Posted on 08/12/2016 6:42:19 AM PDT by luke1825
When a politician tells you that you don't have a story, you know you've got a story.
The non-story line was the reaction of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to the report that the U.S. secretly paid the Iranians $400 million in cash simultaneously to the release of four U.S. hostages in a deal that looked like a ransom payment.
They were like the cops at a car wreck: "Move along, folks, nothing to see here."
The ransom story was initially broken by The Wall Street Journal, and it sent the Obama administration scurrying
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Unfortunately, too many Americans do not want to hear the truth, let alone try to understand the truth.
The reason is that the people have been lied to by Obama, Kerry, Clinton for so long, that they cannot handle the truth. they would rather stay in their sick Political Correct world were lies are the truth.
In addition, if they really started learning and believing the truth about them, their fairy tale world of freebies would be destroyed and they don’t want to work or be responsible for their actions.
I’m surprised this hasn’t been a bigger story.
Instead, the media are concentrating on something Trump said, and then convene their panels of “talking heads” to parse and analyze what Trump said. Then move on to reporting what others said about what Trump said. Etc. etc.
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