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More on Champ's '€˜boy wonder' Mr. Ben Rhodes
2016-05-11
Excerpt: [Wash Times] Rhodes now 38, was a student of fiction writing at New York University on Sept. 11, 2001. Mr. Samuels details the path he followed to become "the Boy Wonder of the Obama White House" -- "the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself."

Mr. Samuels adds that Mr. Rhodes's "lack of conventional real-world experience of the kind that normally precedes responsibility for the fate of nations -- like military or diplomatic service, or even a master’s degree in international relations, rather than creative writing -- is still startling."
It's not just that the MSM has been exposed on the Iran story. It's that they've been exposed as having been conned on just about EVERYTHING the Obama administration has put out there in the past seven years.

And how, likely, they were conned by the Democrats in the Bush years.

And how, likely, they were conned by the Clintons in Bill's two terms.

Once you demonstrate that the MSM is full of marks and rubes who are easily conned, it's hard to draw a line that says, "okay, here's a story in which the MSM wasn't manipulated."
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  sometimes resembled being installed in the driver’s seat of a car and finding that the steering wheel and brakes had been disconnected from the engine.

Dear NYT - the steering wheel and brake systems on the car are disconnected from the engine. Freakin' morons...
Posted by: Raj   2016-05-11 11:45  

#4  Could it be that they work as a team? Ben handles foreign affairs and the media, ValJar executes the domestic infiltration of Islam, MB and the like ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-05-11 11:40  

#3  Did we forget about ValJar?

You're saying look at the puppeteer not the puppets?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-05-11 03:35  

#2  the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself

Did we forget about ValJar?
Posted by: gorb   2016-05-11 03:02  

#1  Snippet from 5 May 2016 NYT piece.

In Panetta’s telling, his own experience at the Pentagon under Obama sometimes resembled being installed in the driver’s seat of a car and finding that the steering wheel and brakes had been disconnected from the engine. Obama and his aides used political elders like him, Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton as cover to end the Iraq war, and then decided to steer their own course, he suggests. While Panetta pointedly never mentions Rhodes’s name, it is clear whom he is talking about.

Link
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-05-11 02:50  

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