This skilled storyteller duped America into passing Iran deal

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2016/05/06/this-skilled-storyteller-duped-america-into-
passing-iran-deal/

The Obama administration cooked up a phony story to sell Americans on the
Iranian nuke deal, lying that US officials were dealing with “moderates”
in the Islamic theocracy who could be trusted to keep their word, it was
reported Thursday.

In a revealing article posted on the New York Times website, President
Obama’s foreign-policy guru Ben Rhodes bragged about how he helped create
the false narrative because the public would not have accepted the deal
had it known that Iranian hard-liners were still calling the shots.

The White House line — which Rhodes says he created — was that Obama
started negotiations after the supposedly moderate Hassan Rouhani was
elected president in 2013.

But Obama had set his sights on working out a deal with the mad mullahs as
early as 2008, and negotiations actually began when strongman Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was still president.

Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications,
concedes in the article that the so-called moderate regime is not moderate
at all.

“We’re not betting on it,” he said.

Despite having little foreign-policy experience, Rhodes, 38, a former
aspiring novelist who grew up on the Upper East Side, was in charge of a
massive White House “messaging” effort that fed the bogus line to
journalists.

“We created an echo chamber. They were saying things that validated what
we had given them to say,” he admitted in the Times interview when asked
about the plethora of “experts” praising the deal in the press.

The Times article, which will appear in the paper’s Sunday magazine, notes
Rhodes, who has a writing degree from NYU, was skilled as a “storyteller.”

“He is adept at constructing overarching plotlines with heroes and
villains, their conflicts supported by flurries of carefully chosen
adjectives, quotations and leaks from named and unnamed senior officials,”
reporter David Samuels writes. “He is the master shaper and retailer of
Obama’s foreign-policy narratives.”

Asked about his misleading version of the deal, Rhodes said, “In the
absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive]
out of this.

“We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message
effectively, and how to use outside groups like [the anti-nuke group]
Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics
that worked. We drove them crazy,” he said of Republicans and others who
opposed the deal, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Obama, the article says, misled the public with the idea that negotiations
began because of the “moderate” faction’s rise in 2013.

“Today, after two years of negotiations, the United States, together with
our international partners, has achieved something that decades of
animosity has not,” Obama said last July when announcing the deal.

Leon Panetta, then secretary of defense, confirmed in the article that the
hard-line regime, and its military arm, was still in charge.

“There was not much question that the Quds Force and the supreme leader
ran that country with a strong arm, and there was not much question that
this kind of opposing view could somehow gain any traction,” he said.

“I think the whole legacy that he [Obama] was working on was, ‘I’m the guy
who’s going to bring these [Mideast] wars to an end, and the last goddamn
thing I need is to start another war.’ ”

Without naming him, Panetta suggested Rhodes was one of several on Obama’s
staff who told the president only what he wanted to hear, the article
says.

“They thought their job was not to go through this open process of having
people present all these different options, but to try to force the
process to where they thought the president wanted to be,” he recalled.
“They’d say, ‘Well, this is where we want you to come out.’ And I’d say,
‘[expletive], that’s not the way it works.’ ”

Rhodes bashed the media for not properly reporting on foreign affairs and
revealed how he fed information to reporters such as Jeffrey Goldberg of
The Atlantic, a respected “Beltway insider,” as the Times called him.

“All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus,” he 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.”

Rhodes’ assistant, Ned Price, gave an example of how they would shape the
news by feeding a narrative to their “compadres” in the press corps and
letting it echo across social media.

“I’ll give them some color,” Price said, “and the next thing I know, lots
of these guys are in the dot-com publishing space, and have huge Twitter
followings, and they’ll be putting this message out on their own.”



--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.

No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.

Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov

Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.

President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.