Trump Spox Katrina Pierson: We Weren’t in Afghanistan Until Obama Decided to Go In

[StrictlyRockers]

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#KatrinaPiersonHistory

AGAIN??

She's dumb.

[Stuart G]

1. Oh my,,,say it ain't so?...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–14)

The war in Afghanistan (or the American war in Afghanistan) is the period in which the United States invaded Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks. Supported initially by close allies, they were later joined by NATO beginning in 2003. It followed the Afghan Civil War's 1996–2001 phase.

[C_U_L8R]

3. There's nothing worse

than a moron who speaks so confidently.

[a kennedy]

33. and what "followers" will believe if she says it???

all the faux noise followers that's for sure.....

[wordpix]

52. I don't know why Dems don't sue: libel and slander

This is outright lying. Maybe taking these morons to court would stop their BS pathological lying

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Obama and Hillary Clinton were co-Presidents in 2001.

I don't remember it that.

[Stuart G]

4. Neither do I...wait...........???? was it Bush???? maybe it was....

[Rocknrule]

31. No I heard that Bill was in office on 9/11

and he was too busy getting blown by Monica while reading "My Pet Goat" in a classroom to do anything about it

[bearssoapbox]

5. She looks as stupid as she sounds.

Or at least as stupid as trChump sounds.

[Rocknrule]

32. Trump should've hired someone smarter

like Sarah Palin

[RoBear]

42. how low our national intelligence has fallen.

To realize that Sarah Palin is smarter than ANYONE is a jolt...

[Ohioblue22]

6. The lying in political speech needs to be regulated

[Kber]

7. Why do they keep asking her for her opinion when it's so abundantly clear she knows nothing?

[Johonny]

9. because she is the national spokesman for the Trump campaign. The question really is

why are such stupid and ignorant people working on his campaign?


Remember people that work on the campaign end up in the White House with important jobs meaning she's indicative of the high quality of Trump's future White House should he win. Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Media that keep putting her on are just conveyor belts for untruth. That's not journalism. . . nt

[RoBear]

43. Such stupid and ignorant people are working on his compaign because

the campaign is trying to appeal to stupid and ignorant people. Seems to me they're doing it!

[BigDemVoter]

60. Probably for the same reasons they keep asking Sarah Palin and

Phil Robertson what they "think"!

[drm604]

8. She's deliberately wording things in a misleading and ambiguous manner.

It's especially obvious when he calls her on it and she has to hesitate to think about how to answer him. It's good to see a news person who's willing to call people like her on this nonsense.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. It's the Donald Trump Technique: Completely muddy the water until all that is left is EMOTION. . .nt

[drm604]

37. It's the technique used by the right-wing in general. It's not just Trump.

For years they've deliberately sowed confusion and low information, and Trump is the result of that. They've brought this on themselves as well as the rest of us, and now they're wondering how it happened.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

44. Of course. But it is ALL that Trump has. It carried him through the primaries. . . . nt

[RoBear]

45. Thanks for pointing that out.

Voters need to be reminded over and over that the Tea Baggers "built this."

Too bad it's pointless to say "shame on them." They can't be shamed; they're without a moral compass to feel dishonor.

[StrictlyRockers]

41. It's pure truthiness.

She says it with incredible conviction so that it has the quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true. (Thank you Steven Colbert.)

She's a decent actress, and not a smart person. This will become more apparent over time. I don't think she reads a lot of history books.

[drm604]

47. She's a spokesmodel paid to spew talking points.

When someone calls her on her disingenuous statements, she pauses as if thinking. I think she may be getting prompts through an earpiece from someone more skilled in propaganda.

[BigDemVoter]

61. I agree--

She mechanically repeated part of her prior statement, not seeming to even understand what she was saying.

[lsewpershad]

10. More than dumb.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Yes, willfully ignorant, with the fully backing of the candidate. . . . nt

[They_Live]

11. I wish that they had a trap door

beneath the guest being interviewed which could be triggered by incorrect information.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Simple explanation

Conservatives feel threatened by intelligent women.

[FairWinds]

13. Generally, the media let them get away with it . .

as in the utterly phony 2001-02 GOP charges
that Bill Clinton was responsible for 9/11

[Trust Buster]

14. The media keeps putting this woman on the air even though they know she's ill informed on even

the basics of recent Middle East history. I think CNN is equally to blame.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Yes, she should have been permanently disqualified early on. Otherwise the media is a conveyor belt

... a conveyor belt for deliberate misinformation.

It's the Donald Trump Technique (though he is far from the first): Make your point by making statements that sound vaguely plausible whether or not they are true. Then when called out, just steamroller onward with more nonsense.

Watch out for this technique in the debates. Trump will try to flatten Hillary with a dumpster full of garbage and keep piling more garbage on no matter what she says. He will try to win voters by looking sincere and forceful. The "strong man" persona.

Then afterwards his spox will walk back and restate and further muddy the water so completely that low information people will be bamboozled.

It is all aimed at an emotional effect.

[librarylu]

34. It will be the Gish Gallop

on steroids.

[The Wielding Truth]

51. I totally agree. This should not have been let go, as anything but misinformation. Shameful!

[heaven05]

15. I would laugh, but no

too many people believe her. The truly uninformed and people with problems discerning the truth believe this person 100 %. They are the danger to our society.

[Sophiegirl]

18. The stupid is strong in this one.

[tclambert]

19. Obama has a time machine! That explains everything.

[flamin lib]

20. Katrina is being paid a great deal of money to do what she does.

They cut from the interview very quickly so she can exit stage left, vomit and shower.

Edit to add:
Oops, just read her Wikipedia bio. Bitch is batshit crazy and believes everything she says. And wouldn't ya' know it, she's from Texas. Fuck, we just can't catch a break.

[SunSeeker]

21. Wow.

[Aviation Pro]

22. How fucking stupid....

....is this woman? What was she, 6, in 2001? Does she even remember 9/11?

Trump attracts the stupids stupid.

[annabanana]

24. Is she the one someone called a "spokesgoblin"?. . . n/t

[catbyte]

28. Yep, that's the one.

[Jamaal510]

26. Everything that happened between 2000-2008

was a figment of our imagination, so there was no war in Afghanistan and no U.S. president until January 2009. Everybody knows that.

[StrictlyRockers]

27. This is the video from last week where Katrina also claims President Obama has a time machine

Katrina claims this time machine allowed him to go back in time to 2004 and make himself President. She claims (President) Barrack Obama changed the rules of engagement in Iraq in 2004, therefore HE is the one who was responsible for the death of Ghazala & Khizr Khan's son, Humayun Khan, a war hero in Iraq.

This is also the video that started #KatrinaPiersonHistory trending at the top of Twitter for two whole days. Skip to 2:47 if you don't want to listen to her spin.

And here is the video where CNN tries to get her to apologize for her mistake. She still blames (President) Barack Obama for it, and tries to act like the issue is something else. NO one is trying to blame Trump, but she keeps saying over and over things like, "How can we possibly put any of the onerous on Donald Trump?" (sic)

She is being deliberately obtuse to distract from her mistake and her lack of historical knowledge. It is hard to watch, I know. It is frustrating that she is somehow rewarded with a national spokesperson position for being good at obfuscating the truth and spreading truthiness, rather than being good at informing the public about what the actual truth is.

This one has 400k views.

Trump spokeswoman: I was wrong about Khan's death

[cleveramerican]

36. Like Ron White says...

"You can't fix stupid"

[maddiemom]

69. She actually said 'any of the ONEROUS"!?

[StrictlyRockers]

74. Yes, she says this at 1:18 of the video.

This is what a fake intellectual sounds like when they use big words that they don't understand.

She says, and I quote, "How can we possibly put any of the onerous on Donald Trump?"

Onerous is an ADJECTIVE! It doesn't even fit in the sentence.

She may as well have said, "How can we possibly put any of the meaningless on Donald Trump?"

It would make as much sense.

[maddiemom]

79. I assumed she meant the noun, "onus."

[pansypoo53219]

29. fux gnewz has trained the GOP to think Obama is at fault for everything.

or bill if it is early gwasshat. i guess they have dropped blaming carter.

[Rocknrule]

30. Go ahead and say it, Hurricane Katrina

"Obama was the 20th hijacker!"

[lonestarnot]

35. Fucking A.

[Zambero]

38. Ignorance to the extreme

It's hard to top her previous flubs, but I'm sure Pierson will give it her best shot!

[rladdi]

39. This brainles woman has been on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News multiple times. She LIES

more than Trump ever has. I have questioned her as to where she gets her information,but never hear back from here. She was on Fox News last night again will her LIES or just plain dumb.

[rladdi]

40. Trump employees many female spokes people and they just don't have accurate info.

[MADem]

46. So "SPOX" isn't spokesperson, but Stupid/Shill Pox, then? LOL! nt

[Thor_MN]

48. Ignoring intelligence? Projection at its most extreme...

She is about as far from intelligence as one can get.

[TeamPooka]

49. I hope Trump is paying her a shitload of money to lie for him. Otherwise why? nt

[Historic NY]

50. She caters to the barely educated...

[Rocknrule]

53. You know, Katrina,

just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and say something like this...
And totally redeem yourself!
– Donnie

[StrictlyRockers]

54. Annnnd #KatrinaPiersonHistory is officially trending on Twitter again

https://twitter.com/hashtag/KatrinaPiersonHistory

I will admit to posting some funny stuff with this hashtag already. I also must confess that I posted several jokes about it last week, as well.

People are coming up with some funny stuff!

Some of them:

#KatrinaPiersonHistory It was Obama who chopped down that Cherry Tree

#Obama framed O.J. #KatrinaPiersonHistory

Obama cracked the liberty bell. He hates freedom. #KatrinaPiersonHistory

Obama sacked Rome in 476 AD #KatrinaPiersonHistory

Obama was hanging out in Dallas with Ted Cruz's dad!
#KatrinaPiersonHistory

Remember the tragic yet heartwarming story of Smokey the Bear? Obama started forest fire that killed Bambi's father. #KatrinaPiersonHistory

We just found evidence Obama was Hitler's secret adviser when he started the 2nd World War #KatrinaPiersonHistory

Shouldn't this be #KatrinaPiersonISHistory?
#KatrinaPiersonHistory

#KatrinaPiersonHistory The Donner Party were merely having a picnic during a summer outing.

Haha, I'll be spending some time on Twitter for the next day or two. This is too fun.

Now, if I believed I lived in a reality-based world, I'd believe that a national spokesperson could lose her job over repeated mistakes of this caliber. I'm not holding my breath here, but this one seems pretty serious. We'll see what happens next...



Katrina gets the sack?


https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/donald-trumps-spokeswoman-katrina-pierson-says-alot-things-not-true/

[awoke_in_2003]

66. "The Donner Party were merely having a picnic during a summer outing"

I am glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that

[misterhighwasted]

55. Idiot. Would someone Pleease get her a brain!! I can't take any more of the stupid!!

Make it STOP!

[Wibly]

56. Time will not be nice to this lass

To be old and wise one must first be young and stupid.
This woman is going to have to face down a lot of personal embarrassment as she ages.
My bet is she checks out before she does that.
Unless of course she is the sociopath that she appears to be.

[Renew Deal]

57. It looks like she's had work done since the primaries

[bulloney]

58. What kind of work? An oil change and filter?

Pierson makes Palin look and sound like she belongs to Mensa with the off-the-wall responses she gives.

[rurallib]

59. to quote Obama "they are not only ignorant, they are proud of it"

[Joisey Boy]

62. Coming up from KP:

"Obama gave Brutus the knife."
"Obama told Pilate to crucify Jesus."
"Obama killed Archduke Ferdinand."
"Obama pressured the ailing President Hindenburg into making Hitler the Chancellor."
"Obama sold our A-bomb secrets to the Soviets and blamed the Rosenbergs."
"Obama gave marksmanship lessons to Lee Harvey Oswald."
"Obama told John Hinckley that Reagan was deliberately keeping him from meeting Jodie Foster."

[axiom3]

63. Like Trump, Pierson is woefully uneducated about US foreign policy

The last time I checked, it was President Bush who led the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, as part of the War on Terror. Seriously, do these 2 have amnesia or something? How can they be so clueless?

And to think that we have to endure 3 more months of this foolishness from the GOP.

[uppityperson]

72. +1, I agree, repulsive, revolting, disgusting, abhorrent, objectionable, vile, foul and nasty

A real ass.

[Hav]

64. We should really appreciate this level of ignorance.

Basically, the spokesperson for the Republican presidential campaign doesn't know why the engagement in Afghanistan even started. This is stupidity on a different level way beyond W and Palin. Seriously, she forgot about 9/11?
And as a true Trumpist and member of the party of personal responsibility, she then blamed the echos during her interview. Looks to me like the Repubs don't just need a Babysitter for Trump.

[downeastdaniel]

65. I'm calling BullShit on all that Katrina said in this interview...total BS

[StrictlyRockers]

67. Well, I've already converted one independent voter on Twitter

This woman said she is super busy, works really hard and rarely had time to pay attention to politics. She tweeted back and forth with me a few times. She said she was an independent who had been favoring Trump, but this mess got her attention.

This was just too much for her, and now she is definitely voting Clinton.

+1

[progressoid]

68. Ow ow ow.

My brain hurts.

[Rocknrule]

70. Was it over when Obama bombed Pearl Harbor?

"Obama?"
"Forget it, she's rolling"

[shadowmayor]

71. I thought Bellatrix was gone?

Didn't Mrs. Weasley do away with her? Figures that STFU Donny, the squawking yam would choose a death-eater as his spokesperson!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

73. Proof that Republicans were sleeping during the Bush Years....

I heard one claim 9/11 happened under Clinton.

[StrictlyRockers]

75. Of course she doesn't get fired by the Trump campaign for her many mistakes

Her bullshit excuse is that she meant to say Syria, not Afghanistan. Nice try, spinmeister. Syria wasn't even being discussed.

https://twitter.com/KatrinaPierson/status/765225248732033025


Manafort won't fire her for being so bad at her job. He probably gave her a raise.


https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/15/katrina-pierson-trump-campaign/

WASHINGTON — Just about the only person on Donald Trump's presidential campaign who can overshadow the boss and keep her job is Katrina Pierson — the Texan and Trump spokeswoman who has made waves over a pair of embarrassing on-air flubs.

But the failed GOP congressional candidate-turned-Trump emissary, who hails from the Dallas suburbs, told The Texas Tribune that her batting average is just fine, and blamed technical snafus for statements that suggested she had little grasp of current events, let alone foreign policy.

“You could take ten years of history and try to make anyone look crazy,” she said.

<...>

But the criticism of her has been brutal and swift.

Trump opponents have dismissed her audio explanations, starting the social media campaign #KatrinaPiersonHistory to sarcastically blame Obama for historic events like the Hindenburg explosion.

And they've resurfaced a Sept. 13, 2012 tweet where Pierson wondered if 9/11 was “an inside job.” Pierson told the Tribune she was referring to the Benghazi attacks, which took place two days before the tweet, on Sept. 11, 2012.

Those thinking Pierson's days on the trail are numbered better settle in.

“Katrina is a valuable member of our team,” Trump spokesman Jason Miller said on CNN Sunday. “We’re glad to have her onboard. She’s onboard pretty early with Mr. Trump. As you heard her say, there was some audio difficulties hearing that question.”

And one former cable booker said no matter what Pierson says, networks have an obligation to put her on air to ensure equal coverage of the presidential candidates.

"They can’t just put on Clinton people," said the former booker, who declined to be named in this article. "That’s who Trump is giving them and that’s who they are putting on."

[liberal N proud]

76. Do they allow her on the air just for entertainment?

Because nothing out of her mouth can be taken as truth. NOTHING! She has no clue what she is talking about, presents no facts and only creates more lies, some of which counter previous lies.

[underpants]

77. Katrina and the Knaves "I'm walking on dumbshine woahoh I walking on dumbshine

And don't it feel GREAT!

[StrictlyRockers]

78. The Trump campaign thinks she's the best. They plan to use her lots more.

Here's CNN's Brian Seltzer questioning whether they should keep putting her on TV when she's wrong so much.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/08/14/jason-miller-katrina-pierson-stelter-sot.cnn

[StrictlyRockers]

80. Daily Kos: The Trump surrogates are toast.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/13/1559595/-The-Trump-surrogates-are-toast

<...>

CNN-MSNBC-Take your pick of anchors, they have all taken turns taking Trump Spokeswretch Katrina Pierson over the falls on a variety of subjects. They have doggedly dragged her back on point when she obfuscates, and they have almost ridiculed her for some of her responses. Yesterday, she got so excoriated that she literally was almost screeching, I completely expected her to snarl “I’ll get you, and your little dog too!”. That woman is seriously starting to crack under the pressure, and she deserves every second of it.

CNN-Jake Tapper had a panel with Kayleigh McEneny, Van Jones and Bill Kristol. Wisely Jones was in between the other two. Tapper had to do very little, they savaged each other without him. Kristol berated Hugh Hewitt for trying to throw Trump a lifeline, saying that Trump was an embarrassment who didn’t deserve one. NcEneny launched into a full throated defense of Trump, his words and his honor. Kristol put a pitying smile on his face and said, “Kayleigh, I understand you supporting your candidate, but can you honestly sit there and say you’re proud to support Trump?”. Kayleigh got all offended and said something like “Yes! I am proud to support Donald Trump, he is a man of principles!”. Kristol threw his hands in the air and said “Kayleigh, how can you sit there and say that?! How can you say that about a man that you wouldn’t let into your personal life for one minute?! He’s a bully, he’s sexist and he’s a racist! How can you say that?”. Van Jones just sat in the middle, hands lightly clasped and smiling like a cat that just got a whole quart of cream. Tapper saved McEneny further embarrassment by going to break.

CNN-Poppy Harlow had a panel with Ana Marie Cox and Boris Epshteyn. Boris started spouted silly, debunked excuses about Trump. Cox raised a finger and opened her mouth, but didn’t interrupt. When Poppy turned to her, Ana Marie put up a finger and told Poppy, “Before you ask me anything I want to respond to Boris. I am not a paid surrogate. I’m not a Trump supporter, and I didn’t support Hillary in the primaries. I’m a journalist, and you’ve got me sitting here trying to debate a paid shill who can’t even stay on point?”. Then she turned on Epshteyn and shredded him like the branch chopper scene in “Fargo”. Through it all Epshteyn just sat there, hands folded, with a blank, vapid, serene smile on his face. he was getting paid after all.

That is just a quick recap. I’m sure there was probably more that I missed. The point is, and I made this point in another diary a couple of days ago, when is enough enough. Whatever Trump is paying these people, it can’t be enough, in the army they’d be getting hazardous duty pay. At what point do these people finally have to defend their own honor, and jump off of the rapidly sinking Trump sloop if they ever hope to have enough integrity to work on another campaign for another candidate? But for a serious political junkie, the “silly season” just got a whole lot more entertaining!