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At Invitation of John Kerry, James Taylor Sings ‘You’ve Got a Friend’ to the French
The Daily Signal ^ | 1/16 | Ben Smith

Posted on 01/16/2015 10:23:43 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

Secretary of State John Kerry sought to show the United States’ support of France after the recent terrorist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo by having James Taylor sing “You’ve Got a Friend” at a Paris press conference.

Nile Gardiner, director of Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, blasted this decision, calling it “embarrassing” and “cringeworthy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; jamestaylor; johnkerry; kerry; paris
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That's because it IS embarrassing. Yeah, you've got a friend - except on the world stage when everyone is watching. As a friend said, this has to be the biggest WTF face palm in the history of international politics. Wow.
1 posted on 01/16/2015 10:23:43 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

apology accepted. Freakin’ idiots. What an embarrassment.


2 posted on 01/16/2015 10:24:45 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

“Smart diplomacy” has officially jumped the shark.


3 posted on 01/16/2015 10:25:07 AM PST by mathprof
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To: TangledUpInBlue

When I saw James Taylor on twitter I thought he had died..then I saw this..absolutely embarrassing..somewhere ISIS is laughing their asses off


4 posted on 01/16/2015 10:26:44 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He has now made Hillary’s “reset” button appear intelligent!


5 posted on 01/16/2015 10:27:55 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

If I was France, I’d send over a mime to Washington, D.C.. and have him do the pulling the rope bit.


6 posted on 01/16/2015 10:29:31 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: PghBaldy

I thought of that stupid reset nonsense as soon as I read this. Honestly, it’s hard to believe what these morons do. I am certain they will do ANYTHING to make America look stupid on the world stage.


7 posted on 01/16/2015 10:29:43 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: mathprof
“Smart diplomacy” has officially jumped the shark.

Jumping the shark implies going from relevant to irrelevant. This administration has never been relevant in foreign affairs.

8 posted on 01/16/2015 10:30:49 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Like I said before...We send James Taylor when we need James Bond.


9 posted on 01/16/2015 10:32:30 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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Yeah, you've got a friend - except on the world stage when everyone is watching.

Where have all the leaders gone??

Pope and Reagan photo pope-and-reagan-733624.jpg photo ReganBushZero.jpg

10 posted on 01/16/2015 10:33:00 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Our poor, murdered, homosexual ambassador to Libya is probably rolling in his grave and the complete gayness of this.

We should just put a “kick me” sign on our nation with these imbeciles running the show.


11 posted on 01/16/2015 10:33:42 AM PST by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue; All

12 posted on 01/16/2015 10:33:52 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: JudyinCanada

I don’t think it’s deliberate. I think they honestly believe this snivelry has meaning!


13 posted on 01/16/2015 10:33:54 AM PST by SkiKnee
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Holy God, these idiot appeasing Commies send a Red Diaper Doper moron over there when Obama missed the event to watch football?

Where is my country? I want to back.


14 posted on 01/16/2015 10:34:00 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

With friends (fiends?) like Jean Francois Kerry and Barry Hussein Soetoro/Dunham/Obama, who needs enemies?


15 posted on 01/16/2015 10:34:03 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ((I once was blind but now I see...))
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To: TangledUpInBlue

16 posted on 01/16/2015 10:34:21 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I heard rush talking about Taylor singing today to the French. I thought he was joking and making fun of Obama and Kerry. No way they are that stupid I thought. Bingo, they are just that stupid and worse.

I posted this on earlier post;
Winter, spring, summer and fall:
This would really shock de Gaulle.


17 posted on 01/16/2015 10:35:20 AM PST by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: TangledUpInBlue

That is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen an American politician do.

Rather than correct their original blunder, this will probably make the average French citizen think even worse of us.


18 posted on 01/16/2015 10:36:05 AM PST by Noamie
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To: PghBaldy

Back when Hillary was president of the United States - first term - she made a trip to Europe, can’t remember what country it was but they made a huge production of it in one of the British papers. It was hilarious. They made it sound like she was storming the beach on D-Day.


19 posted on 01/16/2015 10:37:45 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I assumed he was dead, too!

(After this, he will probably wish he were.)


20 posted on 01/16/2015 10:38:13 AM PST by Noamie
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