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White House Spox Stumbles to Answer Whether Taliban a ‘Terrorist’ Group
Mediaite ^ | 28 Jan 2015 | Andrew Kirell

Posted on 01/28/2015 2:40:38 PM PST by mandaladon

During Wednesday afternoon’s White House press conference, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl cornered Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz over why the administration does not consider the Taliban to be a “terrorist” organization.

In light of a possible Jordanian prisoner swap with ISIS forces, Karl asked Schultz how that government’s actions differ from the United States’ 2014 release of Gitmo prisoners to the Taliban in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

When the spokesman suggested the Taliban is just an “armed insurgency,” and not a “terrorist organization” like ISIS, Karl pounced: “You don’t think the Taliban’s a terrorist group?”

In the clip first flagged by the GOP’s “Rapid Response” team, Schultz struggled to answer, clearly trying to recall administration talking points on the subject: “I don’t think that the Taliban, um… uh — the Taliban is an armed insurgency, this was the winding down of the war in Afghanistan and that’s why this arrangement was dealt.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; aidandcomfort; ericschultz; obama; obamaforeignpolicy; obamalegacy; obamasfault; pakistan; proislamist; proterrorist; spox; taliban; terror; terroristgroups; waronterror; wot
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Amazing!
1 posted on 01/28/2015 2:40:38 PM PST by mandaladon
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"Death to America!"


2 posted on 01/28/2015 2:42:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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3 posted on 01/28/2015 2:42:50 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: mandaladon
I think Johnny-Boy should be on the next season of Dancing With The Stars.

Might be a shoe-in with all that fancy footwork.

4 posted on 01/28/2015 2:45:27 PM 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: mandaladon

It’s time to abandon the “terrorist” language.

They are enemy soldiers. Specifically, they are the irregular forces of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Until we make these enemy states responsible for them, we can’t solve the problem.

One of the reasons we can’t figure out what to do about them is because we can’t call them by their right name.


5 posted on 01/28/2015 2:46:44 PM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: mandaladon
Spox said what?!


6 posted on 01/28/2015 2:47:36 PM PST by Regulator
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To: mandaladon

And Big Media is silent.......this Admin has done more tap dancing that Fred Astaire ever did.


7 posted on 01/28/2015 2:49:22 PM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: mandaladon

Well Duh! If you want to get a positive response from this spokesperson you simply have to ask if Israel is a terrorist state. This administration sees the Hezzies as freedom fighters.


8 posted on 01/28/2015 2:59:16 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: mandaladon

Sergeant Shultz knows nothing.


9 posted on 01/28/2015 2:59:41 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: mandaladon
and the Andrea Mitchell Golden Kneepads award this week goes to... Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz !!!

10 posted on 01/28/2015 3:06:17 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: mandaladon

Well, they’re Muslims who massacre women and children (and school children recently), so naturally the White House wouldn’t consider them terrorists.


11 posted on 01/28/2015 3:08:12 PM PST by Stevenc131
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To: mandaladon

The people in the Oval Office are t3rr0rists.


12 posted on 01/28/2015 3:37:35 PM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: mandaladon

Treason


13 posted on 01/28/2015 3:49:47 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Daniel 2 Daniel 7 Daniel 9 Revelation 13 Revelation 16 Revelation 17 Revelation 18 Revelation 19)
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To: mandaladon

Who the hell is this clown? Where does Barry find these bozos? I’ve heard of “valley girls” but “valley boys?” This guy is one weird dude.


14 posted on 01/28/2015 4:06:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When the hell do I get MY white privilege? I'm tired of busting my @$$ for a living.)
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To: mandaladon

The press never ceases to amaze me in how they cover for this administration. IF & When a dirty bomb goes off in Washington DC and NY and wherever else and kills 100’s of thousands . . . I blame them and I blame every Dem and Rino in this country.


15 posted on 01/28/2015 4:42:36 PM PST by Qwackertoo (Worst 8 years ever, First Affirmative Action President, I hope those who did this to us SUFFER MOST!)
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To: Slyfox
I think Johnny-Boy should be on the next season of Dancing With The Stars.
Might be a shoe-in with all that fancy footwork.

Bwahahaha!

16 posted on 01/28/2015 4:45:25 PM PST by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! "The Miracle of America")
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To: mandaladon
I'm surprised they didn't refer to them as freedom fighters.
17 posted on 01/28/2015 4:46:14 PM PST by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: Regulator
Spox said what?!

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18 posted on 01/28/2015 4:54:52 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Stevenc131

The Taliban has been continually killing teachers since the 1990’s, which is called “terrorism” in any sane person’s vocabulary.

But we are dealing with another White House ass-piece (not mouthpiece because of the crap that comes out of them).

Where does the White House get these pathological liars, “Liars R Us”, the “Democrat Party apparatus”, “Ivy League Schools”, the “Department of Fools, er, State”, the local loony bin, or all of the above?

For Schulz, the “Tal-i-ban” is the guy who counted Harry Belafonte’s bananas in the banana boat song “Day’O”.

Gibbs, Carney, Ernest, Schulz - “THE FOUR LYING PUTZS OF THE OBAMALYPSE” If you throw in the ditsy broads from State, Psaki (aka lying sak of shit) and Harff (Laughing my ass off hyena), then you have the “SIX LYING PUTZS OF THE OBAMALYPSE”.

I’m glad I burn my press card years ago. I’d be ashamed to have to deal with these intellectual twerps.


19 posted on 01/28/2015 5:33:13 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: mandaladon

They consider that they are engaged in “criminal activity,” but now that they and other terrorist like Isis have been negotiating with countries like Japan and Jordan over hostages, they have become a hybrid,part terrorist, part state, as Hezbollah is the terrorist arm of the Lebanese state.

(This is what I learned on CNN today.)


20 posted on 01/28/2015 5:46:41 PM PST by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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