{"id":9571,"date":"2011-05-05T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9571"},"modified":"2011-05-05T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T16:22:00","slug":"white-house-stumbling-over-bin-laden-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9571\/white-house-stumbling-over-bin-laden-story\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Stumbling Over Bin Laden Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As President Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0511\/54334.html\" target=\"_blank\">meets with family members<\/a> of 9\/11 victims in New York today, I hope his press operation back in Washington, D.C. is deciding how to get out of its own way.<\/p>\n<p>Since news leaked of bin Laden\u2019s death on Sunday, the White House communications shop has had to revise, rephrase, and walk back several details of the raid.<\/p>\n<p>Was Osama using one of his wives as a human shield?\u00a0 No, apparently she voluntarily rushed a Navy SEAL and was wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Was Osama waving a gun at the SEALs?\u00a0 No, he was unarmed.<\/p>\n<p>Then, pictures of the dead Osama were promised to prove his demise.\u00a0 Now, we\u2019re told that no pictures will be released and to <a href=\"http:\/\/wires.univision.com\/english\/article\/2011-05-05\/white-house-seeks-to-scotch\" target=\"_blank\">focus instead<\/a> on \u201c[t]he broader point\u2026that a group of extraordinary US personnel flew into a foreign country in the dead of night and\u2026flawlessly executed a mission\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Had <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/tobyyoung\/100086530\/jay-carney-is-floundering-under-pressure-say-washington-insiders\/\" target=\"_blank\">fumbling<\/a> White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and the rest of the Obama Administration focused themselves on such a tight version of events, we probably wouldn\u2019t be distracted with all the post-op corrections.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of ineptitude not only makes Team Obama look incompetent; it makes them look like they can\u2019t tell a good story without ham-handedly putting themselves in the middle of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Barack Obama meets with family members of 9\/11 victims in New York today, I hope his press operation back in Washington, D.C. is deciding how to get out of its own way. Since news leaked of bin Laden\u2019s death on Sunday, the White House communications shop has had to revise, rephrase, and walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1773,143,2565,2463,571,2658,536,44],"class_list":["post-9571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-1773","tag-barack-obama","tag-communications","tag-jay-carney","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-press-secretary","tag-terrorism","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9575,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions\/9575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}