Right-wing media furthered Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's ad hominem attacks against State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki while claiming that the Obama administration is unwilling to act against the Islamic State.

On the September 3 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly criticized Psaki's response in a press briefing to a question posed by Fox reporter James Rosen, belittling Psaki's ability to successfully do her job based on her appearance. O'Reilly said: “With all due respect, and you don't have to comment on this, that woman looks way out of her depth over there. Just the way she delivers -- it just doesn't look like she has the gravitas for that job.”

Psaki's colleague Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson for the State Department, spoke out against O'Reilly's criticism and right-wing media rushed to his defense and seized on Harf's response to attack the Obama administration for supposedly being hesitant to act against the Islamic State.

Radio host and ABC and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham insisted “O'Reilly is saying what all the rest of us are thinking about this Jen Psaki woman.” Ingraham echoed O'Reilly's attacks, saying “she doesn't exactly carry herself with the, you know, the type of gravitas, well-spoken presentation that one would expect,” but took them further. Ingraham called into question Psaki's qualifications for her State Department career based on her appearance, saying “she looks like she should be on MTV or something.” Ingraham also argued that the State Department views O'Reilly as its new enemy rather than the Islamic State:

The hosts of Outnumbered also furthered the ad hominem attacks. They diminished Psaki's credentials by referring to her as a “valley girl,” while guest host Mike Huckabee suggested Psaki “can't handle the substance of the job.” National Review Online's Kevin Williamson pitched in with a description of Psaki as “the witless off-brand Pippi Longstocking.” 

It's not surprising that conservative media would find a way to make O'Reilly's ad hominem attacks of a State Department spokesperson about the Obama administration's allegedly non-existent strategy on dealing with the Islamic State -- it's a convenient, though false, narrative conservative media has used to attack President Obama.