Michael Kinsley’s definition of a gaffe:
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
Republican House Pete Sessions today:
Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban,” Sessions said during a meeting yesterday with Hotline editors. “And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person’s entire processes. And these Taliban — I’m not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that’s not what we’re saying. I’m saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with.
I guess it’s not technically a gaffe since he said “I’m not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban.” But it’s certainly something like one.
This is why Obama doesn’t stand a chance of beating the right-wing message machine.
Remember, though, there are a lot of serious, bipartisan-minded people in the Taliban.
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