Maggie Haberman: The Best of the Best

Maggie Haberman

Okay, we don't have a woman in the White House.

We didn't have the votes to keep Neil Gorsuch off the Supreme Court.

We had to watch the ridiculous: dt signing the declaration of April as National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

But still we have Maggie Haberman at the New York Times, and she can lift 45 up by his red necktie.

For your pleasure, read this report by Dylan Byers at CNN:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/07/media/maggie-haberman-trump/index.html

He writes:  
There may be no reporter Trump respects, and fears, more than Haberman. ...[S]he commands the respect of the political communities in both Washington and New York.

Here's an example of Haberman calling 45 on making a mountain out of something that isn't even a mole hill:

[This past week] ...when she and her colleague Glenn Thrush interviewed Trump in the Oval Office... Trump tried to hit the Times for not paying enough attention to a story that the White House and its allies had been pushing about President Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, requesting to unmask the identities of Trump associates who'd been caught up in surveillance of Russians during the Obama administration.

"I think the Susan Rice thing is a massive story," the president said. "I think it's a massive, massive story. All over the world. I mean, other than The New York Times."

Without skipping a beat, Haberman fired back: "We've written about it twice.

 In other words, it's no big deal. The fact that Rice requested the identities came and went as a news story because it was a routine part of her job in deciphering the significance of foreign surveillance.

I feel buoyed by the confidence that a smart woman, a journalist for the New York Times, can call dt's bluff.  

IWMF Women of Courage

BBC reporter Vicky Ntetema exposed the murder and mutilation of albino people in Tanzania at the command of witch doctors. For this, her life is now in danger.

Claudia Julieta Duque was kidnapped for investigating the murder of journalist Jaime Garzon in Colombia. The Colombian secret police threaten death, rape, and torture against her and her 13-yr-old daughter, so she lives in exile.

Tsering Woeser was taken from Tibet and placed under house arrest in Beijing for writing a book and blog about China's persecution of Tibetans resisting Chinese rule. She continues to put human rights violations on her blog, and 13 of her friends and informers have been jailed.

Alma Guillermoprieto reports on drug wars, civil wars, politics, and culture in Latin America. In 1981 she and another reporter risked their lives to report on the massacre of 1,000 villagers in El Mozote, El Salvador, by elite US-trained forces. The Reagan administration claimed her reports were not true and called her a leftist, but ten years later the mass graves were uncovered and officials were forced to admit to the slaughter. She received the IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award.

These four women were honored at banquets in New York on Oct. 19 and in Los Angeles on Oct. 21 at the Beverly Hotel. The acceptance speeches of Duque, Ntetema, and Guillermoprieto were very moving. Woeser, however, was not allowed to leave China to accept her award.

See more on these women at http://www.iwmf.org/archive/articletype/articleview/articleid/1272/claudia-julieta-duque-has-the-courage-to-speak.aspx