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2011-05-06 Home Front: Politix
Botching the narrative in the Bin Laden killing
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Posted by ryuge 2011-05-06 09:48|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 "The Navy SEALs did what they were told to do. It’s President Obama’s civilian messengers who can’t tell a straight story and do right by our heroes who risked their lives. The White House Keystone Kops aren’t just squandering a public opinion bump. They’re squandering the victory of our men in uniform, along with the intel-gatherers who made the mission possible. Milblogger Greyhawk reminds us of a past bungled narrative from this administration that undermined troop morale and national security. As Blackfive military blogger Froggy put it bluntly: “Get your s**t together, Mr President!” Michelle Malkin
Posted by Jomort the Imposter6001 2011-05-06 10:24||   2011-05-06 10:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Being the eternal optimist that I am, let us say one advantage to all the noise on the channel is that it makes it hard to filter out sources and methods. Still, it would be nice if the WH could figure out a vaguely coherent story stick to it. Or just say "No comment". Is that so hard?
Posted by SteveS 2011-05-06 11:22||   2011-05-06 11:22|| Front Page Top

#3 The truth is not hard. But spinning for the Obama image, now that is another story.
Posted by wr 2011-05-06 13:26||   2011-05-06 13:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Obama shot Osama and we got the 72 versions.

Limbaugh
Posted by Beavis 2011-05-06 14:09||   2011-05-06 14:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I read this at Instapundit. "The Obama Administration got Osama and took the Victory Lap in a clown car."
Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-05-06 14:24||   2011-05-06 14:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Bookworm on May 04 2011 at 1:53 pm

Usually when governments use misinformation, they use it to make themselves look good. The Obama Administration gets points for originality, insofar as it’s been using disinformation and misinformation to make itself look arbitrary, unlawful, helpless and stupid.

Here’s jj’s great summary:

1) There was a firefight.
2) There was no firefight.
3) Bin Laden was “resisting.”
4) Bin Laden wasn’t armed. (Makes the concept of “resisting” interesting.)
[4.a) And the newest one: the SEALS thought bin Laden was reaching for a weapon.]
5) He used his wife as a shield.
6) His wife was killed too.
7) He didn’t use his wife as a shield. She ran at a SEAL who shot her in the leg, but she’s fine.
8 ) Some other woman — the maid? — was used as a shield. By somebody. Downstairs.
9) That other woman — downstairs — was killed.
10) Maybe not. She was killed unless she wasn’t — and who was she, anyway?
11) Bin Laden’s son was killed.
12) Unless it was some other guy.
13) Bin Laden’s daughter saw him get killed. She’s undoubtedly traumatized, poor dear.
14) They were going to capture Bin Laden until the problem with the helicopter, which was:

A) It had mechanical trouble
B) It did a hard landing
C) It crashed
D) It clipped a wall with a tail rotor, effectively a crash

15.) They were never going to try to capture him; it was always a kill mission.
16.) No, it wasn’t.
17) The chopper blew up.
18) The SEALs blew it up.
19.) Panetta said yesterday the world needed proof and the photo would be released.
20.) Obama said today in an interview he taped with Steve Kroft for “60 Minutes” to be broadcast Sunday that it won’t be released. It’s too gruesome, would offend Muslim sensibilities (something he worries about a lot — I personally do not give a warm fart on a wet Wednesday about Muslim sensibilities), and how would Americans feel if Muslims released pictures of dead Americans?
21.) Kroft — who’s not a total idiot — pointed out that ever since “Black Hawk Down” days, Muslims have been doing precisely that, filming American bodies being dragged through the streets, filming Daniel Pearl’s head being cut off, filming any and everything.
22) Obama gets pissed at CBS, the tape gets cleaned up, that question disappears. (Inside info.)
23.) We got a “treasure trove” of stuff from hard drives, etc.
24.) There were no phone lines, and no internet access at the “mansion,” they didn’t even have TV — what “treasure trove?”
25.) There is obviously in the pictures of the place a large satellite dish. I guess they used it for making salads.
26.) And now, just today: apparently the idea was to capture him, but only if he was naked. There was a suspicion he might be wearing a suicide bomber type explosive vest, or belt. So if he’s not naked and you can’t see if he has a vest on or not – shoot him.
Posted by Willy 2011-05-06 17:38||   2011-05-06 17:38|| Front Page Top

#7 In a combat box, there are no rules other than quick and dead. The lowest man with the weapon decides what and what not happens. The White House is intelligent to understand that if they were to 'make an example' of anyone who supposedly pulled the trigger against 'instructions', the trigger man would probably be elected the next President with a landslide.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-06 19:41||   2011-05-06 19:41|| Front Page Top

#8 I see that post event news releases are being handled in the finest traditions of the Obama administration. Would it not have been much easier and far less painful to have established a prohibition against the release of any information concerning the raid? Malkin and Black Five are dead on.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-05-06 21:53||   2011-05-06 21:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Trying to keep track of the many spins this story gets from the WH makes me think they took lessons from Foghorn Leghorn in the new GEICO commercial.
" Son, I say Son, these boys be as phuqued up as a soup sammich on Sunday in Central park."
Posted by USN,Ret. 2011-05-06 23:07||   2011-05-06 23:07|| Front Page Top

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