State Department removes NPR reporter from Pompeo trip
Source: The Hill
The State Department has removed an NPR reporter from a group of journalists traveling this week to Europe and Central Asia with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, days after Pompeo publicly feuded with the news outlet following a tense interview.
An organization representing correspondents covering the State Department made the announcement in a statement on Monday. The group says it believes the removal of Michele Kelemen from the press pool was a response to the flare-up between Pompeo and her NPR colleague Mary Louise Kelly.
"We can only conclude that the State Department is retaliating against National Public Radio as a result of this exchange," Shaun Tandon, president of the State Department Correspondents' Association, said in the statement.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/480188-state-department-removes-npr-reporter-from-pompeo-trip
Only tin-pot dictators and Banana Republic fascists give retribution against a free and fair press. First Amendment be dammed- these people hate the Constitution.
applegrove
(118,440 posts)James48
(4,424 posts)getagrip_already
(14,587 posts)NPR just got a lesson in giving in to right wing bullies and threats.
screw them.
summer_in_TX
(2,703 posts)What are you talking about?
As far as I am aware, NPR is standing by Mary Louise Kelly's work all the way. So is there something else we should know about?
Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)It's like grade school playground, every fucking day. They are not worthy of holding higher office, even on a condo board. To Pompeo: In case of rapture, can I have your house and car?? You won't be needing them so...
yaesu
(8,020 posts)bluestarone
(16,832 posts)I hope so!! How can they pick and choose who fly's on OUR plane?
Sancho
(9,067 posts)...damn plane will probably land in Bangladesh!
IcyPeas
(21,830 posts)you get "removed" one way or the other.
NotHardly
(1,062 posts)eggplant
(3,906 posts)PJMcK
(21,985 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 28, 2020, 07:52 AM - Edit history (1)
You call yourself a Soldier?!
You're nothing but a coward and an ass-kisser.
By the way, you're going down, too.
material_highlighter
(40 posts)PJMcK
(21,985 posts)My mistake. Thanks for the correction.
Pompeo is still a coward, a weasel and an ass.
I'll fix my response.
material_highlighter
(40 posts)I'm a former Marine and Pompeo has a generic personality that you run into in the Military. They are guys that never deployed, but are real hard asses.
have had the displeasure of working with a few folks with that personality. they are incredibly insecure, often shady, and will undertake extreme measures to maintain social status within the group.
they generally lack any real discernible skill, so often feel threatened by confident people, and will seek to diminish the credibility of folks challenging their authority. Hences, point to Ukraine on a map.
which, is an arbitrary task that was only aimed at "shutting up" the reporter. I loathe these kinda of people, not because they are douches, but because the place lives unnecessarily in jeopardy from sheer incompetence.
Leghorn21
(13,522 posts)Yovanovich, right?
Repeatedly, until the fucker answers the fucking question.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Typical Hill Trumper spin. "Flare-up" = Pompeo's clownish temper tantrum.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)was a background in diplomacy ? George Schultz, Warren Christopher, Henry Kissinger, John Kerry . . . .
Pompeo is nothing but another one of trumpie's unqualified, unprincipled, dishonest, unscrupulous, frauds. That he chooses to treat women in this fashion is beneath contempt. Just another bullying, foul-mouthed thug.
LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)seems to be worried that another professional smart woman will embarrass him.
Probably so. Hes lost two rounds so far.
Nitram
(22,755 posts)lark
(23,058 posts)Oligarchs R Us is their motto and they will do anything to install the current representative of this thieving murderous claque into that dictatorship of the right wing by destroying our constitutional protections.