Posted on 05/19/2013 11:22:25 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Schieffer to Obama Advisor: ‘Why Are You Here? Why Isn’t the White House Chief of Staff Here?’ By Noel Sheppard Created 05/19/2013 - 1:23pm
As NewsBusters reported two weeks ago, CBS’s Bob Schieffer is fed up with the White House’s talking points concerning what happened at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last September.
His impatience continued on Sunday's Face the Nation when Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer gave stock answers to questions about the three crises facing the President leading Schieffer to first accuse his guest of taking "exactly the approach that the Nixon administration took" and finally scolding him by asking, "Why are you here today? Why isn't the White House Chief of Staff here to tell us what happened?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DAN PFEIFFER, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR: The point that our Chief of Staff is making is that this is the Republican playbook here which is try, when they don't have a positive agenda, try to drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped up hearings and false allegations. We're not going to let that distract us and the President from actually doing the people's work and fighting for the middle class.
BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST: You know, I don’t want to compare this in any way to Watergate. I do not think this is Watergate by any stretch. But you weren't born then I would guess, but I have to tell you that is exactly the approach that the Nixon administration took. They said, “These are all second-rate things. We don't have time for this. We have to devote our time to the people's business.” You’re taking exactly the same line they did.
After Pfeiffer continued with evasive talking points, Schieffer again scolded:
SCHIEFFER: But Mr. Pfeiffer, and I don't mean to be argumentative here, but the President is in charge of the executive branch of the government. It’s my, I'll just make this as an assertion: when the executive branch does things right, there doesn't seem to be any hesitancy of the White House to take credit for that. When Osama bin Laden was killed, the President didn't waste any time getting out there and telling people about it.
But with all of these things, when these things happen, you seem to send out officials many times who don't even seem to know what has happened. And I use as an example of that Susan Rice who had no connection whatsoever to the events that took place in Benghazi, and yet she was sent out, appeared on this broadcast, and other Sunday broadcasts, five days after it happens, and I'm not here to get in an argument with you about who changed which word in the talking points and all that. The bottom line is what she told the American people that day bore no resemblance to what had happened on the ground in an incident where four Americans were killed.
Pfeiffer once again stuck with the Administration line leading Schieffer to further push back:
But what I'm saying to you is that was just PR. That was just a PR plan to send out somebody who didn't know anything about what had happened. Why did you do that? Why didn't the Secretary of State come and tell us what they knew and if he knew nothing say, “We don't know yet?” Why didn't the White House Chief of Staff come out? I mean I would, and I mean this as no disrespect to you, why are you here today? Why isn't the White House Chief of Staff here to tell us what happened?
Fabulous question.
It's pretty obvious that one of the senior members of the press corps is getting tired of the way this Administration evades serious issues. Let's hope more jump on this bandwagon.
Nice job, Bob! Bravo!
They were supplying arms to Al Qaeda groups (jihadi salifists) aka Feb 17 and Al Sharia which made/makes them extremely dangerous for future attacks...just like the Clintons did in Bosnia w/ the jihadi salifists. One wonders about 9-11...
http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/the-biggest-lies-of-our-time-serbia-versus-the-new-world-order/
http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/?s=benghazi
The Technique of a Coup d’Etat – “Revolutions”?
http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/the-technique-of-a-coup-detat/
Freeper “barryobi” broke the story (he gave it to powerline and FR)...links within links in the following threads. I was very interested because it reminded me of Clinton’s Serbia and so many others, in fact, as close to a template as one could get including the very same players, NGO’s etc.:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2939422/posts?page=2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2941267/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2931033/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939422/posts
IMO, they knowingly and deliberately armed (and paid) the Jihadi Salafists just like they did in Serbia and the socalled “genocide”.
http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/the-biggest-lies-of-our-time-serbia-versus-the-new-world-order/
http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/
Just think what Pelosi or Reid or ______ would say if this was a Republican President. That is how the Republicans should be answering these sort of questions. Use their own rules against them. Instead they play checkers.
Nachum’ list:
http://www.nachumlist.com/benghazi.htm
The first was the coordinated, full court media press of we are weak, they are strong, we need to submit, accommodate and give into the terrorists combined with a similar anti war, don't retaliate against the terrorists media push.
This was way before Bush's historic victory in Iraq r even before we began confronting Saddam.
The anti war movement re invented itself under Ramsey Clark and Code Pink within weeks of 9/11 and did everything it could to undermine response to 9/11 and they just went crazy after the start of the victorious fight against the Al Qaeda and the Taliban .
It was like the Sandy Hook and Treyvon Martin coordinated media propaganda blitzes.
There were also several mainstream media reports of Clark and Code Pink organizers anti war organizations being funded by North Korea and that Clark and Code Pink were traveling to North Korea to coordinate anti war efforts.
When the Propaganda Biltz failed, the Media did everything in their power to to undermine the war on terror.
The second was the number of people in the Democrat Party and in Washington who were saying (off the record and regardless of what they said in public) , “Thank God Bush was Elected and not Gore, because if Gore had been elected things would have been much different”
It was very clear that by different they meant different in a very bad way.
Very strange.
Who is this guy in the White House?
Remember that O's 2008 PR person----Anita "Mao" Dunn---said AFTER the election that the O Team "allowed" the media to know only what THEY wanted them to know.
Ohaha was tightly scripted on the campaign trail---saying only cute things that would get him elected----revealing none of his anti-America hatred. The Chi/mob Dunn/Axelrod/Enmanuel/Jarrett allowed NO probing questions and up-close interviews.
Ohaha was coached......genially saying on the campaign trail that he wanted to be "another Reagan." Hillary and Bill had ominous pics of Obama in Muslim garb--but Teddy Kennedy warned them not to use them.
As more facts are revealed, the more lies they will have to tell to cover. Will be fun watching them twist themselves into pretzels so as not to tarnish BO.
Ryan knew that had he answered yes, the template would change to Ryan called the President a liar
That will be shown by testimony of those who have first hand knowledge. The hearings went a long way in that direction this week
You're right Liz, the press was asleep at the switch...
I’m going to buy some popcorn and enjoy the show! :)
If memory serves me, Schiffer never had an over abundance of integrity.
hah that moochelle is monica doing blackface...hmmmmm...do i know you...
Hope you're right but there are too many people out there who just don't care as long as their freebees keep coming. They've been bought and paid for.
so then...when the so called “consulate/diplomatic facility” in Benghazi was overrun on 9-11-2012
...and the so called “annex” (allegedly staffed with 20 CIA personnel) was attacked and overrun the following morning
...the “weapons cache which they had in their possession” was disappeared into the mob of Al Qaeda/Ansar al Sharia “video protesters”?
Is that part of what you/others think this is about? Are you saying that the CIA was in agreement with the handover or not? Were the Islamos going to get the weapons anyway but decided to violently take them on their own? or were these other Islamos that hijacked the weapons before they were to go through Turkey?
-Thanks in advance if you can answer any of this. I have not really seen much of this in the media.
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You have to put yourself in the mindset of someone who knows little to nothing about the major events happening in this country.
Such a person is also usually ignorant about our country's past, so even if they happen to see or hear something of major importance, they've got no point of reference, or events of a similar nature in their knowledge base, to compare it to.
The data seems perplexing and even a bit unreal to them. What's real for them, is what's been drummed into their heads throughout their lives, which is the liberal agenda. That's something they have a lifetime of context with.
A new datum comes along which conflicts with that indoctrination, and the resulting dissonance causes them to reflexively discount the new datum - even if that new datum is factual evidence of an extremely damaging nature to those they mindlessly support.
We've now got two or three generations of Americans whose cognitive and analytical skills have been so badly disfigured by a lifetime of mental conditioning, that they just nod their heads while an Arkansas con man baffles them over the meaning of the word, 'is'.
Four dead Americans AND more than thirty others many of whom were wounded, who the sonofabitch in the white house was more than willing to let his moose slime frie4nds rape and murder. had the Libyans not sent a C130, barry butties would have had them ALL! Barack Obama is a useless drug addled queer, lying bastard boy whop has zero leadership abilities. But the bastard can sure organize division, distrust, and racial tension. He is what the entire democrip criminal enterprise has become, and the fifth column enemy, the media, work hand and glove with them.
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