State Department removes NPR reporter from Pompeo trip

[James48]

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

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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]

1. Outrageous!!!!

[James48]

2. Statement of the State Department Correspondents Association

Is here:


https://mobile.twitter.com/farhip/status/1221936855203094528/photo/1

[getagrip_already]

3. you lie with rats, you get fleas...

NPR just got a lesson in giving in to right wing bullies and threats.

screw them.

[summer_in_TX]

17. Giving in?

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]

4. That's how they roll. Vengeful over any disagreement, perceived or otherwise.

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]

5. this is how they control the talking points, tow the line or get the boot. nt

[bluestarone]

6. Can they sue?

I hope so!! How can they pick and choose who fly's on OUR plane?

[Sancho]

7. Without Michele, how will they find Ukraine???!!

...damn plane will probably land in Bangladesh!

[IcyPeas]

8. dare to speak the truth about this administration

you get "removed" one way or the other.

[NotHardly]

9. Thin-skinned pricks... or an I being redundant?

[eggplant]

10. The rest of the press pool should sit out the trip in support.

[PJMcK]

11. Hey, Pompeo!

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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]

19. He was in the Army,

[PJMcK]

20. Oops!

My mistake. Thanks for the correction.

Pompeo is still a coward, a weasel and an ass.

I'll fix my response.

[material_highlighter]

23. no doubt he is,

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]

12. So all the remaining reporters will ask him *when* exactly it was he showed his support for Amb

Yovanovich, right?

Repeatedly, until the fucker answers the fucking question.

[greenjar_01]

13. Pompeo removed her

Typical Hill Trumper spin. "Flare-up" = Pompeo's clownish temper tantrum.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

14. (sigh) Remember when the most important qualification for Secretary of State

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]

18. Well said.

[Corgigal]

15. Mr. tough guy West Point

seems to be worried that another professional smart woman will embarrass him.

Probably so. He’s lost two rounds so far.

[Nitram]

16. Fascists.

[lark]

21. They intend to install a dictatorship of the right and will let nothing stand in their way.

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.

[Ohiogal]

22. What a petty prick Pompey-O is.