We’re in the best of hands – ugh. The only thing I can say is that for the first time in a long time, here’s a journalist doing real journalism – and making it entertaining!
(H/T: American Thinker) Transcript (hilarious in just the reading) after the jump (emphasis on the jovial parts)
LEE: Every time this happens, the line comes out from people in this administration, and other governments as well, is that: “We will not accept North Korea as a nuclear armed state.” And yet it is. You also say this about other things, too. You say you’ll never accept Crimea as a part of Russia. And yet it is. Is it a time to recognize these things for what they are and not live in this illusion or fantasy where you pretend that things that are, are not? (Near the end of his question, you can hear someone chuckling in the background.)
KIRBY: (spoken in an animated, cartoonish way) The short answer is, no, but I would challenge —
LEE: It’s preferable to live in the fantasy world?
KIRBY: I would challenge the this idea that it’s a fantasy world. Just because, uh (looks down and pauses). Let me put it this way. (continues looking down, stammers, long pause) You know (more stammering) at, at, at this level of foreign policy, you know, you, (pause) you have to make choices. And, uh, (pause and look down further), you don’t have to accept everything. (looks at Lee)
LEE: You have to accept reality.
KIRBY: Even at face value. No. (stammering) we are not going to accept North Korea as a nuclear armed state. Um. Um. We’re not going to recognize that. Um. (pauses and looks down) We are, however, going to deal with —
LEE: The fact that they are a nuclear armed state.
KIRBY: — their efforts at developing that program.
And Lee is a former US Navy Admiral (was the SPOX for the Pentagon for a while – what EVER possessed him to make this really bad move over to the State Dept?? Somebody REALLY needs to give out a Baghdad Boobie (after Sadaam Hussein’s SPOX, Baghdad Bob) for the stupidest utterance by these “professionals” for really bad attempts at putting lipstick on pigs – and liking it.
