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
You have to remember, I live in a college town. We go to go to the Farmer’s Market so we can hear someone say to vendors “I love your lavender dairy-free organic soap. Is it free-range?”.
“They just need jobs”...
common theme on the left.
criminals and incompetence get promoted
“If you only knew how many incompetents work in the federal bureaucracy.”
Yeah, I think I know. It’s a lot like GM. Even though the general public is not allowed past the security desk in the lobby, they still waste an incredible amount of energy trying to project a PC image of themselves, for themselves when they should be more concerned with things that matter more than how they look in the proverbial PC mirror. They’ve made too much room for the non-essentials, including thousands of inept people belonging to the “protected classes” of employees.
This girl inspires more comedy than all the “new” comedy(?)
shows now on TV.
Freepers are funny. I wish y’all wrote those comedy shows.
I never realized sex was so funny. And it can be talked about in over a thousand unfunny ways.
Dumbest spokesman ever. And still smarter than John Kerry or Barack Obama.
The more you get of each, the more funding and less scrutiny you encounter.
Either she's the world's greatest actress and liar or she really believes the nonsense she's spouting. I'm inclined to think it's the latter.
Good description. (and in her case, everyone does hate her)
I’m not laughing about it, I’m crying inside. But you are totally correct, which makes it all the more sickening.
"Like totally, I got promoted to, like, advise the top guy, Mr. John. He is so rich, you know. His wife invented ketchup or something like that. He is taking me and Becky and Bonnie to Friday's restaurant to, like celebrate my promotion. I just know I'll see my jerky ex-boyfriend Brad there. He works as a waiter there. I will so show him how I don't need him in my life, even if he did dump me for my former bff Angie..sniff..anyway..back to like running this country or whatever.."
Garth was smarter.
Garth was funny.
I’d rather have Wayne and Garth running the country than the Kenyan Usurper.
I’ll say it: Marie Harf was promoted because she spent time on her knees.
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