Why is Ben Rhodes mad?

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Who upset widdle Benny?

Obama's Iran Liar Ben Rhodes Tells Crazy Lies About Israel

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January 14, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
 


You might remember Ben Rhodes, the White House "Obama Whisperer" from the time he told the New York Times how stupid reporters were and how they would believe anything he told them.

    In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. “We created an echo chamber,” he admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly minted experts cheerleading for the deal. “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”

    Rhodes singled out a key example to me one day, laced with the brutal contempt that is a hallmark of his private utterances. “All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus,” he said. “Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”

Now Ben Rhodes once again put the media, particularly PBS's Judy Woodruff, to the test to see how little they know and how big of a lie he can get away with.


    In the Dec. 23 "Newshour" interview, Rhodes falsely states:

    "The fact of the matter is, though, I think if you look at the map of the West Bank, if you look at the future of the two-state solution, these settlements are encroaching further and further beyond the separation barrier that the Israelis themselves built, thousands of new settlements are being constructed and, frankly, if these trends continue, it will be impossible to realize a two-state solution."

    After Woodruff raises bipartisan criticism of the Obama administration's decision not to veto United Nations Security Resolution 2334 asserting that Israeli settlements have "no legal validity," Rhodes digs himself into a deeper ditch, speaking of "tens of thousands" of settlements:

    "Well, look, we respect, of course, friends on both sides of the aisle who have expressed different views on this. Again, I think the question is going to be when history looks at these types of decisions, when people look back and they say, you saw tens of thousands of settlements being constructed, you saw as was addressed in the resolution, incitement to violence on the Palestinian side."

Thousands... tens of thousands... they literally know nothing.

Israel is a small country. Its population is in the millions. Much of it is located in a number of major cities. There aren't enough people for tens of thousands of settlements. Unless you have one person to a settlement.

But the media continues to prove Rhodes right by refusing to call him out on his blatant lies.