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underpants

(182,788 posts)
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 07:43 AM Dec 2018

Hello World! It's Fox & Friends' Heather Nauert - UN Ambassador

Trump To Pick Heather Nauert, Former Fox News Anchor, As U.N. Ambassador, Source Says

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/663625957/trump-to-pick-heather-nauert-former-fox-news-anchor-as-u-n-ambassador-source-say

From Fox & Friends to the State Department, and now likely to the United Nations.

President Trump is expected to announce Friday that he has chosen Heather Nauert, the State Department spokeswoman and a former Fox News host, to become the next ambassador to the U.N., a senior administration official tells NPR's Tamara Keith.

If confirmed, Nauert would replace Nikki Haley, who is leaving the post at the end of the year.

There have been other missteps, including the time when she cited D-Day — the Allied invasion of Normandy against the Nazis — as an example of America's strong relationship with Germany.

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Hello World! It's Fox & Friends' Heather Nauert - UN Ambassador (Original Post) underpants Dec 2018 OP
And what's more... PCIntern Dec 2018 #1
One suspects that knowledge or intelligence Sherman A1 Dec 2018 #2
If there's anything that comes out of the Trump aftermath... Dave Starsky Dec 2018 #17
Eloquently stated Sherman A1 Dec 2018 #20
Trump made this role "glamorous" so who better than State Dept Barbie? Pachamama Dec 2018 #3
State Department Barbie underpants Dec 2018 #7
Seriously disgusting... Caliman73 Dec 2018 #14
Eleanor Roosevelt was our first ambassador to the U.N. kskiska Dec 2018 #21
Exactly the level of competence and intelligence I've come to expect, from Rump, repugs and Fox. Mc Mike Dec 2018 #4
Guess the selection process was more like a casting call. Vinca Dec 2018 #5
Well she was able to make it into Arizona State (83% acceptance) underpants Dec 2018 #8
You just can't make this shit up anymore Docreed2003 Dec 2018 #6
No you can't. underpants Dec 2018 #9
She's blonde and ignorant, worked for Fox Noise and looks good on TV DFW Dec 2018 #10
+1 dalton99a Dec 2018 #12
She would bring a D-Day mentality to all her relationships IronLionZion Dec 2018 #11
Clueless, Feckless, and Reckless. MineralMan Dec 2018 #13
Will Hannity take her old job? Maybe Lou Dobbs? EleanorR Dec 2018 #15
I'm hoping that she will represent the interests of US Americans, such as the Alabama . . . . hatrack Dec 2018 #16
Miss Teen USA 2007 was actually pretty smart. Dave Starsky Dec 2018 #22
Heather has all the proper qualifications Poiuyt Dec 2018 #18
That camera angle is no accident underpants Dec 2018 #19
Neither is her crossing her legs lunatica Dec 2018 #25
Sharon Stone says hey. dameatball Dec 2018 #26
she fits Putin's requirements Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #23
America's Spokesmodel NT Adrahil Dec 2018 #24

PCIntern

(25,541 posts)
1. And what's more...
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 07:46 AM
Dec 2018

The A-bombs were dropped on Japan to celebrate our appreciation of their toy and stereo manufacturing industries.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
2. One suspects that knowledge or intelligence
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 07:51 AM
Dec 2018

Are perhaps not the key factors in the choices made by the “Esteemed” Mr. Trump.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
17. If there's anything that comes out of the Trump aftermath...
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:41 PM
Dec 2018

I hope it puts a fatal end to the idea of "outsiders" providing a fresh perspective to jobs in government.

No, they don't. Like "outsiders" in any job, they simply don't know what the fuck they're doing. I would no more hire a Fox News talking bubblehead to be Ambassador to the UN than I would hire Taylor Swift to perform an oil and filter change on my car.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
20. Eloquently stated
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 05:03 PM
Dec 2018

I hope that you are correct in your hope that this does put an end to the concept of outsiders being able to contribute much of anything.

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
3. Trump made this role "glamorous" so who better than State Dept Barbie?
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 07:52 AM
Dec 2018

It makes me sick to my stonach. He is making a mockery out of a serious body for diplomacy and peace and if he makes this appointment shows the world how little respect he has for the UN and we quite literally will be represented by an inexperienced representative Fox News Barbie who has been making a mockery out of reporting statements from the State Dept for 2 years standing there doe eyed with make up and false.

I want to throw up...

Caliman73

(11,736 posts)
14. Seriously disgusting...
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 12:37 PM
Dec 2018

In less than 60 years we go from Adalai Stevenson confronting the Soviet ambassador in one of the most dangerous events in World History:

"Don't wait for the translation, answer 'yes' or 'no'!"

"I am not in an American court of law, and therefore do not answer a question put to me in the manner of a prosecuting counsel...you will have your answer in due course"

"I am prepared to wait for my answer until Hell freezes over!"

To a Fox News spokes model.

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
21. Eleanor Roosevelt was our first ambassador to the U.N.
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 05:27 PM
Dec 2018

Harry Truman appointed ER to the first American delegation to the United Nations. She represented the U.S. at the UN from December 31, 1945, until December 31, 1952, when the newly elected President Dwight Eisenhower requested her resignation.

The UN established a permanent Commission on Human Rights and unanimously elected ER chair, a position she held from 1947 until 1951 when she relinquished it saying that she did not believe in permanent chairs. She also chaired the subcommittee charged with drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and also insisted that a new chair be appointed at the end of her two-year term. She presented the UDHR to the General Assembly for adoption December 10, 1948.

ER was the UN's most noted ambassador. She traveled throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific investigating conditions and urging both support for the UN and UN humanitarian and diplomatic aid. Within the United States, she championed the UN tirelessly in "My Day," the articles and books she wrote for adults and young people, and on her lecture tour.

Vinca

(50,269 posts)
5. Guess the selection process was more like a casting call.
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 08:48 AM
Dec 2018

She could be a sitcom U.N. Ambassador. A real one? Does she have any experience besides Fox & Friends and her current State Dept. gig?

underpants

(182,788 posts)
8. Well she was able to make it into Arizona State (83% acceptance)
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 09:25 AM
Dec 2018

Keith Country day school tuition $14,200
Pine Manor College 27,050 USD
2015–16
Acceptance rate: 70.9% (2015–16)
Graduation rate: 36% (For first-time, full-time in 2015–16)

Nauert is a native of Rockford, Illinois.[2] Her father, Peter Nauert, was an executive in the insurance industry. She has 3 brothers: Justin, Jonathan and Joseph.[3]

Nauert attended Keith Country Day School in Rockford, Illinois, Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, then Arizona State University. After landing an internship hosting a country music video program in Washington, DC, she stayed there to finish school, earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Mount Vernon College for Women. She received her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Nauert

Docreed2003

(16,858 posts)
6. You just can't make this shit up anymore
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 09:15 AM
Dec 2018

If this were a movie, the plot would be laughably unbelievable. No qualifications and woefully ignorant?? Cool...you can be UN sec...smdh

DFW

(54,369 posts)
10. She's blonde and ignorant, worked for Fox Noise and looks good on TV
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 09:33 AM
Dec 2018

So she rather does fill every requirement the Trump administration has for women cabinet secretaries.

IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
11. She would bring a D-Day mentality to all her relationships
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 11:40 AM
Dec 2018

resulting in brutal and bloody storming of the beaches. Exactly the type of diplomacy we need in this world.

Trump is just being very supportive of women by appointing them to important positions. This one might be more obedient than Nikki Haley was.

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
13. Clueless, Feckless, and Reckless.
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 11:58 AM
Dec 2018

She reflects Donald Trump perfectly. I can't wait for her first gaffe in the UN. Maybe she can refer to African nations as "shithole countries" in her first address.

EleanorR

(2,391 posts)
15. Will Hannity take her old job? Maybe Lou Dobbs?
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 12:43 PM
Dec 2018

Gotta keep that revolving door from propaganda machine to corrupt, authoritarian administration spinning!

hatrack

(59,584 posts)
16. I'm hoping that she will represent the interests of US Americans, such as the Alabama . . . .
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 01:13 PM
Dec 2018

And make sure that we have access to maps, of course.




Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
22. Miss Teen USA 2007 was actually pretty smart.
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 06:12 PM
Dec 2018

She gets brought up a lot, so I feel like I have to defend her.

She was on CBS's Amazing Race a couple of years after that video. She exhibited surprisingly high intelligence and resourcefulness. Her boyfriend, whom she was paired up with for the show, was pretty much an idiot. Or, at least, that's how he was portrayed on that show.

She has said that she was terrified when she was asked that question at the pageant. She was on the spot and didn't know what to say. I have been in that position. I think we all have, at some time.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,337 posts)
23. she fits Putin's requirements
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 06:29 PM
Dec 2018

TrumPutin continues to downgrade U.S. importance to the world.

Putin's little bitch Donnie is doing what Putin wants. Nauert is just another unwitting puppy in the litter.

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