The campaign to confirm a diplomatic novice to America's top U.N. post

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Less than two years ago, Heather Nauert was conducting interviews on “Fox & Friends.” Now, she’s preparing to navigate the world’s raging geopolitical issues as one of America’s top diplomats. It’s an unexpected journey for a potential United States ambassador to the United Nations — Nauert has no diplomatic experience aside from her year and a half as State Department spokesperson, a job she got with little background in global affairs.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suggested Nauert was only a candidate for the job because her résumé included Fox News — the president’s favorite network. “She is clearly not qualified for this job, but these days it seems that the most important qualification is that you show up on Donald Trump’s TV screen,” Murphy told CNN.

“There is no rationale for the president to put forth Nauert’s name,” Harry Kazianis, a self-described Republican and director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, wrote in a Dec. 8 op-ed, arguing that she lacks “any diplomatic experience or top-level expertise on global affairs.”

Others pointed to prior comments and actions activists said were anti-Muslim, including several segments she hosted on Fox News. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, an advocacy group, opposed her nomination, describing Nauert as “unqualified and Islamaphobic.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/26/united-nations-heather-nauert-1075219

[roscoeroscoe]

1. No question

This is a joke.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Certainly will seem that way to everyone else at the U.N.