Marie Harf Doubles Down: Hey, Maybe My Comments Were Too ‘Nuanced’ For You Right-Wingers

By Brian Carey, February 17, 2015

Yeah. Us dumb conservatives just didn’t get it.

Marie Harf, who looks like she could be the wife of the pajama boy in that now infamous ObamaCare ad, appeared with Wolf Blitzer on CNN tonight to extend, but not revise, the remarks she made to Chris Matthews last night.

In case you missed it, when she appeared with the Tingly Guy, she said that we can’t win the war against ISIS by just killing them. She also suggested a jobs program might put a stop to Islamic terrorism.

She did all of that without making Chris Matthews laugh even once.

Harf received no small amount of well-deserved criticism for what she said. We took her to task in this space along with every other conservative blogger on the planet.

She didn’t fare much better on CNN tonight.

“I’m not the first person to say something like this,” Harf said. “Military commanders that we’ve had throughout many years here fighting this war on terrorism have said the exact same thing, that in the short term when there’s a threat like ISIL. We’ll take direct military action against these terrorists. We have done that. We are doing that in Iraq and Syria. But longer term, we have to look at how we combat the conditions that can lead people to turn to extremism.”

What leads people to extremism, in this case, is fanatical devotion to a religion, not a lack of a job. The Ft. Hood terrorist certainly had a job — he worked for the military. There’s also 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta who, as Wolf Blitzer notes in the video below, was pretty well off when he flew an airplane into a skyscraper.

Harf continued: “It might be too nuanced an argument for some, like I’ve seen over the last 24 hours some of the commentary out there, but it’s really the smart way that Democrats, Republicans, our partners in the Arab world think we need to combat it.”

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Yeah. Us dumb conservatives just didn’t get it.

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This dude has some sort of persecution complex or something. I heard the full exchange in both interviews and her condescension wasn't directed towards the Right. It was directed to the Leftists interviewers who were stunned by the stupidity of her comments. If anyone should be offended, it should be her fellow Libs.

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Very interesting.