{"id":18726,"date":"2013-05-11T06:06:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T10:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18726"},"modified":"2013-05-11T06:06:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T10:06:46","slug":"id-love-to-see-the-guest-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18726","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d Love To See The Guest List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Peace\/2013\/05\/10\/White-House-Benghazi-off-the-record\">Breitbart.com<\/a> reported that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8976694444,-77.03655&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8976694444,-77.03655 (White%20House)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">White House<\/a> announced that it would hold a meeting to brief reporters on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benghazi\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.1166666667,20.0666666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=32.1166666667,20.0666666667 (Benghazi)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Benghazi<\/a>. The meeting was initially referred to by Politico as &#8216;off-the-record,&#8217; but the White House changed that to &#8216;deep background.&#8217; I agree that the word deep is probably a good description, but background is not the word I would place after it.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen news organizations were invited to the closed-door meeting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2013\/05\/white-house-holds-offrecord-benghazi-briefing-163704.html#.UY01j3baPl4.twitter\">Politico<\/a> reported yesterday:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The meeting was conducted on &#8220;deep background,&#8221; according to White House spokesman <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Josh Earnest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Josh Earnest<\/a>, but sources told <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Politico\" href=\"http:\/\/politico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">POLITICO<\/a> that the existence of the meeting was &#8220;off the record.&#8221; The meeting began around 12:45 p.m. and postponed the daily, on-the-record White House press briefing until mid-afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The session was announced to reporters in the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/05\/exclusive-benghazi-talking-points-underwent-12-revisions-scrubbed-of-terror-references\/\">an ABC News report<\/a> showing that White House and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of State\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8941666667,-77.0483333333&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8941666667,-77.0483333333 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20State)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">State Dept.<\/a> officials were involved in revising the now-discredited <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Central Intelligence Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.951796,-77.146586&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.951796,-77.146586 (Central%20Intelligence%20Agency)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">CIA<\/a> talking points about the attack on Benghazi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would love to see which fourteen news organizations were invited to the meeting! Can you imagine what would have happened if Nixon had tried this with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Watergate scandal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Watergate_scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Watergate<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart.com tells us what to look for as a result of this meeting:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, &#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Source (journalism)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Source_%28journalism%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Deep background<\/a> means that the info presented by the briefers can be used in reporting but the briefers can&#8217;t be quoted.&#8221; So expect a fair number of &#8220;White House sources&#8221; to appear in reportage for the next few days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four people died at Benghazi because they did not have adequate security, and when they asked for help they did not get it. Later the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama Administration<\/a> lied about what happened. Also, remember that the man who made the video that was not responsible for the attack is the only person in jail as a result of the attack. He is still in jail. It&#8217;s time to stop playing games and explain what happened.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=22b63f5d-7a37-468c-8b24-dce3bc664095\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Breitbart.com reported that the White House announced that it would hold a meeting to brief reporters on Benghazi. The meeting was initially referred to by Politico as &#8216;off-the-record,&#8217; but the White House changed that to &#8216;deep background.&#8217; I agree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18726\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1338,3947,659,1921,5533,1064,1178,211],"class_list":["post-18726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abc-news","tag-benghazi","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-josh-earnest","tag-politico","tag-united-states-department-of-state","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18730,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18726\/revisions\/18730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}