I think it's a safe assumption that I need to inform the vast majority of readers here that former Democratic Massachusetts Congressman Patrick Murphy has a new weekend show on MSNBC.
On that show on Sunday, Murphy interviewed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. In the "Who was more out of touch?" contest between the two, it was a draw. Murphy asserted that the war against ISIS had "mixed results" during the past week, virtually equating the fall of Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria, the latter of which he did not mention, with the special forces operation which killed ISIS's "money man" in Syria. Pelosi, aka San Fran Nan, somehow took comfort in how "we" are making "advances" against ISIS — in social media.
Meanwhile, on the ground, as these two members of the self-described party of compassion were making fools of themselves, ISIS slaughtered enemy soldiers, women and children by the hundreds.
Here is the video of the relevant exchange found at Real Clear Politics:
Transcript (bolds are mine):
FMR. REP. PATRICK MURPHY, MSNBC HOST: This past week, though, when it comes to ISIS, was mixed results, to say the best. Unfortunately, Ramadi was taken over by ISIS. The same time, the army's Delta Force captured the money man for ISIS in Syria. So, obviously mixed results. So you think the strategy's working? What else needs to be done?
REP. NANCY PELOSI: It's an enormous challenge. And we have to fight it on every front, including the front of social media. That's a place where they have really made more advances than you would have suspected. And that is where we have to fight them, as well. This apprehension in Syria — well, killing of one and taking of his wife, as well as important intelligence information — was a success. But again, we have to fight them on all fronts, communication-wise as well as militarily.
Note that Pelosi didn't answer Murphy's question about whether the strategy is working, and Murphy obviously didn't care that she didn't.
As to "mixed results," it isn't much of a stretch to believe that ISIS considers taking control of cities with a combined population of over a half-million far more important than losing one "money man," who for all we know may be several layers down the Islamic terrorist group's true leadership food chain.
Social media is obviously not irrelevant, as ISIS's use of it has helped it recruit jihadists from several Western countries. But seeing a leader of one of this country's two major parties bring that area up as a nearly equivalent "front" in a real war against an enemy which is routinely killing captured soldiers because holding them as prisoners is too much of a bother (where are the "Geneva Convention" cries from the left when we need them?), and while innocent civilians are being slaughtered in wholesale fashion, is really hard to take.
But then you remember that Murphy and Pelosi are in the same party as the presidential administration which somehow believes that "hashtag wars" (satirized here by Ben Shapiro a year ago) actually signify something.
It's hard to imagine how two people could mouth the utter nonsense these two did. But there it is.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
