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Marie Harf passed over for promotion in favor of white male
American Thinker ^ | 4/23/15 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 04/23/2015 5:09:49 AM PDT by markomalley

Poor Marie Harf! Shortly after attaining immortality by having her name become a verb, she suffered the ultimate indignity: her boss left, and a white male has been hired to fill the vacancy instead of promoting her. Jamie Crawford and Elise Labott of CNN report:

Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, will shift over to the State Department, according to a senior administration official.

In replacing Jen Psaki, who recently returned to the White House to serve as communications director, Kirby would be the first spokesman to have represented both the Defense and State departments.

Kirby, who is in the process of retiring from the U.S. Navy as a two-star admiral, was favorably regarded by the Pentagon press corps for the way he worked with reporters, in addition to his grasp of the myriad issues and challenges around the world impacting the Defense Department.

It is more than a little weird to have the former Pentagon spokesman now representing the State Department to the media. It raises all kinds of “diplomacy is war by other means” issues, but at least Adm. Kirby is retiring, so he won’t wear his Navy uniform while talking to the press, as he has done at the Pentagon.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: harf; harfarsed; harfed; harfing; johnkirby; kirby; marieharf; psaki; spokeshole; statedeptspox
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Misogyny!!!! /sarc
1 posted on 04/23/2015 5:09:49 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Can you imagine how fast her little text thumbs were moving when she found out!


2 posted on 04/23/2015 5:15:04 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: markomalley

Huh...

Didn’t know she was black.


3 posted on 04/23/2015 5:18:09 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...PLEASE DONATE!!!)
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To: The Toll

She had to take a drive in her pink Corvette.

Pray America is waking


4 posted on 04/23/2015 5:20:34 AM PDT by bray (Cruz to the WH)
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To: markomalley
Hey, wait a minute! I thought Marie Harf WAS a White male!

PARTY ON!!! Actually compared to this ditz, Garth is a Rhodes Scholar.
5 posted on 04/23/2015 5:20:47 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: markomalley

Make Marie Harf the Pentagon spokesman. Dress her up as an Admiral. Problem solved.


6 posted on 04/23/2015 5:24:47 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: The Toll
Surprised that happened given she is already way above her competence level.

Meanwhile Kirby gets his payback for being the mouth piece for Odumbo at the Pentagon. Just another flag officer who should have gone over the side along with the garbage.

7 posted on 04/23/2015 5:25:17 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: markomalley

Even the servile State Department press corps has its standards, and they delighted in the end of publicly humiliating her.

The sorority sisters are finished at State.


8 posted on 04/23/2015 5:26:51 AM PDT by Loyalist (Who whom?)
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To: markomalley

WTHarfed!


9 posted on 04/23/2015 5:28:01 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: markomalley

She’s been a disaster from day one. She is multiple levels beyond her competency. She has embraced her incompetence and owns it. And she did it all publicly. Sad, but true.


10 posted on 04/23/2015 5:28:05 AM PDT by tioga
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To: smoothsailing

Hillary should hire Harf as a spokeshole. Her campaign then can go completely opaque, with no one understanding a single utterance.


11 posted on 04/23/2015 5:28:45 AM PDT by twister881
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To: markomalley

A box of rocks could pass over her for a promotion.


12 posted on 04/23/2015 5:30:18 AM PDT by mware
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Aw I liked Harf. Kind of like watching Biden shoot off his mouth.


13 posted on 04/23/2015 5:30:52 AM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: markomalley

LOL, the Harfunist got passed over for promotion?
The commissariat will be displeased!


14 posted on 04/23/2015 5:33:03 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: markomalley

I’m sure upon hearing the news her first exclamation was “Oh my god! This is like so totally wrong you know.....”


15 posted on 04/23/2015 5:33:55 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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The buzz is Marie''s on her way out---looking into govt

.........and non-govt jobs.


16 posted on 04/23/2015 5:36:38 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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17 posted on 04/23/2015 5:41:23 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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Obama has a thing for Kirby’s lips.


18 posted on 04/23/2015 5:41:52 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: markomalley

I though there was an announcement a month or two ago that she was going to the White House press spokesman team. If so, then appointing the admiral does not keep her from promotion as she is leaving the State Dept.


19 posted on 04/23/2015 5:43:01 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: markomalley

Takes more than dyeing her roots dark to show intelligence.


20 posted on 04/23/2015 5:43:21 AM PDT by Vinnie
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