THE REAL BLIZZARD - THE BLIZZARD OF LIES
The great blizzard that Bill de Blasio warned New Yorkers about, the one that was going to be the blizzard of the century was a little late in coming. The blizzard actually started in 2009. "The Taliban is not a terror group and Bergdahl served honorably..." How often does Barack Obama and his Administration lie about things that matter? Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen wrote of this in a October 14, 2014 OpEd:
"In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of falsehoods by Hillary Rodham Clinton and declared 'Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.'
Today, Americans of all political stripes are coming to a similar, sad realization about our president. A recent Fox News poll asked Americans 'How often does Barack Obama lie to the country on important matters?' Thirty-seven percent said 'most of the time,' 24 percent said 'some of the time,' and 20 percent said “only now and then' Just 15% said 'never.'
Think about that: 81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least “now and then” on “important matters.”
Mr. Thiessen went on to write, "Because there is a culture of deceit in the Obama White House — a serial willingness to say things that are untrue to protect the president.
Think about some of the falsehoods this White House has told the country:
They told Americans that no one at the White House edited the Benghazi talking points to blame the attack on an Internet video — until it came out that Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes had urged Susan Rice 'to underscore that these protests are rooted in and Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy.'
The president repeatedly told Americans that no one would lose his or her doctor or health-care plan — until it later emerged that White House policy advisers had urged him to drop the line but “were overruled by political aides.”
Obama told Americans that there was 'not even a smidgen' of corruption at the Internal Revenue Service (while the investigation was still underway) — but then it was revealed that there had been a spontaneous combustion of hard drives among IRS officials under investigation.
Add to that White House spokesman Josh Earnest’s false claim that Obama 'wasn’t specifically referring to' Islamic State when he called them JV terrorists . . . or Obama’s false assertion that the sequester was 'not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed' . . . or his false claim that '7 million Americans . . . have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.'
The list goes on and on.
One falsehood can be a mistake. Two are troubling. But three, four, five or more in a row? That is a pattern of deceit. Or, in the immortal words of William Safire, a 'Blizzard of Lies.'”
The White House today said that the Taliban is not a terror group, but rather an “armed insurgency.”
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