Today we know that the Obama administration lied to and deceived the American public in order to pass his “signature” domestic policy, the Affordable Care Act. In November I noted that US Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes had made clear that striking a nuclear deal with Iran is just as important to the President as was passing the healthcare law, and I speculated that Obama and his staff would use any means necessary to sell the Iranian deal to the public, just as they did with the ACA.
White House officials on Monday held a private conference call with liberal organizations to discuss ways of pressuring Democrats and other lawmakers on Capitol Hill into supporting a nuclear deal with Iran that is expected to be finalized in the coming days, according to an audio recording of that call obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The call, in which there were more than 100 participants, was organized by the liberal pro-Iran group Ploughshares Fund, which has spent millions of dollars to slant Iran-related coverage and protect the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts.
The White House officials described a nuclear deal with Iran as President Obama’s “signature foreign policy accomplishment” and urged liberal groups to launch an all-out lobbying campaign to pressure lawmakers, especially Democrats, to back the deal. . . .
“This has really been on the front burner from a foreign perspective, although not in the public eye necessarily, since the very beginning,” Matt Nosanchuk, an official in the White House Office of Public Engagement, told participants. “This is not an issue of the day, this is really an issue of the presidency.”
The second White House official, John Bisognano, went on to stress “the importance of this to the president.” . . .
“We have to take to our memberships all over the country,” [Robert Creamer, a member of the liberal political shop Democracy Partners] said during the call. “We all have to step up. The other side will go crazy with intensity.”
Update: In the wake of an Iranian demand to end a UN arms embargo, CNN has effectively become a mouthpiece for the White House, with anchor Chris Cuomo hosting an entire segment discussing the Iranian deal in which his only two guests were former State Department Iran negotiator Hillary Mann Leverett and Obama shill and Haaretz contributor Peter Beinart. Leverett’s tale of the doom and gloom that will await us if the deal falls through sounds like a bad sci-fi movie, going so far as to warn us that if we hadn’t made a deal with Stalin, “we might all be speaking German today.” Nice touch. But all Leverett has is speculation. In Leverett’s view, and that of the State Department and White House, Iran’s human rights abuses and sponsorship of terrorism pose no moral dilemma whatsoever. Is CNN now becoming coopted by the administration in its push to pressure Democrats to support the deal, or will they ever show viewers the other side of the argument?
A Zionist in exile, Mirabelle has, in past lives, been a lawyer, a skier, and a chef. Outside of Israel, her favorite place in the world is Sun Valley, Idaho.
A Zionist in exile, Mirabelle has, in past lives, been a lawyer, a skier, and a chef. Outside of Israel, her favorite place in the world is Sun Valley, Idaho.
