Here’s an attempt, although I can’t make heads or tails of what the hell point the guy’s trying to make:
Ah I got it now so
[QUOTE=actual transcript]
EARNEST: Well, Jon, there were people other than just Jews who were in that deli.
Karl: Does he have any doubt that that deli was attacked because it was a Kosher deli? This is not any random deli. This was a Kosher deli.
EARNEST: No, Jon. No, Jon. I answered the question once. No.
[/QUOTE]
In which it is clear that Mr Earnst is agreeing that Obama has no doubt that the deli was attacked because it was a Kosher Deli, becomes in Terr’s tender hands:
Which seems to indicate just the opposite. Now if I didn’t know better I would say that Terr left off Karl’s the initial question to purposely deceive all those reading this thread.
Fortunately I know better and instead just think that what ever right-wing talking points reglurgitator that Terr was reading purposely left off the initial question to deceive all those reading it and Terr just reglurged it here.
And, to boot, at 1:18 of the video, another reporter follows up, asking,
Earnest answers:
I don’t know why Earnest earlier in the exchange took that ridiculous detour into “there were lots of people other than Jews in that deli,” but it’s clear that the White House never intended to deny that the kosher deli was targeted for being Jewish or to downplay anti-Semitism.
And that’s why Psaki, in her presser, refused to say it several times, to the point of absurdity, right?
LEE: Well, don’t you think that the target may be – even if all the victims – even if the victims came from different backgrounds or different religions, different nationalities, wasn’t the – the store itself was the target, was it not? I mean…
PSAKI: But that’s different than the individuals being – I don’t have any more to really…
LEE: All right. Well, does the administration believe that this was an anti-Jewish – an attack on a Jewish community in Paris?
PSAKI: I don’t think we’re going to speak on behalf of French authorities and what they believe was the situation at play here.
LEE: But – yeah, but if a guy goes into a – a kosher market and starts shooting it up, you don’t – he’s not looking for Buddhists, is he?
PSAKI: Well, again, Matt, I think it’s relevant that, obviously, the individuals in there who were shopping and working at the store…
LEE: Who does one expect – who does the administration expects shops at a kosher – I mean, I might, but, you know, an attacker going into a store that is clearly identified as being one of – you know, as identified with one specific faith – I’m not sure I can understand how it is that you can’t say that this was a – that this was a targeted attack on the Jewish community.
PSAKI: I just don’t have more for you, Matt. It’s a - it’s an issue for the French government to address.
Even NYmag, that conservative bastion (right?) has weighed in on it:
Administration Turns Obama Anti-Semitism Gaffe Into Epic Blunder
Way to go Terr; Keep fucking that chicken.
There might be someone in the furthest reaches of the SDMB that is not completely convinced you are an idiotic microcephalic muppet.
I say “might be”
OH NO!!! More awkward pressers!! OH THE HUMANITY!!!
There’s a pony in here somewhere!!!
I’m guessing this is a matter of his staff THINKING that’s what he wanted. Normally I’m loathe to blame staff, but there was probably some miscommunication and they felt they weren’t supposed to explicitly acknowledge that Jews were targeted.
As is the case 90% of the time, there’s no scandal here, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth talking about. All the snark is unnecessary. Shit happens, we discusss it, and when we’re bored, we stop. Things don’t have to be a federal case to be worth talking about.
Besides, in a world where there are STILL people who think Barack Obama is more than just a typical politician, it never hurts to remind people just how obsessed this administration is with spin and messaging. They are an extremely disciplined group, and when they got the nonsensical idea that they weren’t supposed to mention the Jooooos, some of his people ran with it.
Compared to?
An administration that promises to do away with the “old politics” and usher in a new age of high-minded principle.
You gotta admit, when terrorism happens, these guys start to get really weird for a few days until they figure out exactly what they want to say. This shouldn’t be so hard.
Yeah, it should be as quick as “get attacked, retaliate pre-emptively against a third party”, like snap ! No time to think !
Actually, it should just be as quick as “Al Qaeda attacked our embassy according to our intelligence sources”, and “Terrorists in Paris targeted Jews at a kosher supermarket”.
Like I said, this is not hard. Administration spokesmen will understandably want to control the messaging and spin around things THEY do or want to do. Trying to spin world events once the media has already established an accurate narrative is futile and makes them look out of touch.
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No. You made a post; I want to see it.
Terr,
Care to comment on why your quote from post #712, was altered to indicate the exact opposite of what Earnst actually said? Or are you just going to ignore it and Gish Gallop on to another dubious argument, in hopes that some piece of excrement will finally stick?
It was not altered. I quoted my source exactly. And no, it was not “exactly opposite”. Both Earnest and Psaki tried, really hard, to avoid admitting that anti-semitism as behind the attack. Then they covered their behinds with subsequent twitter messages.
Since both spokesmodels, Earnest AND Psaki, were trying so hard to dance around the issue and used similar statements to do so, it seems that the WH/Obama fed them the horseshit that they relayed to the media. You should be looking for the Clydesdale pony in the WH.
The WH/Obama was later forced to correct it’s previous road apples.
Or they were just awkward and the usual suspects chose to interpret the awkwardness in whatever way they felt reflects worse on Obama.
Of course, because Jonathan Chait has this tendency to go out of his way to try to besmirch Obama.
Meh. Chait’s been angling to convert to High Broderism for a while now.