President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry, with the cooperation of the mainstream media, are attempting to pull off a coup. No, not against Congress, but against reality. Headlines blare “Iran Agrees to Detailed Nuclear Outline” and “Iran Nuclear Deal Is First Step to Mending Ties.”
Wait a minute. What deal?
Where is the signed piece of paper – any signed piece of paper – upon which all the negotiators have placed their signatures under the same words, English and Farsi translations side by side? You can read dozens of news reports and analyses, but figuring out that such a signed document does not exist is like finding the dog that didn’t bark.
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Are you a libertarian or a neo-con?
A libertarian. This column is NOT about the merits of the so-called Iranian nuke framework “deal.” This column is about mass illusion caused by false narratives. I could have just as easily used the “1 in 5 college females have been raped” false fact to make the same point, but that example is getting old.