Rice outraged over her & Andrea Mitchell's treatment in Sudan

[Bluebear]

"The reporters were told not to ask questions, over State Department objections." - -Well, Sudan has a ghastly government, but begging Dr. Rice's pardon but it sounds like the US treatment of their own populace, where only "invitees" can question their President.




KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudanese security officers roughed up members of Condoleezza Rice's entourage Thursday and spoiled the African nation's hopes of showing off a new peace deal and improving a bruised reputation with the United States.

The secretary of state gave Sudan's foreign minister a 90-minute deadline to make a personal apology, and he met it....

The reporters were told not to ask questions, over State Department objections. When NBC diplomatic reporter Andrea Mitchell tried to ask el-Bashir about involvement with alleged atrocities, guards grabbed her and muscled her toward the rear of the room. Other reporters and a camera crew were also pushed out as Rice and el-Bashir watched.

"It makes me very angry to be sitting there with their president and have this happen," Rice told reporters afterward. "They have no right to push and shove."Mitchell, the wife of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, said later that no one from Sudan had gotten in touch with her to apologize.

http://startribune.com/stories/484/5518292.html

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. I'm only sorry Rice wasn't shoved out of the room, too.

[jojo54]

2. Oh, let it go Condisleezie!!!!

You're not ROYALTY for krips sake!

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Well Gee Condi

Maybe now you understand how the White House reporters like Helen Thoams feel after the way they are treated.

[TheCutter]

6. Even further.........

One might surmise that she may find herself being treated this way more often....the world isn't pleased with her and I'm sure many more heads of state around the globe are applauding the treatment she received.

[tocqueville]

4. try to ask a question to GW like.... Dead Iraqui children... and insist

you are dead meat

so where is the difference ?

[Straight Shooter]

5. Time to play my favorite tune for Condi and Andrea

:nopity:

[Bluebear]

7. I have the viola part

:nopity:

[FreedomAngel82]

8. And she has the right to talk?

They control our media here. She's just saying this crap because they have to keep up the "Liberal media" myth.

[madrchsod]

9. doesn`t matter

the chinese are going to be thier next best friends

[bluestateguy]

10. Ugh

Be outraged about the genocide. That is worthy of outrage. Being treated discourteously is not right, but not worthy of "outrage" in the grand scheme of what is going on over there.

[Rex]

11. She will get far worse treatment in prison.

Just a heads up Kinda Sleazy.

[burythehatchet]

12. Oh really Condi? And what were you going to do after 90 minutes

tell your boyfriend to bomb Sudan back to the Paleozoic era? Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

[Zorbuddha]

13. She is one grim, shifty-eyed woman.

Anything that upsets her seems to me like a step in the right direction.

[bluestateguy]

14. She also has buck teeth

And people with buck teeth annoy me. Not sure why, but they just always have.

[samdogmom]

15. Condi..Condi...Condi..

No one likes you any more...GET IT? You are history. So sorry, but...

[leesa]

16. Tsk, tsk, you murderer.

[Bluebear]

17. Thank you. nt

[Lannes]

18. I cant get over Andrea Mitchell being outraged

That she cant ask tough questions of the leader of a foreign country.Her career is based on NOT asking tough questions.