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 ...
Can he be arrested for treason and hanged by his own words?
They would love to have Hillary I think.
How about we tie him to some huge fire ant hill and pour honey on him. In the desert, about 350 miles from the nearest water. And a kiddie pool of water within eyesight. Naked. Bald. With a (non-working) cell phone just out of reach.
I could go on.
Please please oh please let thier be a commission created to go after each and everyone of these bastards, prosecute and jail them
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Why am I not surprised?
Please please oh please let thier be a commission created to go after each and everyone of these bastards, prosecute and jail them
Please please oh please let thier be a commission created to go after each and everyone of these bastards, prosecute and jail them
Can he be arrested for treason and hanged by his own words?
Why am I not surprised?
It's doubtless true.
But, were I Rhodes, I don't think I'd have admitted to it.
Yep.
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.” ...
It’s doubtless true.
But, were I Rhodes, I don’t think I’d have admitted to it.
The one thing at which this administration truly excels.
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