{"id":4751,"date":"2016-05-13T00:52:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T05:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2016-05-13T00:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T05:55:49","slug":"heres-how-carefully-tended-white-house-propaganda-sold-the-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/4751\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s How Carefully Tended White House Propaganda Sold The Iran Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"123\"<\/a>Here’s How Carefully Tended White House Propaganda Sold The Iran Deal<\/a><\/div>\n
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A recent New York Times profile on a top Obama national security official explains the intricate, and dubious methodology the administration used\u00a0to spin the Iran nuclear deal to the public.<\/div>\n
The\u00a0piece<\/a>\u00a0focuses on Ben Rhodes, the White House’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communication, and offers a particular insight into how he and his team created the narrative surrounding the Iran deal, Obama’s key foreign policy objective. The piece, written by David Samuels, shows how Rhodes applied his creativity and unique relationship with the president toward the narrative that eventually convinced the public, and in turn Congress, that the deal was worthwhile. That narrative, however, was made up of little more than an invented “story” of an aspiring novelist turned foreign policy wonk.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s How Carefully Tended White House Propaganda Sold The Iran Deal The Daily Caller \u00a0 A recent New York Times profile on a top Obama […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}