punched him out...but , hey...My dad was a boxer and he punched a lot of people out.
Those were the good old days, you could go out back, knock someone out, help him up and have a beer together. Not now, now, you call the police, file assault charges , someone goes to jail or prison, then the
other person sues for all he/she can get..I think the old days worked better.

[bsking]

he's is as much of a communist as Obama's greens czar was/is.

[bobrob]

Not really. Talk is cheap, and reporters make stupid remarks every day. What is " good for the
goose is good for the gander." Besides, the Secretary doesn't look like he could punch much
of anything, so let's not lose any sleep over this incident.

[PoliticalSpice]

Regretfully he does stand up to those who plunder our natural resources the same way...