Posted on 09/04/2014 6:46:14 PM PDT by markomalley
A State Department spokeswoman attacked Bill O’Reilly Thursday for saying another State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, looks “way out of her depth,” following days of mixed messages and incoherent statements from the State Department.
Marie Harf, deputy spokeswoman for the State Department, said in a tweet Thursday that O’Reilly’s coverage of the State Department’s failure to coherently talk about the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria lacks intelligence and class.
The tweet links to a Wednesday O’Reilly Factor segment on Fox News, in which O’Reilly criticized the Obama administration’s inconsistent messaging and lack of strategy for dealing with ISIS.
In a clip shown on the segment, Fox News Washington correspondent James Rosen asks State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki why the president does not recognize that we are at war with ISIS.
“Our actions speak for our commitment to this,” Psaki responds. “The president has authorized more than a hundred strikes in Iraq …”
Rosen told O’Reilly he concluded from their back and forth that the administration does not view the beheadings of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff as acts of war. When he asked Psaki about the president’s contradictory language regarding ISIS, he said she accused him of playing word games.
“With due respect, that woman looks way out of her depth over there,” O’Reilly said about the exchange. “Just the way she delivers, it just doesn’t look like she has the gravitas for that job, and that brings us to John Kerry, the secretary of state.”
Rosen and O’Reilly then discuss the mixed messages and lack of clarity coming from the vice president, the president and the secretary of state. “From this miasma of verbiage, one sentence comes through strong and clear to the American people and will echo down through the ages,” Rosen said, ”and that was the presidents true confession last week that ‘we don’t yet have a strategy.’”
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O’Reilly was correct.
Truth stings.
has anyone else noticed how the radical left cannot take responsibility or criticism?
One bubblehead trying to defend the other bubblehead. And their heads aren’t empty because they are female.
Marie Harf and Jen Psaki: The Laverne and Shirley of the Obama Administration.
I have to agree with O’Reilly on this one.
These airhead spokes girls insult all of us just by the fact someone appointed them to explain serious issues to us.
Similar to the Benghazi coverup
HARP NEEDS to go back to her real profession: the VIP Room and the pole at ‘da Bing.
State Department Barbie goes to bat for State Department Molly Ringwald
I see these 2 airheads and just shake my head. Look and talk more like drive thru window attendants. Scary...God help us survive this nightmare.
Washingtonians think they are untouchable.
These two gals were placed in these positions to embarrass the United States and they are doing EXACTLY that. Like John Kerry, like Biden, like Pelosi, blah blah blah... You can’t bring down a country with responsible, mature people at the controls.
Laugh Out Loud! Perfect!
I plan to steal the use of “Laverne and Shirley”, FOREVER, in reference to these two brats.
Talk about Junior Varsity!
Feel free to use it!
Thank you! VERY apt.
Thank you! VERY apt.
Thank you! VERY apt.
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Bears Repeating.
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