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THE REMARKABLE RISE OF MARIE HARF
PowerLine ^ | 5/27/2015 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 05/27/2015 9:24:27 AM PDT by RightGeek

We have followed the performance of Marie Harf as a spokesman for the Obama administration foreign policy at the State Department. Harf gives the catastrophic foreign policy of the Obama administration a lighter than air, Valley Girl kind of feel. She is a walking self-parody. As such, she presents a novel use of expressive form.

Now comes word that Harf is being promoted to Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications to Secretary of State John Kerry. Like a helium filled balloon, Harf ascends. In her new position Harf will focus on negotiations between the U.S. and Iran on nuclear weapons. It sounds like a joke, but FOX News reports it as fact.

Harf has givesn us Obama administration foreign policy doctrine reduced to its talking points. Harf is a dim bulb and the complete authorized version of the doctrine according to Barry shines none too brightly to begin with. Reduced to talking points and subject to questions, the doctrine is quickly reduced to parody. Thus Marie Harf.

AP diplomatic correspondent Matt Lee mercilessly grilled Harf in her State Department press briefings. Will Lee still have Harf to kick around in her new position? I believe he will. So at least we have that.

In the video below Harf spoke up for UNRWA, the United Nations organization whose good works in Gaza included the hosting and return of Hamas missiles found in UN schools. During the latest conflict with Israel several sets of missiles had been found in UNRWA schools and returned to the authorities in Gaza (i.e., Hamas).

Harf had arrived at the briefing with a prepared statement explaining the situation to her satisfaction. Lee interrogated Harf on the internal contradictions that Harf had, ah, failed to discern in her statement. This is merciless comedy exposing error and pretension.

Video is at https://youtu.be/zj2tueJR6nI


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aprilfoolsirandeal; harf; harfphoto; harfpromotion; idiots; kerry; secstatekerry
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To: jmacusa

One explanation could be that she’s good on her kneepads?????


21 posted on 05/27/2015 9:56:23 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: RightGeek

She’s famous. She has her own meme generator.

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/29818649/Marie-Harf


22 posted on 05/27/2015 9:57:19 AM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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To: RightGeek

Why do I have the feeling that even Kerry sees that it’s past time for Blondy Ditz to go, and that this position change to something that appears to be higher ground is maybe no promotion, but for the powder puff title?

Strategic Communications, in her case, may mean laying out the meeting agenda onto the place settings of a conference table. You know, as in strategically laying out your knife and fork?


23 posted on 05/27/2015 10:09:13 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: RightGeek
 photo 1412713494734_zps4bqssm0k.jpg She is such an airhead she didn't realize it was Memorial Day.
24 posted on 05/27/2015 10:09:47 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: RightGeek

The poster child for the peutocracy [Purile Effite Urban Twits].


25 posted on 05/27/2015 10:14:30 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: RightGeek

26 posted on 05/27/2015 10:16:55 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: RightGeek
In her new position Harf will focus on negotiations between the U.S. and Iran on nuclear weapons. It sounds like a joke...

It is. The joke's on us.

Harf is not, of course, alone in her painfully unqualified approach to one of the higher offices in the land. Her boss Kerry is a prime example, and from him the chain of command goes to the Kenyan Klown himself, whose complete wreck of a foreign policy was no better under his previous minion Hillary. Power makes the wealthy wealthier and the rude, ruder, but stupid is forever.

27 posted on 05/27/2015 10:21:03 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: hal ogen

Yeah, could be.


28 posted on 05/27/2015 10:22:00 AM PDT by jmacusa (`)
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To: RightGeek

You can meet 50 Marie Harf’s at any downtown hipster bowling alley/bar. She’ll be drinking a PBR and talking about her favorite British rugby team that she started following when she spent time abroad.


29 posted on 05/27/2015 10:23:00 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“Basically we have children running the free world”

In a juvenocracy, “poopy-pants” is not a disability, it’s what’s for dinner.


30 posted on 05/27/2015 10:29:38 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: RightGeek

Hey, next time post a harf alert, OK?


31 posted on 05/27/2015 10:33:07 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: immadashell

Why does the line from the Superman movie about Otis powering his legs to walk come to mind?


32 posted on 05/27/2015 10:34:52 AM PDT by OLDCU
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To: woofie

33 posted on 05/27/2015 10:37:06 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: dead

She’s the one drunk-dialing her ex-boyfriend and, when he doesn’t answer, having a weepfest on the shoulder of some guy who mistakenly thinks he is going to get laid. He’ll take a cab home and she’ll go home with the bouncer. Later her pics will show up on nekkidandpassedout.com.

She’ll swear off alcohol and start riding her $2000 bicycle to hookah places where she extols the virtues of paleo, Jamaica Blue Mountain, Sam Bush tribute bands, Linux Mint and flip phones.


34 posted on 05/27/2015 10:38:54 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: equaviator
If you only knew how many incompetents work in the federal bureaucracy.

I've been called on the carpet several times for "unprofessional remarks", such as when a female coworker objected to a reference I made to Moby Dick. She thought I was referring to my "package." She had never heard of the Melville novel, though she has multiple degrees.

35 posted on 05/27/2015 10:41:59 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: RightGeek

I wonder how many cigars she’s smoked in the oval office?


36 posted on 05/27/2015 10:45:11 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: RightGeek

Marie Harf: The “Kelly Bundy” of the Obama administration.


37 posted on 05/27/2015 10:50:46 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: AppyPappy

Oh! You’ve met her too!


38 posted on 05/27/2015 10:51:18 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: woofie

I like Marie!! When people write to me about all the good the State Department is doing throughout the world, I send them a montage of this stupid, ideological half wit and hear no more. (Besides, if she dressed halfways decently I think she might have big tits).


39 posted on 05/27/2015 10:55:48 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Safetgiver

Which is why she got promoted, again.


40 posted on 05/27/2015 10:57:20 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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