Video: Al-Qaeda a “jayvee” team?

Video: Al-Qaeda a “jayvee” team? Video: Al-Qaeda a “jayvee” team? « Hot Air Video: Al-Qaeda a "jayvee" team? posted at 5:21 pm on January 21, 2014 by Ed Morrissey "If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe... More

Video: Al-Qaeda a “jayvee” team? Video: Al-Qaeda a “jayvee” team? « Hot Air Video: Al-Qaeda a "jayvee" team? posted at 5:21 pm on January 21, 2014 by Ed Morrissey "If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant," Barack Obama told the New Yorker when asked whether al-Qaeda still represents a threat to the US. While Obama's remarks on marijuana and his own falling poll numbers in this interview have commanded most of the attention from the media, Wolf Blitzer argues that this should get much more scrutiny than it has received. He asks former House Intelligence member Jane Harman whether Obama is too glib about the threat al-Qaeda poses. Harman clearly thinks so, although she tries to let him off the hook with a distinction between "core" AQ and the "horizontally-affiliated" networks: New Yorker reporter David Remick considered this "an uncharacteristically flip analogy," which is a bit of an understatement. Here's the entire quote: "I think Less