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Courtesy of The Hill, a stunning admission from the White House:
The White House on Friday said Vice President Biden was speaking for himself and President Obama when he said the administration was unaware of additional requests for security in Libya.“He was speaking directly for himself and for the president,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said at his daily briefing.The explanation came after Biden made waves during his debate with GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan by indicating the administration was unaware of requests by State Department officials for additional security in Libya.
Oh, so the Obama White House isn’t part of the Obama Administration? And “The White House” is an organization distinct from B. Hussein Obama and J. Biden? They’re just a couple of guys the “White House” occasionally meets for drinks after work? You learn the most amazing things listening to Jay Carney.
The staggering incompetence of the Obama Administration has rocked even some of their media supporters. The best thing they can do at this point is try to downplay the significance of what Obama, Biden, and their spokespeople are saying. They report the news as quickly as possible, in the softest whisper they can manage, and hope readers don’t absorb the import of what they’re saying.
Some reporters are doing nice work on the Benghazi debacle, but Big Media, as a whole, is not building a “narrative” that ties it all together, they way they most certainly would for a Republican administration. If Vice President Sarah Palin had tried to excuse patently false statements made during a debate, concerning a debacle that claimed the lives of four Americans, by claiming that she and President John McCain really weren’t part of the McCain Administration, you’d be seeing 24/7 “America in Crisis” news coverage of it all weekend.
Leaving the Administration’s deceits unconnected by a narrative thread allows ridiculous falsehoods to be taken as serious responses. Obama’s people keep insisting that they’ve been calmly and rationally “investigating” the Benghazi attack, and releasing the best information they have at each given moment. That’s nonsense – they haven’t “released” anything since the “spontaneous video protest” fantasy. All the valid information Americans have about the Benghazi attack has come from investigative reporting and Congressional oversight. The Administration hasn’t given us the truth; we’ve taken it from them.
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