Jen Kuznicki
I have no qualms of saying I told you so, never have.
Jennifer Rubin boasted about an “exclusive” interview she had with foreign relations staffer for Mitt Romney, Richard Grenell, upon his exit from the campaign. She famously declared,
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives
By Jennifer RubinRichard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.
Following Grenell’s exit, the news media repeated what Jennifer Rubin wrote about how it was principally anti-gay conservatives who forced him out, to which I responded with this article: Rubin Provides Talking Point for Media Regarding Grenell, and now as noted via William Jacobsen Legal Insurrection: Time for Jennifer Rubin to retract her Richard Grenell “EXCLUSIVE”
Rubin writes: “It is awfully tempting for pundits to use people and personal conflicts as stick figures in a polemic play reaffirming one’s preexisting impressions and biases. That’s certainly been the case in the Richard Grenell case….”
The irony is that it was Rubin who more than anyone played the stick figure game with Grenell, when she ran her EXCLUSIVE: Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives..
Now Mr. Grenell himself confirms how wrong Jennifer’s reporting was.
Grenell acknowledged taking flak from far right conservatives, but said he was not forced out by the Romney camp. He claimed liberals were to blame.
“The far left doesn’t want a gay person to be conservative and the far right doesn’t want a conservative to be gay. Some of the most hateful, mean-spirited intolerant comments about me being the foreign policy and national security spokesman for Governor Romney … were coming from the left,” Grenell told the newspaper.
But the newspaper’s coverage noted that while some Democratic strategists alleged it showed Romney’s campaign was anti-gay, it was conservative groups who led the way celebrating the resignation. aside…(Due to Rubin’s “Exclusive”)
Leading the charge was the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer, who called Grenell’s departure a “huge win for us,” the paper said.
Grenell denied to the newspaper that he was forced out by social conservatives, noting that he’s been an openly-gay Republican spokesman for decades.
“The right I’m very comfortable with, taking those hits and barbs, because I’ve had a 20-year career where I’ve worked for politicians, I’ve worked on elections, on campaigns, and I know exactly the trajectory of the assaults from the far right.”
Emphasis mine, and I think it speaks volumes.
Rubin’s anti-conservative bias shines brightly as she pretends to be the conservative version of a blogger for the Washington Post. She wanted so badly for the Grenell saga to blame conservatives, she didn’t consider the obvious vile hatred of the left.
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Excellent piece and a perfect example of how the left projects their MO onto us. Go gettem Jen!
Thanks Pat:)
Notice how leftist goofballs consider George Bush an illegitimate President who was only elected because of the SCOTUS yet anyone, such as Trump, who has factual reservations regarding the POTUS birth records has to be, in their opinion, a whack case? Foreign passports, weird selective service and SS cards, photoshopped live birth certificate, voluntary retirement of a license to practice law (even Clinton kept his) are now where the MSM needs to go to keep the discussion off the economy, the debt, the regulations, the entitlement debacles and the eventual insolvency of the American economy. All of this, just like Rubin’s comments, is planned.
One of the few things this improperly vetted President has to run on is the attention "Sticklers" have for documentation so as to rule out fraud, lying, falsification, conspiracy and ineligibility. This very well could be the greatest government hack job the World has ever experienced and at the very least it is a testament to a media that would have spawned a virtual bonanza of investigations if a republican tried to pull this off. There would thousands of Joe McGinness wannabes traveling to Kenya as opposed to one Jerome Corsi. The blitz would never cease. But consistent with political strategy the most desirable aspect of poor vetting, cover-ups and make believe is to now demonize the doubters and use the issue as a distraction from what begs to be looked at. Today the new media paradigm is to just faithfully accept the fact that he was born in Hawaii (this from atheists who question God’s existence), declare those that are doubters to be mentally deranged and try like hell to associate any notable skeptics to Romney to make him guilty by association.
Can we not see the strategy? This is not the time, no matter how tempting the bait, to let the architects of deception (disguised as angels) entice us off message.
Today the economy is beleaguered by several simultaneous financial storms and our protracted recession remains intense, not because of George Bush or even Fannie Mae and her infamous CEO, Jimmy Johnson but because of the inane and insane out-of-control socialist policies authored and maintained by our devious Mastermind-in-Chief and his appointed henchmen and henchwomen such a Steven Chu and Kathy Sebelius along with senior leftist advisor Valerie Jarett.
This wag the dog strategy is an old one having its origin in nature where an attract and detract strategy is used to protect nesting birds.
Republicans finally seem to sense their prey’s vulnerability but still have a ways to go to understand how to successfully prevent the media and Administrative concocted foils from obfuscating attention otherwise easily attracted to a well-filled reservoir of pertinent Administrative policy fiascos. It is imperative that republican strategists, like heat seeking missiles, stay on message, shedding all temptations to pursue worthless diversions and conjured up political cul-de-sacs specifically designed to waste precious time and lead to nowhere. The time to roust the real issues into daylight, where they remain clearly on display for all who vote in November to see, is now.