Daily Mail: White House BRAGS about how it tricked reporters into cheerleading for Obama's Iran nuclear deal by creating a media 'echo chamber'
* Deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Ben Rhodes orchestrated an 'echo chamber' of media support for Obama's Iran deal
* He spoke candidly about his tactics to a New York Times Magazine writer
* Tactics included planting talking points with compliant reporters
* Also helped arms-control experts land in influential positions where they could parrot the White House's line on the deal's virtues
* Even then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta now says he's not sure the president's aims were what the White House said they were at the time
* White House routinely 'ventriloquizes' reporters, the Times story explains
The Obama White House set up an 'echo chamber' of planted experts to control the public discussion about the president's slow-brewing nuclear deal with Iran last year, according to the puppetmaster behind the program.
Ben Rhodes, the administration's top foreign-policy messaging expert, deployed 'legions of arms-control experts' to propagandize about the virtues of the controversial agreement, The New York Times Magazine will report on Sunday.
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Obama official says he pushed a ‘narrative’ to media to sell the Iran nuclear deal -- Washington Post
Obama adviser Ben Rhodes admits lies to media about Iran deal -- Washington Times
Obama's 'foreign-policy guru' gave a shockingly blunt interview to The New York Times -- Business Insider
Obama aide Rhodes claims they built 'echo chamber' to sell Iran deal -- FOX News
White House Blames Allegations of Iran Deal Deceit in Ben Rhodes Profile on ‘Sour Grapes’ -- Washington Free Beacon
Ben Rhodes, Liar: The man who creates the White House's own reality -- Aaron MacLean, Washington Free Beacon
How Obama Manipulates the News -- Jack Shafer, Politico
Rhodes to Perdition: An exposé on journalism in the Obama era. -- James Taranto, WSJ
Why the Ben Rhodes profile in the New York Times Magazine is just gross -- Carlos Lozada, Washington Post
A President Who Learned Nothing -- Max Boot, Commentary
Grand Deception: How Obama and Ben Rhodes Lied Us Into the Iran nuke deal -- David Gerstman, Legal Insurrection
That Profile of Ben Rhodes? You Need to Read It Very Carefully -- Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
7 comments:
It's no "Office of Special Plans".
There used to be a law that prevented the US Government from "disseminating" propaganda domestically.
The Bush Admin got around that for a year by planting propaganda in the Foreign Press, where it would get picked up by the US Press and repeated at home.
In the second year, the Bush Administration and the Republican House and Senate, gutted the law.
It's now perfectly legal for the US Government to lie to the Public, about anything, anywhere, any time.
do you ever not blame bush???
You know better than me for that, and I agree...that's sad.
Republican's forget that every "cheat" they introduce into the system, will also be used by Democrat's when they get into power.
Democrat's cheat's that they introduce are much more Corporate and pro-legislative.
Bush and the Republican's "own" his corruption of Democracy and Governance,
Obama and the Democrat's "own" their corruption of Democracy and Governance,
Take the 2001 AUMF, both the Dem's and Repub's gave Bush a "blank check", Bush pushed it beyond it's literal mandate, with out any push back,
Obama's pushed it even farther, with out any push back,
So now, despite the Constitution saying Congress get's to decide in regard to war, Congress wrote a blank check that ant American President can use to go to war, any where, any time, any place, against anybody, even Americans.
Actions have consequences.
So I'm wondering why he made an admission at all.
Anon,
"So I'm wondering why he made an admission at all." Exactly my thought.
Ben Rhodes
Baby faced, soft hands, putrid, decaying mind
Which makes him perfect as an Obama advisor
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