The White House Storms Fox News To Refute Idiotic Republican Talking Point on Iran Deal

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/11/25/tony-blinken-refutes-idiotic-republican-talking-point-iran-nuclear-deal-fox.html

The White House Storms Fox News To Refute Idiotic Republican Talking Point on Iran Deal
By: Justin Baragona
Monday, November, 25th, 2013, 1:28 pm


On Monday morning, White House Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss the recent deal between Iran and the United States regarding Iran’s nuclear program. While this was a historic diplomatic agreement between countries that have long been at odds, and could potentially bring lasting peace to the Middle East, apparently there are Republicans who feel it is all just a sideshow to distract from the bigger picture: Obamacare.

Yes, the new talking point this morning is that Obama made sure to strike a deal with Iran so that he could get people to stop talking about the ‘disastrous’ rollout of the ACA and the website. Yes, finally coming to the table with Iran after 34 long years of bitter tension and hateful rhetoric is nothing more than a shiny object used by Obama to get Americans’ attention away from how they should feel about the ACA. Thankfully, Blinken poked a hole in that stupid talking point while talking with Steve Doocy:

DOOCY: Right, Tony, some people are skeptical, a little critical. They’re going, why now? Oh, maybe because so they’re trying to change the subject, Obamacare not working out. President’s approval at 38 percent. What do you say?

BLINKEN: Well, I don’t do health care, but I think we can probably figure out a way to insure tens of millions of Americans and prevent Iran from getting the bomb at the same time. The fact of the matter is, this was growing urgent. Iran was advancing down all three lines of activity. We wanted to stop that. We wanted to stop the program, and we wanted to see if we could get a comprehensive deal that resolves this once and for all. That’s exactly what we now have the opportunity to do.

Blinken made Doocy look like a first-rate idiot who was more interested in setting a stupid narrative than actually discussing the fact that the United States is going to get Iran to stop its nuclear weapons program. The fact is, the President isn’t sitting in the White House and wondering how his next move is going to be interpreted by the Republicans and their willing media partners. He has a country to run and a world stage to worry about. He has real problems to try to solve that don’t take a backseat to media narrative of the day.

This is the Republicans’ operation mode. They are only ever interested in discussing one thing and beating it into the ground. When they feel they have one topic that they can win against this president (Benghazi, the ACA), they will hammer it into the ground until it is six feet under. The thing is, while they fall victim, time and time again, to their own tunnel-vision, President Obama is going out and taking care of business. Whether it is in regards to Syria, Iran or any other subject, he is not allowing himself to be caught in the echo chamber of Republican idiocy.

History will show just how badly the Republican Party acted during Obama’s presidency. While they were more concerned about obstructing him every step of the way, he somehow persevered and got the country back on the right track. He fought tooth and nail to defend the health care law, he made America safer by not only ending two wars, but hunting down and killing Bin Laden and coming to historic weapon agreements with Syria and Iran. Job growth continues to rise in this country, as does the stock market. He inherited a dysfunctional mess left by an awful president and, without any help from Republicans, has gotten this country turned around.

[annabanana]

1. kickeroo! . . . n/t

[babylonsister]

38. Is today your birthday?

[annabanana]

44. why yes...

busted by Facebook.

I wish people used their DU handles there. It might clear up some "friend"mysteries.

[babylonsister]

45. Ha!

I would be one of those 'mysteries'.

[JNelson6563]

48. Happy Birthday!

[Aerows]

54. Happy Birthday, fellow Sagittarius

Mine is the 3rd of December

[TexasTowelie]

2. Republicans are known for rewriting

history and textbooks. More reasons to keep them out of office.

[0rganism]

3. History will show just how badly the Republican Party acted during Obama’s presidency

That's one reason right-wingers have a secondary goal of being the ones to write history. They don't have to be factually accurate or follow any kind of accepted analytic model when they do so either, just so long as they discredit those they opposed and laud those of whom they approve. Of course, there will be other, better sources of history; naturally, they will rail against such versions as loudly as possible.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

6. I agree. They will not look better with age. It is disgusting.

and it needs to be in the history books as a horrendous example of partisan and personal hatred being actualized to the detriment of governance and our nation.

[TroglodyteScholar]

18. But look at what all has been accomplished

Yes, more could happen without the obstruction, but picture how some of these republicans will feel when they realize that history judges them to be extraneous at best....

[ChisolmTrailDem]

4. Remember how blind-sided the RWNJs were when Obama got Osama? Hahahaha! Idiots! n/t

[AlbertCat]

60. Remember how blind-sided the RWNJs were when Obama ....

.... WON, for the 2nd time?

[Scuba]

5. Blinken did NOT make Doocy look like a first-rate idiot.

You know the punchline.

[Wolf Frankula]

13. He's not a first rate idiot.

He's not a first rate anything. He's a fourth rate idiot at best, and a waste of skin.

Wolf

[rhett o rick]

36. He is a hero to Faux's base. nm

[MustBeTheBooz]

40. I have hangovers smarter than Doocy.

[sheshe2]

7. k&r

Well, I don’t do health care, but I think we can probably figure out a way to insure tens of millions of Americans and prevent Iran from getting the bomb at the same time.

Yes, the Democrats can walk AND talk at the same time. The Republicans only know how to hit reverse and re-WHINE!

The world is watching, keep it up Repukes.

[lobodons]

14. Republicans still trying to figure out

Republicans are still trying to figure out the walking upright thing.

[sheshe2]

16. Good point, lobodons. nt

[Vietnameravet]

8. Of course we know why they say this..

They have no plans of their own and are scared to death that Obamacare will work and people will see them for what they are...( you can fill in the blank...)

[pangaia]

9. I kinda wish that instead fo being so polite,

Blinken had told them to their faces, right in front of everyone watching, what a bunch of 'blinken' lying asshats Fox is. How they just sit around looking for some ridiculous, stupid, ignorant comment to jump on it supports their 5 year attempt to destroy Obama, Democrats, the government and who cares if it destroys the country.

[NastyRiffraff]

10. Kick kick kick kick kick

Outta the park! That last paragraph in particular nailed it.

[another_liberal]

11. Well done.

Thanks.

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. If a huge asteroid was heading towards Earth

And President Obama had a plan to prevent a collision, the GOP would become the Pro-Impact Party.

[mountain grammy]

15. yep!

[DhhD]

25. The Apocalypse they are looking for, to bring on the Second Coming!

[paleotn]

26. Ha!!!

....love it!

[babylonsister]

39. Hahahaha! DUZY! I laughed so hard, thanks!

[MustBeTheBooz]

41. Nailed it!!! You win!

[lame54]

53. the irony here...

Bruce Willis is a repug

[awoke_in_2003]

55. A huge asteroid heading toward earth...

Thanks, Obama

[ThoughtCriminal]

58. Doomsday Asteroid called "Distraction"

by GOP leaders.

[awoke_in_2003]

66. Yep...

I am just enjoying the "thanks Obama" thing that is the craze now

[tanyev]

65. Obama is just using the asteroid to distract from the Obamacare fiasco! Also too Benghazi!

[SunSeeker]

17. K & R

[malaise]

19. See with ReTHUGs - as Americans reap the beneifts of Obamacare

ReTHUGs will have to explain all their lies.
The only bumper sticker in town will be - Why don't ReTHUGs want for us what they want for themselves?

Then they will be chased out of town.

[MarianJack]

20. K & R & Tweeted!

PEACE!

[Tigress DEM]

21. You would think all politics aside, they could admire the sheer....

GIT ER DONE

Aspect of Obama's Presidency.

I know I do.

[AlbertCat]

61. GIT ER DONE Aspect of Obama's Presidency.

You forgot.... Government is not supposed work, remember?

[hue]

22. RW'ers & Faux News are so blindly impotent--their skewing of reality is soo overdone & boring!!

[ReRe]

23. K&R

That political party has so had it. They are going down. Every one of them sounds like those little spoiled brat punks on the playground when I was in the second grade. I didn't like them back then, and I "don't like" them now any better. The only difference is they are more obnoxious now that they're all grown up. Nanny-nanny-pooh-pooh, Republicans. Your day is coming.

He's the President of the United States, punks. He has more on his plate than you can even contemplate in your wildest imagination. ACA is the law. Get used to it. Been there, done that. On to the next item on the list of priorities of the Office of the Presidency.

And yes, history is real. And your descendants are going to read about you some day in their USHistory books. Shame on every single one of you, especially if there are any good decent Republicans amongst you. You moderate Republicans could have put this bunch in their place early on, but you didn't step forward and do it. The only way you moderate Republicans can atone for your behavior is to go to the polls and vote OUT the radicals in your party. You might think you'd rather die than vote for a Democrat, but you're going to have to do it at least in 2014, just to clean the radicals out of your party.

Demographics are NOT going in your favor. If you EVER want to win a general election again, you're going to have to get some grown-ups in office, regardless of their party. Oh yeah, and stop watching Fox PN (propaganda news.)

Thank you babylonsister for this opportunity to explode at the cretins.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

32. ^^^^

Well said!

[caledesi]

57. That was GREAT! nt

[paleotn]

24. It's not hard to make.....

Douchey look like a first rate idiot. Facts, logic....that was easy.

[gulliver]

27. And of course it wasn't that Obama got no help.

The Republicans actively tried to trip him up and sabotage the country every step of the way. They need to be completely removed from all power of any kind.

[Scurrilous]

28. K & R

[Luminous Animal]

29. Good to hear.

[Old and In the Way]

30. Should have explained it this way.

Well, Douchy, we're "in what we call the reality-based community," which is defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore ," he continued. "We're an not a empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

[JEFF9K]

31. We've got to keep pushing!

[Grateful for Hope]

33. As usual, a great post babylonsister

A huge K&R!

[Historic NY]

34. Douchey...is an idiot.

[lastlib]

42. It's good to see him get it right in the twins....

(even if only figuratively!)

[The Wizard]

35. Republicans once again

prove they're a scourge on civil society. Normal people avoid Republicans.

[riqster]

37. Fucking kick, and another fucking Rec. Nt

[Shankapotomus]

43. The WH conducts

diplomatic relations with Fox News? When did this happen?

[Ikonoklast]

56. It was done for State.

The State Dept. is tuning up because engaging North Korea is next on the agenda, and Fox makes a suitably insane practice team to scrimmage against.

[cannondale]

46. I signed up last night. 15 minutes.

Yes, that's from the time I entered the website URL to the time my credit card was processed. I got tired of hearing people complain, but usually finding out that they never signed up or that they have insurance through their employer.

15 minutes, and I have a Gold plan. Great rate, great benefits, and for a lot less than most people think. I don't think I've ever signed up for anything in under 15 minutes, including a punchcard for coffee.

I see a Geico-style commercial brewing.

[glowing]

47. Could you imagine what this country would look like without the obstruction?

A real domestic spending policy/ plan to move into the future.

Seriously, what does it say about these asshats that our college is unaffordable, minimum wage is at the poverty or below the poverty threshold, innovation and research are on a back burner, NASA was basically allowed to go under, roads & bridges are crumbling, public transportation and fast train transit is a non-starter, and things like our Internet access is spotty (especially in rural areas) and costs more for less highspeed access than places like South Korea? The list is endless on things that ought to be done, the tax loopholes that need to be shored up, the ability for wealthy to send their money offshore, tax free, and a general tax code that puts the burden of economic necessity on the people who can afford it less... Yet those of us who can afford it less, would be willing to pay a little more for these types of domestic upgrades... Add in single payer healthcare, and Obama could go down as one of the most successful Presidents ever. I do hope they aren't holding back any money or plans to change the tide in 2014. It's way overdo to have competant, responsible reps.

[NewJeffCT]

49. great job by Blinken

but, is one person on with Steve Doucy "storming"? When I saw the subject, I thought it was several people on several different Fox shows?

[progressoid]

51. Yeah, not exactly a storming.

But points for trying to get through their thick skulls.

[mcarleton]

50. Wag the Dog

While I understand the difference between 3.5 and 20% enrichment as it relates to the making of a nuclear bomb, as clearly the Fox hosts and general public do not, this technical detail is not really required to understand what is at play here from the republican side. All we need remember is that when Clinton attempted to take out Bin Laden during the Lewinsky "affair" all we heard was "wag the dog wag the dog" from the right. What we now know is Clinton was clearly working in our national interests, and likely should have done more, but was constrained by the Lewinsky mess of his own making. Fast forward, we now have an Obamacare website roll out mess, temporary as I believe it to be it is still much of the President's own making, and now that the President is pushing toward what could be a landmark agreement with an adversary that was ready to stand with us after 9/11 lest we forget, what we hear from the right-wing Chicken Hawks is "wag the dog wag the dog". As Yogi Berra once said, "It is deja vu all over again."

[lame54]

52. He's only ended one war...

I love this agreement
but he has yet to get us out of Afghanistan

[PATRICK]

59. The GOP

has stormed into the government as enemies of the state of the worst kind, namely making war on civilians, subverting all foreign policy, all due function of government, all constitutionality. This is unacknowledged total war.

[Major Hogwash]

62. We can negotiate with Iran, but we can't negotiate with Faux Snooze!!

They live in a different universe of their own design at Faux Snooze.

When people finally come to the conclusion that Faux Snooze is not a news channel, they will realize it is for entertainment purposes only!!!!

[Cha]

63. the White House can Multi-Task!!! Unlike faux news..

that only wants to talk about stupid talking points on "the website".. and BENGHAZI!!111

Thanks Tony Blinken and babylonsistah!

[Uncle Joe]

64. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.