Ben Rhodes and the Media – The Palace Guards of the Obama Administration

Ben Rhodes is an Obama foreign policy adviser who has been in the news for the past week after it was revealed that he perpetrated a deception on congress and the media in the push for Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.

Frank Gaffney has been covering the subject on Secure Freedom Radio and recently spoke to Jim Hanson about it. Hanson is the Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy and a Green Beret.

Gaffney noted that National Public Radio recently tried to brush off the Ben Rhodes controversy as a non-issue and asked for Hanson’s thoughts on the subject:

“I won’t give you my thoughts, how about I give you the editor of the New York Times Magazine’s thoughts when he responded to these accusations? He said they A.  Fact checked and researched the story before it was published and B. Once this push back started, they went back and checked every single complaint these people had and they stand behind the story 100 percent, so I don’t know. If liberals want to complain about this debacle, they might want to take it up with their house organ the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, not us. I think the larger problem Frank, is that this is another perfect example – liberals are complaining that they got caught being the palace scribes for the Obama administration.”

Gaffney then brought up another recent revelation, the claim that the Clinton Foundation received approximately $100 million dollars from sources in the Persian Gulf. Hanson weighed in:

“Is it pay-for-play that we could lay out and say, OK, the UAE gave the Clintons tens of millions of dollars and got this? Maybe. The Saudis got arms deals, OK? Directly after donations, the next rounds of arms deals showed a huge increase to approved deals to Saudi Arabia. Dubai is in the same boat, all of these countries which are absolutely not our friends, they’re frenemies at best, are part of the Obama administration’s outreach to the enemy in all intents and purposes. The Muslim Brotherhood influenced parts of that world, where Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton determined who were our friends. Now in Hillary’s case, it’s not shocking given that her top aide Huma Abedin comes out of a family of Muslim Brotherhood operatives and worked for one of their house publishing organs herself. So the whole idea that this administration, Obama, Clinton and Kerry decided that the Muslim Brotherhood was the solution not the problem, is the problem. And the fact that huge amounts of money went into the direct control of a woman who wants to be the next president of the United States should concern anybody who believes that the United States should not be for sale to Jihadists.”

On a related note, Gaffney brought up the findings of a recent poll by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation which focused on Muslim migrants to Europe.  Hanson explained that the poll found these migrants consider themselves Muslim first and all national considerations came second. In other words, Muslim migrants to Europe have little interest in accepting the national identity of countries to which they’re moving, they would rather transform European nations to fit their Muslim world view.

For the last topic of discussion, Gaffney brought up Obama’s decree on transgender people and bathrooms in public schools and mentioned an implication which probably hasn’t occurred to many members of the public. This situation could bleed over into the military.

Hanson noted that the Obama administration does things like this for a reason. As the government, they control public schools and own the military. They’re using the military as a social laboratory to advance their progressive agenda with no regard for how it affects military readiness, which it certainly does.

Will our palace guard media report that?