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I heard that the White House wants a do over for the hug-to-France debacle today.

Remember this cloying, juvenile sentimentality was supposed to be a recovery from the first embarrassment of not showing up with everybody else at the historic solidarity march.





Word has leaked that this will be the next attempt at Kerry/Obama diplomacy.







Is that Mooch singing?

Update: From The Guardian
US to France: you’ve got a placating, condescending friend in us

A tone-deaf performance by James Taylor during John Kerry’s visit makes one wonder who thought up this hokey and unapologetically American idea

…obviously, neither Taylor nor Kerry understood what could – and did – get lost in translation. Maybe, as two older white men, they really thought this gesture would help; that hugs heal all, and that a song would calm scared citizens and empower French officials. Maybe they had no idea that what might comfort Americans would leave the media scrambling to define words – and the rest of us slowly backing out of the room where the guy with the guitar insists on playing.

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  1. MaryVal says:

    Judas priest. Have they lost their minds? What is WRONG with these people.

  2. Alain41 says:

    How could they forget the mime? I believe that the title for this ugly American display is, America Unplugged.

  3. Dave says:

    Childish nonsense like everything else they have done.

  4. jmm says:

    Im still hiding under the covers from embarrassment!

    This was a poor attempt by BHO to make up for not participating in the march. Valerie miscalculated the importance of BHO appearing while the world watched world leaders gather. Funny! the NFL playoffs were televised that day, I would like to see the
    WH guest book for that day.

  5. midget says:

    It is beyond embarassing.Another SNL skit that makes the world point & laugh.

  6. strider says:

    If only Kerry had a cowbell.

  7. SheVee says:

    Our foreign policy is a joke…
    2009: Smart Power
    2015: Pajama Boy Diplomacy

    #Peace through insipid folk singing

  8. dennisl59 says:

    A few things:

    1) The only three Senators voted against Kerry’s confirmation: Republicans Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and TEXANS John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. (And this is why I live in Texas)

    2) The only thing worse would have been Carol King, herself, performing her own song on a plastic, battery powered Casio keyboard strapped around her neck. Did the publisher and writer get ‘performance royalties’, too?

    3) We all know Kerry and his staff are fools, but what explains James Taylor agreeing to do this farce? Has any reporter dared to ask him? Did he do it for free and just expenses paid in Euros? And how about that ‘Roadie’ holding the microphone, did it require a ‘Backstage Pass’?

    4) Did he do an encore of ‘Steamroller Blues’?

    5) Finally, why no cartoon of the audience with thought bubbles thinking:
    ‘Who the F is James Taylor?’ (In French of course)

    posted 1/17 334pm Texas[In the Key of Good Grief]Time

  9. Teri says:

    Embarassing indeed. Not surprising coming from an administration with the following theme song –

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQfXPGCYlfI

  10. oualdeaux says:

    Urkel may have screwed up the shindig in Paris, he will geaux at mach 14 to attend the Faud funeral with bells and kneepads on.

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