UPDATE: Audio of Salazar’s threat against the reporter is now available. Check it out after the jump.
Yesterday we reported that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and his ten-gallon hat were apparently on their way out.
Today we learned that he isn’t taking his impending ouster well.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar threatened to punch a reporter on a recent trip to Colorado, according to witnesses.
Dave Philipps, a reporter for the Colorado Springs Gazette, tried to ask Salazar about his appointments to the Bureau of Land Management and the wild horse population in the state. Specifically, Philipps had questions about the government’s relationship with a wild horse buyer who allegedly sold more than 1,700 horses to Mexican slaughterhouses…
According to Kathrens, Salazar took two questions from Philipps before disagreeing with his line of questioning.
“Don’t you ever … You know what, you do that again… I’ll punch you out,” Salazar reportedly told Philipps before ending the interview and walking off.
The alleged incident took place when Salazar was in Colorado on Election Day, on behalf of the Obama campaign.
“The secretary regrets the exchange,” Interior spokesman Blake Androff told POLITICO.
“These threats would have been inappropriate coming from anyone, but the fact that it came out of the mouth of the Secretary of the Interior is alarming,” Kathrens said in a statement. “I can’t believe that a top official in Obama’s cabinet could be so defensive.”
Salazar isn't known for having a bad temper, you have to wonder what working under someone like Obama does to a person.
This old fart would get a hernia if he even tried to make a fist, HA! There would be only 1 hit, him hitting the floor from exhaustion. At least some of the crooked little kenyan's organized crime cartel wont have their claws on our money or in position to abuse their power anymore. What we really need to do is go after the head of this rotting fish and cut it off. IMPEACH OBAMA 4 BENGHAZI NOW!
Stay classy Kenny.
Seems more and more like this administration needs training in ethical and professional behavior.
You'd have thought he was asking him why it took him a month to address the BP oil spill.
This Administration is a laugh a minute. It's a darn shame we have an electorate, with the mentality of "The Jersey Shore" electing and re-electing those that appoint these clowns. Typical Lib-elitist mentality, "I can question and talk down on everything you say or do". But how dare you question my "self-ordained self-righteous bull-crap". Don't you know I can do it, cause I feel morally better about it, than you do.:)~.
Salazar has been an asshole for years.
Hey Kenny Boy :: Come and try to punch me out you sack less piece of shit.
Not surprising, that's the Chi Town thuggery of Imam obama.