The #Benghazi aftermath behavior of the Obama administration exposed the overall strategy deployed by the White House: Begin by falsely blaming the anti-Islam YouTube video in all public statements, because the first crucial impression is what the public will remember most. (1/5)
Senior Obama officials used every avenue to hammer their video lie home on multiple fronts: from the official @StateDept statement while the attack was in progress, to lying to the parents of the dead at the casket ceremony, to Susan Rice's lies on 5 Sunday talk shows. (2/5)
In the Rose Garden, at the Miami town hall and even at the UN General Assembly, Obama himself used the influence of the presidential pulpit to ensure the video lie would be what his news media worshipers and ultimately the public would blame for the deaths of Americans. (3/5)
After saturating the airwaves with the YouTube video lie for over a week, the next phase of the Obama White House strategy was to begin admitting the truth quietly in forums that had a lower profile, such as a Senate committee hearing maybe a few people would see on C-SPAN. (4/5)
This way, if and when confronted, Obama officials could claim they went on the record with the truth. By this time however, the critical 1st impression from @BarackObama's media blitz absolving himself of blame had stuck with voters just a few weeks before Election Day (5/5)
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