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Hunter: Psaki's Ukraine Selfie 'Amateur Hour'

CA Republican and Marine combat vet slams State Department's naiveté on Ukraine

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R., Calif.) joined a chorus of officials in denouncing State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki's embarrassing Ukraine "selfie" Friday on Fox News.

Amid international concern over the United States's seemingly muted response to the crisis in Ukraine, the State Department spokeswoman decided to tweet out a picture of herself holding up a sign that said "#UnitedForUkraine."

The response on Twitter, as host Megyn Kelly noted, was not kind to the State Department press secretary.

Rep. Hunter agreed with the criticism, calling Psaki's stunt "amateur hour" and indicative of an administration that views the Ukraine conflict through an entirely academic lens.

"This is amateur hour, and it kind of shows you when you come out of academia and you don't have any real world experience that is the lens in which this administration is viewing this conflict," he said.

Hunter went on to slam the State Department's general worldview, telling Kelly incidents like Russia's invasion into Crimea make it difficult for the State Department to reconcile their version of the world with the "real world."

"I think they live in a liberal world where we think that everybody is as nice as we are, and everybody should live by the same rules as Americans live by and respect life, and value each other. They don't quite understand that there is places out there that people like the Russians, the Syrians, a lot of places in the Middle East and Southwest Asia where they don't value what we call value. And there is a real disconnect between what the State Department thinks is the real world and what the real world really is. It is hard for them to reconcile that."

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