A "CBS This Morning" producer spotted Kerry on his boat Wednesday afternoon on Nantucket, where Kerry has a vacation home. When "CBS This Morning" senior producer Mosheh Oinounou tweeted about the sighting, Psaki issued a denial, calling the tweet "completely inaccurate" and said Kerry has been "working all day and on the phone dealing with the crisis in Egypt."
Also on Wednesday afternoon, the White House released a photo of the president and his national security team meeting in the situation Room. Kerry was not present in the photo, but his office said he did participate in the meeting via a secure phone line.
◼ SPOTTED: Back out on 'Isabel' today - Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard
New: @CBSNews obtained photo of Kerry on boat Weds. Asked State abt it Thurs night. They stood by their denial... pic.twitter.com/hkSWWBVUxQ
— Mosheh Oinounou (@Mosheh) July 5, 2013
◼ Shiver their timbers! State Dept. backtracks, admits Kerry ‘was briefly on his boat’ - Twitchy
◼ Hey, any guesses where John Kerry is ‘briefly’ today? [photo] - Twitchy
◼ Twitter user: ‘Kerry sailed right by me yesterday on the Nantucket sound’ [photo]; Update: Boston Herald confirms Kerry is on Nantucket - Twitchy
The Kitchen Cabinet - Oh boy... we were lied to again. On Wednesday when the military coup was happening in Egypt, CBS News reported that Secretary of State John Kerry was aboard his yacht, the "Isabel". State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki issued a categorical denial, stating: "Any report or tweet that he was on a boat is completely inaccurate."
Today they acknowledge that it was Psaki's statment that had been 'inaccurate' and that Kerry actually had been on the Isabel on Wednesday, but only for a little while and that he was hard at work all the time.
This Jen Psaki was Obama's campaign press secretary "where she walked back claims that the campaign had not known of an accusation that Mitt Romney had caused a worker's wife to die of cancer" and as "White House Deputy Communications Director, Psaki had been deeply involved in a campaign to exclude and discredit the Fox News Channel, calling Special Report host Bret Baier a "lunatic."" Meaning, this woman is well versed in manipulation of the truth, so it's no surprise her first inclination was to lie about the whereabouts of the Sec. State when the Egyptian coup was in progress.
"Breitbart News' Ben Shapiro noted: In other words, the American people were directly lied to about the whereabouts of the Secretary of State as a coup took place in one of the most strategically important countries in the world--a country where the President of the United States chose to launch his foreign policy in 2009, where the U.S. embassy was overrun in 2012, and where the Obama administration planted its flag with the Arab Spring in 2010. Only an administration completely secure in its control of media spin could pull such a stunt."
But what about today, with the Islamic pushback against the Egyptian military and interim government that it has installed, where is our Secretary of State?
Back at the helm of the Isabel (front boat/center), again... apparently having a blast. We wonder if they will deny this yachting escapade as well...
◼ Thousand pictures of John Kerry boating prompts State Dept. to retract denial that Kerry was boating - Michelle Malkin
...(A)fter denying that John Kerry was sailing on Nantucket during chaos in Egypt (kind of surprised they didn’t blame the rumor on a YouTube video), the State Department acknowledged that Kerry was in fact on Nantucket but working constantly, which is what everybody goes to Nantucket for...
