Posted on 02/11/2015 1:11:07 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"................Well, we can all say carelessly formulated things when we're off the prompter,particularly when lulled by a sycophantic interviewer. So I suppose it was just about possible that this was indeed "an obviously accidental micro-gaffe" by Obama. Except that,as The Washington Free Beacon pointed out,the Government of the United States spent much of the day insisting that the President meant every word he said. From Josh Earnest's White House press conference:
JIM ACOSTA:Just to be clear though,that shooting at that deli in Paris was not random, correct?Did the president misspeak there?
JOSH EARNEST:Jim,I believe the point the president was trying to make was that these individuals were not specifically targeted. They were random people that happened to randomly be in the deli and were shot.
JON KARL:This was an attack in a kosher deli.Does the president have any doubt those terrorists attacked that deli because there would be Jews in that deli?
EARNEST:Jon,it is clear from the terrorists,from some of the writings they put out afterwards, what their motivation was.The adverb that the president chose was used to indicate that the individuals who were killed in that terrible tragic incident were killed, not because of who they were, but because of where they randomly happened to be.
KARL:They weren't killed because they were in a Jewish deli,though? A kosher deli?
EARNEST:These individuals were not targeted by name.This is the point.
KARL:Not by name but religion,were they not?
EARNEST:Well,Jon,there were people other than just Jews who were in that deli.
Etc. On that last point-that not everybody in the grocery store(not a "deli")was Jewish-Scaramouche says she's not even sure if that's true. Indeed. Bank robbers rob banks because that's where the money is. In Europe,Islamic supremacists shoot up kosher markets,synagogues,Jewish museums and Jewish schools because that's where the Jews are. Yet over at the State Department Jen Psaki went further:...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers.
Thank goodness for that."
http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/10/obama-admin-scrambles-to-correct-obama-kosher-deli-gaffe/
“........Not long afterwards, Psaki was taken to task by the AP’s Matt Lee, who questioned sarcastically if those shooting up the kosher deli were looking for Buddhists.
However, both tweeted soon after (41 minutes apart) that the attack was indeed one motivated by anti-Semitism.........”
Rush Limbaugh, EIB - Feb 10, 2015:
“......[Bob] BECKEL [on The Five]: You know what I’ve finally figured out about this, I think, is I think Obama grew up among Muslims. I think he was very strongly affected by Muslims. I think in his dream of dreams he hopes that these guys aren’t really Muslims, and he doesn’t want to call them Muslims because he really does like Muslims. Here’s a guy that was very much affected by Muslims in his life. Uh, he had friends who were Muslims. I think he just doesn’t want to make himself believe that they could be a nasty group.
RUSH: Okay. (interruption) What is Beckel saying? Well, okay. Let’s parse it, shall we? Bob Beckel said, “You know what I’ve finally figured out about this, I think, is I think Obama grew up among Muslims. I think he was very strongly affected by Muslims. I think in his dream of dreams he hopes that these guys aren’t really Muslims...” To hell with the dreams. What about real life? Are you...? Well.
“[H]e doesn’t want to call them Muslims because he really does like Muslims.” He doesn’t know Muslims that act like this. “Here’s a guy that was very much affected by Muslims in his life. He had friends who were Muslims. I think he just doesn’t want to make himself believe that they could be a nasty group.” (interruption) You think there’s any more to it than that? What are you...? (interruption) Well, he said he grew up among Muslims; he was strongly affected by Muslims.
In his dream of dreams, he thinks these guys aren’t really Muslims. (chuckles) There’s also the fact that there’s a lot of them, and he just may not want to make ‘em mad. (chuckles) Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. “Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but isn’t a duck.” That’s Beckel’s explanation here. Beckel’s finally figured it out. (summarized) “He just can’t believe it. He’s president of the United States, and he just can’t believe that these guys are Islamists. He can’t believe they’re Muslims. He knows Muslims, and they don’t do this.”
Our President. In a paragraph...
Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post - February 10, 2015 “........The denial of what was clearly a specific targeted attack on the Jewish community — one of many in an pattern in Europe over the last couple of years — is inexplicable and stomach-turning. It suggests the White House is devoted to false narratives, unable to recognize error or that the president is deaf to the dangers that Jews face worldwide. Israel is the haven for Jews who are persecuted in their own countries, and it is hard to miss the connection between the White House’s denial of anti-Jewish sentiment and his acrimonious relationship with the prime minister of Israel. When compounded with his refusal to acknowledge that our enemy is Islamic jihad, one is left with the horrid sensation he is too arrogant to admit error, horribly ignorant about the world or indifferent to the plight of world Jewry — or maybe all three. I assume this ghastly episode will be walked back, but the peek behind the curtain cannot be forgotten.....”
And then he “turns the page” and moves on.
Philip Klein, The Washington Examiner | February 10, 2015
“A lot has been said about President Obama’s effort to downplay the threat posed by radical Islam. Now, he wants to deny the reality of anti-Semitism, too.
Speaking about terrorism in an interview with Vox’s Matt Yglesias published on Monday, Obama said, “It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.”
When I first read this statement, though I found it a jaw-dropping way to describe a terrorist attack on a Kosher supermarket, I didn’t post on it. It was easy enough to chalk up the statement to Obama speaking loosely and imprecisely over the course of a long interview.
But on Tuesday, it’s become clear that it wasn’t an accident by Obama — the administration is explicitly trying to avoid acknowledging what everybody knows to be true — that Jews were targeted..............”
Steyn / Jewish life ping.
No,no this was obviously an attack by the Tea Party affiliated Liptonanni sect of Isis, so the Preezy’s reluctance to come clean was understandable.
IEvery time you think Obama can’t get worse, he proves you to be wrong.
It won’t be walked back. The attacks on Israel and Jews will get worse. The half breed always doubles down when he’s challenged or doesn’t get his way.
Some of my kids acted this way - one time.
The Caliph leading from behind.
“They were random people that happened to randomly...”
“where they randomly happened to be.”
He obviously wants us to remember the word “random.”
Do you get it? 0 and his suck-up liar don’t care about the lives of JEWS! Clear?
“my muslim faith”, “no, Christian” oh, snap. “I meant random, as in randomly picked jews of course”...
(The truth is just too unpleasant for the 21st-century.)
All those self-appointed “idealists” who dream of having worked on the Underground Railroad are going to get a chance to put their “idealism” to the test.
Why would you risk everything to defend a way of thinking that believes self defense is not necessary and is in fact a delusion of an unsophisticated and dangerous "other". The previous warning was impossible to ignore. Yet it is being ignored.
A "studied neutrality" like this?
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Jen Psaki's a fool for not knowing this... or worse...
But I can tell you that if history repeats itself, I intend to save as many innocent people as possible.
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