Mary Katherine Ham:
I was going to add this as an update to my last post, but I have to give it more than that. Consider this a piece of evidence for Allahpundit’s theory that this White House is just going to stick to what it wants to talk about no matter what is happening in the world, no matter how tragi-comical it becomes from the outside. For years, tweets from @BarackObama have popped up in my Twitter feed so often so very detached from the actual events of the day as to feel like some kind of non sequitur performance art. This outdoes all of them.
This tweet is from the official State Department account, from Jen Psaki, at 9:26 p.m.*, hours after two huge international stories have broken. Now, the administration perhaps can’t be expected to react to the actual events at issue seriously. Too much to ask. But what they do sometimes react to seriously is a p.r. issue, and they’ve had many hours to realize everyone thinks they’re muffing this. Would it be so much to ask to keep it relatively sober tonight?
And yet. And yet.
She must be a Saul Alinksky fan.
“Rules for Radicals” dismisses the civil approach to discussion and debate.
Dismissing and tramping on all that has been built by human experience to be decent and respectful is now the sport of today’s progressive liberals.
By ignoring all decorum and procedures honed by the experience of man, the radicals move backwards to implement their agenda.
James Longstreet.
She wasn’t un-civil, she just ignored civility.
She wasn’t indecent or disrespectful, she just pretended those ideas don’t exist.
She didn’t lack decorum…..OK, she did.
Actually, it probably isn’t pretense on her part.
She is an ingrained radical, and these are her rules.