{"id":135820,"date":"2018-01-11T22:34:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T05:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135820"},"modified":"2018-01-12T22:46:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:46:19","slug":"apparently-dutch-reporters-arent-willing-roll-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/apparently-dutch-reporters-arent-willing-roll-lies.html","title":{"rendered":"Apparently Dutch reporters aren&#8217;t willing to roll over for lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s choice of ambassador to the Netherlands has run into trouble upon arrival in that country with reporters who are interested in his past comments about Muslim-dominated &#8220;no-go zones&#8221;in the Netherlands, and Dutch politicians being &#8220;burnt&#8221; by Islamic extremists.<\/p>\n<p>The comments have been widely debunked, but never acknowledged as incorrect by Pete Hoekstra, the Dutch-born American who Trump appointed as ambassador. Hoekstra has, instead, suggested that&#8217;s all in the past <i>so, for the love of God can we stop talking about it?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Dutch press are not showing any inclination to stop talking about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/01\/10\/dutch-reporters-stun-trumps-ambassador-pressing-admit-lied-no-go-zones\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/QE_f2QNioInlr4OwlUV8DtqMqmpfbPAmm5HejLk7jL_68d6e5xsAnP6cyQqkjWO3pUz0a7hK95yfSDh42ZZHs2Wg5XFAofmC16y4xedtBWEnZv6fcUVtMMtmdcXDnyLKHmZWDqBaIWsqDnjXqA5RxVCrkxb4=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/01\/10\/dutch-reporters-stun-trumps-ambassador-pressing-admit-lied-no-go-zones\/\">Dutch Reporters Stun Trump\u2019s Ambassador By Pressing Him to Admit He Lied About \u201cNo-Go Zones\u201d<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDutch reporters ignored U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra&#8217;s plea to forget all about the fact that there is video of him lying about their country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/U5Wc284d6LL\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s choice of ambassador to the Netherlands has run into trouble upon arrival in that country with reporters who are interested in his past comments about Muslim-dominated &#8220;no-go zones&#8221;in the Netherlands, and Dutch politicians being &#8220;burnt&#8221; by Islamic extremists. The comments have been widely debunked, but never acknowledged as incorrect by Pete Hoekstra, the Dutch-born &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/apparently-dutch-reporters-arent-willing-roll-lies.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apparently Dutch reporters aren&#8217;t willing to roll over for lies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12,10,1071],"tags":[1417,1077],"class_list":["post-135820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-trump","tag-islamophobia","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pete-hoekstra.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26114,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/no-no-racial-tint-here-except-yellow-peril.html","url_meta":{"origin":135820,"position":0},"title":"No, no &quot;racial tint&quot; here &#8230; except yellow peril","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Feb-12 5:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Chinese woman, on a bicycle, riding through rice paddies, talking slyly in broken English about how they are out to take American jobs? 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