This is an easy blog to write, because The New York Post’s Michael Goodwin has already written a large part of it.
His Friday column, titled Meet the Democratic Liar’s Club” features Hillary Clinton, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, and President Obama.
Here is the Obama segment:
The latest clincher is the admission of a top White House aide that much about the Iranian nuclear deal was a fabrication sold to a lazy, gullible press corps. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes boasts that most reporters were too dumb to know or care they were being misled.
“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns,” Rhodes told The New York Times. “They literally know nothing.”
He said that much of what passed for independent analysis of Iran in the media was a regurgitation of White House talking points. “We created an echo chamber,” he gloated. “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”
Rhodes thus joins the infamous Jonathan Gruber, the administration insider caught conceding that ObamaCare was designed to exploit the “stupidity of the American voter.” If people understood the plain meaning, Gruber said, the law would not have survived.
The twin admissions mean Obama’s self-described legacy accomplishments — the Iran deal and the Affordable Care Act — are fraudulent to the core. Even worse, Obama himself led the charge for both scams, insisting that anyone who opposed the Iran deal wanted war, and that under ObamaCare, “you can keep your doctor.”
Please do use the link I’ve provided and read Mr. Goodwin’s entire column. As the title suggests, Barack Obama is only one member of this club. Not a proud member, though, any more than the others would be.
Incidentally, the Ben Rhodes quote has been out there for probably a week’s time – it was drawn from an interview he gave for an article in Sunday’s New York Times magazine, and advance copies were available to media prior to its publication.
Notice all the hullaballoo over Rhodes’ cynical “we lied and got away with it” gloating?
Me neither.
In this case, it is hard to tell whether media are trying to protect Barack Obama or themselves. Either way, it is the antithesis of honest journalism.
In other words, business as usual.
