2/20/17
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Obama's Foreign Policy Guru Boasts of How the Administration Lied to Sell the Iran Deal
Ben Rhodes and the blob.
Iran Gets Billions of Dollars from Nuclear Deal but Where is it Being Spent?
KTVH - Helena, MT
The Blob includes "editors and reporters at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker," etc. It also encompasses, according to Rhodes, Obama's former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and the administration's first defense secretary Robert Gates. Presumably Leon Panetta, former Pentagon chief and CIA director, who goes on the record to criticize Rhodes and the president, is also part of the Blob, alongside "other Iraq-war promoters from both parties who now whine incessantly about the collapse of the American security order in Europe and the Middle East." In other words, the emotion driving the administration's foreign policy is contempt—contempt for allies, colleagues, and the generations of American policymakers who built the post-WWII international order, ensuring relative global stability, and peace and prosperity at home.
Samuels's profile is an amazing piece of writing about the Holden Caulfield of American foreign policy. He's a sentimental adolescent with literary talent (Rhodes published one short story before his mother's connections won him a job in the world of foreign policy), and high self regard, who thinks that everyone else is a phony. Those readers who found Jeffrey Goldberg's picture of Obama in his March Atlantic profile refreshing for the president's willingness to insult American allies publicly will be similarly cheered here by Rhodes's boast of deceiving American citizens, lawmakers, and allies over the Iran deal. Conversely, those who believe Obama risked American interests to take a cheap shot at allies from the pedestal of the Oval Office will be appalled to see Rhodes dancing in the end zone to celebrate the well-packaged misdirections and even lies—what Rhodes and others call a "narrative"—that won Obama his signature foreign policy initiative.
"Like Obama," writes Samuels:
Rhodes is a storyteller who uses a writer's
tools to advance an agenda that is packaged as politics but is often
quite personal. He is adept at constructing overarching plotlines with
heroes and villains, their conflicts and motivations supported by
flurries of carefully chosen adjectives, quotations and leaks from named
and unnamed senior officials. He is the master shaper and retailer of
Obama's foreign-policy narratives, at a time when the killer wave of
social media has washed away the sand castles of the traditional press.
As Rhodes admits, it's not that hard to shape the narrative.
"All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus," Rhodes said. "Now
they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow
and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from
Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their
only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns.
That's a sea change. They literally know nothing."In Rhodes's "narrative" about the Iran deal, negotiations started when the ostensibly moderate Hassan Rouhani was elected president, providing an opening for the administration to reach out in friendship. In reality, as Samuels gets administration officials to admit, negotiations began when "hardliner" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was still president. It was Rhodes who framed the Iran deal as a choice between peace and war, and it was Rhodes who set up a messaging unit to sell the deal that created an "echo chamber" in the press. "[Al Monitor reporter] Laura Rozen was my RSS feed," says Tanya Somanader, the 31-year-old who managed @TheIranDeal twitter feed. "She would just find everything and retweet it."
"In the spring of last year," Samuels writes:
legions of arms-control experts began popping
up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for
hundreds of often-clueless reporters. "We created an echo chamber,"
[Rhodes] admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly
minted experts cheerleading for the deal. "They were saying things that
validated what we had given them to say."
When I suggested that all this dark metafictional play seemed a bit removed from rational debate over America's future role in the world, Rhodes nodded. "In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this," he said. "We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked." He is proud of the way he sold the Iran deal. "We drove them crazy," he said of the deal's opponents.
When I suggested that all this dark metafictional play seemed a bit removed from rational debate over America's future role in the world, Rhodes nodded. "In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this," he said. "We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked." He is proud of the way he sold the Iran deal. "We drove them crazy," he said of the deal's opponents.
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Democrats...the Party of Gruber..
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Pinocchio is being upstaged...."that one gets FOUR Grubers".....poor Pinocchio.
Liberals to NOT Govern...they GruberIZE....
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Zombies renamed to Gruber...let libs and other leftist parasites that you are either telling the truth or your are Gruberizing....facts...such a Gruberian are you....
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Anything disgusting is now a Guruber..
Liberals Lie, Cheat and STEAL...because they Cannot Perform!
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or
High School/College students caught cheating....
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or
When a sports event is caught cheating...
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