Posted on 05/04/2023 7:45:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Far-left activists with the anti-American group Code Pink interrupted the beginning of a conversation on Wednesday between Washington Post journalist David Ignatius and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, demanding freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Blinken was participating in an event for World Press Freedom Day to discuss the threats that journalists face while doing their jobs, cohosted by the Washington Post and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). RSF published its Press Freedom Index on Wednesday to mark the occasion. The organization invited Blinken to participate in its event despite the United States, under Blinken’s boss, President Joe Biden, dropping three spots to number 45 in the rankings of freest countries to conduct journalism in. RSF did not fault Biden for the deterioration of press freedom in the country, instead claiming that the decline, partially due to the homicide of a journalist for which a Nevada Democrat was arrested last year, was “despite” Biden’s best efforts. Instead, RSF blamed the general public for having “unprecedented levels of distrust in the American media” as the reason for allegedly diminished press freedoms in the country.
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One of them is now a United States Senator.
Which one? I missed that.
Yes, how any times did they disrupt congressional hearings maybe 100? Yet not a single "insurrectionist" was prosecuted.
I do fear that I may be having a mental health crisis as I actually agree with them on this one.
Code Pink is still around? I remember these nasty creatures from almost twenty years ago at a gathering for Katherine Harris. We gave ‘em the boot.
Hmm........I agree with them for once...................
Mrs. Fetterman?
They want freedom for Julian Assange
A broken clock is right at least some of the time. Assange should be freed.
World Liar Day would be a better title for the event.
I have been harassing Code Pink for their silence on Ukraine via their Twitter account. It seems like someone took notice.
Freedom Day for Leftist Propagandists.
“We’re here to celebrate freedom of expression, and we just experienced it,” Ignatius said following the removal of the activists.
He missed the irony in this statement
Krysten Sinema was never a member of Code Pink, although she was an antiwar activist.
If they are protesting Blinken, at least they are principled and, in his case, have the moral high ground.
Code Pink still a thing? Guess they aren’t Dem operatives after all.
Julian Assange should be released. He was doing traditional journalism. And offended the Deep State.
” Ignatius and Blinken did not discuss the majority-communist and -socialist countries that rounded out the top ten, with the exception of China ...
North Korea took the 180th spot on the RSF list, the world’s worst place to attempt journalism. North Korea has no media independent of the communist state apparatus and its flagship, the Korean Central News Agency. China ranked only above North Korea on the list.
The rest of the top ten included the explicitly communist governments of Vietnam and Cuba; socialist Eritrea and Syria; and socialist-aligned Iran, Turkmenistan, and Myanmar. Bahrain, number 171, was the only country in the bottom ten not governed by a left-wing regime.”
“They did not discuss the Assange case following the interruption.”
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