Rice on Libya: Obfuscating From Behind
With an American ambassador murdered abroad for the first time since 1979, it was clear that someone from the Obama administration had to show up on the Sunday TV talk shows to field questions about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. But of all the many officials to whom the White House might have assigned the job, why on earth did that special someone turn out to be Ambassador Susan Rice?
Rice is the U.S. envoy to the United Nations in New York, not to anyplace in North Africa or the Middle East. Although President Obama has given Rice the rank of cabinet member, she has no direct responsibility for diplomatic posts in Libya, or State Department security abroad, or investigations into terrorism. America’s murdered ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, reported to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, not to Rice. Yet, on Sunday, it was Susan Rice who emerged as the administration’s ubiquitous expert on the Sept. 11 terrorist assault in Benghazi. With dizzying omnipresence, she turned up on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CNN (maybe there were a few more that I’ve missed, but you get the idea).
Not that Rice called it a terrorist assault. Her omnipresent talking point was that the assault in Benghazi was “spontaneous,” that according to “our current best assessment” it materialized as an ad hoc copycat version of the embassy storming earlier that day in Cairo, all in reaction to the “hateful video.” As she told it to NBC, the armed assault that killed Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans was simply what happened, spontaneously, when the spontaneous demonstration in Benghazi got hijacked by “a small handful of heavily armed mobsters.” Or, as she explained it to CBS, ad hoc events spontaneously turned deadly when “extremist elements” took advantage of the heavy weapons that are “unfortunately, readily now available in Libya post-revolution.”
OK, this is clearly the official administration line, in which the blanket description “spontaneous” – akin, almost, to some sort of natural disaster? — becomes the catch-all for deflecting responsibility for any failures of administration policy or practice. The president of Libya, Mohamed Al-Magarief, may disagree, as he has — calling the attack “preplanned” and saying “I think this was al Qaeda” — but for official U.S. purposes it is now Rice’s vague summation of “spontaneity” that has been thrown like a veil over the horror in Benghazi. Who were the “mobsters”? Do they habitually carry around rocket-propelled grenades in case they run across a spontaneous demonstration? For now, and quite likely for some time to come, U.S. officials can deflect questions about the specifics, on grounds that there’s an FBI investigation going on.
The Obama administration needs folks to tell variations on this lie. If the true depth of the Obama administration’s incompetence became widely known he couldn’t survive the election. Don’t look to the mainstream media to dig into this too deeply. It will be reported as if it were reasonable to think it true.
Has anyone compiled a list of BHO’s greatest lies?
Someone should!
Including “and” and “the”?
There aren’t enough trees to print every word he’s ever spoken.
Uh, it was a spontaneous attack inspired by that hateful film that’s all Mitt Romney’s fault… yeah, yeah, that’s it!
Please just stop with this idiot phrase “Gaddafi was a monstrous tyrant”….it is a frickin lie. Gaddafi was every Western leaders favorite African Leader until the West decided to give N. Africa to the MB. From what I read Libya was the best country in terms of quality of life in all of Africa and much of Europe.
Nah, don’t think so. Was a scary place for anyone with independent thinking to live. And the kind of torture he did would not require a congressional committee to recognize.
http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/fathi-eljahmi-gave-his-life-for-freedom-in-libya/
Libya was and is a collection of tribes. The real choices were to let the place break up or allow a ‘tyrant’ to rule. Gaddafi, really, was just a garden variety dictator ruling over a violent people with little sense of nationalism. If you start the melodrama of calling him a monster, then what to do you call the real monsters in this world, such as the Saddam Hussein clan or Paul Pot?
Its going a bit far to say kadaffy was a good leader. The best that can be said was he was nowhere near as bad as he was in the 80′s, he had completely dismantled his WMD, and was generally cooperative on terorism and trade, and was no longer a real threat to us.
I agree with Ken. C. It is called the Big Lie and is a favorite tool of dictators. When it is told over and over again, people begin to believe it. A tactic like this could create a huge problem for this country. And to make matters worse, the media is complicit.
She’s just another shill and a liar. She knows what happened and WHY it happened. The Obama administration is COVERING IT UP to COVER THEIR BUTTS! VOTE FOR ROMNEY/RYAN before it’s too late.
You know, if the neocons would stop taunting others, then we wouldn’t have roosters coming home to roost, like we saw in Libya. We have bombed Muslim countries for decades now. We set up the Savak in Iran and propped up the Shah. We steal 25% of the Earth’s oil, which in turn fuels the Non-Green Military Industrial Complex (“NG-MIC”), which fuels the never-ending wars against the brown people of the Middle East. It’s been going on for centuries! Even the Crusaders stole goats from the Muslims, in turn selling said goats to purchase swords, which they eventually used to kill little brown Muslim children who were peacefully inhabiting Jerusalem. And if it hasn’t been bad enough for those poor milky-brown people, we now have neocons “turning the knife”, so to speak, by making propaganda films that lie about and disgrace their religious Icon! How do you think they should react? By inviting the embassy staff for some falafel? Maybe some roast goat with a nice mint demi-glaze? You people are so blind!!! So stupid!
Poor child. I was going to ignore you like everyone else since your comment is bereft of fact and reality. You bought into ignorant scapegoating of Americans and Israel.
You ignore the 7 times in the last 20 years we went into war to protect Muslims and stop Muslim genocide. You ignore the amount of funding to help support those countries, build infrastructure, hospitals, water and utilities for the poor.
You forget we pay for the oil, we do not steal it. It has made those countries wealthy beyond your comprehension. We refine it for them after shipping it across oceans. We should use our own oil and run it through pipelines, not across oceans. I hope you bike to work, grow all your own food in your backyard and use a peddle generator for your computer, otherwise, kiss up and tell Obama we need to use our own resourses.
You forget Americans are ‘brown people’ using your words, and black, and every shade in between. We support Israel because they are a democracy. They have gays, they have women’s rights, they have a vibrant community. We sent money to Palestine to build a hospitala nd they used it to buy missiles. We paid for greenhouses and they were trashed. We put in an electric system and they blew it up. Why should we continue putting money in when it is wasted?
All you are heaving is stereotype and scapegoating with lies. This is hte same tactic hitler used. Which is all the middle east has left: blame someone else for their ails while their uber oil Rich drive Lamberginis and Maseratis to their ocean side condo. It is nothing but an excuse for power overthrow and you support it. The film is nothing. Look around on the internet.
Dude! You’ve just been punked!
So very well said, empire sentry. Thank you!
Obama trotted out Rice because she keeps the White House from having to tell we, the people, the direct lies and indirect distortions it knows are completely untrue.
The largely unknown and unseen “film” (mostly just a trailer)provides cover for an administration that spiked the bin Laden football repeatedly,leaked national security secrets about bin Laden and rubbed out individuals with drones.
To suggest that rubbing al Qaeda’s noses in the dirt did not evoke a September 11 response is pure fantasy. “Obama, Obama…we are all Osama’s” is not aimed at any film trailer.
The film is a two way pretext…for Obama and for those who riot against him. Obama can’t say that their rage is aimed at him…that would require him to take responsibility. Something he never does and his bagmen and flunkies in the media will never allow to be presented. Al Qaeda can’t say that they are raging against getting slapped around and then gloated over…it makes them look weak and like little punks. So, they both allow the pretense of some nearly invisible film to shroud their true intentions.
Rice and the execrable UN are the perfect place for spreading manure. She has the mantle of “one world” camouflage and the scruples of a sewer rat. Perfect. She is the bridge between Obama’s lies and al Qaeda’s. Come to think of it, so is the UN itself.
Jimmy Carter’s Iran policy worked so well that Obama is implementing it all over the middle east and north Africa.
Why don’t we send Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton to Libya with the same level of security that Ambassador Stevens had (and make SURE the “brothers” know exactly when and where they will be). Maybe THEN they would realize just how popular the Obama administration is in that area. (I’m sure the Libyans would be glad to haul their worthless carcases to the hospital when they are done with them.
Agreed. Let them use their own position of “just talk to them with no pre-conditions”…..like leaving alive. Yeah, that Obama position has worked well.
Susan Rice was chosen because Obama has to make an appearance at the UN General Assembly and her objective was to head off the unpleasant questions Obama is likely to get. Avoiding blame is a way to not offend the Non-Aligned Movement.
Susan Rice is another one of Obama’ useless incompetent idiots occupying positions that put Ameerica at great risk. Her role was obviously to soften the US position in the UN, to appease the radical islamic countries, and to give away the “store” without most Americans knowing that it was happening right before their eyes. The UN should be shuttered and American contributions should cease immediately. This group has done nothing in the name of peace but through their meddling have most of the time made things worse. Who could forget the “oil for food” scandal, the UN soldiers rape squads, and their disgraceful behavior during numerous mass murders where they looked the other way like Rwanda,the Congo and Sudan.
Yes, Claudia, I had exactly the same thought. When the Benghazi/Cairo violence broke out, I thought somehow the White House would figure that if worse came to worst, they could blame it on Hillary as a State Department SNAFU. But Hillary has been pretty much AWOL on this lately. As I saw Susan Rice popping up on every channel, the thought I had was maybe if John Kerry was not going to be Secretary of State in the second Obama administration, maybe it would be Susan Rice. All this was just to give her more visibility. But what she had to say was so inane (on both Libya/Egypt and Israel/Iran that no one paying attention would ever think she had done herself any favors.
I think the reason they so badly want people to believe that the attacks were spontaneous is to deflect attention from the accusation (I believe by the Libyan president? not sure on this but someone credible)that the attacks were IN VENGEANCE FOR US DRONE ATTACKS!! THIS IS A CONCEPT THE WHITE HOUSE WANTS TO KEEP OUT OF THE NEWS!! So far the lefty peaceniks have been remarkable quiescent about the drone attacks and collateral damage of civilian deaths. On a similar note, there was nary a squeak about the prisoner who died in custody at Guantanamo Bay. Can you imagine the noise if these things had happened under President Bush? Obama cannot afford for this to blow up now, just before the election. HYPOCRASY and LIES. VERY CREEPY.
I think it’s all about drones…we don’t hear about the collateral damage just the success. When the OBL movie hits the market beware if you’re abroad.
The problem with Libya is the problem with every Middle Eastern nation we decide to get involved in. You broke it, you bought it. Obama was all proud when he decided to get involved in a civil war he had absolutely no right getting involved in (and which Congress never approved of, but I digress), but now that Gaddafi is gone, who is going to put Libya back together again? If we show our support for the current government, the current government will be called “An American puppet” and the Islamists will say that we are interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. And you just know the Islamists will call us colonialists if we dare put any strings on the money we give the Libyan government through foreign aid.
So what do we do now? Are we going to get stuck in Libya for decades to come? Are we going to have to give them endless amounts of foreign “aid” (which in that part of the world is usually the same as bribes and payoffs)? Are we going to have to come to the aid of the current government with troops when the Islamists finally decide to overthrow it, like the Muslim Brotherhood did in Egypt? And speaking about troops, are we going to really bring the people who killed our ambassador to “justice,” or will we do nothing and look even weaker in the eyes of the people who killed the man and three other Americans?
You broke, you bought it. That’s where we are in Libya and Obama and Rice and Hillary Clinton don’t want to admit it. If Romney gets elected in November, he’s going to have one hell of a mess on his hands in Libya, a “gift” from his predecessor. Worse, I don’t know how he’s going to get out of it.
“Time to start deflecting responsibility away from Washington and toward the collective.”
Indeed.
Read the text of Obama’s statement on Steven’s death. It’s chock full of “we”. The pronoun “I” is hardly used at all.
“DO SOME ‘MAKE UP’ CIVICS STUDIES…OR BE ENSLAVED”
You spend days in study of gossip and beer,
Your “civics”? Just the 10 O’clock lies,
But your “news” is corrupted; your lives reek of waste–
There are those who won’t rest till you die.
You have had so much for so long now,
You just deem it all as your due.
For as heirs of the world’s greatest riches,
Kings and Pharaohs had nothing on you.
All around us, your enemies gather.
Who respect not your life nor our law.
Should we fail in this fight for your freedom,
You and yours live your last days in thrall*.
More than “arms”, liberty calls for effort,
Searching answers for our problems today.
Though there’s no end of “prime time” deceivers,
Their fine words cannot hide feet of clay.
Information, not rumors, are crucial.
Honest data is your greatest need.
Seek out facts and find truthful teachers,
Who have not sold their own souls for greed.
Patriots died for your right to think and to choose,
And their spirits today watch and weep.
You’ve a whole lot of data to search and to sift,
But your heart’s fondest joy’s just to sleep.
Don’t give in to the coy voice of seduction
“We will handle it all, don’t you fret.
“Let’s just keep going “FORWARD”—to hell with the facts,
“That cliff that we see’s not here yet!”
*Thrall = a state of servitude or submission
NO RIGHTS RESERVED – COPY; CHANGE; ADD TO; ETC. FREELY. We just ‘gotta get this message out.
This piece of poetic rant was inspired by the following event of last night. My wife was watching TV while I was making the rounds of conservative blogs, and an AD comes on: An acknowledged adulterer; compulsive liar; and impeached President says in a loud voice that “THIS ELECTION IS REALLY ALL ABOUT WHETHER THE REPUBLICANS WILL REWARD THE RICH AND HURT THE POOR WITH TAX CUTS”. I felt physically ill. IS ANYONE OUT THERE PAYING ATTENTION?
Well, the answer is: YES! A MAJORITY of voting Americans have agreed that even if they don’t like Romeny or Ryan (and I BEGAN in that camp but have since CHANGED MY POSITION–They’re GOOD for us) THEY KNOW, REALLY KNOW, THAT THE ALTERNATIVE IS BANKRUPTCY OF OUR REPUBLIC; THE SLAVERY OF OUR PEOPLE; AND THE FALL OF THE “LAST, BEST HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY FOR THE WORLD”.
OBASTARDO; HIS SHILLS; HIS WHORES; AND HIS MINIONS BE DAMNED, WE WILL NOT, I REPEAT, NOT LET AMERICA FALL. ROMNEY & RYAN WILL WIN BIG IN NOVEMBER–pass it on
WOW! I copied your poem and made a document out of it. One small grammatical correction (“is” instead of “are”) This is a great poem, and I’m forwarding it to my email buddies. [Those who are still thinking rather than reacting.]
Jarrett is a member of African-American and Chicago royalty. But her story and her life begin in the Middle East, not the Midwest. She was born in 1956 in Shiraz, Iran, about 570 miles south of Tehran. Her parents moved to Shiraz, known for its poets, wine and flowers, as part of a program that sent American doctors and agricultural experts to developing countries to help jump-start their health and farming efforts. Her father was on the staff of the brand new Nemazee Hospital, where Jarrett was born.
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/valerie-jarrett
Under Obama, there is no more Islamist terrorism. There is only “workplace violence.” There is only “severe film criticism.” Yeah, workplace violence and severe film criticism, that’s the ticket.
For 5 long years, Obama has been laboring to contain America’s war on Islamist Fascism under the lie that we’re only battling against Al-Qaeda and that with the death of Bin Ladin and some of his lieutenants, the war has been won, and is all but over. What a naive fool.
The location of our ambassador and especially the location of the “safe house” in Benghazi was supposedly “secret” information….secret information the Libyan terrorists obviously were provided with; the proof is in the horrific success of their attacks. So…..we have yet another massive SECURITY BREACH of sensitive information from this administration. Who would have access to BOTH the ambassador’s scheduled whereabouts and his timeline? Who in the State Department would BOTH (1) have access to that information AND (2) also be in REGULAR CONTACT WITH THE MOOSLIM BRUTHAHOOD?
Secretary of State is a fun job until the crud hits the fan. Back in Arkansas she was a lawyer whose clients hired her to incur favor with state government. She is a lightweight when it comes to world affairs.
This ruins the chances of Mrs. Clinton running for President in 2016.
Claudia Rossett is correct. They want to take the heat off HRC who is an emblem for the democratic machine.
She is a woman of moderate color and so cannot be questioned.
She was ready, willing, and able to execute this regime’s approach to all public communications, which is to pile on the bald-faced lies faster than you can even count them.
So, where is our MSM, who was very willing to criticize Romney for “speaking too soon” about events, when four days later the official line, is even less informed – since they are still trying to IGNORE THE OBVIOUS, which at least Romney did not.
Ms. Rosett you are probably right. I was just thinking if the defeat of Gaddafi was by the UN countries, why wasn’t the French, British and other countries consulates fire bombed and people killed?
Perhaps those embassies have a better understanding of the need for “security”.
Cheers
They can’t put anyone out there who had direct input into this disaster — so Hillary and a bunch of guys at State are out….and it couldn’t be actually from the White House…..and it’s not the military who’ll go spouting this balderdash….leaving — Rice.
For Susan Rice to stand in front of a camera and tell the American audience that people driving around with rpgs and mortars were simply taking advantage of a spontaneous demonstration on Sept. 11 is so transparently stupid that it reveals an utter lack of respect for the intelligence of American citizens.
I think the administration feels so confident that they already have this election in the bag, the voters have already made up their minds, that Susan Rice was just sent out to cover the bases and give the captive media a story. With an automatic 12 percent minority vote advantage and enough voters dependent on government programs, unless some unforeseen catastrophe occurs, they already have the votes. This is just going through the motions. Rice could have said almost anything, she could have blamed it on sunspots and it wouldn’t matter.
Sadly, very sadly, I think you’re correct.
I”m going to agree with the previous poster – she was the front-person because of her skin color. That and her association with the ‘internationalist’ UN.
Amb. Rice is an idiot. Is that statement an oversimplification?-no. An idiot is a term reserved for people who a)make foolish decisions, and b)can’t make causal connections to reality.
I saw the Fox interview, she is very well spoken. I almost believed that she believes what she said, almost.
And wouldn’t it be lovely if PJM gave an option at the top of these articles to view it on multiple pages? Present it as a one page article, then allow people who wanted to spend time reloading the page, an option to do so. How many readers want to load multiple pages?
But what was particularly horrible (and so far unmentioned) is that it was one ambassador obfuscating and minimizing the cause of death of a fellow-ambassador.
Time to start deflecting responsibility away from Washington and toward the collective.
Very perceptive, and the tools of choice are generalities that can be revised at will, on the fly. The unfortunate flipside is the excruciating spectacle of Romney and handlers, completely out-boxed and over-matched, floundering around like fools in the face of an election-winning gift. That’s putting it charitably.
The uphill slope gets steeper by the day. Those canned ads set to launch in Oct better be good.
The Ansar Al-Sharia guys who attacked and killed in a pre-planned military operation is a Muslim Brotherhood / Al Qaeda Aligned Movement and they have all spent time honing their skills in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. When the Libyan Civil War broke out in early 2011 they returned in mass. Now, many of these same AAS guys also happen to be from the Eastern Libya Tribes and pretended to be Anti-Ghaddafi “Rebels” who Obama / Cameron (UK) / Sarkozy (France) helped train in military tactics! I don’t know how early US CIA and/or SOF IPB guys were covertly infiltrated into Libya but the UK press reported that UK 22 SAS “smash” teams were on the ground in Libya at least three weeks prior to the UN Security Council Resolution setting up the No-Fly Zone. The mainly targeted for the NATO aircraft but reports came out that they also trained rebels! BLOWBACK from OP Odessy Dawn! Thank GOD we are not in Syria – at least I hope I am right. Reminds me of blowback from Clinton’s Balkans adventure – AQ trained Bosnian Muslims in tactics too!
“josh” is right about the African-American / criticism link. Amb Rice has however worked on African issues for the State Dep’t for over 10 yrs . I only wished the interviewers could have asked open-ended questions as I’m sure she KNOWS what the whole situation is over there. if you take the King’s shilling….etc. usually triumphs ion days like these.
Rice is a pawn. A useful idiot to cover Obama’s stupidity.
She is ambassador to the UN and is ensuring US taxpayer funds keep flowing to the UN and, therefore, keep her employed.
Obama is using her to cover his a**.
Pathetic.
Just like the ‘Hank’ Gates ‘beer summit’, it’s all about ‘optics’.
Remember, remember the 6th of November…
An earlier, quite blunt comment of mine under “mediation” has been deleted, so I’ll just say here that this is what we get with our “Affirmative Action” President and his appointments.
….here’s a more politically correct version:
Obama as an elected president and this Susan Rice(who?)being appointed “ambassador” to the Nations United Against America are the walking-talking exemplars of the fallacy of Affirmative Action taken beyond Grammar School. These are indeed “social promotions”.
Hillary Clinton as a Secretary of State is the flying-around-everywhere-exemplar of Political Correctness carried to absurdity.
So…..here we are. It’s in our court now, remember this Obama/Rice/Hillary debacle on Election day coming up.
I only hope that our truncated attention spans haven’t deleted all of this tragedy by then.
Despite all of this murderous tragedy, Obama could be re-elected by his claque who simply couldn’t care less about his in office “performance” as long as he continues to stick it to th’ Establishment.
We have a very, very sad situation on our hands.
Well the good news I guess is she is one of his best looking hand puppets. The kind of person you don’t mind watching lie. According to her we are more liked there now than at any other time.
In 1980 Carter had Andrew Young at the U.N. and Americans were appalled at the anti Israel, weakly pro American rhetoric. They were anxious to vote Carter out. But Americans feared Reagan. When they saw Reagan on the debates, they were relieved that they had an alternative and Reagan won big. Things have changed so much for the worse in this country that someone who is destroying this country economically, weakening us, and with a U.N. Ambassador who openly shows disdain for Israel and is worse than Andrew Young in every way, half of this country apparently still wants Obama to win.
And Obama’s appointments don’t merely represent affirmative action. They represent his mindset which is not good for America in any way.
Go see 2016 at once. And vote Romney/Ryan and for good conservatives in congress.
MSM has to create propaganda in order to quickly alter attention from Middle Eastern Fiasco (a la Jimmy Carter ’79) in order to support President Obama’s re-election bid. This is called “flim-flammery.” Or better yet, “Right/hand, Left/hand Rule.”
Here is President Obama’s Directive for next 46 days:
1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.
2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives.
b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
c. It must oversee other agencies’ activities which have propaganda consequences
3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.
4. Propaganda must affect the enemy’s policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence
b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions
c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself
d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity
5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign
6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.
7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.
8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.
9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.
10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy’s prestige or lends support to the propagandist’s own objective.
11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.
12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.
13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment
c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness
14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses
b. They must be capable of being easily learned
c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
d. They must be boomerang-proof
15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.
16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat
b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves
17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated
b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective
18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.
So, this administration, in consort with Bloomberg, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN HuffPo, MSNBC, social media, Twitter, Facebook et al have the same “talking points.” Almost as if it came from one, single, central communication point. Gee! Wonder where in the world that could be (Axelrod)?
Oh! By the way, the Author of these 19 points? Joseph Goebbels (1925). God Bless America. Amen.
Thank you messup! The Joseph Goebells (sp)philosophy has been very much on my mind this last week of ‘the big lie’. The grotesque efforts to do the old flim flam on the American people by tnis administration is an insult to ua all. (the ‘left’ not so much). I take particular umbrage as my son is, for all practical purposes, being held hostage at the Embassy in Islamabad, to the Islamist rage. It is my prayer the Pakistani Army will continue to guarantee the safety of all.
Putting Susan Rice out there to defend the Administration is a real winner. I remember how she advocated taking over Israel, taking away their nuclear arms and other advanced weapons systems just to level the playing field with Palistinians and other Arab neighbors. Then leaving the Israelis to their fate. That’s how impartial this woman is.
37. Andy Gump (formerly Oscar the Grump)
Putting Susan Rice out there to defend the Administration is a real winner. I remember how she advocated taking over Israel, taking away their nuclear arms and other advanced weapons systems just to level the playing field with Palistinians and other Arab neighbors. Then leaving the Israelis to their fate. That’s how impartial this woman is.
Any links to this?
The libyan gov has just stated that the beleive the attack was premeditated, and was orchestrated by a group friendly to el quaida. They also said they tried to warn our embassy that trouble was coming, and bengazzi was particularly bad, and they had inadequate forces to protect anybody there, but their warning was ignored.
Its pretty sad when the gov of Libya is more sensible and beleivable than our own.
New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism By Victor Morton April 30, 2012,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/apr/30/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-marxism-socialism/
Libyan police in Benghazi have mutinied and refuse to serve under the man appointed by the govt. to take over security following last week’s storming of the U.S. consulate where the ambassador and three other Americans were killed. Militias are proliferating all throughout the major oil port city of Benghazi.
Only thing that’s spontaneous about the situation is the in-file of Susan Rice.