Posted on 06/30/2019 4:58:33 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
April Ryan, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and a CNN analyst, said Friday she has to fight for her "survival" asking questions at the White House.
CNN host Wolf Blitzer was leading a discussion about regimes around the world that suppress and even kill journalists when Ryan made her comment. Blitzer asked specifically about President Donald Trump joking with Russian President Vladimir Putin "about so-called fake news" at the G-20 summit in Japan.
"Wolf as someone who has to fight everyday for her survival for asking questions at the White House, it's atrocious," Ryan said.
Ryan, who last fall was promoting her own book about her experience covering the White House, has said that Trump was taking the United States "down a line of a dictatorship." She's also said that CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta's "life was in jeopardy" at a Trump rally and lamented that former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders received Secret Service protection while reporters did not.
"Jim Acosta's life, in my opinion, was in jeopardy that night. There was a safety issue," Ryan said last August. "And, you know, she gets run out of a hen house [the Red Hen restaurant] a couple of weeks ago and gets Secret Service detail."
Ryan also said that Sanders should pay for her personal bodyguard, stating "I did not sign up for this. I was just doing a job."
Ryan's comments about the danger she feels came directly after the panel finished talking about murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and many others have held Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman responsible for his death.
In Saudi Arabia, there is no freedom of the press, and Turkey, where Khashoggi was killed, has jailed the most journalists of any nation in the world.
Fight for survival?? Shut up, fatso.
Sanders’ employer...President Trump, protected his employee.
Who’s your employer?????
Stop whining and complaining, it is not very attractive.
Good Lord, I’m speechless. What an idiot.
My G-d, she is as stupid as she is ugly. Who let the dogs out?
The only place she fights is in a Buffet Line.
The rank stupidity of the commie left media.
The only thing that toad is fighting for is the crab legs at the buffet.
Another insecure Affirmative Action hire heard from.
Haha, you beat me! (#9)
Hey you walrus lookin’ POS....get your slob freakin’ azz lost.
[Fight for survival??]
I would NOT get in her way at the buffet. Just sayin’.
Especially if she looks hungry.
Darn it, you beat me to it.
Excellent work.
If you did ANY actual reporting-— you wouldn’t have a problem. But— you have an agenda! Get it?
Someone post a photo of the seriously ugly veteran annoying reporter— who actually did some real journalism, even though it was seriously irritating it was real reporting.
Speaking of HELEN THOMAS!! Actually uglier than this a@@clown tool of CNN. Helen had the face that launched a thousand Mack Trucks (Bulldog logo). Seriously.
But she WAS a journalist. Not a clown, whiner.
You beat me to it too.
Excellent work.
We have our (accurate) profiles figured!
You’re stuck, April, cuz you’re too fugly for TV. BTW, we don’t like the way you behave and how you do your job, but nobody wants you to be hurt or even fired. If you can’t take a little heat maybe you shouldn’t work in the kitchen.
Just go do your job, and maybe try being respectful instead of nasty.
I am glad we have so many to quickly respond!
I’m about to head out for a bit. Fire for effect!
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