Doing her best impression of Baghdad Bob, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf gave the Iraqi army props following the fall of Ramadi.
Never mind that Iraqi forces cut and ran, surrendering the city to Islamic State militants.
“The Iraqi security forces have held their lines on the outside of the city,” Harf told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Wednesday.
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Talk about putting lipstick on a pig, that’s taking spin to a whole new level.
Bloomberg columnist Josh Rogin posted Harf’s comment on Twitter and the reaction indicates that the Obama administration is fooling very few people these days.
Here’s a sampling from Twitter:
.@marieharf is on @wolfblitzer praising the Iraqi army: “The Iraqi security forces have held their lines on the outside of the city.”
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) May 20, 2015
@joshrogin @marieharf @wolfblitzer Bagdad Bob had a daughter. Who knew?
— John Comer (@chickandchuck1) May 20, 2015
Baghdad Bob was more convincing. https://t.co/5HvsHtVRa5
— Avi Woolf (@AviWoolf) May 20, 2015
I’m starting to think it’s not just “spin”, these people *really* have no idea what is going on in the World. https://t.co/dyX0oPXHs0
— BiasedGirl (@BiasedGirl) May 20, 2015
@joshrogin @marieharf @wolfblitzer Did she say which city?
— Tobin Harshaw (@tobinharshaw) May 20, 2015
Participation medals for ISF! @joshrogin https://t.co/DSISQdzlvw
— S D Winkler (@sdwinkler) May 20, 2015
@joshrogin @marieharf @wolfblitzer I figured they’d fallen back to Basra. Or Detroit.
— Tobin Harshaw (@tobinharshaw) May 20, 2015
@joshrogin @marieharf @wolfblitzer on the outside of the city, 100 miles away and still running
— Smidgean of Truth (@smidgean) May 20, 2015
@joshrogin @marieharf @wolfblitzer this is the effen twighlight zone.
— SF Conservative (@SF_Conservative) May 20, 2015
@joshrogin @marieharf @wolfblitzer Wow..lets just make up stuff, the Low info voters will believe anything.
— Tejas Conservative (@TXGaryM) May 20, 2015
@joshrogin @marieharf @wolfblitzer I’m gonna need more pages for the “Book of Harf-isms” – getting to be as big as the old encyclopedia…
— Marvin the Martian (@the_kaboom) May 20, 2015
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