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| Botching the narrative in the Bin Laden killing | |
| 2011-05-06 | |
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| Posted by:ryuge |
| #9 Trying to keep track of the many spins this story gets from the WH makes me think they took lessons from Foghorn Leghorn in the new GEICO commercial. " Son, I say Son, these boys be as phuqued up as a soup sammich on Sunday in Central park." |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2011-05-06 23:07 |
| #8 I see that post event news releases are being handled in the finest traditions of the Obama administration. Would it not have been much easier and far less painful to have established a prohibition against the release of any information concerning the raid? Malkin and Black Five are dead on. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-06 21:53 |
| #7 In a combat box, there are no rules other than quick and dead. The lowest man with the weapon decides what and what not happens. The White House is intelligent to understand that if they were to 'make an example' of anyone who supposedly pulled the trigger against 'instructions', the trigger man would probably be elected the next President with a landslide. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-05-06 19:41 |
| #6 Bookworm on May 04 2011 at 1:53 pm Usually when governments use misinformation, they use it to make themselves look good. The Obama Administration gets points for originality, insofar as itâs been using disinformation and misinformation to make itself look arbitrary, unlawful, helpless and stupid. Hereâs jjâs great summary: 1) There was a firefight. 2) There was no firefight. 3) Bin Laden was âresisting.â 4) Bin Laden wasnât armed. (Makes the concept of âresistingâ interesting.) [4.a) And the newest one: the SEALS thought bin Laden was reaching for a weapon.] 5) He used his wife as a shield. 6) His wife was killed too. 7) He didnât use his wife as a shield. She ran at a SEAL who shot her in the leg, but sheâs fine. 8 ) Some other woman â the maid? â was used as a shield. By somebody. Downstairs. 9) That other woman â downstairs â was killed. 10) Maybe not. She was killed unless she wasnât â and who was she, anyway? 11) Bin Ladenâs son was killed. 12) Unless it was some other guy. 13) Bin Ladenâs daughter saw him get killed. Sheâs undoubtedly traumatized, poor dear. 14) They were going to capture Bin Laden until the problem with the helicopter, which was: A) It had mechanical trouble B) It did a hard landing C) It crashed D) It clipped a wall with a tail rotor, effectively a crash 15.) They were never going to try to capture him; it was always a kill mission. 16.) No, it wasnât. 17) The chopper blew up. 18) The SEALs blew it up. 19.) Panetta said yesterday the world needed proof and the photo would be released. 20.) Obama said today in an interview he taped with Steve Kroft for â60 Minutesâ to be broadcast Sunday that it wonât be released. Itâs too gruesome, would offend Muslim sensibilities (something he worries about a lot â I personally do not give a warm fart on a wet Wednesday about Muslim sensibilities), and how would Americans feel if Muslims released pictures of dead Americans? 21.) Kroft â whoâs not a total idiot â pointed out that ever since âBlack Hawk Downâ days, Muslims have been doing precisely that, filming American bodies being dragged through the streets, filming Daniel Pearlâs head being cut off, filming any and everything. 22) Obama gets pissed at CBS, the tape gets cleaned up, that question disappears. (Inside info.) 23.) We got a âtreasure troveâ of stuff from hard drives, etc. 24.) There were no phone lines, and no internet access at the âmansion,â they didnât even have TV â what âtreasure trove?â 25.) There is obviously in the pictures of the place a large satellite dish. I guess they used it for making salads. 26.) And now, just today: apparently the idea was to capture him, but only if he was naked. There was a suspicion he might be wearing a suicide bomber type explosive vest, or belt. So if heâs not naked and you canât see if he has a vest on or not â shoot him. |
| Posted by: Willy 2011-05-06 17:38 |
| #5 I read this at Instapundit. "The Obama Administration got Osama and took the Victory Lap in a clown car." |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2011-05-06 14:24 |
| #4 Obama shot Osama and we got the 72 versions. Limbaugh |
| Posted by: Beavis 2011-05-06 14:09 |
| #3 The truth is not hard. But spinning for the Obama image, now that is another story. |
| Posted by: wr 2011-05-06 13:26 |
| #2 Being the eternal optimist that I am, let us say one advantage to all the noise on the channel is that it makes it hard to filter out sources and methods. Still, it would be nice if the WH could figure out a vaguely coherent story stick to it. Or just say "No comment". Is that so hard? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-05-06 11:22 |
| #1 "The Navy SEALs did what they were told to do. Its President Obamas civilian messengers who cant tell a straight story and do right by our heroes who risked their lives. The White House Keystone Kops arent just squandering a public opinion bump. Theyre squandering the victory of our men in uniform, along with the intel-gatherers who made the mission possible. Milblogger Greyhawk reminds us of a past bungled narrative from this administration that undermined troop morale and national security. As Blackfive military blogger Froggy put it bluntly: Get your s**t together, Mr President! Michelle Malkin |
| Posted by: Jomort the Imposter6001 2011-05-06 10:24 |