It looks like the MSM has shifted into high gear on the behalf of Barack Obama, the Candidate of Inevitability and they’re going to make damned sure that the Inevitable happens. This weekend, the New York Times, which has already published two thinly-sources smear jobs against John McCain in the past couple of months, has sallied forth to lie for the Obamessiah.
Here’s the article’s claim:
Susan E. Rice, a former State Department and National Security Council official who is a foreign policy adviser to the Democratic candidate, said that “for political purposes, Senator Obama’s opponents on the right have distorted and reframed” his views. Mr. McCain and his surrogates have repeatedly stated that Mr. Obama would be willing to meet “unconditionally” with Mr. Ahmadinejad. But Dr. Rice said that this was not the case for Iran or any other so-called “rogue” state. Mr. Obama believes “that engagement at the presidential level, at the appropriate time and with the appropriate preparation, can be used to leverage the change we need,” Dr. Rice said. “But nobody said he would initiate contacts at the presidential level; that requires due preparation and advance work.”
Yes, well. That might look good in an article but it is not only wrong, but so ludicrously wrong as to constitute a baldfaced lie. Allah nails Obama’s minion and the Times:
Not only did the Prince of Peace say at the YouTube debate last July that he’d meet personally and without precondition with Iran, he reaffirmed that position in November in an interview with — ta da — the New York Times, a fact, incredibly, that’s omitted from today’s article
Not only can you find it there but, as Allah notes, you can find it in a debate where it was criticized by both Hillary Clinton and John Edwards and on the Obamessiah’s own website. I do need to provide that quote, because it is unequivocal:
Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions.
Dr. Rice either doesn’t know what he guy’s position is, or she knows and she lied about it. The New York Times has no such alibi of ignorance.
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Media Bias
