Posted on 05/12/2013 11:28:20 AM PDT by Nachum
Excerpted from The New Yorker: But the mere existence of the editswhatever the motivation for themseriously undermines the White Houses credibility on this issue. This past November (after Election Day), White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that The White House and the State Department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two institutions were changing the word consulate to diplomatic facility because consulate was inaccurate.
Remarkably, Carney is sticking with that line even now. In his regular press briefing on Friday afternoon (a briefing that was delayed several times, presumably in part so the White House could get its spin in order, but also so that it could hold a secretive pre-briefing briefing with select members of the White House press corps), he said:
The only edit made by the White House or the State Department to those talking points generated by the C.I.A. was a change from referring to the facility that was attacked in Benghazi from consulate, because it was not a consulate, to diplomatic post
it was a matter of non-substantive factual correction. But there was a process leading up to that that involved inputs from a lot of agencies, as is always the case in a situation like this and is always appropriate.
(Excerpt) Read more at patdollard.com ...
Good quote from Kucinich too:
“Look, we went into Benghazi under the assumption that somehow there was going to be a massacre in Benghazi. So we went there to protect the Libyan people. We couldn’t go in to protect our own Americans who were serving there? I’m offended by this, and there has to be real answers to the questions being raised.”
Boom!!
Not one of Obama's appointments, whether it be spokespersons, staff, cabinet heads, ambassadors, czars, department heads or lower-court federal judges cares a hoot if they have "respect" or not. Why not?
Respect doesn't pay. Jobs pay. Their living is owed to and subject to the whims of Obama.
Their jobs pay real money. Along with real money comes benefits and many perks.
People need jobs in this economy whether they're high or low on the economic totem pole.
So these Obama appointees, ambitious toadies and thugs all, are hardbitten minions who've been around the pike in their lives.....and they don't give a hoot about garnering "respect" at their ages and in their strata.
Why? Because you can't eat "respect".
So keeping their jobs means everything, namely the salary, pensions, benefits, under-the-table stuff, etal....along with the usual intangible side benefits like various degrees of power, renown and ego fulfillment....but none of which, like "respect", are edible, either.
The above perfectly describes the schlump Carney.
Leni
The real question should be what aren't they lying about. Seems to me they lie about absolutely everything.
Now we find they've sicced the IRS on Tea Party groups and they will lie and throw low level employees under the Obama bus.
Fast & Furious
Stimulus funds
Economy
Unemployment rate
GNP
Obamacare
Sequester
Birth certificate
Everything.
Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.
Now that we can prove Carney is a liar he will be replaced.
It should be Obama that’s replaced.
The White House had credibility ?
Who Knew ?
Is this a blog from the New Yorker? I don’t get the connection between “New Yorker ... “ and patdollard.com ??? I’m not inclined to click the link to find out.
I think Dennis Kucinich represents what may in the end become a movement against Obama from the anti-war left, who have been displeased with Obama for some time now. Benghazi is a told-you-so moment for them.
Guantanamo stil bothers them, and of course, the intervention in Libya really peeves the anti-war left.
Doesn’t help the dem party in ‘14, either.
That’s his story and he’s sticking to it.
I’ve always thought that Kucinich was one the most honest liberals (misguided though he may be, he doesn’t put party above being right) in Congress.
I remember how he called for impeachment for us going into Libya in the first place without congressional approval.
I expect Carney to move to ABC real soon.
A pseudo-intellectual liberal leftist rag finally sees the light! or some of it.
I tend to agree with you. He doesn’t seem to be the kind of liberal whose sole mission is to protect his party’s president or other members from any accountability. I can’t stand those kind of liberals!
I can handle the ones who sincerely believe their own misguided beliefs but the ones that never self examine or defend the indefensible like robotic SS members really get my blood pressure up....lol
Divide and conquer... those reporters who 'serve' Obama best get special insider stuff (background stuff they can't use - stuff that's probably very close to out and out lies... ) they can't use for quotes, but functions to fluff up their big fat liberal egos...
The press is like some ugly girl the jocks play for an easy lay...
Divide and conquer... those reporters who 'serve' Obama best get special insider stuff (background stuff they can't use - stuff that's probably very close to out and out lies... ) can't used for quotes, but functions to fluff up reporter's big fat liberal egos...
The press is like some ugly girl the jocks play for an easy lay...
That's the POINT of concentrating on the talking points, hoping folks will forget the refusal of help to the Ambassador and his staff.
Hey, whatever works to reduce the numbers of Dems in Congress!
Stalinists all! Why do I call them Stalinists? Because, just like under Poppa Joe [Dzugashvilli], nothing is more important than the Party... the country be d@mned! NOTHING is more important than the Party. Destroy all opposition... nothing is more important than the Party. The country be d@mned!
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