'UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR’: Josh Earnest makes admission about Paris rally

Doug P. | 3:09 PM on January 12, 2015

At today’s presser, Josh Earnest made an admission about the White House’s failure to send a high level member of the administration to Paris for Sunday’s rally:

Earnest admits WH mistake: "we should have sent someone with a higher profile" to Paris march.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 12, 2015

BREAKING: White House says it erred in not sending higher level official to anti-terror march in Paris.

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 12, 2015

CLIP: "We should have sent someone with a higher profile…" http://t.co/5GDYEYx6nX #CharlieHebdo #ParisMarch pic.twitter.com/r5BxN5MiSK

— CSPAN (@cspan) January 12, 2015

Spox Josh Earnest saying over and over again that WH 'should have sent somebody with a higher profile' to Paris march.

— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 12, 2015

UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR RT @EyeOnPolitics: Earnest says "We should have sent someone with a higher profile." Ya think? #ParisMarch

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 12, 2015

Earnest said the president didn’t want to be disruptive to the event:

@PressSec Says POTUS would have liked to go to Paris, but presidential security could have disrupted the event.

— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) January 12, 2015

Everybody knows the Obama administration always bends over backwards to not make things about them!

@ByronYork And he's *also* insisted the decision of who should go was not up to Obama or something. It's unbelievable.

— Pete & Lisa Got Caught Tampering With Flynn's 302! (@drawandstrike) January 12, 2015