At his news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama postured as
the young Galahad striding out onto the schoolyard to stop a pair of
bullies from beating up a girl.
Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham had charged U.N. Amb. Susan Rice with misleading the nation when, five days after the Benghazi attack in which Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, she appeared on five TV shows to say it had all resulted from a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video.
Susan Rice, thundered Obama, “made an appearance at the request of the White House in which she gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her.
“If Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. … But for them to go after the U.N. ambassador, who had nothing to do with Benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmirch her reputation is outrageous.”
The indignation here is more than a bit cloying. After all, Rice’s rendition of the worst terror attack on the U.S. since 9/11 was utterly false.
There never was a protest.
Rice misled the nation. No one now denies that. The question is: Did Rice deceive us, or was she herself misled or deceived?
Far from being a convincing defense, Obama’s remarks call into question the competence or the truthfulness of the White House itself.
Consider again what Obama said.
Susan Rice “had nothing to do with Benghazi.”
But if she “had nothing to do with Benghazi,” why was she sent out “at the request of the White House” to explain Benghazi?
Who at the White House programmed Rice? Did she push back at all when fed this bullhockey about Benghazi? Or does she just parrot the party line when told to do so?
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/susan-rice-and-the-spontaneous-protest/
Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham had charged U.N. Amb. Susan Rice with misleading the nation when, five days after the Benghazi attack in which Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, she appeared on five TV shows to say it had all resulted from a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video.
Susan Rice, thundered Obama, “made an appearance at the request of the White House in which she gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her.
“If Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. … But for them to go after the U.N. ambassador, who had nothing to do with Benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmirch her reputation is outrageous.”
The indignation here is more than a bit cloying. After all, Rice’s rendition of the worst terror attack on the U.S. since 9/11 was utterly false.
There never was a protest.
Rice misled the nation. No one now denies that. The question is: Did Rice deceive us, or was she herself misled or deceived?
Far from being a convincing defense, Obama’s remarks call into question the competence or the truthfulness of the White House itself.
Consider again what Obama said.
Susan Rice “had nothing to do with Benghazi.”
But if she “had nothing to do with Benghazi,” why was she sent out “at the request of the White House” to explain Benghazi?
Who at the White House programmed Rice? Did she push back at all when fed this bullhockey about Benghazi? Or does she just parrot the party line when told to do so?
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/susan-rice-and-the-spontaneous-protest/
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