Mary Louise Kelly worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, covering stories in Kosovo, the Afghan-Pakistan border, and Germany. She has a masters in European Studies from Cambridge and covered the Pentagon beat for almost 10 years. Pompeo is unfit for office.
Mike Pompeo works for Mary Louise Kelly and the American public for whom she reports. She probably has greater knowledge and insight about foreign affairs than Mike Pompeo. No public official should be allowed to act like this with impunity.
Don't be fooled. Mike Pompeo's stunt has two purposes. 1) To distract from the fact that he has no defensible explanation for what he allowed to happen to his colleague, Marie Yovanovich.
2) To further the long-running GOP attack on NPR and other legitimate news outlets.
2) To further the long-running GOP attack on NPR and other legitimate news outlets.
He's also intentionally weaponizing the misogyny of the President's base against an accomplished journalist who happens to be a woman. The shamelessness would be shocking, if it wasn't such standard behavior from this administration.
This encounter with Mary Louise Kelly has a similar feel to this one from a few months ago where Pompeo got all huffy about being asked legitimate questions by a reporter.
As a wise person pointed out many years ago...I'm starting to feel like men might be too emotional to be trusted with political power.
Or at least, if they have political power they shouldn't get so easily flummoxed by questions that now, 4 months later, suddenly take on new meaning.
