The Final Year, though, is chiefly a study of Obama-administration foreign policy as overseen by Secretary of State John Kerry, Power, and Rhodes, who at the time of filming had become (in)famous for telling The New York Times Magazine that he had set up an “echo chamber” in Washington of Obama sycophants in order to mislead the American people about expert opinion on the Iran deal, and for pouring contempt on D.C. reporters, who he said were typically 27 and “literally know nothing.”
I was completely flabbergasted by the uniform accolades given the Iran nuclear deal in the media given that I actually read the published deal and found it unbelievably bad--even without seeing the secret side deals that multiplied the badness.
Ah memories! Back when "fake news" wasn't something to be resisted. If the media said something was an apple, then by God it was an apple even if it had a strange yellow tinge and odd shape!
Who was I to believe? My lying eyes or the combined wisdom of all those experts who unknown to me had been orchestrated by Rhodes to parrot Obama administration talking points.
Indeed, President Obama claimed near-uniformity of praise for the deal exceeding even the claim of support for the consensus of the global warming peril. And if President Obama heard no good argument against the deal, it was because he didn't want to hear them.
Being a simple unfrozen caveman blogger, I trusted my lying eyes, it goes without saying.
But I am frightened and confused by the willingness of the media to function as an echo chamber.
Then. Not now, of course.
