Awkward: State Dept. Press Briefing Turns to Secret Service Prostitution Scandal – During ‘Bring Your Kids To Work Day’
- Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:19pm by
Becket Adams
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During a State Department press briefing yesterday on “Bring Your Kids to Work Day,” things got a little weird as reporters pressed State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland for more details on the Secret Service Colombian prostitution scandal.
“The Secret Service is acknowledging that it’s investigating its employees hired strippers and prostitutes in El Salvador ahead of the President’s visit there last year,” one reporter said, according to transcripts.
“And the original report from KIRO quotes the strip club owner as saying that high-ranking employees of the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador were customers there. I’m just wondering if the State Department is looking into this case as well,” he added.
Hope you’re learning something, son!
“Well, we’ve seen this press reporting. Obviously, we will inquire of our Embassy in Salvador with regard to the conduct of our own employees,” Nuland replied.
“But the article alleges that they attended the establishment, not that they engaged in any illegal or unsanctioned conduct. So we will inquire of our Embassy and see what we learn with regard to that.”
The reporter wasn’t satisfied with her response and kept pushing for details.
“Yeah. I’m wondering because yesterday you said there was zero tolerance for these types of behavior. I’m wondering, does that include visiting a business like this?” he asked.
“[M]embers of the Foreign Service are prohibited from engaging in notoriously disgraceful conduct, which includes frequenting prostitutes and engaging in public or promiscuous sexual relations or engaging in sexual activity that could open the employee up to the possibility of blackmail, coercion, or improper influence,” Nuland replied.
“What a topic to be talking about on Bring Your Kids to Work Day,” Nuland added.
“Hold on one second. I’m trying – on the same thing, while trying to turn this down to a G rating,” the reporter said.
“Parents, you can explain all of this later,” Nuland joked.
When all was said and done, prostitution was mentioned four times, the word “sex” seven times, and “strippers” once. “Club,” as in strip club (not something awesomely innocent like a “He-Man Woman Haters Club”), was mentioned three times.
“Indeed, reporters paid no heed to the fact that young kids were present in the day’s media briefing, asking awkward questions about prostitutes and strippers involved in developing Secret Service scandals in Colombia and Brazil,” Politico reports.
We regret not being able to attend that briefing. We would have liked to have asked Miss Nuland where babies come from.
(H/T: Washington Examiner)
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crackerone
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 4:40pmBet all the children that grow up in the Bill Clinton era, heard worse.
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:29pmWhat’s the big deal for the kids, they have already been getting free birth control from schools since age 11. The only questions for the kids is to why someone would pay for it.
Report Post »edcoil
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:49pmA kid is a baby billy goat. Human beings have children.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 4:47pmObama SR was a Great Lier… as is his son; The SeedLing never falls far from the Tree!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:10pmIf your a government worker, it ought to be called, bring your kid to your worthless do nothing job that produces nothing and is bankrupting the very kid they are bring to their job day…. Day ; ))
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:09pmThese children would have learned more about life, if they had visited a jail or penitentiary.
Report Post »On a lighter-note, Becket, the caption under the pic of the kid, reminds me of the little kids in the movie, “Milk-Money”. LOL
barber2
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:38pmCode Red Alert…Our pseudo- religious , Tourette’s Syndrome , ATHEIST Troll is loose..unmedicated and in hyper mocking mode..beware..
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:16pmnoticed that
Report Post »noleftturn
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:08pm… prostitutes, strippers and liberals shouldn’t bring their kids to work.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:53pm.
Reporters asking awkward questions about prostitutes and strippers involved……..
I guess it was kinda hard for those kids to find out their Mom’s & Dad’s are nothing more than pimps, prostitutes and strippers for the Obama Adminastration…………
Report Post »piper60
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:57pmlololololololololololololol!!!!!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:11pmMore proof that politicians and journalists rank way below used car salesmen as the slimiest people around.
Report Post »IDONTTHINKSO
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:50pmYou let the trash on tv, you let into the theaters, into the schools and on our streets with all the glory that the liberal main stream forces down our throats, you push your hate message, of we know what’s best for your children, on and on! The thing that needs to be explained to the children is why this current administration continues to lie and distort facts to deceive the American public! Yes, please explain why it is ok for the grownups to lie and steal from the American public.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:40pmHuh, stupid. God is like a tent, and everything wholesome and good is also under that tent, and it’s all food for thought and soul. The way Atheists are trying to get rid of Jesus would be like taking away the top support of a tent, but they also are trying to get rid of God altogether. Now see, in the Bible the carcasses of the idols get stacked up first and here’s why. If there can’t be one Lord that came first, then there can not be Jesus, and if there can‘t be a Jesus then there can’t be a Prophet, and if there can’t be a Prophet, then there can’t be men who are like gods. If there are not men who are like gods, then there can’t be Kings either, and if there are not Kings then there can not be wise celebrities, and if there are not wise celebrities, then celebrities must be a waste of time. If there is nothing of meaning, then Atheists must mean nothing, and if Atheists mean nothing, then perhaps there is a God after-all. It’s by that process that everything is going to be taken away.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:44pmWhat did you say?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:47pmIf people get rid of God, and more importantly – if you get rid of Jesus because he is the Lord becoming flesh, then celebrities, and even Kings will cease to have authority, and importance to the populations of people.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:50pmHuh?
Report Post »mccracken
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:52pmTim, that’s what I was going to say.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:53pmscuba13,
Report Post »You should read “The Prince”, and then maybe you (well actually you won’t understand) see how useless you really are, except maybe as farm labor, but then again if you won’t listen doing the right thing in the absence of authority, then you will be worthless as farm labor too.
nzkiwi
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:54pmOh, right. Thanks for clearing that up Tim. Got it now.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:57pmI hope Tim never goes away. He cracks me up every time.
Report Post »IDONTTHINKSO
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:05pmTyping under the influence, again? Is their a family member we could contact for you? Seek help, Please!
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:18pmHey tim thanks for the laughs. Why do you hate farmers?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:26pmHey, Timmy, news flash:
The voices are lying to you.
.
That is all. Go about your day.
Report Post »mccracken
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:26pmI bet Tim’s children never brought friends home to meet the folks.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:39pmMC: you think there really is a home ?? not an institution ?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:18pmscuba13,
Report Post »I don’t hate farmers, that‘s why I’d never give you a as a referral. By the way, what I mean is that the first step to becoming of value is to realize one is valueless.
Itsjusttim
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:20pmmccracken,
Report Post »Wow, you must be learning something. Imagine how few of people Jesus is going to bring home to meet his folks.
lukerw
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:50pmOh, oh… I agree!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:39pmChildren of reporters? Then NOTHING they haven’t heard before! Of course with the continued liberal destruction of our school systems I am SURE the kids could have asked more detailed questions…..
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:12pmLOL, the reference to defend this children from certain language was merely for the viewing public’s consumption. In other words Bull Sh*t.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:14pmThat ‘this’ should be ‘these’.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:26pmthat guy at CBS is a jerk. I am the daughter of a doctor, a vitenam vet, who works for the Federal Gov. I went on these take your daughter to work days growing up. They were fun and informative. That reporter is really lucky he didn’t do this with my dad in the room or he would have had himself a couple missing teeth.
Report Post »StormRider
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:37pmHmmm seems like the press perverts have no sense of when to ask these kind of questions. And the
Report Post »US Secret Service brought this on themselves, they have gone from a supposed elite agency to a late night comedy target. Way to go guys !!