Earnest still tried to cover up for the president and said, “I answered the question once,” to which another journalist persisted, “So then why didn’t the President acknowledge that? If he knows that and it’s obvious, why didn’t he say that?
The exchange concluded with Earnest stumbling, “Because the President has announced it on many occasions when he’s had the opportunity to speak about this incident, to which the questioner had the last word by saying, “He didn’t there.”
After the press conference, Earnest must have realized he had shot himself in the foot, if not in the mouth, and tweeted:
Our view has not changed. Terror attack at Paris Kosher market was motivated by anti-Semitism. POTUS [President of the United States] didn’t intend to suggest otherwise.
Got it?
A terrorist randomly shot at a kosher deli where people randomly shopped, but it was an anti-Semitic attack. He forgot to state in his tweet that it was a “random anti-Semitic attack.”
At the State Dept., Associated Press reporter Matt Lee brought up the same subject with John Kerry’s spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who also randomly made herself look stupid.
Lee asked virtually the same question that was placed before Earnest: “Does the administration really believe that the victims of this attack were not singled out because they were of a particular faith?”
Psaki, like Earnest, reasoned that since not all of the victims in the store were from “one background or one nationality…I think what they mean by that is, I don’t know that they spoke to the targeting of the grocery store or that specifically but the individuals who were impacted.”
Lee somehow understood that answer, which twisted logic and the English language so much that it makes no sense. Somewhere between the words, it can be understood that the kosher deli was not singled out by the murderer.
Lee replied, “The store itself was the target. Was it not?
Psaki, as if she and Earnest had prepared the same defense, followed with the same ridiculous answer that the victims were not individually selected.
So was the attack anti-Jewish, or randomly anti-French, or randomly anti-humanity?
The State Dept. really does not know, or simply does not want to say one way or another, and Psaki left it for France to answer. A Muslim terrorist attacks Jews in a kosher deli in Paris in an incident that sent shockwaves around the world, and the State Dept. cannot even match Earnest’s follow-up backtrack that the attack was anti-Semitic.
Lee insisted, “Yeah, but if a guy goes into a kosher market and starts shooting it up, you don’t – he’s not looking for Buddhists is he?…I mean I might but you know… an attacker going into a store that is clearly identified as being one of, as identified with one specific faith, I’m not sure I can understand how it is that you can’t say this was a targeted attack.”
Here is Psaki’s not-so brilliant answer, quote unquote:
I just don’t have more for you, Matt. It’s an issue for the French government to address.
If you think we are making any of this up, it all is on camera for you read and see for yourselves in two videos below.
Earnest’s attempt to make Obama look randomly intelligent begins at 1:07:07, and Psaki’s slapstick starts at 41:15.