It’s a tough question to think why John Kelly would have remembered it so negatively. People go to a lot of events. I can believe he misremembered it and thought it was about getting the money.
Perhaps. But I think it’s more believable that Kelly manufactured a Trumped-up charge against Rep, Wilson because he (and the Trump Administration) would rather talk about that, than talk about how Trump’s travel ban on Chadthe Trump Administration’s intelligence failures and poor planning may have led to the attack that killed Sgt. Johnson and three more US soldiers.
Adam L. Silverman, a military expert and analyst who blogs at Balloon-Juice, further posits that:
… the two real lines of inquiry into what went wrong are 1) the seeming intelligence failure and 2) the abysmal lack of support available for 3rd Special Forces Group Soldiers and their host country partners in case something went wrong. … The investigators also need to determine who decided that it was acceptable to deploy around 800 US military personnel with no close air support and aviation based casualty evacuation.
I have edited this comment to reflect that analysis and the above information.
Whats interesting is that the WH continues to challenge reality with its own narrative attempting to counter discredit or maginalize what has actually been proven as true.
Its almost like there preparing for this same challenge to emerge on a different subject and are trying to get out ahead of it…before it hits the media cycle…
If i was to guess i’d say their scared shitless about the whole Niger thing and they should be…
The administration is safely inside its comfort zone on this one: making things up, shocking people with their brazen lies, getting off on how crazy they are making people, knocking down the uppity Other.
Talking about empty barrels when trump is the emptiest of all barrels - I guess irony is not a term with which s.h. sanders is familiar. If Kelly doesn’t correct the record and apologize for his error after seeing the video then he is the same kind of liar as the rest of them
Sanders’ statement continued: “As Gen. Kelly pointed out, if you’re able to make a sacred act like honoring American heroes about yourself, you’re an empty barrel.”
Maybe an historic idiom? Something about firing a cannon with powder by not a ball? Makes a big noise but does nothing? That’s a guess–I really don’t know.
Edit: I was completely wrong. See, I can admit when I wrong. It’s easy even!
An empty barrel makes more noise than one that is full when struck and that’s what that saying is about - the more noise you make, the less you have to base that noise on as a rule. It’s a perfectly good analogy for Trump, his administration and the entire right wing. That’s why they shout over everybody all the time.
Kelly used it to describe the Congresswoman, as I’m sure you know.
Exactly right. This is a move to stop the bleeding from the base. For a few hours yesterday, I was seeing even Trump fanatics acknowledge that the call was a mistake and Trump should have just apologized, and now it is all “Ha Ha, libtards! This was all a fake news narrative promoted by the lamestream media! You people look for any excuse to hate Trump, but thank goodness we have General Kelly to tell us what really happened!”
