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July 20, 2016

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson: No Apology for Insults
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In news from Britain, recently appointed Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
is refusing to apologize for insults he's leveled at various world
leaders. Johnson has called Hillary Clinton a "sadistic nurse in a
mental hospital," and said, after the Obama White House moved a bust of
Winston Churchill, that it was a "symbol of the part-Kenyan President's
ancestral dislike of the British empire." Johnson also wrote a poem
about Turkish President Erdogan having sex with a goat. This is Boris
Johnson speaking at a joint press conference Tuesday with U.S. Secretary
of State John Kerry.

Boris Johnson: "I'm afraid there is such a rich thesaurus now of things
that I have said, that have been, one way or another, through what
alchemy I do not know, somehow misconstrued, that it would really take
me too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology to all
concerned."

Topics:Britain

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