Posted on 05/05/2016 1:54:21 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Its hardly any wonder that Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes has a "mind meld" with his boss, the president. According to a David Samuels New York Times Magazine article to be published Sunday and already posted to the website, Rhodes, like Barack Obama, is contemptuous of "the American foreign-policy establishment." What Obama calls the "Washington playbook" dictating the sorts of responses available to American policymakers, Rhodes calls the "Blob."
Blob includes "editors and reporters at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker," etc. It also encompasses, according to Rhodes, Obama's former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and the administration's first defense secretary Robert Gates. Presumably Leon Panetta, former Pentagon chief and CIA director, who goes on the record to criticize Rhodes and the president, is also part of the Blob, alongside "other Iraq-war promoters from both parties who now whine incessantly about the collapse of the American security order in Europe and the Middle East." In other words, the emotion driving the administration's foreign policy is contemptcontempt for allies, colleagues, and the generations of American policymakers who built the post-WWII international order, ensuring relative global stability, and peace and prosperity at home.
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...celebrate the well-packaged misdirections and even lieswhat Rhodes and others call a "narrative"that won Obama his signature foreign policy initiative.
"Like Obama," writes Samuels:
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As Rhodes admits, it's not that hard to shape the narrative. "All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus," Rhodes said. "Now they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They literally know nothing." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Anyone with half a brain knew the whole thing was a sham.
We’ve been grubered again!
....even if they’d told the truth, it still would have passed....
Sell it? I didn’t know anyone bought it.
The Media is so embedded with the Democratic Party and the “progressive” agenda that no rational person takes them seriously. The problem is that the majority of Americans are not serious people and are very much influenced by the endless propaganda. The cold judgment of history will be no comfort to those currently suffering.
His brother is the President of CBS news.
“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation” - 23.11 Ch23; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, Ben Rhodes is related to..............
Weve been grubered again!
Aw dang, you beat me to it. Somebody needs to post that graphic.
The arrogance is just as upsetting to me as the actual act. How smug they are as they sell out our future.
.even if theyd told the truth, it still would have passed....
It’s been going on for nearly eight years now; if you haven’t developed a thick skin with respect to obama’s infamies, it’s a wonder you didn’t go insane.
The cold judgment of history will be no comfort to those currently suffering.
It is so sad.
He seemed to do well—not even including CBS news...All the RINOs bought it hook, line, and sinker :(
fortunately, O’s “Iran deal” is not binding on USA — but to stop their nuclear ICBM attacks we will need a loyal American president ASAP
The sad part is, the Corker Bill had verbiage in there about how Congress had some period of time (90 days?) to review all documents pertaining to the deal.
Obama did some stuff, discussions, etc. that were submitted at the last minute. One well-known senator brought this up to Congress, and he asked them to delay the deal so they could review the documents, and to inquire about any other dealings the administration might have had. Of course the Senate ignored that part, and allowed obama to break the law (by not providing the documents to them in time).
Perhaps if congress had followed the law, they would have caught these lies.
And heeeere they are!
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/615/cosponsors
These guys should all be voted out of office for voting for this.
Again, when my granddaughter asks “Why? Why did
you let this happen?!?!?” this list of sell outs will be living in safe,guarded palatial estates (a la Elysium).
What do we tell our children?!
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