I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
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Obama Rewrites History
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Obama has a tactic for rewriting history that he uses all the time which drives me absolutely crazy. He says things like:
- “…and I’ve said this all along…”
- “I’ve always been very clear about this…”
- “…I’ve been very consistent about this…”
…when, in reality, no such thing ever happened. He does this every time he is confronted with a potential controversy, a flip-flop, or just anything that would make him look indecisive or shallowly pandering. He figures that if he throws those words in, that automatically makes it true and consequently rewrites history for him. He figures that no one will bother looking up the actual facts (which is often true, especially with all the free passes he gets from the mainstream media).
And here he does it again when asked by Fox News reporter Major Garrett the following question in today’s press conference: “In your opening remarks, sir, you said about Iran that you were appalled and outraged. What took you so long?”
Obama’s response was a series of bald-faced lies that insults the intelligence of just about everyone listening:
I don’t think that’s accurate. Track what I’ve been saying. Right after the election I said that we had profound concerns about the nature of the election, but that it was not up to us to determine what the outcome was.
As soon as violence broke out — in fact, in anticipation of potential violence — we were very clear in saying that violence was unacceptable, that that was not how governments operate with respect to their people.
So we’ve been entirely consistent, Major, in terms of how we’ve approached this. My role has been to say the United States is not going to be a foil for the Iranian government to try to blame what’s happening on the streets of Tehran on the CIA or on the White House, that this is an issue that is led by and given voice to the frustrations of the Iranian people.
And so we’ve been very consistent the first day, and we’re going to continue to be consistent in saying this is not an issue about the United States, this is about an issue of the Iranian people.
What we’ve also been consistent about is saying that there are some universal principles, including freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, making sure that governments are not using coercion and violence and repression in terms of how they interact with peaceful demonstrators. And we have been speaking out very clearly about that fact.
So—get this—he actually claims to have spoken out against violence before any violence broke out! If he would at least have spoken out soon after it happened, people would have been adequately satisfied. But, it took him days to formulate any statement with conviction and backbone—and now he actually has the audacity to try to claim that he took that position before any violence erupted?
Either he is a president very out of touch with world events or a president very out of touch with reality… or a very shrewd liar… none of which helps make me feel too secure about his running things.