. . . It is not as if we are asking them to say a clumsy phrase three times fast to prove that they are not.
One of our favorite commentators Clarice Feldman writing at American Thinker imagined a scenario, literary device as it were, to set forth what she describes as The Administration’s Epidemic Speech Tic The title refers to the Obama and his spokesholes inability to put the words “Islamic” and “Extremism” together to accurately describe what the world is experiencing. Clarice makes use of this actual dialogue with Obama Press Secretary Josh Ernest and a reporter for ABC News:
Q: Josh, why wouldn’t you use the phrase right there, that we are going to take on Islamist extremism? You said all forms of violent extremism.
MR. EARNEST: She asked me what the summit would discuss, and all forms of violent extremism would be discussed, and obviously the most potent and certainly the most graphic display that we’ve seen in recent days is, again, motivated by those individuals that seek to invoke the name of Islam to carry out these violent attacks. And that’s certainly something that we want to work very hard to counter and mitigate, and we’ve got a strategy that we’ve been discussing for some time to exactly do that.
Q: So if it’s the most potent form, according to you, of extremism, why isn’t the summit on countering Islamic extremism?
MR. EARNEST: Because violent extremism is something that we want to be focused on, and it’s not just Islamic violent extremism that we want to counter; there are other forms of…
Q: The recent cases in Paris, Australia, Canada — isn’t the thread through them that it’s Islamic extremism?
MR. EARNEST: Well, certainly the examples that you cite are examples of individuals who have cited Islam as they’ve carried out acts of violence. There’s no arguing that.
Clarice did not really put together a definitive reason for the administration’s truth impediment, so the world is still in wonderment. So we got to thinking: As a most eloquent spokesperson for the Obamaites with insider knowledge (or at least he seems to regard him/herself as that), maybe it would be illuminating to have our friend, “Phil Silverman” weigh in on this subject.
If anyone can provide some insight into some of the psychological issues he and his champions deal with, it would seem “Phil” should be our “go-to guy”. DLH
