The new White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, came to the briefing room on Tuesday with domestic policy adviser Susan Rice. This came two days after CNN’s Brian Stelter celebrated the “refreshing” arrival of “transparency and truth” at the briefings.
Rice is best remembered in conservative circles for spewing falsehoods on five Sunday talk shows on Sept. 16, 2012, when she was White House national security adviser: She claimed the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans was a “spontaneous reaction” to an Islamophobic YouTube video, not a terrorist attack. “Protesters” showed up with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, but the attack was somehow “spontaneous.” CBS later reported Team Obama knew on Sept. 11, the day of the attack, that it was a terrorist attack.
Seeing Rice at the White House podium this week, a friend of mine suggested Rice has never been “fact-checked.” Well, that can’t be, I thought. Then I went to the PolitiFact website, which strangely had a Susan Rice page … but not a single “fact-check” of Rice, even though PolitiFact was founded in 2007 and Rice worked for then-President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017. It never put her on its tilted “Truth-O-Meter.”
It turns out PolitiFact gave then-press secretary Jay Carney a “Mostly False” rating in 2013 for saying there was no effort by Rice to “play down” the terrorism angle in interviews. But Rice evaded a rating.
As PolitiFact did for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s claims of having Cherokee ancestry, it addressed Rice’s unmasking controversy in April 2017 with an article “in context” (avoiding the Truth-O-Meter). The headline read, “In context: Did Susan Rice lie about unmasking Trump associates?” On “PBS NewsHour,” anchor Judy Woodruff asked Rice “whether Trump transition officials, including the president, may have been swept up in surveillance of foreigners at the end of the Obama administration.” Rice said, “I know nothing about this.”
By then, Bloomberg had reported that Rice made requests to unmask then-President Donald Trump’s aides. Last May, we learned Rice sent an email to herself noting that she attended an Oval Office meeting on Jan. 5, 2017, to discuss surveillance of her successor, Michael Flynn.
But PolitiFact’s Lauren Carroll couldn’t decide on truthfulness: “At this point, too little is known about the allegations against Rice … to assess whether Rice’s March 22 comment … was truthful.”
The indecision is almost amusing. “(L)ooking at the PBS interview in its full context, it’s not 100 percent clear that Rice made an intentionally false statement, though she might have omitted relevant (and potentially classified) information,” Carroll wrote.
PolitiFact instead threw a “False” rating at Republican Sen. Tom Cotton for claiming “it is unusual” for a national security adviser “to make unmasking requests.”
Then, in August 2020, as Rice was mentioned as a potential running mate for Biden, PolitiFact’s Louis Jacobson evaluated the Benghazi incident (no Truth-O-Meter). “Our review of transcripts found that Rice consistently emphasized the importance of the video,” he explained. “In fact, she told CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ that ‘we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned.'” Jacobson balanced it out with a quote from Rice in which she claims any criticism is “is dishonest, and it’s a distraction,” as well as quotes from “experts” who beat around the bush by arguing that the false “talking points” weren’t hers.
In addition, Jacobson noted, “Rice acknowledged to House investigators in September 2017 that she had unmasked Flynn and other Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York in late 2016.” Somehow, Jacobson couldn’t find the space to compare this acknowledgement with how Rice claimed on PBS in 2017 that she knew nothing.
PolitiFact has been protecting Susan Rice, not acting on behalf of “transparency and truth.”
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
Susan Bengahzi Rice, I think you should be sent to Benghazi, after we strip you of your Citizenship. Hey Susan, look at yourself in the mirror when you say the words “prolific liar and traitor”. When your time comes, which it will for all of us, to meet your maker, I wonder how you will like living in ****, with the devil. I wonder how hot the eternal flames, from the devil’s home, will be?
AND take the rest of the Commucrat party and media WITH YOU< when we kick you out!
CNN’s Brian Stelter celebrated the “refreshing” arrival of “transparency and truth”
Sept. 16, 2012, when she was White House national security adviser: She claimed the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans was a “spontaneous reaction” to an Islamophobic YouTube video, not a terrorist attack.
I suppose then it depends on what your definition of transparency and truth is ? Clearly the Fake News defines things differently than I.
But the again, Quid Pro Joe chooses Truth Over Facts so who knows.
Susan rice, the Democrat serving of Organic long grained brown rice,,,,,long on tooth, short on truth. This Rice crawfishes about the facts bowl so swiftly, she belongs in an establishment etouffee. In this multi-seasoned Jambalaya administration, she brings the Rice, Biden the meathead, and Kamala the socialist sausage, whose diversity seasonings of their administrative elements can be mostly be found growing or dwelling in swamp water, which when used in their recipes provides little clarity and transparency of what people are about to digest.
They wouldn’t know the truth, IF THEY RAN FACE first, into it!
“Transparency and truth” in the new Orwellian Newspeak is anything but…
Tomorrow’s headline: “Susan Rice appointed Czar of new Ministry of Transparency and Truth”
“Golden Rule:” If the left says something, it is actually the opposite. When they point at “inciting” of others, THEY are the ones doing so. When they point at quid-pro-quo, THEY are the ones guilty. Unfortunately, they have a compliant news, entertainment, and education industry in their pockets. And until this last administration, no one who would truly fight.
During her press conference yesterday, excessively woke Susan Rice confirmed the Biden administration’s commitment to imposing racial equity on what she described as a systemically racist America and wage an aggressive war on the existential threat posed by White supremacy. Just in case you don’t know, you are a White supremacist / domestic terrorist if you have committed any of the following “crimes”:
1) Voted for President Trump
2) Attended a Trump rally
3) Believe there was significant election and voter fraud that favored Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election
4) Have conservative political views and/or support Republican candidates
5) Deny the existence of systemic racism
6) advocate for secure borders
7) Just once used the term “China virus” to refer to the COVID-19 virus
8) Believe the Constitution applies equally to ALL Americans
9) Questioned the validity of either one of President Trump’s impeachments
10) Believe in the greatness of America and the rule of law
11) Do not support sanctuary states and cities
12) Believe that Antifa actually exists
The above list is not complete but it gives you a clear idea of the type of people that the radical Democrats believe are a mortal danger to our republic. The people on the left’s enemies list can best be described using the following term: patriotic, law-abiding Americans.
Don’t forget
13_ If you’ve ever referred to illegal aliens, AS illegal aliens..
14) IF you want Election reform, TO INCLUDE MANDATORY ID checks
15) if you only want AMERICAN CITIZENS to vote
16) If you only want our tax dollars to go to AMERICAN citizens..
17) If you are white.
How about we just assume theat whatever is said is patently false and leave it at that!
The mainstream media acts as propaganda agents for the Democrat Party. If their mouth is moving they are probably lying.
if they are breathing, they’re lying!
This article is incorrect, as it states that Rice was the “White House national security adviser” at the time she went on the five shows and lied about the attack being cause by some video. Rice at that time actually was the Ambassador to the United Nations. Obama rewarded her for her unspeakable actions concerning the raid by promoting her to the position of White House national security adviser. Just the kind of person we need in this new administration, as she obviously is a “good soldier”.
MORE and more, it seems the MORE treasonous you are, the MORE you’re rewarded.