Posted on 05/05/2016 1:54:21 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
It’s 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 contempt—contempt 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 lies—what 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 ...
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
Tell them a group of whoring politicians used every dirty trick to make it happen and that virtually all of them were in bed together.
In other words, the truth.
Perhaps if congress had followed the law, they would have caught these lies.
Tell them a group of whoring politicians used every dirty trick to make it happen and that virtually all of them were in bed together.
In other words, the truth.
The GOP knew. They supported it.
They funded it. They submitted willingly
because it murders Americans, and because
they the GOP is ALWAYS complicit in treason.
Are the missing 911 Atrocity pages open yet?
Is anyone in jail for the IRS or Benghazi Atrocities.
NOPE. Not a one.
If Iran ever detonates a bomb on U.S. soil, I hope Obama, Rhodes, and every other America-loathing piece of sh/t in gov’t who favored this deal is in the area of the blast zone where they die very, very slowly.
agreed.
Congress has been doing nothing much more than protecting and enabing the Illegal Islamic Infiltrator In Chief weaken America and our economy, jobs, morale, morals, defenses, and allies.
while building up the IslamoNazi enemy everywhere possible
Exactly. Who supported it?
The GOP knew. They supported it.
They funded it. They submitted willingly
because it murders Americans, and because
they the GOP is ALWAYS complicit in treason.
Are the missing 911 Atrocity pages open yet?
Is anyone in jail for the IRS or Benghazi Atrocities.
NOPE. Not a one.
Wow look at the Republicans who sponsored Corker bill...SPONSORED IT...including Cruz and Rubio...
I did not see Tom Cotton or Jeff Sessions though
-PJ
If it does happen, it will likely happen in cities with high concentrations of Liberals and mostly run them such as NYC, LA, San Fran, Chicago, Boston.
Except for Chicago and maybe Boston, I’d have a hard time feeling bad this time around; after 9/11. Family works in Chicago.
My guess would be that NYC would be on the top of the list like it was during the 9/11 attack.
A perfect example of why we need the balance of power. No one person can be trusted with power.
And like Obamacare, we knew that it was a lie.
I’m not following this - they’re claiming that Obama disagrees with the NYT and WP and The New Yorker on foreign policy, and that he regards them as part of some sort of conservative establishment?
8 years, another 10 trillion in debt, and what do we have to show for it ? Nothing but destruction. Government has shown its true worthless destructive nature.
What are these GOPe magazines going to do without the outrage du jour when Obama is out of office?
They could write about the GOPe agenda...You know cheap labor, open borders, etc. Eh nah...I hope they all fold.
Bflr.
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