NPR Reporter: Pompeo Lashed Out at Her After Testy Interview

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-politics/npr-reporter-pompeo-lashed-out-her-after-testy-interview

Pompeo is on the hot seat due to the Impeachment hearings.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cursed at a National Public Radio reporter and repeatedly “used the F-word” in a shouted diatribe after she questioned him about Ukraine and the ousted American ambassador to Kiev in an interview on Friday, the reporter said.

Mary Louise Kelly conducted a testy interview lasting about nine minutes with Pompeo for NPR’s “All Things Considered” program, asking him about Iran and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was ousted by President Donald Trump last May. Yovanovitch’s removal was a key event in the actions that prompted Trump’s impeachment in the House of Representatives last month.

“Afterwards, Pompeo proceeded to shout his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine. He used repeated expletives, according to Kelly,” NPR said in a statement.

“He asked, ‘Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?’ He used the F-word in that sentence and many others,” Kelly said in an interview of her own with NPR later Friday.

 

[TheBigA]

The Washington Post says: NPR host Mary Louise Kelly has produced an email exchange with the press aide to Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, showing that Pompeo's team knew she planned to ask him about Ukraine after his office released a statement criticizing her for violating rules of journalism. Kelly says Pompeo used profanity and demanded she use an unlabeled map to locate Ukraine when she asked him about refusing to support Marie Yovanovitch, the region's previous ambassador from the US.

 

[TheBigA]

Now the president claims NPR shouldn't exist, is a big government organization, and is run by Democrats:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-npr-mike-pompeo-interview_n_5e2db132c5b6779e9c34fc02

All of his claims are false. NPR exists by federal law, is mainly funded by local stations and corporations, and the CEO is a Republican. So he's wrong on all three.

As for propaganda, NPR is one of the only media organizations that attempted to interview a member of the current administration. They do that all the time. For that, they got treated unprofessionally by the Secretary of State. He should be embarrassed for the way he treated a female reporter. He did the same thing to a female reporter at an NBC affiliate a few months ago. Someone needs to hold him accountable for what he says and does.

And now NPR has been dropped from a State Department trip:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/media/npr-mike-pompeo-state-department/index.html

 

[gr8oldies]

If it's not Fox News or OANN, it's fake news and should be punished or shut down. If Trump gets a second term, it's going to all be about revenge.

Now the president claims NPR shouldn't exist, is a big government organization, and is run by Democrats:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-npr-mike-pompeo-interview_n_5e2db132c5b6779e9c34fc02

All of his claims are false. NPR exists by federal law, is mainly funded by local stations and corporations, and the CEO is a Republican. So he's wrong on all three.

As for propaganda, NPR is one of the only media organizations that attempted to interview a member of the current administration. They do that all the time. For that, they got treated unprofessionally by the Secretary of State. He should be embarrassed for the way he treated a female reporter. He did the same thing to a female reporter at an NBC affiliate a few months ago. Someone needs to hold him accountable for what he says and does.

And now NPR has been dropped from a State Department trip:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/media/npr-mike-pompeo-state-department/index.html

 

[TheBigA]

If it's not Fox News or OANN, it's fake news and should be punished or shut down.

So NPR will not be allowed on this trip, which is going to Ukraine. The administration complains their side doesn't get presented, meanwhile they refuse to hold press conferences and take punitive action against reporters. You can't have it both ways. If you don't allow the press to do their job, you can't complain that your side isn't being heard.

 

[umfan]

NPR should exist, it just shouldn't benefit from a government subsidy. End the CPB, let NPR affiliated stations run without such funds and there is no argument.

'Public' radio stations always claim, in response to criticism like this, that the amount they get from the CPB is very minimal to their operating budget. If that's the case it would seem that they should welcome foregoing the funds and the baggage that comes with them.

 

[TheBigA]

End the CPB, let NPR affiliated stations run without such funds and there is no argument.

Every time such a proposal has been brought up in Congress, it's died a very quiet death. So obviously the Congress doesn't agree.

However, this has nothing to do with the unprofessional and rude behavior of the Secretary of State. Obviously he is not being well-served by his staff.

 

[TheBigA]

So today the president praised Pompeo for attacking the female reporter:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/politics/donald-trump-mike-pompeo-npr-mary-louise-kelly/index.html

That's why he did it. Not because she did anything wrong. But he knew he had an easy way to get a pat on the back. It was likely a total set-up.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

In the following clip from Fox News, Steve Hilton expressed his opinion that "Mary Louise Kelly is one of the very few hosts [on NPR] who actually seems fair": Steve Hilton calls on Secretary Pompeo to apologize after profanity-laced tirade against NPR reporter.

Well even though a Fox News pundit is calling for Pompeo to apologize to NPR News Mary Louis Kelly I don't think its going to stop this year though given how the President does not like anybody in the media getting him to go outside his comfort zone. Given the situation we are in today it would not surprise me that members of the media will get attacked more often.

 

[frankberry]

This thread has gone about as far as it can go. Time to close it down.