This has occurred to me before, but I am reminded again today that the spokeswoman for our State Department is the most awful spectacle of a government spokesperson I have ever seen in action, barring even Jay Carney as someone who just exudes zero credibility.
I didn't find today's assault on our sense of reality. Here's a gem from the past for your enjoyment:
I understand that a diplomat is an honorable person sent abroad to lie for their country. We, by contrast, got her.
Baghdad Bob would be an improvement.
UPDATE: Here it is! Here's the craptastically dishonest performance that finally set me off [in 2020 I found the need to find it again]:
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Her inability to acknowledge a simple fact--that the Obama administration really didn't want an agreement with Iraq to keep troops in Iraq after 2011--which is now inconvenient to the administration, by trying to claim it is irrelevant to today's problems, is just astounding.
Have no doubt. If Jay Carney calls it quits, you are looking at the new White House press secretary.
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- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
