{"id":25739,"date":"2015-06-03T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25739"},"modified":"2015-06-03T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T16:35:06","slug":"sometimes-there-just-are-no-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25739","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes There Just Are No Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ed Morrissey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Morrissey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Ed Morrissey<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2015\/06\/03\/harf-were-totally-perplexed-why-anyones-worried-about-a-20-increase-in-iranian-nuclear-material\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Air<\/a> posted an article today about a recent statement by Maria Harf on the Iranian nuclear <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Negotiation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Negotiation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">negotiations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On June 1st, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/02\/world\/middleeast\/irans-nuclear-stockpile-grows-complicating-negotiations.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>With only one month left before a deadline to complete a nuclear deal with Iran, international inspectors have reported that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tehran\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=35.6961111111,51.4230555556&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=35.6961111111,51.4230555556 (Tehran)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Tehran<\/a>\u2019s stockpile of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nuclear fuel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_fuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">nuclear fuel<\/a> increased about 20 percent over the last 18 months of negotiations, partially undercutting the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Obama administration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/obama-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama administration<\/a>\u2019s contention that the Iranian program had been \u201cfrozen\u201d during that period.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article at Hot Air states that Ms. Hart does not seem to understand the concern:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Pressed by the media for an answer on a New York Times story about the sharp increase in material during the Obama administration\u2019s negotiations, Harf pronounced herself and her team \u201cperplexed\u201d at the concern. \u201cThere are some real\u00a0issues, serious ones that we have to resolve in these talks,\u201d Harf responded yesterday, \u201cbut this just isn\u2019t one of them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article includes her entire statement. However, Ed Morrissey has his own summary of Ms. Hart&#8217;s statement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of State\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8941666667,-77.0483333333&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8941666667,-77.0483333333 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20State)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">State Department<\/a> considers concern over a 20% increase in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Iranium\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iraniumthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Iranium<\/a> nuclear stockpiles \u201cabsurd\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The entire team is \u201ctotally perplexed\u201d why the New York Times would report on it<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>However, it\u2019s apparently\u00a0<em>true<\/em>, even while being \u201c<em>totally inaccurate<\/em>,\u201d because it\u2019s \u201cabsurd\u201d to think the State Department wasn\u2019t already aware of it<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Harf keeps repeating herself over and over to convince people that it doesn\u2019t matter<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe the problem with the Iranian treaty is not limited to the negotiators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at Hot Air posted an article today about a recent statement by Maria Harf on the Iranian nuclear negotiations. 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