Posted on 03/15/2017 8:37:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Seething U.S. Journalists Angered About Taking Commercial Flights To Cover Secretary Tillerson in Asia…
A Reuters filing en route to Asia showcases the bitterness, anger and seething rage of U.S. journalists who have been forced to fly First-Class Commercial to cover Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s Asia trip.
State Department correspondents are used to the exclusive wide-body private charters of the U.S. federal government’s airline fleet. Previous heads of the Department of State have flown aboard Air Force 3. Normally a Boeing 757. At the very worst Air Force 3 would be a C17 Globemaster.
However, T-Rex is taking a smaller jet to Asia and only one journalist accompanies him. To make matters exponentially worse, T-Rex did not select a journalist from the corporate stable of the refined and pedigreed media elites. We can only imagine how Andrea Mitchell must be seething at having to take simple first-class commercial flight accommodations with ordinary people. The scope of the almost unimaginable horror she has to face will soon pour from her pursed and vengeful lips. We can predict a retaliatory report soon from the wrath of the ignored elitist within NBC. This shall be, as they say, epic.
Secretary Tillerson has rebuked customs and norms. The traveling correspondents will have to pass through customs and passport checks as if they are ordinary travelers. There is a very real possibility no-one will recognize them or care diligently for their very individual and specific needs.
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As CEO at Exxon Tillerson would have traveled all over the world in large bizjets, he is quite comfortable doing that. He is likely flying in a large Gulfstream sized aircraft, not small but nothing like a 757.
Smaller footprint, more airports, easier ground handling.
Best side benefit, no room for all of those friendly objective reporters.
I’m really stating to like Secretary Tillerson ....He’s a walking ‘win’...
Why not Business Class?
Remember it well. Couldn’t get a motel room on way from Dallas to New Braunfels cause press took all the rooms for miles around Temple. Wound up in a room being worked on...clean bed, plumbing that worked. Last HoJo around.
ugh....Hillary’s teeth!
HAHAHAHAHA! This ALONE is validation that Trump picked the right guy with Tillerson.
I totally agree. Since they're going to make it up anyway, why not just save some money and hassle and just stay home?
Give them jump seats. I hope Andrea Mitchel gets the one over the wheel well.
I seriously doubt that news companies pay for their trips on Government planes. They think the First Amendment covers them. And in the past, they have been treated like VIP’s. For Obama and Clinton it was always handy to have the cheerleaders around, for Bush it was trying to make them like him.
God is smiling and so are We The People!!! MSM Elites have earned every second of their discomfort and inconvenience. Why should the Media Elites fly courtesy of We The People??
I admire that.
Actually, I am taking China Eastern to Lanzhou City from Beijing.... They got me in the back with the chickens..
They pay.
Supposedly it's 2X the going first class rate when flying on AF1.
Don't know about when on other fed planes.
The left wing Media can dish it out but they can’t take . They are becoming irrelevant through intermediation.I pushed them off my screen a long time ago.
Perhaps they could begin paying for the privilege of flying with the T rex, but only the select chosen few. Hand picked by Conway or Spicer
I think you and I must have once been on the same flight. Remember the broken toilet behind us with the smell almost overpowering the kimchi?
Let them get the full group grope treatment..
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