Are We In Nursery School?’: David Brooks Slams Marie Harf Over Kissinger, Shultz Op-Ed

The Daily Caller | 4/8/15 | Al Weaver

[Nachum]

Marie Harf may have disagreed with the joint op-ed from Henry Kissinger and George Shultz on Iran, but she’s not getting the backup from the media she wished she was.

In an appearance on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” Wednesday night, New York Times columnist David Brooks blasted Harf’s response to Kissinger and Shultz’s piece, calling it “the lamest rebuttal” imaginable. Brooks also took shots at Harf for saying she heard “sort of big words and big thoughts” in the piece, asking “are we in nursery school?”

In their Wednesday piece in The Wall Street Journal, the two former secretaries of state said the Iran nuclear deal will only “reinforce” the problems going on in the Middle East for the rest of the world.

HUGH HEWITT: Let me play for you, by the way, since you bring up Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, this is State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf earlier today responding to that very op-ed.

MARIE HARF: I didn’t hear a lot of alternatives. I heard a lot of sort of big words and big thoughts in that piece, and those are certainly, there’s a place for that. But I didn’t hear a lot of alternatives about what they would do differently.

[Kickass Conservative]

If Marie Harf was wearing Capris with a nice crisp Crease, Brooks would love her.

[Billthedrill]

Yes, actually, the current administration, and especially those elements of it that are in putative control of foreign policy, are in nursery school. And worse, they are still displaying the alarmingly juvenile traits of insisting that they were right all along and despite the smoking wreckage they're standing in, all is well if only one squints hard enough. This would be amusing if people weren't dying within it; as it is, it is infuriating.

But what a hand to draw to: Marie Harf, David Brooks, and heaven help us, Henry Kissinger. The smart poker player would fold with a hand full of crap like that; unfortunately, the country is stuck with it. This is embarrassing. Worse than embarrassing, it's humiliating.

The rot goes up as well as down and is the more visible for the rising: this dream team of incompetents is a clear reflection of its progenitors: Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, under the guidance of the "smartest" man in what is apparently the smallest room in the White House, Barack Hussein 0bama. This over a State Department that was openly disrespectful if not downright mutinous toward the last President who had a clue about foreign policy, George W. Bush, whose many faults included neither selling the country out to defeat in Iraq nor selling Israel out to a nuclear assault. The current administration can make neither claim.

[kiryandil]

LOL! “State Department Barbie” weighs in!

[kiryandil]

Harf’s a moron, but has pretty nice yabbos.

I've heard that "State Department Barbie" moonlights as an eco-friendly alternative bumper hitch cleaner...

[windsorknot]

Marie Harf-Wit.

[SoDak]

I’m not going to throw around terms like “fat”, “retard”, or “embarrassment to all Americans”, because such insinuations are just too mean-spirited. And “north end of a horse going south” is right out. No, I believe I’ll hold my tongue.

[FredZarguna]

[KC_Conspirator]

lol. She wishes they were brains.

[maddog55]

Marie Harf is a toddler put in charge of running the day care center. That’s the best this administration can offer.

[blackdog]

Research Marie Harf’s mommy and daddy and you’ll see.

[Hulka]

Harf. . .the little tattle-tale snooty 8th grade b*tch.

[From The Deer Stand]

Marie has a tough job — trying to justify the Obama follies.

[bert]

Librarian Barbie is not intellectually competent to play with the big boys

[zzwhale]

anyone who listens to STATE DEPARTMENT briefs is wasting their time... you are better off listening to the babbling of a crazy person...they make more sense
the obama administration first qualification is the ability to eatshit and smile.... most get fed up in a few years and move on... those with a brain and backbone get fired/retired...
thsi is across the baord.. all the cabinet/advisory positions are filled with asskissers and apologists...the obama admin is geared to the halfwits who elected him TWICE...the low iq crowd... the freeshit crowd... expecting more is like asking pigs to sing opera...on key...

[Diogenesis]

"They must be certified THIS big for Mr. Kerry's State Dept."

[ops33]

Rumor has it she is blond.

[Night Hides Not]

Nice “Animal House” reference. Well done!

[norwaypinesavage]

"Rumor has it she is blond."

Sure can't tell that from the pic one post up.

[tioga]

That’s a nuanced day care center....and don’t forget it!

[Liberty Valance]

Any chance that David Brooks is wakin’ up?