Twitter is forever. We thought you’d appreciate this flashback from exactly one year ago this week, when the GOP exposed John Kerry’s cordial dinner with the man he now likens to Hitler. The photo, along with other mentions of previous Kerry-Assad meetings, has resurfaced and spread like wildfire across social media.
DRUDGEREPORT HEADLINE:
KERRY'S DINNER WITH ASSAD#IdidntJoin #HandsOffSyria pic.twitter.com/y2DDeCO8BA— Phil De Carolis (@PhilDeCarolis) September 2, 2013
Call rewrite! RT @EasonJordan: John Kerry met Bashar Assad several times, once called him "my dear friend." pic.twitter.com/CEIV5aGgyb
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) August 27, 2013
Has anyone done a caption contest for this Kerry/Assad dinner picture? pic.twitter.com/7LPWjDnk0R
— Dhruva Jaishankar (@d_jaishankar) September 2, 2013
2010: 'I Trust Senator Kerry…I Met Him Five Times'… http://t.co/HCBCdqheeO
— NEWS MAKER (@NEWS_MAKER) September 2, 2013
Well, the GOP was mocked by lefties for pointing out the Kerry-Assad relationship back in September 2012.
“Give it a rest,” this Twitter user snarked.
RT @GOP Sen. John Kerry’s (D-MA) Foreign Policy Led Him To Syria And Dinner With Assad- http://t.co/fGIQpqLJ #DNC2012 #GiveItARest
— Marie Novello ❤️?? (@MarieNovello) September 7, 2012
“Diplomacy. Look it up,” this one retorted.
@GOP Diplomacy. Look it up.
— ?? (@singlepayer) September 7, 2012
That was then. This is the left-wing reaction now.
John Kerry enjoying an intimate dinner w Assad, and wives, in 2009 pic.twitter.com/hcU5uMQZpr
— CODEPINK (@codepink) September 2, 2013
https://twitter.com/occupyphoenix/status/373513008351162368
Here's Kerry having dinner with Assad. Back them he called him a reformer, now he compares him to Hitler. http://t.co/db4h6NzLNZ
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 2, 2013
Exit questions:
@iamtheaj He thinks Assad is Hitler, but he had dinner with him in 2009. So what does that make Kerry?
— Donzig (@donzig316) September 1, 2013
https://twitter.com/mshughes123/status/373880789353496576
Exit chortle:
https://twitter.com/tjslater/status/374599028253548544