Nyah nyah says the Secretary of State
Because Pompeo wasn’t looking childish and vindictive enough yet.
The State Department on Monday removed a National Public Radio reporter from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s upcoming trip following a days long spat with a different NPR reporter, who said Pompeo berated and cursed [her] after an interview.
It wasn’t a “spat” and it wasn’t “with” – it was Pompeo bullying a reporter. Period.
The State Department Correspondents’ Association in a statement confirmed the decision to remove NPR correspondent Michele Kelemen from Pompeo’s plane on his upcoming trip to Europe and Central Asia, calling the move “retaliation” after Pompeo’s public attack on NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly.
In other words Pompeo publicly attacked Kelly and then in “retaliation” against Kelly [for being bullied I guess] the State Department kicked out a colleague. That’s not “retaliation,” it’s just another installment of bullying.
“The removal of Michele, who was in rotation as the radio pool reporter, comes days after Secretary Pompeo harshly criticized the work of an NPR host. We can only conclude that the State Department is retaliating against National Public Radio as a result of this exchange,” Shaun Tandon, the association’s president, said in a statement.
Retaliating against NPR for…being bullied?
These people are the dregs.
Seconded.
I’d say more like grape marc. All bitter skin and stalk that smells worse the longer it’s left lying around, eventually poisoning your water and ruining the environment.
Because basically all women are the same. (I wonder if he’d have sanctioned a male NPR reporter.)
guest, I suspect the retaliation would have been carried out against any NPR reporter. But I don’t think Pompeo would have tried the “come into my office and let me scream at you” intimidation against a male reporter.
But you never know. There was that GOP Congressman who assaulted a male reporter during the campaign.
Also in “Just how petty can these fuckers be” news:
Trump’s new school lunches guidelines say pasta is a vegetable and potatoes are fruit.
For bonus points the new rules, which basically are meant to undercut the healthy eating initiatives of Michelle Obama, were announced on her birthday.
Freemage, that puts me in mind of Ronald Reagan, who declared that ketchup was a vegetable, for the same reason. Feed kids cheap, unhealthy garbage.
And pasta is actually made from a fruit – a grain, while a potato is actually a vegetable. He is botanically illiterate. (Why am I not surprised?)