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Permanent Spin (Every WH Claim on Libya attack was wrong, via Drudge)
The Weekly Standard ^ | Oct 1, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 03 | By STEPHEN F. HAYES

Posted on 09/22/2012 10:59:57 AM PDT by garjog

The Obama administration has sought to explain nearly everything that has happened over the past two weeks as a response to the video. President Obama denounced it during his remarks at the memorial for the four Americans killed in Libya. So did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. White House spokesman Jay Carney has mentioned it almost daily. At the end of last week, the United States spent $70,000 to buy ads in Pakistan to distance the U.S. government from its message.

That’s ironic. In its effort to deflect blame for the unrest, the administration has given more attention to this obscure film than it ever would have gotten if they’d simply ignored it. It’s true that radical Islamists used the film to help populate the 9/11 protests at the U.S. embassy in Cairo. But they also told fellow radicals to join in a protest of the continued detention of Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh who was behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. And some of the others who gathered were “Ultras”—soccer hooligans looking for trouble.

The American embassy in Cairo first drew attention to the film in its statement. And the administration—after initially distancing itself from that statement—has made it the centerpiece of its public relations campaign ever since, as protests spread to more than 20 countries. The result: Every Muslim with access to media is now aware of a bizarre video that had a few thousand views on YouTube on September 10.

That’s exactly what the radicals wanted, according to a U.S. intelligence official familiar with the reporting on Egypt. The focus on the film was an “information operation” by jihadists designed to generate rage against America. If he’s right, it worked.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: libya; obama; terrorism
Our Nit Wit President is playing into the hands our our enemies.

The Muslim Brotherhood is pretty good at wagging the American Dog.

1 posted on 09/22/2012 11:00:07 AM PDT by garjog
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2 posted on 09/22/2012 11:02:03 AM PDT by garjog (We do not want another four more years of the last four years.)
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Exactly!


3 posted on 09/22/2012 11:05:50 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Imagine how bad these global protests would be, if Obama hadn't won us so many new friends.)
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He's not a nit wit.

Obama is putting a plan into place. The place has been in the works for decades. Everything is going very well, and going according to the plan.

Whether Obama wins or loses in November does not matter. We enter the next Phase of the plan as soon as the election is over.

Fasten your seatbelt.

4 posted on 09/22/2012 11:06:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (ua)
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Obammy has been dead wrong on every thing he has done since January 21, 2009.


5 posted on 09/22/2012 11:07:34 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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place = plan


6 posted on 09/22/2012 11:07:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (ua)
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Our Nit Wit President is playing into the hands our our enemies.

Is he?

Or is he playing his part in an Islamist plan to discredit America?

Serious question...

7 posted on 09/22/2012 11:13:12 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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8 posted on 09/22/2012 11:31:31 AM PDT by newheart (At what point does policy become treason?)
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Clinton: No sign that Stevens believed he was on an al Qaeda hit list
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 12:39 PM EDT, Fri September 21, 2012
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/20/world/africa/libya-investigation/index.html

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday she has “absolutely no information or reason to believe there is any basis” to suggest that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens believed he was on an al Qaeda hit list.
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Anderson Cooper admits that CNN found slain American ambassador’s journal inside U.S. consulate in Libya and ‘secretly’ used it in reporting
PUBLISHED: 12:15 EST, 22 September 2012 | UPDATED: 12:54 EST, 22 September 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207138/Anderson-Cooper-admits-CNN-slain-American-ambassadors-journal-inside-U-S-consulate-Libya-secretly-used-reporting.html

CNN host Anderson Cooper admitted on Friday that the network had come across the late Ambassador Christopher Stevens’ personal journal and used parts of it in its reporting without disclosing the source.

On Wednesday on his show Anderson Cooper 360, the journalist told Senator John McCain that ‘a source familiar with Ambassador Stevens’ thinking told us that in the months before his death he talked about being worried about the never-ending security threats that he was facing in Benghazi, and specifically about the rise in Islamist extremism and growing al Qaeda presence.’

Cooper added that ‘the source also mentioned [Stevens] being on an al Qaeda hit list.’


9 posted on 09/22/2012 11:34:40 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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10 posted on 09/22/2012 11:55:11 AM PDT by garjog (We do not want another four more years of the last four years.)
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That’s ironic. In its effort to deflect blame for the unrest, the administration has given more attention to this obscure film than it ever would have gotten if they’d simply ignored it.

Not at all ironic. They called attention to the film over, and over, and over to make sure that even a villager in the remotest part of the Islamic world knew about it. They did such a good sell job that the video need never even to have existed for BHO-HRC to have inflamed the rioters with their non-stop focus on it.

11 posted on 09/22/2012 1:04:36 PM PDT by informavoracious (Abortions are unproductive wrongs, not reproductive rights.)
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“They called attention to the film over, and over, and over to make sure that even a villager in the remotest part of the Islamic world knew about it”

You almost get the idea that Hillary and Obama have been promised oil wealth kickbacks after the Muslim Caliphate is established from Iran to Tunisia. Someone should check to see if wealthy Muslims are giving to the Clinton Library and to Obama's super packs.

12 posted on 09/22/2012 2:20:36 PM PDT by garjog (We do not want another four more years of the last four years.)
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