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Susan Rice: Liar or Nincompoop?

In the years I’ve been watching politics and foreign affairs I don’t believe I’ve ever seen any story come unglued as fast as the Obama administration’s version of events on what happened to our diplomatic presence in Egypt and Libya on September 11, 2012. And I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a senior government official so completely repudiated in a mere week as was UN Ambassador Susan Rice.

When Ambassador Rice took to the Sunday shows last week, the implausible, even at the time, story she spun was one of the Arab street inflamed by a YouTube trailer to a video that may or may not exist. Since then we’ve learned that there was advanced warning of the attack, the staff at Benghazi was afraid an attack was in the offing, the attack was planned, it was led by a a graduate cum laude from Gitmo, and that the administration had decided not to provide US security forces for the embassy in Tripoli or the Benghazi consulate. To paraphrase Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman, “every word she says is a lie including “and” and “the”".

It is hard to paint Rice’s actions in any but the harshest light. Either the administration did not have access to the same facts as the rest of us, like the statement from the Libyan government, and made a conscious decision to try to bluff their way through events relying on the inactivity of a supine press or they did have the information and chose to lie about the events to put themselves in the best possible light. In either case, Rice should resign. But she won’t because she needs the job more than she needs integrity.

COMMENTS

  • spinoneone

    “Liar or nincompoop.” Since those two appellations are not mutually exclusive, I vote both. She played on the team. After all, she is part of Eric Holder’s “my people.”

  • veritaseequitas

    Susan Rice: Liar or Nincompoop?
    Well really, either way she does not belong in the position of power that she is in.
    After watching her on Fox News Sunday, my money is on liar….something about the way she was rapidly blinking her eyes as the words were coming out of her mouth makes me believe that. Not to mention the sheer idiocy of what she was saying.

  • thx1138v2

    Or both? That would be my take. Liar to perpetuate the lie. Nincompoop to not recognize that the American people can see through the lie.
    There’s an interesting article on Breitbart today that basically says that the trailer was virtually unknown until the administration started advertising it and that the advertising was to intentionally inflame the middle east to detract from the administration’s failures. So beyond laying the blame for American deaths in Libya at this administration’s feet we can also lay the blame for this sprate of middle east unrest at this administration’s feet.

  • jastahl

    the key phrase is “relying on the inactivity of a supine press”. This whole election is going to be decided on what the main stream press chooses to focus on. Independent voters are not likely to watch Fox or MSNBC. So they will see the big three networks or read major newspapers online. This means they will not hear anything negative about the current administration. The whole thing is just sad and a bit scary. Focusing for a whole week on a secretly taped video from months ago. Then every MSNBC show features comments from people they hate – Peggy Noonan, Bill Kristol, etc. Why? Because they are Conservative Republicans beating up on Governor Romney. Nothing will sway an independent voter more than having people from the candidate’s own party tearing them down. Why do Republicans do that? When have you ever heard of a Democrat doing that… except for Cory Booker.. who was taken to the woodshed and suddenly changed his whole tune.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    streiff: look at Obama’s remarks during the Univision interview…the scary thing is HE believes it despite all the evidence to the contrary. As you say, this is astonishing; the President of the United States is either a liar or nincompoop (and I am starting to believe nincompoop). Either way, he is getting Americans killed. If I played Mitt Romney on tv, I’d give the following remarks:

    Eleven days ago, I called the actions of radical Islamic extremism that breached our embassy, burned our flag and killed our ambassador disgusting and heart rendering. I said the President blaming Americans and the apologizing to the radical thugs who attack us was humiliating and ineffective. A wide range of folks thought I acted hastily and should give the President more time. I disagree in a crisis, a President has to be willing to lead from the front not run for cover but this is America and everyone has a right to 1st Amendment right to state their opinion.

    Here we are 11 days later, the response of the President’s administration has been a clown show. To recap, the President and Secretary of State both tried to put the blame on a silly YouTube video and sent the Ambassador to the UN on every Sunday show to beclown herself and reiterate this silly notion that students in a spontaneous demonstration bring mortars and rpg’s. The White House Press Secretary gave this idiotic line in his press briefings for several days. Then the White House terrorism czar and the Press Secretary admitted that the whole idea was silly with the Press Secretary calling it “self evident”. Alas, at his Univision town hall, the President must not have read the briefing memo because he again reiterated his silly and frankly insulting notion that the killing of an Ambassador was due to an American making a YouTube video.

    Three points: 1) This is not the fault of Americans; it’s the fault of radical Islamist who despite what the President believes are in their minds at war with the US. 2) The idea that Muslim’s just can’t contain themselves over a video and are forced into violence is insulting, belittling and beneath the Presidency 3) The clown show the President has put on the last couple of weeks projects weakness and stupidity to our enemies. Nothing emboldens our enemies through the world quite like weakness and stupidity. As a follow up, having been successful in Libya, Islamist terrorist launched another attack against a military compound in Afghanistan killing two marines and destroying 200 million dollars worth of US fighter jets. At the same time, Iranian forces openly invaded Syria. The President’s ineffectual policy of appease and apologize leaves our allies threatened on all sides, emboldens our enemies and quite frankly gets Americans killed.

  • proudmarinemom

    Poor Susie was under some serious pressure from the One to engage in high-level CYA spin. What did we expect her to say? That the Obama Administration blew it, missed the clues, forgot to look at the calendar that day, so bring on the lawsuits? Or, that Barack Obama has a deal going with the Muslim Brotherhood to allow these things to happen, but you didn’t hear it from me?

    Of course, she is a liar, but she’s believes in her empty little head that she’s doing it for noble reasons. Dead Navy Seals and Ambassadors are just collateral damage to her.

  • proudmarinemom

    The most effective speeches are those that understand the impact of brevity.

    Romney uses too many words. He should simply say this: “Islamic extremists have declared war on American citizens. As your Commander-in-Chief I will answer that declaration by withdrawing all support from nations that harbor them and I will use whatever force is necessary to protect American citizens.”

  • SoFiMil

    This is reminiscent o the Spanish government’s attempt to blame the 2004 Madrid terrorist attacks on Eta – for political reasons just before Spain’s Presidential election.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    You have to be willing to call the President out for his failure and explain why it is failure – if you don’t people think your name calling. They have to be given reasons why the President has failed not slogans (mainly because they stop believing the slogans). You can do this and not drone on for an hour. A President ran a clown show, got people killed, apologized for Americans, and then insulted all Muslims by saying essentially bless their hearts those barbarians don’t know any better. Come to think of it – it’s the whole justification for his Presidency, bless their hearts I know better than everyone else.

  • Darin_H

    Liar. and a poor one at that.

  • jamesm

    Liar is correct.

  • proudmarinemom

    I know. I still think Toby Keith has it right.

  • http://hehasfailed.wordpress.com/ HopeHeFails

    High heels have no place in the Middle East.

  • fightnright

    Right; choosing from the two is a false dilemma. She’s misleading the American public about our security, is clueless following people and events in her bailiwick, plus she’s a tool of a lawless, incompetent administration and should be out on her @ss. Pronto.

  • Jack_Savage

    Both.

  • jamesm

    Too many times Americans have waffled between whether Obama is incompetent or deliberately ruining the country. Same thing with Eric Holder. Is Holder a liar or incompetent in regards to Fast and Furious? We, as conservatives, think that people must be stupid do take the actions Obama has taken. It is hard to imagine that someone would deliberately attempt to destroy the America we have known. Believe it. This administration is not stupid. This admistration is evil and deliberate. Susan Rice was deliberately lying to avoid that fact that this was a terrorost attack on Americans. Now she will attempt to use plausible deniabllity to distance herself. Same liberal tactic Holder uses,

  • fightnright

    The MSM coverage of the Libyan terrorist strike has been a real-life example of the classic punchlines about the NYTimes:

    Headline: MITT ROMNEY CALLS 47% SLACKERS*
    bottom of page: *california destroyed in earthquake

    Only it’s not funny anymore. The press has now completely abandoned any pretense of journalism and moved from irrelevance and stupidity to public endangerment.

  • veritaseequitas

    Right?

  • SoFiMil

    Connecting the dots…………………….

  • ctredstater

    once this article – and the facts in it I am sure that the MSM will be demanding her resignation. . . . NOT
    Life in the Alternate Universe continues.

  • rodguy911

    Maybe there is another answer.
    Maybe this is all David Axlerots work. It’s a classic astroturf effort that well may have worked and here’s how.
    Send a good looking, sincere,black woman out to every dbm net there is.One who is high up in the echelon of the administration and just tell her to lie her ass off.
    She does.
    No one believes her but Axel knows the story has a life of only a few days, a week at best.The week ends.
    The obamedia dutifully goes back to Romney’s 47% and the release of his tax records. Stuff they would much rather cover.
    Who had the guts to call a black potus or a black ambassador to the UN liars? Few, in full view of everyone, where it counts. Many in the privacy of closed doors. Exactly what the bent axel was looking for.
    He plays the race card one more time,astroturfs a bad polling item that reflects yet another pr disaster of an incompetent administration in free-fall which loses points in the elections and gets back to the real issues of the campaign. What evil deed has Mitt Romney committed this week? Axel dodges a huge bullet once again.
    So who won?
    It was not America.

  • http://mybestconservativeblog.blogspot.com/ constructiveconservative

    Wow….

    ” Since then we’ve learned that there was advanced warning of the attack, the staff at Benghazi was afraid an attack was in the offing, the attack was planned, it was led by a a graduate cum laude from Gitmo, and that the administration had decided not to provide US security forces for the embassy in Tripoli or the Benghazi consulate. To paraphrase Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman, “every word she says is a lie including “and” and “the””. ”

    Is there really anything left to say…except…..Why is the election still even close? The answer to that question may well decide our fate for the rest of the century.

  • 98_fxdl

    Well, duh! She’s a dimocRAT politician which means she’s a liar to the core. There is no truth in a dimocRAT politician. The nincompoops are the brain-dead that vote for dimocRAT politicians.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    Liar or Nincompoop? streiff, I vote she is both!

  • teapartypatriot4ever

    Susan Rice: Liar or Nincompoop?

    You mean- Susan Rice: Liar and Nincompoop..

    She is just another Obama stooge, parroting, peddling, promulgating Obama’s rhetoric of propagandist lies. The truth, the facts of evidence is what makes Susan Rice, along with her soon to be fired boss Obama, the most non-credible, untrustworthy, deceitful lying elected and or appointed govt officials ever to be in power in US history.

    This is what they, Obama, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, and all the rest of Obama’s crony henchmen and women represent in this corrupt, immoral, insidious, seditious, traitorous, govt regime.

    Take note Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton- aka, Obama stooges.. This is from a real Sec of State-

    Sec of State Condoleezza Rice: ‘No country, no not even a rising
    China, can do more harm to us than we can do to ourselves’… unquote

  • tngal

    Obama now has his very own “Mission Accomplished” moment. He believes in Arab Spring and that democracy is taking hold, and we are safe. He will have his staff push that meme till their gums bleed, and any little outbursts in the region are just local issues and have nothing to do with America. Susan Rice’s gums are bleeding.

  • jiminga

    Rice is simply an Obamabot who said what she was told to say. Since Hillary decreed DOS would have no further comments until the FBI completed its “investigation” (and subsequently commented anyway), and the FBI refuses to comment about an ongoing investigation, Obama had to send someone out to the talk shows who had no connection to either department. So Rice became the stooge….literally.

    Amateurs all.

  • robotech

    Easy one.
    She’s a LYING NINCOMPOOP!

  • gjkozy

    What I don’t understand is why they would lie and what benefits could be derived from such a stupid statement. When the common American citizen can deduce that the attack in Lybia was a planned affair our leader kept blowing smoke up our backside to say it was over a video.

    Is it because our commander in chief failed to attend his security briefings and was caught with his pants down or is there some other nefarious reason for his initial denial. Instead of pointing to the real circumstances he attacks our constitution, namely the first amendment, freedom of speech,
    This traitor president hates our constitution because it limits his power, which it was specifically designed to do. Piece by piece he will try to erode the foundations that makes this country great, another four years of this person and anyone right of center will become enemies of the state.