Saturday, May 07, 2016

“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. They literally know nothing.”

Ben Rhodes, Obama’s FP ‘guru’, on selling the Iran nuke deal to America (rather than a pro American deal to Iran- which we all know would have doomed any deal).

HERE

Podhoretz, NYP:

In an astounding New York Times piece by David Samuels, senior White House officials gleefully confess they use friendly reporters and nonprofits as public relations tools in the selling of President Obama’s foreign policy — and can do it almost at will because these tools are ignorant, will believe what they’re told, will essentially take dictation and are happy to be used just to get the information necessary for a tweet or two.
Their greatest triumph, according to Samuels, was selling a misleading narrative about the nuclear deal with Iran — the parameters of which were set a year before the administration claimed and which had nothing to do with the fact that a supposedly more accommodating government had risen to power.
The mastermind of the Obama machine is Ben Rhodes, a New Yorker who joined the Obama campaign as a speechwriter in 2007 and has risen to become the most influential foreign-policy hand in the White House.

Ben Rhodes?

Tablet:
Unaware that he was being recorded, Benjamin Rhodes, a key Obama national security adviser, told a gathering of Democratic activists last year that Obama is hoping to keep Congress out of the loop as much as possible. “We’re already kind of thinking through, how do we structure a deal so we don’t necessarily require legislative action right away,” Rhodes said.
and…
“The purpose of the agreement is not to bet on the notion that Iran will moderate. The purpose of the agreement is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon throughout the duration of the agreement.”
Maybe there isn’t… that’s the best case… but we can all guess where it IS going on, and how it is being done, while Iran..

Well, you know …

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The brother of Ben Rhodes is David Rhodes, president of CBS News.

The same network that dispatched Sheryl Atkinson for pursuing stories not flattering to the administration.

Ducky was right about that yesterday: the media is the biggest problem in America today.

Anonymous said...

Media incest chart from 2012