Trouble In Paradise

There was a time when we could rely on progressives to look to Europe as an aspiration and an inspiration for better days in the US. But what has overcome the NY Times?

In Angela Merkel, German Women Find Symbol, but Not Savior

OSNABRÜCK, Germany — Just 9 years old when Chancellor Angela Merkelwas first elected in 2005, Kristin Auf der Masch cannot really remember a time when Germany was led by a man.

But if Ms. Auf der Masch, now 21 and an apprentice at a wind energy company in this northwestern city, finds it hard to imagine a male chancellor, she also finds it impossible to imagine a female boss.

“There are lots of women at my level, and then there is Angela Merkel,” she said during a recent classroom debate about the election on Sept. 24, when Ms. Merkel is expected to win a fourth term. “There aren’t many women in between.”

Germany, which has been led by the most powerful woman in the world for 12 years, has a woman problem.

Trouble in Their Blue Heaven? What's next, reporting on immigrant problems in Sweden?

I take this personally:

Alice Schwarzer, the country’s best-known feminist, put it this way: “Since 2005, little girls can decide: Do I become a hairdresser — or chancellor?”

But ask Ms. Auf der Masch and the 14 other apprentices in her class how many of the local companies that train them — midsize businesses that make everything from margarine to mobility scooters — are run by women. Not a single hand goes up.

There are a few female department heads, most of them childless. But collectively the apprentices can think of more managers called “Thomas” than managers who are women.

As in "Thomas the Tank Engine"? Naah, that's the Brits. But lest you or I doubt, they have more:

There are, in fact, more C.E.O.s named “Thomas” (seven) than C.E.O.s who are women (three) in Germany’s 160 publicly traded companies, notes the AllBright foundation, which tracks women in corporate leadership. 

I had no idea of the scope of the German problem.

Comments

[Catsmeat]

Fortuitously first (perhaps)

[Jim Eagle]

Zuerst?

[Jim Eagle]

That is not a problem just for Germany, most of Europe is behind America in women executives and management. There a few spots in the UK but few and far between.

[Threadkiller]

How many are named Mohammed?

[Jim Eagle]

Another activist Judge, this time in Shitcago told Sessions he doesn't have the authority to withhold grant money to sanctuary cities.

We are at a tipping point, I tell ya. People are fed up with these elitist black robed make believe Caesars.

[Jim Eagle]

How come the National Park Service uses a japanese lawn mower (Honda) for the WH lawn? Have they ever heard of John Deere?

[maryrose]

JIB/
Withhold the money anyway.
Chicago judge is not the boss of me.
Obama disregarded judge's orders all the time.
It is not Chicago's money it is the federal government's paid for with our taxes.
Answer wrt Roy Moore is on previous thread.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

"most of Europe is behind America in women executives"

The word 'behind' suggests that there is some higher number that is optimal. But if you buy that for this, then you buy it for everything--sportscasters, soldiers, firemen, etc.

[JimNorCal]

"There are, in fact, more C.E.O.s named “Thomas” (seven) than C.E.O.s who are women (three)" (in Germany).

Easily solved! Abandon the name "Thomas" in German speaking countries and leave that name to Spanish and English speaking nations!

[Catsmeat]

I thought the science was settled, that both men and women prefer male bosses. If so, why the need for more women? (I have been a boss at points, and a very kind one to boot, but then I am not a trend).

[Threadkiller]

Bringing this over from the last thread:

Roy Moore wants President Trump's endorsement in the Senate race which I think he is going to win.
The reason Moore is more flamboyant which seems to be a required trait now.
President is a populist who leans conservative.
I am still a conservative who supports President Trump but will happily vote for Mike Pence, a true conservative when his time comes.
Frau:
By halo I meant it is ok to still support him but disagree at times with his decisions.

Huh?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

My sister was a manager in retail, with reponsibilities for sales revue, scheduling, display, etc. The whole nine yards.

I think there are fewer women managers because they are expected by employees to be more sympathetic. My sister was good at balancing the sympathy with setting goals, but a lot of women (including me) would find it very difficult.

My theory, therefore, means the a high percentage of female managers either burn out or fail due to not being forceful enough.

[JimNorCal]

jimmyk: "The word 'behind' suggests that there is some higher number that is optimal."

True!
Nonetheless when you compare topics like female leadership in industry, or reduction in carbon emissions or aid to stricken nations ... Europe wins off the chart in terms of words and formal treaties. US wins in terms of actual results.

[Threadkiller]

Honda Power Equipment products are assembled at 11 Honda manufacturing facilities around the world, including Honda Power Equipment Mfg., Inc., located in Swepsonville, North Carolina.

https://powerequipment.honda.com/company/about-us

[Neo]

Just 9 years old when Chancellor Angela Merkelwas first elected in 2005, ...

Either the story is 3 years old or somebody doesn't know how to do math (I'm told algebra is racist).

[daddy on iPad]

Clean bill of health from my new Dentist, and she is cute as pie!

The AM stations that have left their mark are 50 kilowatt stations. Most are required to significantly reduce power at night because medium wave transmissions propagate like crazy when it's dark.

The other night on the check ride from Hawaii to Oakland I pulled up AM Station 680 from San Francisco at 1,350 miles. It was loud and clear with a very strong point on both ADF Navigation needles pointing to the source of the signal. 680 is Sports Talk and Giants Baseball. It impressed the Checkride Instructor and the right seater, and I pretended I was doing it by explaining that if all 3 of our Inertial computers died on us I could still simply follow that ADF point 1300 miles to San Fran and then rely on ATC radar controllers to give us stop/start turns to find the field.

It's amazing how strong an AM signal can be out in the middle of nowhere where there aren't any other energy transmissions ongoing. I have in the past successfully received AM 680 at 1800 miles out before, but only intermittently as I believe it bounces on and off the upper athmosphere in sort of cycles that work then distort and vanish. The very next night was the leg up to Anchorage when the Sun had just erupted and created the amazing Borealis we watched all evening, but that clobbered my local stations I try to catch abeam Seattle and Yakitat etc. I got nothing.

I remember all this because an old timer years back taught me as a rookie the importance In the old days of AM signals as their prime external means of navigation over the ocean. I became a believer when in about 1980 on a 2000 mile leg from the boat just off the Straits of Hormuz to Diego Garcia, dead center of the vast empty Indian Ocean, our Inertials caged a while after the catapult shot, so we were pointed in the general direction and on our own and I very specifically recall a few hours later that thru the static of my ADF radio I could make out Elvis singing "Jailhouse Rock". It had to be from the low wattage station at Dodge, (1475 I think at the time) and shortly thereafter, about 800 miles out, we got a decent enough point on the ADF that we knew Elvis had rescued us from infinity:)

Excuse the OT, especially since I've told it before, but who among doesn't enjoy a story of being personally rescued by the King?

[Clarice Feldman]

Germany has the most generous legal protections for women and mothers. therefore, almost no one there will hire a woman , especially of child bearing age, for any significant position.

[daddy on iPad]

Never mind😀

Just caught up with Buckeyes very next comment---

daddy has posted a few times about playing with the ADF receiver in aircraft (covers the AM broadcast band) and picking up station a continent or two away.

Bet that is mostly at night.

Oh well:(. Did I mention that my new Dentist is cute?

[rse]

Clarice-that is also a problem in scandinavian countries. I had paid maternity leave and with red a courier came and took materials from my house every week day for the time I was home.

I can't tell you the number of women who have said the company should just have done without an exec's unique knowledge for 8 weeks. That's not how the world works some times. With about 90 minutes of work daily, we managed.

[daddy on iPad]

Headline only. Has this been posted? BREAKING: Rosie O'Donnell's ex-wife Michelle Rounds commits suicide aged 46, leaving behind the couple's adopted 4-year-old daughter Dakota

i feel awful for her daughter and for Eric Bolling and his wife

[Neo]

Whoopi Goldberg: Are we sure Antifa isn’t a false flag by the right?

"... So we went to see what they had been protesting, what fascist stuff
Antifa had been protesting. There’s nothing there. We can’t find
anything. This to me– Antifa is one of those things, I don’t
want to say the right, but somebody came up with as a catch phrase so
that you could say there’s violence on the other side. I don’t remember
violent demonstrations before the gentleman who’s in now came in…"

To sum it up ...
1) no violent demonstrations during Obama
2) can't find what fascist stuff Antifa is protesting

Remember, this is Whoopi Goldberg

[Captain Hate]

Another activist Judge, this time in Shitcago told Sessions he doesn't have the authority to withhold grant money to sanctuary cities

Where was this black robed tyrant, or any of the others, when Zippy made his clearly unconstitutional DACA EO?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

This is for simply stupid, who was concerned that the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" had been scrubbed from the President's vocabulary.

Tape shows him saying it out at Andrews:

https://twitter.com/TrumpTrain45Pac/status/908784510476673024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconservativetreehouse.com%2F2017%2F09%2F15%2Fseptember-15th-2017-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-239%2Fcomment-page-4%2F%23comments

[Ralph L]

Hondas are made a few miles from me. Swepsonville is also the village with the county landfill.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago

NEVER forget our HEROES held prisoner or who have gone missing in action while serving their country.
Proclamation: http://45.wh.gov/POWMIARecognitionDay …

[Ralph L]

Neo, 9+12=21

[Captain Hate]

Don't radio signals bounce off the ionosphere and by that method traverse the globe? And tv signals go through it so some alien race far far away might be trying to make sense of My Mother The Car?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 43m43 minutes ago

Our hearts & prayers go out to the people of London, who suffered a vicious terrorist attack....

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908796281002307584

(Graphic at link.)

[GUS]

How do they know THOMAS is a man's name. With 57 genders, Thomas could be a squirrel person or sumpting.

[Ralph L]

I'd like to zap everyone who moved broadcast TV to such a shitty part of the spectrum. Probably Time Warner or Netflix was involved.

I was sure Trump was a fake conservative Clinton plant until the election, but the little info I saw before then was from the offline MSM. You don't know how one sided that was. Managed to convince my Dad that Trump couldn't be worse.

[Old Lurker]

OK Radio Geeks, this link makes it understandable:

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/01/radio-signals-travel-night-day/

[common man]

Whoopi Goldberg obviously never took a logic course in college. It would appear that Whoopi and logic and not even casually acquainted.

[Captain Hate]

Remember, this is Whoopi Goldberg

She's inexcusably ignorant. Antifa named themselves quite a while ago, maybe in some demonstrations in a west coast trash city like Seattle, as being abbreviated from anti fascists. She and those other losers shouldn't escape ridicule for being so uninformed.

[narciso]

Apropos of nothing:

https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/love-first-amendment-boobs/

[maryrose]

I will make this request and as a poster of over 10 years I hope it will be honored.
Please do not bring my posts over from a previous thread.
I made reference to the Roy Moore answer.Repeating the post was done to embarass me.
Some misunderstanding about halo.
Everything President Trump does will not have unanimous consent.
I don't twist what he does to suit the fact that I voted for him.
I will disagree with him from time to time.
Everything he does isn't golden or saint like.
Most of the time I agree.
Sometimes any deal isn't the best you can get.

[GUS]

Just a hunch Daddy..... you're new Dentist isn't named THOMAS?

[common man]

some guy from ESPN radio was on CNN and said he loved two things: the first amendment and boobs. The absolute boob talking head on CNN ( brooke something or other ) almost had a full mal seizure. She could not even repeat the word boobs. She spells it. Go look for it, if you enjoy laughing at CNN...

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

maryrose,

Noted and will honor your request, although I don't think I do that, usually.

Those of us who support the President don't think him a God or a saint. We are just happy as heck to have someone who fights for us, and feel like it's our duty to defend him.

[maryrose]

Common man:
Don't look now but ESPN is imploding.

[GUS]

Guys wearing panties and bra's, calling themselves KAITLYN very very good. The add-a-dick-to-me movement VERY VERY GOOD, Chelsea, not a MAN-ning WONDERFUL HAHVAHD WORTHY.

Saying BOOB is SHOCKING OUTRAGEOUS, SEXIST and probably REPUBLICAN.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Missouri governor has activated the national guard.

[common man]

Yeah but the radio guy ( who I have never listened to and never heard of either ) was making the point that ESPN was inconsistent and ought to figure out their policy and enforce it uniformly. He said he did not want the dreadlocked big mouth fired, cuz he loved two things: the first amendment and boobs. The guy has a sense of humor and CNN has some very dim bulbs in the reading chairs...

[maryrose]

MM:
You have not done that and I appreciate it.
We all want President Trump to succeed and I think he will.
Some journalists are out to make a name for themselves and are really to be ignored.
I saw Cavuto today as well and Ben Carson was excellent.
By the way,
Ben is another example of a real conservative and I am glad President Trump chose him for the HUD position.
I try to always refer to him as President Trump because I respect what he is trying to do for all of us.

[maryrose]

Gus:
Imagine if a republican had used that word.
Crude , rude and unrefined like the person who uttered it.

[Captain Hate]

I'm going to keep bringing my willowed comments to live threads.

What CNN and that pinhead Keith Reed fail to understand is people just don't like Jemele Hill because she says dumb and offensive things. ESPN supporting her is just another harebrained idea that has their ratings and financial status in the toilet.

[Threadkiller]

Here is common man's B-O-O-B-S link:

https://youtu.be/Dqp4q-woDzQ

Hahahaha!!

[GUS]

Common man, just imagine if he hadn't said BOOBS, but rather said "Donald Trump is a WHITE SUPREMACIST who surrounds himself with WHITE SUPREMCASITS. CNN and ESPN would NEVER STAND for THAT.

[Johnh]

JimmyK,

I also noticed the problem with the jumping to last page recently. I use bookmarklets to do that and end of page in safari. I borrowed heavily from the Narcisolater code.

The problem seems to be that typhus is no longer resolving a supplied page number greater than the actual last page number to the actual last page number. I.e. Last page is 6, the code says go to page 100 and in the past you would go to 6, now with that approach you go to 1st page always.

Not sure how to resolve. Hmmmmmm.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

From a link by Neo at 5:28.
"2) can't find what fascist stuff Antifa is protesting"

http://nypost.com/2017/09/15/police-union-wants-professor-fired-over-anti-cop-tweets/

"Professor Michael Isaacson, a self-proclaimed member of the Antifa movement who works in the economics department at the CUNY Manhattan college, tweeted from the account @VulgarEconomics: “Some of ya’ll might think it sucks being an anti-fascist teaching at John Jay College but I think it’s a privilege to teach future dead cops” on Aug. 23.

IMO, any one going to this college needs to change colleges.

[maryrose]

Remember when we used to have network censors?
HBO changed everything so crassness and comments like Colbert's have bled over into the big three networks.

[GUS]

Do you why ESPN sux and is dying??
Turn on your TV right now.
"SPORTS CENTER with MICHAEL and JEMELE"

1 minute of this TRIPE is more than enough.
If this shit is what ESPN thinks America wants, good effing riddance.

Seriously, check it out. One minute that's all we ask!!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/14/donald-trump-delivers-to-voters-even-if-they-dont-/

Charlie Hurt never disappoints.

[common man]

Did you see the look on her face? LOLLOLLOL

For the record. I stand with Clay!

[Captain Hate]

Typhus: continually mutating to be less user friendly.

[Neo]

Intro to Pew poll ..

Gone are the days when America’s standing in the world was contrasted primarily with that of the Soviet Union. Instead, the United States and China now compete to be the more favored world power.

I loved how it sounds like the US favorability tanked instead of Russia's.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/14/donald-trump-delivers-to-voters-even-if-they-dont-/

[common man]

Its PHEWWW

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

For those who always wondered where they were.

http://www.lifezette.com/referral/hillary-maddow-south-korea-literally-within-miles-border-north-korea/

"Hillary on ‘Maddow’: ‘South Korea Is Literally Within Miles of the Border With North Korea’"

If that doesn't clarify it, there is a video.

[common man]

One of the worst records in polling, and reliably far left design and question wording.

The guy in North Carolina that is a clear democrat partisan, ( whose name escapes me as I type ) is at least honest about his pulling for his homies. Pew is a dishonest, hack of a polling unit.

[GUS]

When the THROAT SLASHING ensues, does Capn get to slash Lesley Marshall. Ugly beyond belief. Inside and CERTAINLY on the outside.
Susan Rice needs to pay for her crimes.

[Ralph L]

I don't know how anyone watches those sports-blather shows. The non-stop announcing during the games is bad enough.

We were getting American Sports Network on two broadcast subchannels. Both switched to a sports talk channel Sept 1. ASN played mostly months old 2nd or 3rd rank college games edited to fit, but Dad liked it.

[Captain Hate]

Hillary on ‘Maddow’: ‘South Korea Is Literally Within Miles of the Border With North Korea’"

David Maraniss needs another kick in the balls for that brilliant statement.

[Threadkiller]

I had to watch that video again. He completely unraveled Baldwin's show.

Hahahahaha!!!

I hope there is no apology.

[common man]

BTW.

I have not seen the polling and focus groups that Surber referred in his piece. In fact I have been polling free.

But I do have a theory that I will float for consideration.

A lot of Democrat giddiness is based on a national poll of adults on the generic preference question.

My theory, which will be field test in 18, is that in times of extreme partisanship, ( i.e. NOW) you can not look at a national poll and tell anything. Remember without California, Hillary would not have gotten a majority of the votes. And in all these states that have Republican control, being called racist every other day or even more frequently, and Antifa and Democrat Resist movement, plus a bill with 16 D sponsors in the Senate for single payor, is going to mean you have to look state by state for an off year election to figure out what is going to happen. We shall see soon enough.

[GUS]

This just in......South Dakota is LITERALLY within MILES of the Border with North Dakota".

And this bitch wanted to be my LATEX SALEMAN.

[common man]

I heard that Canada is within miles of the United States? I never knew...

[Thomas Collins]

For you non southern New England Route 95 travelers, I though I'd enlighten you that Massachusetts is just a few miles from the Rhode Island border. As far as I know, however, at the moment neither state is threatening to lob nukes at the other.

[Thomas Collins]

But I'm not so sure about Connecticut. Any intelligence on that, TM?

[henry]

at the moment neither state is threatening to lob nukes at the other

rats

[GUS]

Imagine North Korea had North Dakota's oil.

[common man]

Maybe if we use the dunce Whoopi to sow the seed that Antifa is a right wing false flag, maybe we can get Massachusetts to nuke RI when Sheldon is in State?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

GUS,

That lack of oil in North Korea is called "divine providence."

[Janet the expert 🚬]

Hillary is also on PBS Newshour this evening spewing her wisdom about Korea.

When can that leeching TV station get off the taxpayer dole?

Why do American taxpayers have to pay for Clinton's book advertising?

THe other PBS station in our area (we have 3 or 4) plays Democracy Now! every evening. Pure communism.

[common man]

You have 3 or 4 PBS stations? Call the United Nations, that is truly cruel and unusual punishment

[common man]

Anyone hear familiar with the Columbia professor and writer Mark Lilla?

He grew up across the street from me. A true dweeb in every sense of the word...

[maryrose]

Did Whoopi attend college?
Did she graduate from high school?
I think she gave a child up for adoption.
Feel bad for a daughter who now has to be raised by Rosie O'Donnell.
The media made a big deal of Gavin Newsome marrying them in San Francisco.

[GUS]

I understand Whoopie Cushions concerns about WHITE SURPREMACISTS in the US. I mean they seem to be running WILD all over the place.
Let's take a little "look see".

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2017-chicago-murders

[maryrose]

Janet:
It does have some very good British programs but I would not donate to it.

[maryrose]

Madcow and Hillary- Dumb and Dumber

[Old Lurker]

Maryrose, with all respect, your request that we not comment on your post from a prior thread is unreasonable. As was your similar request sometime back that we not comment on a post once that poster is no longer here.

Fact of the matter is that almost all of us drop in when we can, catch up as best we can, then post what we think about what has been posted since the last time.

This is not a conversation among posters in real time; it is a journal of posts over time, and the one request that does make sense is that when a poster is responding to something not within the last few minutes, then providing hint about the post being responded to, either by a short quote or at least a reference to the time of the post being respond to is a simple courtesy.

Refraining from answering to a post by one of us from a previous thread would deprive many of us of the valuable stream of thought we get from this place.

My two cents.

[GUS]

ANNA PALMER...POLITICO.

Is she smarter than a bag o'hammers???

DISCUSS.

[common man]

Msybe if PBS has very good programming they could follow the model that all other channels follow, and sell advertising to companies based on their viewership? Radical I know...

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/09/rex-tillerson-email-reveals-details-of-state-dept-restructuring-that-could-save-10-billion-over-five-years/amp/

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

HR McMaster will be on Fox News Sunday. Just heard on Brett's show.

[daddy]

If you can stomach it, here,from a Hermann Cain link 3 threads back is a 2 minute montage of Hillary telling Katie Couric all the reasons she lost.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Brian Cates‏Verified account @drawandstrike 13m13 minutes ago

@ThomasWictor Holy cow. Not only did Berkeley PD unmask & arrest antifa last night, they are PUBLICLY RELEASING the booking photos.
7 replies 8 retweets 25 likes
=========================================

This is true. The booking photos have been showing up on my Twitter feed. They don't look nearly as glamorous without those black masks. Most look like degenerates and losers.

[Captain Hate]

Feel bad for a daughter who now has to be raised by Rosie O'Donnell.

She'd be better off being raised by wolves. Remember a few years ago some poor girl, who through a convoluted series of horrible events had O'Besity legally responsible for her, ended up with her therapy dog at some drug dealer's dump after being missing for days. The number of deserved throatslashings was very large and only excluded the girl and dog.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Next up on Martha McCallum's show:

Steve King (to rant about DACA)
Karl Rove (to tell us whether the President will be successful)
Ben Shapiro (to portray himslf as a hero)

Taking a pass on all 3.

[Captain Hate]

A day ending in "y"

Just a reminder. John McCain is still an asshole:

BREAKING: John McCain (D-AZ) Introduces Bi-Partisan Bill To Halt Trump Transgender Ban . . .

[GUS]

Would Rosie O'Bese need 3 slashes? One for each chin??

[mockmook]

The premise of this article is wrong: There are zero men left in Germany if they won't throw this Fifth Columnist out on her arse

"I had no idea of the scope of the German problem."

I'll try my best to lose some sleep over this 'astonishing' news...

[maryrose]

Captain

Rosie doesn't know how to parent.
Her own mother died when she was young and she was raised by her dad and brothers.
I think she has bipolar disorder and reminds me a lot of Hillary.

[Captain Hate]

It would be a mess, Gus.

The ewok is very sympathetic to the sensitivities of Brooke Baldwin:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=371583

[maryrose]

Captain:
This desire by John McCain and Hillary to thrust themselves into the public limelight is pathological and disturbing.

[JohnH]

Mary rose,
On a prior thread (I could cut and paste it), you commented that if Trump were conservative he would have been your first choice for Prezzy. Exactly who was your first choice then? Kasich? Job? I await your response.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

McCain sees his job as to stick it to President Trump however he can.

Hence:

Dossier
No on Obamacare repeal
Reverse transgender ban (which will not pass)

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

JiB sez: "Another activist Judge..."

How many divisions does he/she/it have?

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

Does it look like either of these two could be a serious candidate in 2020?

https://libertywriters.com/2017/09/hillary-clinton-just-bernie-sanders-will-ruin-dems-2020/

Why would anyone even think of voting for a Democrat ever?

[Captain Hate]

JohnH, maryrose has stated frequently that Ted Cruz was her choice. He was mine also but I had severe qualms about his ability to have prevailed in the general election which became a moot point.

[daddy]

Part of Catherine Herridge's report on Lou Dobbs just broadcast seconds ago, about Susan Rice's "Unmasking" of Flynn and reasons why:

Herridge: ...A Capitol Hill source said Rice's closed Classified testimony confirmed that she used Intelligence Community tools to identify or unmask Trump Transition Team members because she was suspicious of their activity one month before the inauguration. That was a core allegation leveled by the Committee's Republican Chairman (Devin Nunes) that was roundly criticized by Democrats last spring...

(Plays clip of Nunes giving his Presser back in March that he was criticized for)

Herridge:...FOX News asked Rice and her Team whether Iran or Russia drove her decision to unmask Trump Transition Officials. A spokeswoman did not directly address our question, citing Classified information, but said in a statement to FOX quote "There is nothing improper, unusual, or political about such requests, nor do such requests bear any relationship to the unfounded and debunked allegations that the Obama White House ordered the surveillance of any US person.
-------------------------

How anyone squares that last sentence with reality beats the hell out of me.