We’ve gone from having a compulsive liar as Secretary of State to having a rocket scientist, apparently.

John Kerry’s latest strategy to rid the world of terror? Tell journalists to stop reporting the attacks. You know, stop paying attention to them. Kerry spoke in Bangladesh Tuesday morning, urging the government to step up efforts to fight extremist violence. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested members of the media stop covering (Islamic) terrorism so people won’t “know what’s going on.”

“If you decide one day you’re going to be a terrorist and you’re willing to kill yourself, you can go out and kill some people. You can make some noise…perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn’t cover it quite as much. People wouldn’t know what’s going on.-John Kerry”

With Obama’s record, it’s understandable that John Kerry wants the media to ignore terrorism https://t.co/TnuTo0Rmh1 via @jimgeraghty

— National Review (@NRO) August 31, 2016

Must be nice to be a Dem, you get away with saying things only a Communist Regime would say & not be ??on it #MAGAhttps://t.co/o6NmME5D9g

— John Cheney (@JrcheneyJohn) August 31, 2016

And like the knight in shining armor that he is, Josh Earnest defended Kerry’s statement: