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Home Front: Politix
Marie Harf Has Another Bad Day
2015-04-22
I'm not sure why State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf became a spokeswoman.

She's certainly an intelligent young woman --
-- you're assuming something that isn't evident to me --
and opinionated, self-righteous, and condescending, as any good young liberal should be. Fine, at least she has some sizzle. State Department briefings have previously been legendary for their watching-paint-dry excitement.

But a spokesperson really has to be able to take themselves out of the equation. You are speaking for someone else, after all. And while it's fine to inject some personality into your briefings and remarks, you really have to resist the temptation to give your own opinions and react to reporters in ways that can undermine your message. And that, Marie Harf cannot do.

Here she letting AP's Matt Lee under her skin.
Jock itch ?
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#9  C'mon, you guys. What is she supposed to say?

OMG!!! We really screwed up, didn't we?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-04-22 18:31  

#8  Her inability to grasp the profound nature of the issues she comments on, and the consequent condescension she displays because she thinks she knows things, are what make her so amusing and yet annoying. She cannot see how iconic her pronouncements are in the twit hall of fame.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2015-04-22 15:43  

#7  I still think it's a guy in a wig. A cheap wig at that (hence the itching....).
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-04-22 15:12  

#6  Harf...

How onomatopoetic. The very thing I would hear in porcelain surround-sound back in my over-drinking days.
Posted by: Betty Protector of the Antelope8245   2015-04-22 14:07  

#5  Party on Harf.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-04-22 11:38  

#4  These press briefings are very grueling and punishing---for the audience.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-04-22 08:57  

#3  She's certainly an intelligent young woman

It's the glasses, right?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-04-22 08:55  

#2  Head lice.
Posted by: Grunter   2015-04-22 08:10  

#1  Harf!
Posted by: Frank G   2015-04-22 07:49  

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