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John Kerry took private jet to Iceland for environmental award, called it 'only choice for somebody like me'
Fox News ^ | 2/3/2021 | MountainWalker

Posted on 02/03/2021 11:03:18 AM PST by MountainWalker

President Biden's recently appointed climate czar, John Kerry, took a private jet to Iceland in 2019 to receive the Arctic Circle award for climate leadership, Fox News has learned.

Kerry defended his high-pollution ride at the time, calling it "the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle" in an interview obtained by Fox News. The incident had not been previously reported in the American press.

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Icelandic reporter Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson confronted Kerry at the event over his choice of transportation, asking: "I understand that you came here with a private jet. Is that an environmental way to travel?"

Kerry responded by claiming that it was the only way. "If you offset your carbon -- it's the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle," Kerry said.

"I negotiated the Paris Accords for the United States," he added, referring to the multilateral climate agreement signed while he was secretary of state under President Obama.

"I've been involved with this fight for years. I negotiated with [Chinese] President Xi to bring President Xi to the table so we could get Paris. And, I believe, the time it takes me to get somewhere, I can't sail across the ocean. I have to fly, meet with people and get things done," Kerry said, sidestepping the fact that he chose a private jet over a commercial flight.

"But, what I'm doing, almost full time," he continued, "is working to win the battle on climate change, and in the end, if I offset and contribute my life to do this, I'm not going to be put on the defensive."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2019; agw; bidenvoters; carboncredits; china; climatehoax; egotrip; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hypocrisy; iceland; johnkerry; kerry; massachusetts; parisaccord; parisaccords; prc; privatejet; xi
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To: BuckeyeGOP

The rules only apply to the comrades, not to those in the Politburo.


61 posted on 02/03/2021 12:26:54 PM PST by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: littleharbour
At least he didn't say "Do you know who I am?"

On second thought, that's exactly what he said.

62 posted on 02/03/2021 12:29:43 PM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: MountainWalker

Pretty impressed with himself this John Kerry.


63 posted on 02/03/2021 12:29:50 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: MountainWalker

What does a self-gratifying flight just to accept an award have to do with “saving” the environment? It’s just pure narcissism. Did they include a monetary award too?


64 posted on 02/03/2021 12:33:23 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MountainWalker

He “negotiated” with the Chinese president Xi- who has thousands of people locked up in work camps- to give the Chinese exactly what they want at our expense, not at the Chinese’ expense, and he wants us to believe he was the dominant one in the negotiations?


65 posted on 02/03/2021 12:36:26 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: circlecity

Exactly. The pompous sob could have used Zoom.


66 posted on 02/03/2021 12:46:40 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (I do not regret my decision to cut all ties with Fox News. )
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To: Old Yeller
How about when he took a government plane to Antarctica in his last days as SoS under OBastard, so that he could claim that he’s been on all 7 continents.

Actually that isn't why he did that, though it is emotionally satisfying to think he is a buffoon. The Antarctica trip was cover for his trip to New Zealand to get their cooperation in a vote at the UN condemning Israel that December, part of the divestment movement against Israel over settlements. [His trip to Iceland to get the meaningless award may have been cover for something too, and not merely the ego trip it is meant to appear.] Anyway, while he was talking to NZ officials about getting their vote for the move in the UN, his buddy Brennan was in Washington meeting with Palestinian officials including a terrorist or two on the same topic.

67 posted on 02/03/2021 12:47:43 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MountainWalker

Lurch the magnificent strikes again.

What a freak show.


68 posted on 02/03/2021 12:55:21 PM PST by NWFree
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To: MountainWalker

I don’t mean to pick on Kerry, but there really is a pack of people that consider themselves above the common class, and they support each other and they keep secrets.


69 posted on 02/03/2021 12:55:24 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: piasa

DECEMBER 2016 : (UK GOVERNMENT SLAPS JOHN KERRY FOR HIS IDIOTIC COMMENTS...)
No 10 says it was inappropriate of Kerry to attack the make-up of the democratically-elected Israeli government Rebukes US Secretary of State for focusing on the single issue of settlements Says Kerry’s remarks have been unhelpful in the pursuit of two-state solution Increasingly bitter row came after Kerry’s strongly-worded attack on Israeli government’s illegal construction of settlements in the West Bank The UK Government today launched an unprecedented attack on the US, its closest ally, over John Kerry’s condemnation of the Israeli regime as the ‘most right-wing in history’. In a highly critical speech on foreign policy yesterday the US...
-— UK Government issues unprecedented attack on the US after Secretary of State John Kerry..., Daily Mail ^ | 12/30/2016 | Matt Dathan


70 posted on 02/03/2021 12:55:53 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Old Yeller

It just so happens that to get where Kerry was going in Antarctica you have to stop off in NZ to make arrangements, so the eco-ego trip was the perfect cover for what he was up to at the UN.

DECEMBER 27, 2016 : (UN : OBAMA ADMIN BACKSTABS ISRAEL BY ABSTAINING [KNOWING THEY HAD PREARRANGED FOR NEW ZEALAND TO VOTE YES]) US abstains from vetoing UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements “in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” -—————Reconstructing the Russian Trump Dossier Story: A Timeline, Original research | 01/13/2017 | Fedora


71 posted on 02/03/2021 12:59:22 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Old Yeller

Kerry was doing this for the Obama admin [while Ben Rhodes was denying it] :

DECEMBER 2016 : (ISRAEL vs BEN RHODES “EXPERT AT FICTION” -— See OBAMA ADMIN LETTING CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL RESOLUTION GET THROUGH AT THE UN) Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. on Monday contemptuously dismissed White House deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes’ denials that the Obama administration played a key behind-the-scenes role in getting a resolution condemning Israel through the U.N. Security Council, describing him as an “expert at fiction.”
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government says it has “iron-clad” information indicating that the Obama administration had a role in the crafting and passage of the resolution that passed Friday in the absence of a U.S. veto.
Ambassador Ron Dermer told MSNBC the Israeli government had proof that it would share that evidence with the incoming Trump administration — which “can decide whether they want to share that with the American people.”
“We’re obviously not going to share it with this [Obama] administration because this administration is behind it,” he charged. …(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
-— Israel Doubles Down on Criticism of Obama Administration: ‘Ben Rhodes is an Expert at Fiction’ Cybercast News Service, December 26, 2016 | 7:23 PM EST | Patrick Goodenough
Posted on 12/27/2016 10:42:12 AM PST by Olog-hai


72 posted on 02/03/2021 1:02:07 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MountainWalker

this horrible POS has been on the scene for FIFTY YEARS... i cannot overstate how corrupt this traitor is.

John F’ing Kerry is all that is wrong with our government personified.


73 posted on 02/03/2021 1:06:06 PM PST by Levy78
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To: MountainWalker

In Kerry’s mind this is the only ‘battle’ that matters and he’s the most important person to fight it.

Not that he’s an ego-maniacal nutcase or anything...


74 posted on 02/03/2021 1:16:37 PM PST by GOPJ (How soon until we're forced to wear red MAGA stars on our clothing?)
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To: Old Yeller

The Trump team during the transition had convinced Egypt to withdraw the resolution condemning Israel and this blew up the Obams admin’s plans [and Kerry’s on a Palestinian deal] ... so Kerry was doing all these last minute flights to counter the incoming Trump foreign policy. This movement against Israel to satisfy the European divestment movement was going to be a key part of the Dem’s foreign policy had they defeated Trump.

This is why they were so hot to keep spying on Trump and why they went after Mike Flynn- he was in part responsible for foiling Ben Rhodes/Obama/Kerry in this matter. Samantha Power was the one who abstained at the UN rather than vote down the bad resolution and tick off the palestinians that have been such an important part of the Democratic Party base since 2009.


75 posted on 02/03/2021 1:26:37 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MountainWalker

Calling Kerry horseface is a misnomer, it should be two faced.


76 posted on 02/03/2021 2:09:56 PM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: MountainWalker

Shoulda zoomed it Dude. That’s what the rest of us are forced to do.


77 posted on 02/05/2021 5:51:04 AM PST by Pennsyltucky Boy (bitterly clinging to our constitutional rights in PA)
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To: MountainWalker

You can’t make this stuff up.

A man with the title “climate czar” who takes a private jet to travel thousands of miles across the ocean to accept an *environmental award*.


78 posted on 02/05/2021 8:09:15 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: MountainWalker
Well...my "carbon foot print" is somewhat small.

John Kerry's is large....And he is more important than I.

He thinks...

How many house's ya got John.?

How many car's ya got John..?

How many boats?

YOU are the one with the GIANT footprint. When ya gonna downsize???

You should have taken a sailboat...BUT YOU ARE TOO IMPORTANT!

You and this Rape of an election..are going to take this nation down a very wrong road....

Enjoy the ride

79 posted on 02/07/2021 10:05:17 PM PST by Osage Orange (TRUMP!!!)
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