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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    Lets look at Obama's list.

    This guy worked for different publications.

    This guy worked at a different publication than Frantz.


    Different publication than the first two, and in a position that makes sense.

    A journalist at communications director? Say it ain't so!

    This one is a lawyer who now works for Trump...

    Again, a journalist as a speechwriter? That makes sense.

    Again, communications adviser and a different news organization than the last ones.

    Director of speechwriting...
    An education writer for some random publication and was on the communications team at the education department. Shocker.

    We have our first CNN producer who became a spokesperson.

    Another new publication comes into the mix. Again, became a communications director.

    This guy worked for a public policy research center before he got his communications position and the "Senior policy strategist" probably had to do with that.

    CBS and ABC - new ones. Worked for the campaign and then as communications director. Hm.

    This guy works in public affairs. Makes sense.

    Different publication than the previous ones, and another journalist who worked in public affairs/communications.

    We have our second CNN (Middle East correspondant) who worked as a speechwriter!

    A national security correspondant as chief of staff in a country that national security focuses on? That seems fishy. Especially since he majored in Chinese Studies at Yale.

    Another new publication joins us! It's the EPA. It is public affairs.

    Worked for the U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Economist, and The New Republic. More newcomers. Then she won a Pulitzer. Then she worked for the Carr Center for Human Rights and at taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Then she was named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world. She's also a lawyer, by the way. All of this before she worked for Obama when he was a Senator...

    The only publication that is repeatedly where these individuals came from is the Washington Post and 3 were from CNN. Otherwise, pretty diverse. Those with more important positions than speechwriter or communications director of an agency had experienced war firsthand, had a JD, had gone to school for something special, had worked for think tanks, etc.

    How does Fox and Friends' Heather Nauert experience compare to Samantha Power's?
    Yeah yeah, we get it. Obama good, Trump bad.
    Cutesy Time is OVER

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Yeah yeah, we get it. Obama good, Trump bad.
    No - I have not gone through every person Trump hired who was a journalist at some point. They could be qualified... Heather Nauert is not, and just broadly saying, "Oh, well Obama had 24 in his administration!" is lame.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    No - I have not gone through every person Trump hired who was a journalist at some point. They could be qualified... Heather Nauert is not, and just broadly saying, "Oh, well Obama had 24 in his administration!" is lame.
    Mmmm hmmm.
    Cutesy Time is OVER

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    No - I have not gone through every person Trump hired who was a journalist at some point. They could be qualified... Heather Nauert is not, and just broadly saying, "Oh, well Obama had 24 in his administration!" is lame.
    What, in your opinion, makes someone qualified to be an ambassador?
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    This is satire, right?
    Not at all and I provided you a recent, clear-cut example demonstrating that all of these institutions remain perfectly capable of alienating the likes of me with their glowing reviews of the Gulf War and one-term Republican administrations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    Not at all and I provided you a recent, clear-cut example demonstrating that all of these institutions remain perfectly capable of alienating the likes of me with their glowing reviews of the Gulf War and one-term Republican administrations.
    Lol, the occasional truffle doesn't absolve them of their partisan hackery.

    So tell me, Fox has far more libs on than any of those networks have conservatives, why do they remain partisan in your eyes? The question is rhetorical.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    What, in your opinion, makes someone qualified to be an ambassador?
    If it is overseas, like with Sciutto, it helps to know the region and the language (which, as a Chinese studies major, he would). It helps to have some kind of background either in national security or diplomacy.

    In the case of the UN ambassador, they have to be extremely knowledgeable about pretty much the entire world, to some degree (they obviously have advisors), meaning they really do need to have the experience, particularly in national security as well as foreign policy. They also interact with representatives of every nation so they should also have some form of diplomatic experience. They should be familiar with the law, including international law. A legal background or education would likely be beneficial. It also needs to be someone that commands respect somehow, which I think is where Nikki Haley really excelled, in my opinion (and I did not particularly agree with her a lot of the time, but respected her).

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Lol, the occasional truffle doesn't absolve them of their partisan hackery.

    So tell me, Fox has far more libs on than any of those networks have conservatives, why do they remain partisan in your eyes? The question is rhetorical.
    It's more than occasional. I'm telling you this as a leftist observer. Republicans are the focus of reporting at present because they have control of all three branches of government. You will see that change in January and witness for yourself, if you are paying attention, the swiftness with which these same institutions lambaste and condemn the Democratic Party for opening any investigations into the president at all. I say that with confidence because premature denunciations of the incoming Democrats by these very outlets has already begun, and began, in fact, the day after the Congressional elections. It will become much more of a focus once the Democrats actually have some power in Washington again starting next month.

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Good point, but you misspelled "Stuffinenvelopes".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    If it is overseas, like with Sciutto, it helps to know the region and the language (which, as a Chinese studies major, he would). It helps to have some kind of background either in national security or diplomacy.

    In the case of the UN ambassador, they have to be extremely knowledgeable about pretty much the entire world, to some degree (they obviously have advisors), meaning they really do need to have the experience, particularly in national security as well as foreign policy. They also interact with representatives of every nation so they should also have some form of diplomatic experience. They should be familiar with the law, including international law. A legal background or education would likely be beneficial. It also needs to be someone that commands respect somehow, which I think is where Nikki Haley really excelled, in my opinion (and I did not particularly agree with her a lot of the time, but respected her).
    Re the UN ambassador's qualifications. It depends on what the President wants them to do. Many presidents have the UN ambassador pretty much run his/her own show. In that case you are correct. Other Presidents keep their UN ambassador on a lease to parrot the Administrations line only. In that case a different sort of experience is needed- the ability to articulate your bosses position. Not much else.
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