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Palin gets this one right: P J Crowley should be fired
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by YankeeJim | October 30, 2010 at 08:40 am
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Conducting foreign policy by tweet is ridiculous. Wishing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad happy birthday is completely inappropriate. Co-mingling the seriousness of getting Americans back who have been illegally kidnapped and detained is absurd.
Any State Department official who thinks this is appropriate behavior should be fired, including P J Crowley who should throw in the towel at once.
“State Dept Tweets B-Day Message to Ahmadinejad, Palin Responds
by Justin Fishel | October 29, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top spokesman, P.J. Crowley, sent a birthday message to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad via Twitter Friday, prompting a response by former Governor Sarah Palin who described the post as "mind boggling foreign policy."
Crowley posted two short messages directed at the Iranian president, who turned 54 this week.
"Happy birthday President Ahmadinejad," the first tweet reads. "Celebrate by sending Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer home. What a gift that would be."
Fattal and Bauer were arrested near the Iranian border with Iraq in July of 2009 and have been held in Iran since on charges of espionage." Crowley has called for their return on nearly a daily basis, insisting they are innocent.
The second tweets reads: "Your 54th year was full of lost opportunities. Hope in your 55th year you will open Iran to a different relationship with the world."
Sarah Palin took issue with the message. Shortly after Crowley's post appeared she wrote, "Happy B'day Ahmadinejad wish sent by US Govt. Mind boggling foreign policy: kowtow & coddle enemies; snub allies. Obama Doctrine is nonsense."
Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/...xzz13rQPhDMn”
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at 11:52 on October 30th, 2010
Jim, Here's a link to the tweet. Read it, then tell me he wished him happy birthday. (I think Sarah Palin has a reading comprehension problem.) No, the State Dept. did not wish Ahmadinejad a "happy birthday" | Media Matters for America
at 13:20 on October 30th, 2010
OK, Tony, that was a Fox News version. Let' see what you have here.
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No, the State Dept. did not wish Ahmadinejad a "happy birthday"
October 29, 2010 12:44 pm ET by Simon Maloy
A lot of Media Matters readers wonder why we spend so much energy tracking and refuting the online scribblings of Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, given that much of what Hoft writes is so stupid as to be self-refuting.
This is why.
Earlier this morning, Hoft wrote a post titled "Idiot Obama State Department Spokesman Wishes Ahmadinejad Happy Birthday." Hoft linked to this tweet from Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley directed at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which is not at all a wish of birthday good tidings, as anyone with an ounce of sense and a modicum of reading comprehension can tell:
Now, granted, Jim Hoft writing something stupid isn't exactly a stop-the-presses kind of moment. But a few hours later we get this: