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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.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: harf; harfarsed; harfed; harfing; johnkirby; kirby; marieharf; psaki; spokeshole; statedeptspox
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To: markomalley
It's A Harfache

It's a harfache
Nothing but a harfache
Hits you when it's too late
Hits you when you're down

It's a fool's game
Nothing but a fools game
Standing in the cold rain
Feeling like a clown

-PJ

41 posted on 04/23/2015 6:34:47 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: twister881; Sicon; markomalley; Darksheare; Old Teufel Hunden; The Toll; ButThreeLeftsDo; bray; ...
twister881 wrote: Hillary should hire Harf as a spokeshole. Her campaign then can go completely opaque, with no one understanding a single utterance.

Courtesy of our friends at Michelle Obama's Mirror, who write:

"Now, before you all pile on State’s Ms. Harf, let me point out that she’s only 33 years old – which translates to about 14 in sorority-girl years. How much intellectual maturity can you expect, really?"

42 posted on 04/23/2015 6:41:51 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: markomalley

Every king needs his jester. And she is good at playing the jester for the media.


43 posted on 04/23/2015 6:43:01 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: kiryandil

I half expect her to say something like “This one time at band camp..”


44 posted on 04/23/2015 6:46:01 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: markomalley

He seems like kind of a woman though, doesn’t he?


45 posted on 04/23/2015 6:48:12 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: GreyFriar

You are thinking of the other idiot, Psaki.


46 posted on 04/23/2015 6:49:02 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: 11th Commandment

Does that mean Fox will hire her as a “consultant”?


47 posted on 04/23/2015 6:51:06 AM PDT by spiderfern
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To: tioga; twister881; Sicon; markomalley; Darksheare; Old Teufel Hunden; The Toll; ButThreeLeftsDo; ...
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.

Well, to be entirely fair, while it is generally recognized that NFL football players are at great risk of CTE, certain former college sorority members are also at risk.

Universities are attempting to reduce this risk by requiring padded headboards in the Greek enclaves.

It's sad that young Marie Harf graduated before this safeguard was put in place...

48 posted on 04/23/2015 6:52:38 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: markomalley

Harf should have been promoted. She does a good job.It isn’t often we can consistently a laugh from a press briefing. Harf came straight to her job from SNL, no?


49 posted on 04/23/2015 6:53:11 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: markomalley

Marie made one big mistake. And it wasn’t that she sounds like a valley girl idiot.

The other day she said that Dear Leader didn’t speak correctly about an issue.

She was toast after that.


50 posted on 04/23/2015 6:53:18 AM PDT by dforest
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To: kiryandil

“The young starlet of State who has her own skin flicks!”
Wouldn’t surprise me if it were true.


51 posted on 04/23/2015 6:55:07 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: markomalley
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52 posted on 04/23/2015 6:55:56 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: GreyFriar; Vermont Lt
I though there was an announcement a month or two ago that she was going to the White House press spokesman team.

Yes, as VT Lt pointed out, that was Jen "Miss Teen South Foggy Bottom" Psaki. (Iranian children need maps!)

This one is Marie "State Department Barbie" Harf. :)

53 posted on 04/23/2015 6:56:12 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: markomalley
I wonder if FOX is going to hire this twit as one of the "analysts"? Lately, they have been hiring lots of Leftist scum to make them appear more "fair and balanced" and respectfully listening to their DNC talking points or allowing them to take over the conversation from more conservative guests.

FAUX is becoming more and more unwatchable. If I wanted the Soros side, I would tune in to any of the other cable channels. We are spending a lot more time now on OAN and a lot less time on FAUX.

54 posted on 04/23/2015 7:00:11 AM PDT by Gritty (It's obvious to me 'racism' is 99% fake and hatred of religion is 98% real - Jonah Goldberg)
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To: kiryandil

ROTFLOL.


55 posted on 04/23/2015 7:06:08 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: kiryandil
This squinty-eyed imbecile is actually monitoring our ntl security.

In the squinty-eyed face of Marie Harf, America is witnessing the tragic consequences of a mindless generation inculcated with moral relativity and situation ethics.

The ghost of Saul Alinsky lurks behind the Progressive Poison spewed by Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the rest of their ilk.

The Dumbos clearly see themselves as "deconstructionists"----savagely committed to tearing down America's traditions. Every maniacal official govt act is dedicated to chipping away at the bulwark of American freedoms.

56 posted on 04/23/2015 7:15:48 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: kiryandil

LMAO Padded headboards? Too funny.


57 posted on 04/23/2015 7:20:02 AM PDT by tioga
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To: GreyFriar

Jen Psaki left for the White House...Marie Harf has been filling in for her, but won’t get the promotion due to her becoming a joke.


58 posted on 04/23/2015 7:21:51 AM PDT by tioga
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To: kiryandil

14 years old in sorority-girl years. OMG....priceless line.


59 posted on 04/23/2015 7:28:33 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Liz
"Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance"

I'm dyin' here!

60 posted on 04/23/2015 7:30:57 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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