Reporter to Earnest: Does This Mean ISIS Is No Longer Considered A ‘JV’ Team?

‘There is no question that the Lakers uniforms that were worn, to use that analogy a little bit, that were worn by the al Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan has been decimated and defeated in Afghanistan’

Reporter to Earnest: Does This Mean ISIS Is No Longer Considered A "JV" Team? (RealClearPolitics)

JIM ACOSTA, CNN: Let me ask you about something [the president] said back in January when he told the New Yorker when assessing the "ISIS" threat, he said that, "the analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if the JV team puts on a Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant." Is it safe to say that ISIS are no longer the "JVs"? 

JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE: I think what is appropriate to say is there is no question that the Lakers uniforms that were worn, to use that analogy a little bit, that were worn by the al Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan has been decimated and defeated in Afghanistan. 

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