REALITY: 27, JOHN KERRY: Ø.

● Kerry: It Took A Long Time To “Neutralize” al-Qaeda, “We Hope To Do Da’esh Much Faster Than That.”

—Secretary of State John Kerry speaking to reporters yesterday.

● “At least 27 people were killed when 10 Al Qaeda gunmen stormed the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali’s capital and took 170 hostages — but the grenade-toting assailants spared the Muslims inside.”

—The New York Daily News, today.