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PRIORITIES? Blinken Attempts to Distract from His Failures with Spotify Playlist

January 18, 2022 By Richard C. Young

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hosts a ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on September 10, 2021. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]

Anthony Blinken’s complete bungling of the Afghanistan pullout is enough to rank him among the worst Secretaries of State ever to hold office. Unfortunately, that isn’t his only major failure. Blinken’s playlist, a mish-mash of music from around the world, looked as though it were curated in order to further American foreign policy and target younger demographics crucial to Democrats, not as though this was the Secretary’s favorite mixtape. Mollie Hemingway discusses Blinken on Fox News:

Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway took a swing at the Department of State after it repeatedly promoted Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Spotify playlist in an odd series of tweets.

“We have really serious issues and the State Department keeps pushing out this Spotify playlist, it just makes you nervous because they are not just doing a bad job, they keep doing these things that are not serious at all,” Hemingway told “Fox News Primetime” on Monday.

From December 10 through January 2, the State Department’s Twitter account tweeted about Blinken’s Spotify playlist a total of eight times while also retweeting its own tweets about the playlist, as well as tweets from other accounts mentioning the playlist, on multiple occasions.

“Have you heard the news? [Secretary of State Antony Blinken] is now on [Spotify]! Check out his latest recommended playlist, listen to some tunes from around the world, and follow the Secretary here,” each of the tweets read followed by a link to the playlist.

Critics, including some lawmakers, mocked the State Department on Twitter, with some referring to the administration as “unserious” and others calling it “humiliating.” A number of critics referenced the department’s failures in Afghanistan.

Hemingway said the playlist doesn’t bode well for Blinken’s global “image of weakness,” telling host Lawrence Jones that the song selections “seem like it was focus-grouped for hipsters.”

“I just have no basis to believe that this is actually his Spotify playlist. I don’t think a grown man is listening to Taylor Swift or Olivia Rodrigo,” she said.

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