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   From: coons@ferguson.com   
      
   The hypocrisy of blacks and democrats is running true to course.   
      
   The liberal mass media foamed all over themselves when blacks   
   were rioting and destroying things, yet failed to point out   
   their natural tendencies of destruction and lawlessness.   
      
   Now they're making an issue of a flag after a shooting?   
      
   Does anyone smell another Obama lie in the making?   
      
      
   Obama's 'Blame the Video' Fraud Started in Cairo, Not Benghazi   
      
   Here is the main point: The rioting at the American embassy in   
   Cairo was not about the anti-Muslim video. As argued here   
   repeatedly (see here and here), the Obama administration’s   
   “Blame the Video” story was a fraudulent explanation for the   
   September 11, 2012, rioting in Cairo every bit as much as it was   
   a fraudulent explanation for the massacre in Benghazi several   
   hours later.   
      
   Mr. Carney was grilled about just-released e-mails that   
   corroborate what many of us have been arguing all along: “Blame   
   the Video” was an Obama-administration–crafted lie, through and   
   through. It was intended, in the stretch run of the 2012   
   campaign, to obscure the facts that   
      
   (a) the president’s foreign policy of empowering Islamic   
   supremacists contributed directly and materially to the Benghazi   
   massacre;   
      
   (b) the president’s reckless stationing of American government   
   personnel in Benghazi and his shocking failure to provide   
   sufficient protection for them were driven by a political-   
   campaign imperative to portray the Obama Libya policy as a   
   success — and, again, they invited the jihadist violence that   
   killed our ambassador and three other Americans; and   
      
   (c) far from being “decimated,” as the president repeatedly   
   claimed during the campaign (and continued to claim even after   
   the September 11 violence in Egypt and Libya), al-Qaeda and its   
   allied jihadists remained a driving force of anti-American   
   violence in Muslim countries — indeed, they had been   
   strengthened by the president’s pro-Islamist policies.   
      
   The explosive e-mails that have surfaced thanks to the   
   perseverance of Judicial Watch make explicit what has long been   
   obvious: Susan Rice, the president’s confidant and ambassador to   
   the U.N., was strategically chosen to peddle the   
   administration’s “Blame the Video” fairy tale to the American   
   people in appearances on five different national television   
   broadcasts the Sunday after the massacre.   
      
   She was coached about what to say by other members of the   
   president’s inner circle. One of the e-mails refers expressly to   
   a “prep call” that Ambassador Rice had with several   
   administration officials on late Saturday afternoon right before   
   her Sunday-show appearances.   
      
   The tangled web of deception spun by the administration has   
   previously included an effort to distance the White House (i.e.,   
   the president) from Rice’s mendacious TV performances. Thus,   
   Carney was in the unenviable position Wednesday of trying to   
   explain the “prep call” e-mail, as well as other messages that   
   illuminate the Obama White House’s deep involvement in coaching   
   Rice.   
      
   The e-mails manifest that Rice’s performances were campaign   
   appearances, not the good-faith effort of a public official to   
   inform the American people about an act of war against our   
   country. Her instructions were “To underscore that these   
   protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader   
   failure of policy”; and “To reinforce the President and   
   Administration’s strength and steadiness in dealing with   
   difficult challenges” (emphasis added).   
      
   Carney risibly claimed that the “prep call” was “not about   
   Benghazi.” Instead, according to him, it was “about the protests   
   around the Muslim world.”   
      
   Two points must be made about this. The first involves the   
   administration’s blatant lying. Benghazi was the only reason   
   Rice was going on the Sunday shows. If the massacre had not   
   happened, there would not have been an extraordinary   
   administration offering of one top Obama official to five   
   different national television networks to address a calamity   
   that had happened a few days before.   
      
   Moreover, as is well known to anyone who has ever been involved   
   in government presentations to the media, to Congress, to   
   courts, and to other fact-finding bodies, the official who will   
   be doing the presentation is put through a “murder board”   
   preparation process.   
      
   This is a freewheeling session in which the questions likely to   
   be asked at the presentation are posed, and potential answers —   
   especially to tough questions — are proposed, discussed, and   
   massaged. The suggestion that Rice, less than 24 hours before   
   being grilled by high-profile media figures, was being prepped   
   on something totally separate and apart from the incident that   
   was the sole reason for her appearance is so farfetched it is   
   amazing that Carney thought he could make it fly.   
      
   The second point brings us full circle to Egypt. Why would   
   Carney claim, with a straight face, that Rice was being prepped   
   “about protests around the Muslim world”? Because, other than   
   Benghazi, the “protest around the Muslim world” that Americans   
   know about is the rioting (not “protest,” rioting) at the U.S.   
   embassy in Cairo a few hours before the Benghazi siege.   
      
   When Benghazi comes up, the administration — President Obama,   
   Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Jay Carney, et al. — loves to talk   
   about the Cairo “protests.” Why? Because the media, and thus the   
   public, have bought hook, line, and sinker the fraudulent claim   
   that those “protests” were over the anti-Muslim video. Obama &   
   Co. shrewdly calculate that if you buy “Blame the Video” as the   
   explanation for Cairo, it becomes much more plausible that you   
   will accept “Blame the Video” as the explanation for Benghazi —   
   or, at the very least, you will give Obama officials the benefit   
   of the doubt that they could truly have believed the video   
   triggered Benghazi, despite a mountain of evidence to the   
   contrary. You see, the Benghazi fraud hinges on the success of   
   the Cairo fraud. If you are hoodwinked by the latter, they have   
   a much better chance of getting away with the former.   
      
   But “Blame the Video” is every bit as much a deception when it   
   comes to Cairo. Thanks to President Obama’s policy of supporting   
   the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic supremacists in Egypt,   
   post-Mubarak Cairo became a very hospitable place for jihadists.   
   That included al-Qaeda leaders, such as Mohammed Zawahiri,   
   brother of al-Qaeda emir Ayman Zawahiri; and leaders of Gama’at   
   al-Islamia (the Islamic Group), the terrorist organization led   
   by the Blind Sheikh — Omar Abdel Rahman, the terrorist I   
   convicted in 1995 for running the jihadist cell that bombed the   
   World Trade Center and plotted to bomb other New York City   
   landmarks.   
      
   In the weeks before September 11, 2012, these jihadists plotted   
   to attack the U.S. embassy in Cairo. In fact, the Blind Sheikh’s   
   son threatened a 1979 Iran-style raid on the embassy: Americans   
   would be taken hostage to ransom for the Blind Sheikh’s release   
      
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