The Obama scandal spin came in three phases when reacting to the truth.
1. It's a right-wing conspiracy theory
2. It's complicated
3. Everyone knew it all along and it's not a story
Mazel tov to the Iran Deal which, with Netanyahu's revelations about Iran's nuclear weapons plans, which it had been hiding, has now graduated to the third phase.
We've gone from, "Iran would never develop nuclear weapons" and "Iran only wants peaceful nuclear energy" to, "Of course, we knew Iran wanted nuclear weapons. That's why we need the Iran Deal."
That last is typical Ben Rhodes. As the New York Times piece chronicling the Obama Whisperer's echo chamber laid out.
“I can name them,” I said, ticking off a few names of prominent Washington reporters and columnists who often tweet in sync with White House messaging.
Price laughed. “I’ll say, ‘Hey, look, some people are spinning this narrative that this is a sign of American weakness,’ ” he continued, “but — ”
“In fact it’s a sign of strength!” I said, chuckling.
“And I’ll give them some color,” Price continued, “and the next thing I know, lots of these guys are in the dot-com publishing space, and have huge Twitter followings, and they’ll be putting this message out on their own.”
You might think that Netanyahu's revelations show that the Iran Deal is useless... but they actually show why it's so useful.
And dear old Ned, Ben's old pawn, even took a break from the Team Coup tweeting to declare that there was nothing new in Netanyahu's announcement.
If you don't believe there's an echo chamber, you can watch the whole choir tweeting it. Senator Bob Corker, Rob Malley, Ilan Goldenberger, Dan Shapiro, and welcoming its two newest members, Jennifer Rubin and Max Boot.
Nothing to see here folks. We knew it all along. Let's just let Iran get back to the business of its nuclear program.