“And now, the echo chamber is mad — but not at Ben Rhodes for what he said. They’re mad at Samuels for getting the story they didn’t–or didn’t even see was there, and they’re mad at him for what he reported. The Washington Post has published three different pieces on Samuels, none favorable, including one by the editor of the book section. The Post is mad of course because the Samuels piece publicly shamed the paper–after all, its main brief is to cover the local industry–the workings of the government of the United States. And yet as the article makes plain, Post reporters and especially columnists got spun and conned about the Iran deal. But much worse than that is that the Post got scooped on the story explaining how gullible they are. Scooped by the New York Times, in their own backyard on the biggest foreign policy story of the past four years! That’s embarrassing.”
“Lots of people don’t know why the administration let Rhodes pull back the curtain. Because the White House won the Iran Deal is why. They wanted to take a victory lap. Obama campaigned as the anti-Iraq candidate. Bush lied and got us into a stupid war, the White House would invariably argue. And yes, as president Obama lied to sell the Iran deal—BUT to keep America out of a stupid war with Iran.”
Of course the unstated proposition is that Iran was analogous to Iraq.
This false equivalence does not account for the fact that Saddam was decidedly secular but brutal, whilst Iran ruling class is Shia Mahdi apocalyptic in nature.
This of course is a false end run to score a political ‘goal’ for the Obama-Nation™; whilst leaving the problematic ‘clean up’ for the next administration.
Thus the Obama-Nation™ ‘legacy’ is safe…
Nice narrative, but it stands up to neither scrutiny nor the reality on the ground.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
This a staggering, jaw-dropping story, one for the history books, but I suspect that, unfortunately, a significant majority of the population will not give it any thought and do not have the intellectual capacity to appreciate it if they did.
I recommend the entire America media consolidate into only TWO new corporations … call them … Pravda and Izvestia. Done. Now the charade is properly named.
Rhodes THOUGHT he was setting up his career in future Democrat administrations plus elite grad schools of public administration when Dems are out of office. He thinks his candor will be greatly admired by Democrat and academic elites ….. and who is to say he’s wrong on that score? Rhodes will likely start ‘teaching’ at Harvard, Yale or Columbia by the Fall semester this year, keeping warm for a plum diplomatic post in Chelsea Clinton’s presidency.
Yop; I agree with your opinion the significant majority will “shrug the information off”. But it is my opinion the Significant Majority do not give a rat’s patoot about the machinations of the Crony Crowd in washington because the average American is poud of being an American and doing the “suck-up or felating which goes with the Territory is not a great way to live your life.
So they shrug off the news as being Sooooooo! what’s different. The support for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders shows the Proud Americans, the Sovereign Citizen Americans are aware of what is significant at the Suck—— up Capital of the World. Fortunately they are fighting back with their Votes, not with pitchforks and clubs. Cheers;
The nastiness directed by Rhodes at the White House and Rhodes own friends shows the basic self loathing of themselves and more directly their single moment madness of arming a continuous culture of psychopaths with nukes. They tear down others to make themselves feel better. “At least we’re not a stupid echo chamber, we at least created the echo.” Madness and self loathing snowball rolling.
“at the White House’s and Rhodes’ own friends”
I don’t doubt for ONE minute that EVERYONE within the Obama Admin. AND every member of the leftist Democrap party ACTUALLY BELIEVE that Iran is a “moderate” State. For one reason: “Moral Equivalency”. Moral Equivalency is the FIRST COMMANDMENT of the Leftists little Red Book of depravity. Islam = Christianity = Judiasm = Taoism = Anime worship. Nothing matters. There is NO MORAL high ground. There is no righteousness. There is no Evil. There is no black, no white … just an endless sea of gray. So, in the minds of Obama and his ilk … the Iranian Radical Islamist Theocrats are no different than Benjamin Netanyahu. If one is “moderate”, then the other is “moderate”. Everyone, and everything is a level playing field … well … because Obama says it is.