{"id":28208,"date":"2012-05-30T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28208"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T17:03:59","slug":"ignorance-and-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28208","title":{"rendered":"“Ignorance And Incompetence”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when Barack Obama, the smooth-talking “smart’ Ivy Leaguer, was going to improve our standing overseas with his “smart diplomacy?”<\/p>\n

Either do the people of Poland<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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During an East Room ceremony honoring 13 Medal of Freedom recipients, Obama said that [Polish underground hero Jan] Karski “served as a courier for the Polish resistance during the darkest days of World War II. Before one trip across enemy lines, resistance fighters told him that Jews were being murdered on a massive scale and smuggled him into the Warsaw Ghetto and a Polish death camp<\/strong> to see for himself. Jan took that information to President Franklin Roosevelt, giving one of the first accounts of the Holocaust and imploring to the world to take action.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The administration is claiming President Obama “mis-spoke” – and, truth be told, I get that. \u00a0The\u00a0extermination camps were <\/em>in Poland.<\/p>\n

Which had, as it happens, been occupied with exceptional brutality by the Nazis, who considered the Poles\u00a0very nearly as\u00a0untermensch\u00a0<\/em>as the Jews. \u00a0Calling the death camps “Polish” is like calling Wounded Knee “Native American” or slavery “African”; technically accurate, morally tone-deaf.<\/p>\n

Said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk:<\/p>\n

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“It’s a pity that such a dignified ceremony was overshadowed by ignorance and incompetence.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m just going to go and bask in all that newfound respect we’ve gotten.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: \u00a0By the way – I scanned in vain for a sign that any of the local TV stations covered this flap this morning. \u00a0They covered the fact that Bob Dylan also got a Presidential Medal of Freedom – but hey, he’s from Minnesota, right?<\/p>\n

But they also noted Madeleine Albright, one of the worst Secretaries of State we’ve ever had, and certainly not a local angle.<\/p>\n

I bring it up because it’s become a bit of a chanting point among the Twin Cities far left that Twin Cities TV stations are “conservative”.<\/p>\n

Seems a bit of a reach, is all I’m saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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