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* During negotiations for the 2015 US-Iran nuclear deal, 47 Republican senators [[http://go.bloomberg.com/assets/content/uploads/sites/2/150309-Cotton-Open-Letter-to-Iranian-Leaders.pdf sent a letter to the leaders of Iran]], telling them not to take any deal with {{Obama}} and his administration too seriously because a future Republican president could easily negate it. After a larger than expected backlash, two of the senators aides claimed the letter wasn\'t meant to be taken seriously and said that people who didn\'t get it have \
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* During negotiations for the 2015 US-Iran nuclear deal, 47 Republican senators [[http://go.bloomberg.com/assets/content/uploads/sites/2/150309-Cotton-Open-Letter-to-Iranian-Leaders.pdf sent a letter to the leaders of Iran]], telling them not to take any deal with {{Obama}} and his administration too seriously because a future Republican president could easily negate it. After a larger than expected backlash, two of the senators aides claimed the letter wasn\\\'t meant to be taken seriously and said that people who didn\\\'t get it have \\\"no sense of humor\\\".
Reason: Even if it were accurate, it wouldn\\\'t be a very good example of the trope (the opinion of a couple of \\\"aides\\\" isn\\\'t the kind of creator butt-covering the trope represents, only the signing Senators would count). Plus it\\\'s highly inaccurate and the reality doesn\\\'t fit the trope at all. The original source of the \\\"aides\\\" claim is a piece by The Daily Beast (all others just quote TDB or attempt to describe it), which doesn\\\'t even say what this entry asserts they said. What \\\"two GOP aides\\\" (unnamed) were actually quoted as saying is just that the letter was quote \\\"cheeky\\\" unquote. Not at all the same thing as claiming that the letter \\\"wasn\\\'t meant to be taken seriously\\\". Furthermore the \\\"no sense of humor\\\" quote was from a different quote (made in unstated context) and was explicitly describing \\\"the Administration\\\" regarding its own fecklessness, not \\\"people who didn\\\'t get it\\\" [the Senate letter].
Reason: Even if it were accurate, it wouldn\\\'t be a very good example of the trope (the opinion of a couple of \\\"aides\\\" isn\\\'t the kind of creator butt-covering the trope represents, only the signing Senators would count). Plus it\\\'s highly inaccurate and the reality doesn\\\'t fit the trope at all. The original source of the \\\"aides\\\" claim is a piece by The Daily Beast (all others just quote TDB or attempt to describe it), which doesn\\\'t even say what this entry asserts they said. What \\\"two GOP aides\\\" (unnamed) were actually quoted as saying is just that the letter was quote \\\"cheeky\\\" unquote. Not at all the same thing as claiming that the letter \\\"wasn\\\'t meant to be taken seriously\\\". Furthermore the \\\"no sense of humor\\\" quote was from a different quote (made in unstated context) and was explicitly describing \\\"the Administration\\\" regarding its own fecklessness, not \\\"people who didn\\\'t get it\\\" [the Senate letter].
