Susan Rice: When the White House twists the truth, we are all less safe

[Right_in_Virginia]

Susan Rice: When the White House twists the truth, we are all less safe
Washington Post, Mar 21, 2017, Susan Rice

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Finally, many Americans, not just the broader world, recoil in anxiety and confusion when a U.S. administration fosters counterfactual assertions and projects unpredictability. When the American people question the commander in chief’s statements, his ability to harness public support to confront a national crisis is undermined.

First impressions matter, and an unsettling pattern has already been established. Still, it is possible to mitigate the long-term effects of this vacation from veracity — if the White House and the president quickly and convincingly return to the tradition of endeavoring to tell the truth from the Oval Office and the White House briefing room. If they do not, one is left to wonder whether the damage inflicted on U.S. global leadership is the deliberate derivative of the “deconstruction of the administrative state” or simply the lasting consequence of compulsive mendacity. Either way, the United States’ national security will suffer.


Read more:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/susan-rice-when-the-white-house-twists-the-truth-we-are-all-less-safe/2017/03/21/f7cdef86-0e45-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.8d9290448f2a

[Right_in_Virginia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGXy_yhOfNg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGXy_yhOfNg

[mystery-ak]

THIS IS RICH!

The same Susan Rice who went on 5 Sunday shows lying  about Benghazi

[Right_in_Virginia]

I can't believe the Democrats chose Rice as the messenger. 

[Restored]

She's the perfect spokesman because she is guilty of the same thing. She is showing the Republicans that the MSM can slap them around whenever they like.

You will notice that social media decide to crack down on "dissent" after Trump was elected. Social media has too much influence on societal narratives. The MSM has lost much of its control over the narratives it pushes.

So when Rice says Trump twists the truth and Trump supporters point to Rice twisting the truth about Benghazi, that dissent becomes "fake news". "Fake news" is news that comes from sources outside the mainstream. That's what social media wants to eliminate.

[EasyAce]

I can't believe the Democrats chose Rice as the messenger. 

I can. If they can make Chuck Schumer Senate Minority Leader and not dump Nancy Pelousy as House
Minority Leader, never mind that those two will lead that party even further down the primrose path,
Susan Rice as a spokeswoman makes perfect sense.

[rangerrebew]

Really: Susan Rice Criticizes Trump White House for 'Contorting the Facts'
Cortney O'Brien
Cortney O'Brien
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Posted: Mar 22, 2017 9:22 AM
Really: Susan Rice Criticizes Trump White House for 'Contorting the Facts'

Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, who infamously misled the American people about what transpired in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, is the last person who should be judging the Trump administration's rhetoric. Yet, in a new op-ed for The Washington Post, she goes on a tirade about how the president and his allies have made Americans less safe by "twisting the truth." Here's just one excerpt from her highly ironic piece.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/03/22/really-susan-rice-criticizes-trump-white-house-for-contorting-the-facts-n2302289