Fox News Just Keeps Pumping Out Dishonest Propaganda About Benghazi

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The relentless Fox News propaganda about Benghazi never stops, and as all of the allegations pushed by Fox and the GOP (they’re pretty much the same thing, of course) have ended up thoroughly debunked, they’re now reduced to the mindless repetition of blatant lies, simply trying to trick anyone gullible or stupid enough to still respond with outrage to their Pavlovian Benghazi invocation: Fox’s Katie Pavlich Smears Clinton With Benghazi Lie.

Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich smeared Hillary Clinton by claiming that she lied in a speech honoring the victims of the September 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. But Pavlich is distorting Clinton’s remarks.

Fox & Friends covered the announcement that NBC’s entertainment division is planning to air a new mini-series focused on Hillary Clinton’s “life as a wife, mother, politician and cabinet member” sometime before 2015. Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich used the segment as an opportunity to smear Clinton, saying:

PAVLICH: Although Diane Lane is a fantastic actress, I doubt she can act as well as Hillary Clinton did when she lied about that YouTube video in front of flag-draped caskets of Americans as they came home from being killed in Benghazi. So it’s going to be really hard for her to top that performance.

Hillary Clinton didn’t lie about anything, but Fox’s Katie Pavlich certainly is. In her remarks, Clinton was referring to the wave of protests and violence at US embassies across the Middle East after the spread of that infamous anti-Muslim video, and did not conflate the video with the Benghazi attack at all:

This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with. It is hard for the American people to make sense of that because it is senseless, and it is totally unacceptable.

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78 comments
1 Kragar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:42:12pm

Their bullshit doesn’t even make sense. What was it Clinton was supposed to have lied about?

2 EPR-radar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:43:30pm

IMO, this is evidence that Obama has been doing a very important part of his job (i.e., not screwing up big time) just about perfectly. Thus the only material the GOP propaganda machine has to work with are obviously faked scandals that nobody outside the GOP nuthouse takes seriously.

3 Kragar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:46:40pm

re: #2 EPR-radar

IMO, this is evidence that Obama has been doing a very important part of his job (i.e., not screwing up big time) just about perfectly. Thus the only material the GOP propaganda machine has to work with are obviously faked scandals that nobody outside the GOP nuthouse takes seriously.

Don’t forget the latest scandal, Scandalgate, where the President had the unmitigated gall to accuse his detractors of pushing phony scandals.

4 Varek Raith  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:48:37pm

re: #3 Kragar

Don’t forget the latest scandal, Scandalgate, where the President had the unmitigated gall to accuse his detractors from pushing phony scandals.

This is the part where their brains collapse in upon themselves.

5 calochortus  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:49:10pm

re: #2 EPR-radar

IMO, this is evidence that Obama has been doing a very important part of his job (i.e., not screwing up big time) just about perfectly. Thus the only material the GOP propaganda machine has to work with are obviously faked scandals that nobody outside the GOP nuthouse takes seriously.

My thoughts exactly.

6 Bulworth  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:49:47pm

Just more ‘fair and balanced’, straight truthiness reporting from last election’s losers.

7 Bulworth  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:51:32pm

re: #1 Kragar

I suppose that the video protests were related to the Obama-Bill Ayers plan to abduct the Libyan diplomats and trade them for Park Place on the Monopoly board or something. //

8 EPR-radar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:51:46pm

re: #5 calochortus

My thoughts exactly.

The alternate reality where Obama’s first term was some kind of disaster that ensured a loss in 2012 and ascendency of this GOP for the next 10-20 years (i.e., the Carter scenario the GOP so fervently desired), really doesn’t bear thinking about.

9 erik_t  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:53:23pm

Needs moar Susan Rice. Get your messaging-minons’ shit together, Fox.

10 Linden Arden  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:58:53pm

So Benghazi is all they have left?

I am amazed at the desperate attempts to kill Obamacare. If it were destined for failure like they say they would have easy wins lined up in 2014 and 2016.

11 Kragar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:00:25pm

Judge Ordered Gun Activist Kokesh to Remain in Jail

12 EPR-radar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:06:08pm

re: #10 Linden Arden

So Benghazi is all they have left?

I am amazed at the desperate attempts to kill Obamacare. If it were destined for failure like they say they would have easy wins lined up in 2014 and 2016.

GOP misrule in states they control doubtless extends to sabotaging health care reform.

Meanwhile, states that are doing this properly seem to be seeing significant premium decreases.

The above-referenced GOP sabotage will no doubt have its death and injury toll.

13 wrenchwench  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:07:16pm

It’s on topic. Really. The little guy’s name is Ben. Benghazi.

Or it’s on topic because I’m lying.

14 darthstar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:08:36pm

Anyone care for a 150,000 foot free fall?

It’s about two minutes up, then four minutes down, starting in lazy loops through the empty (except for the metal groaning) upper atmosphere; then the Earth’s surface swings with the arc of our fall, the atmosphere thickens, you hear wind, see inky, smoky moments, bursts of flame, winds start whistling by, groaning gets louder, clouds appear below like distant pillows, which we swoosh through and, after ejecting something, there’s a snap, parachutes suddenly appear and we drop, then splash into, under and out of the sea, only to watch something else toppling out of the sky nearby.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c

15 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:12:59pm
16 Kragar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:14:22pm

re: #15 NJDhockeyfan

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He does seem to have all the brains in that duo.

17 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:14:27pm

re: #15 NJDhockeyfan

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He wouldn’t be the first.

18 EPR-radar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:14:57pm

re: #15 NJDhockeyfan

Chas T. Belt?

19 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:15:06pm

OK. Time for a comedy break with a little education thrown in. And it has Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Tony Robinson and Hugh Laurie.

Youtube Video

20 darthstar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:17:01pm

re: #14 darthstar

Anyone care for a 150,000 foot free fall?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c

Video at NPR link. Somehow my Youtube embed didn’t work.

Youtube Video

Okay, maybe I fixed it.

21 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:18:14pm

What mystifies me about the whole BENGHAZI!!!!11!!!!!! thing is why anyone would give a shit about what it was that they were supposedly lying about?

What is the big hairy deal about whether the attackers attacked because of the video, and why does it matter whether an initial assessment, carefully couched in qualifiers, was accurate?

22 Gus  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:19:39pm

re: #13 wrenchwench

It’s on topic. Really. The little guy’s name is Ben. Benghazi.

Or it’s on topic because I’m lying.

[Embedded content]

!

23 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:20:35pm

re: #13 wrenchwench

It’s on topic. Really. The little guy’s name is Ben. Benghazi.

Or it’s on topic because I’m lying.

[Embedded content]

“No, no! I said the newest fad in chocolates is to make they SPICY, not SPIKY.”

24 makeitstop  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:21:13pm

re: #21 Mateo Scourge

What mystifies me about the whole BENGHAZI!!!!11!!!!!! thing is why anyone would give a shit about what it was that they were supposedly lying about?

What is the big hairy deal about whether the attackers attacked because of the video, and why does it matter whether an initial assessment, carefully couched in qualifiers, was accurate?

I still don’t get that. I’ve asked a lot of Behghazi-mongers exactly what the O administration was lying about and have never gotten a straight answer.

The outrage doesn’t seem to stem from what they lied about - it seems to stem from the act of lying itself. And no, that doesn’t make a lick of sense to me, either.

25 EPR-radar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:21:46pm

re: #21 Mateo Scourge

What mystifies me about the whole BENGHAZI!!!!11!!!!!! thing is why anyone would give a shit about what it was that they were supposedly lying about?

What is the big hairy deal about whether the attackers attacked because of the video, and why does it matter whether an initial assessment, carefully couched in qualifiers, was accurate?

Frustrated fantasy on the part of the GOP. Benghazi was supposed to be the fall surprise that would give the election to Romney. ‘Facts’ are invented as needed to fit this imperative.

26 Lidane  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:23:06pm
27 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:23:38pm

re: #24 makeitstop

I still don’t get that. I’ve asked a lot of Behghazi-mongers exactly what the O administration was lying about and have never gotten a straight answer.

The outrage doesn’t seem to stem from what they lied about - it seems to stem from the act of lying itself. And no, that doesn’t make a lick of sense to me, either.

I think it boils down to being sure that there’s a pony in that pile of manure.

28 RemainCalm  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:27:12pm

Benghazi again? Here ya go.
SoundCloud

29 b.d.  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:29:14pm

Anthony Weiner never issued a Stand Down Order either.

Coincidence?

30 Varek Raith  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:32:20pm

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31 darthstar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:32:20pm

pcworld.com

Chalk this up in the “funny, but not really” category: Last week, a company working with Microsoft to combat copyright pirates asked Google to remove multiple Microsoft web pages from Google searches—for infringing Microsoft copyrights.

Yep, Microsoft filed a Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedown request against itself, as Torrentfreak first spotted.

32 blueraven  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:32:28pm

No WH tours but Obama hosted 130 for Ramadan dinner!!

-Fox News

33 darthstar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:32:40pm

When Microsoft sues Microsoft, you know things are fucked up.

34 Carlos Diggler  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:33:04pm

Massive Damage to Hawaii from Hurricane Flossie: video

35 b.d.  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:34:50pm

re: #33 darthstar

When Microsoft sues Microsoft, you know things are fucked up.

Only the lawyers win, and they will appeal no matter what.

Great job Microsoft.

36 Varek Raith  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:35:04pm

re: #31 darthstar

Freaking hell.

While Google used to receive around 225,000 DMCA requests per week, according to the company’s own Transparency Report, copyright holders now hit the search engine with 3.5 to 4.5 million takedown requests each and every week.

Vultures.

37 Lidane  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:40:03pm
38 Targetpractice  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:40:10pm

re: #21 Mateo Scourge

What mystifies me about the whole BENGHAZI!!!!11!!!!!! thing is why anyone would give a shit about what it was that they were supposedly lying about?

What is the big hairy deal about whether the attackers attacked because of the video, and why does it matter whether an initial assessment, carefully couched in qualifiers, was accurate?

Short answer? Sour grapes. Benghazi was supposed to be Obama’s “Iranian Hostage Crisis,” to be that one big foreign policy clusterfuck that was such a visible sign of how the world didn’t take us seriously under his leadership that they’d run under the GOP’s skirts in order to have a “real leader” at the helm. This ignores the reality that Romney has zero foreign policy experience and his likely SecState nominee would have been John Bolton.

39 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:40:28pm

Evening Lizardim. How go things in the war on derp?

40 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:43:22pm

re: #38 Targetpractice

Short answer? Sour grapes. Benghazi was supposed to be Obama’s “Iranian Hostage Crisis,” to be that one big foreign policy clusterfuck that was such a visible sign of how the world didn’t take us seriously under his leadership that they’d run under the GOP’s skirts in order to have a “real leader” at the helm. This ignores the reality that Romney has zero foreign policy experience and his likely SecState nominee would have been John Bolton.

Not Crazy von Moustache!! //

Once again - BOY, did we elect the right guy. Especially considering the alternative. Twice.

41 gwangung  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:44:46pm

re: #38 Targetpractice

Short answer? Sour grapes. Benghazi was supposed to be Obama’s “Iranian Hostage Crisis,” to be that one big foreign policy clusterfuck that was such a visible sign of how the world didn’t take us seriously under his leadership that they’d run under the GOP’s skirts in order to have a “real leader” at the helm. This ignores the reality that Romney has zero foreign policy experience and his likely SecState nominee would have been John Bolton.

Inexperience is not a minus to conservatives. Being able to act tough and swing your dick around indiscriminately and crush brown people and their stuff is a plus to them.

42 EPR-radar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:45:21pm

re: #40 Mateo Scourge

Not Crazy von Moustache!! //

Once again - BOY, did we elect the right guy. Especially considering the alternative. Twice.

The RWNJ sites had “Fear the ‘stache” slogans in support of Bolton before the election. Apparently, this is what passes for thought these days in the RW fever swamp.

43 Gus  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:45:27pm

re: #37 Lidane

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1 PM EDT.

44 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:50:36pm

re: #42 EPR-radar

The RWNJ sites had “Fear the ‘stache” slogans in support of Bolton before the election. Apparently, this is what passes for thought these days in the RW fever swamp.

RW thought anymore is just the opposite of whatever they perceive as LW thought. They choose their heroes on the basis of who they think pisses off Liberals most.

“This isn’t an argument! This is just contradiction!”

“No it’s not!”

45 Gus  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:50:58pm


Click on link.

46 Targetpractice  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:51:03pm

If anything, in the depths of their fever swamps, Benghazi was even worse than Iran. To them, Carter had simply been a fuck-up, a guy who hadn’t taken seriously how much we needed to stomp the Islamists into the ground and support the Shah to do so. But they like to believe that Obama is guilty of far worse, that the rumors of “stand down” orders, of multiple warnings ahead of time, multiple requests for more security, and the rumors of guard explicitly ordered to be unarmed leaves them convinced that Obama either knew that an attack would be devastating or was counting on it being so. The reasons for why they believe he wanted an attack there vary, but the general theme is “He wanted to show America is weak.”

47 Gus  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:51:56pm

Human Rights Watch detailed findings of extrajudicial executions by Brazil’s state police officers, who report that the killings resulted from shootouts. We found that officers involved in these killings take the corpses to hospitals to destroy crime scene evidence under the false pretext of rescuing them, and in some cases plant evidence on their victims before forensic investigators arrive.

48 Varek Raith  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:52:24pm

re: #47 Gus

Human Rights Watch detailed
findings of extrajudicial executions by Brazil’s state police officers, who
report that the killings resulted from shootouts. We found that officers
involved in these killings take the corpses to hospitals to destroy crime scene
evidence under the false pretext of rescuing them, and in some cases plant
evidence on their victims before forensic investigators arrive.

WTF.

49 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:52:57pm

re: #47 Gus

Human Rights Watch detailed
findings of extrajudicial executions by Brazil’s state police officers, who
report that the killings resulted from shootouts. We found that officers
involved in these killings take the corpses to hospitals to destroy crime scene
evidence under the false pretext of rescuing them, and in some cases plant
evidence on their victims before forensic investigators arrive.

But America is a police state.

50 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:54:20pm

re: #46 Targetpractice

If anything, in the depths of their fever swamps, Benghazi was even worse than Iran. To them, Carter had simply been a fuck-up, a guy who hadn’t taken seriously how much we needed to stomp the Islamists into the ground and support the Shah to do so. But they like to believe that Obama is guilty of far worse, that the rumors of “stand down” orders, of multiple warnings ahead of time, multiple requests for more security, and the rumors of guard explicitly ordered to be unarmed leaves them convinced that Obama either knew that an attack would be devastating or was counting on it being so. The reasons for why they believe he wanted an attack there vary, but the general theme is “He wanted to show America is weak.”

Which leads to the question - WHY did he want to show America is weak, and why would he want to do this 2 months before the election?

Oh, wait! I’m applying logic to a conspiracy theory! Silly me!

51 freetoken  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:54:23pm

re: #49 Mateo Scourge

But America is a police state.

DRONES!!

52 Gus  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:54:28pm

re: #49 Mateo Scourge

But America is a police state.

Yep. And Greenwald has been in Brazil for years now. Silent.

53 darthstar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:55:32pm

re: #52 Gus

Yep. And Greenwald has been in Brazil for years now. Silent.

America is SPYING ON BRAZILIANS

54 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:57:23pm
Katie Pavlich, news editor at Townhall.com.

**snort**

55 darthstar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:57:48pm
56 Targetpractice  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 3:58:40pm

re: #50 Mateo Scourge

Which leads to the question - WHY did he want to show America is weak, and why would he want to do this 2 months before the election?

Oh, wait! I’m applying logic to a conspiracy theory! Silly me!

Prexactly. Instead of looking at the facts and coming up with a conclusion that fits them, they simply come up with the conclusion and then cherry-pick the facts that fit it. And when the conclusion is perpetually “Obama hates ‘Real Murica’!!!,” then it’s not that hard to see why they always make him out as some sort of Bond villain.

57 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:00:33pm

re: #56 Targetpractice

Prexactly. Instead of looking at the facts and coming up with a conclusion that fits them, they simply come up with the conclusion and then cherry-pick the facts that fit it. And when the conclusion is perpetually “Obama hates ‘Real Murica’!!!,” then it’s not that hard to see why they always make him out as some sort of Bond villain.

That would explain the Nehru jacket and hollowed-out volcano.

58 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:03:46pm

re: #53 darthstar

America is SPYING ON BRAZILIANS

Brazilians, eh? Is that a lot?
//

59 Gus  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:04:25pm

re: #52 Gus

Yep. And Greenwald has been in Brazil for years now. Silent.

Ain’t that a hoot? I was like, seriously? All these years in Brazil ignoring the human rights abuses in Brazil and this is all he’s got?

60 The Ghost of a Flea  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:04:41pm

re: #57 Mateo Scourge

That would explain the Nehru jacket and hollowed-out volcano.

Pro tip: Make sure the volcano is inactive first.

Man, that was embarassing.
Twice.

61 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:06:18pm

re: #52 Gus

He doesn’t care about what happens to poor people.

62 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:10:02pm

re: #60 The Ghost of a Flea

Pro tip: Make sure the volcano is inactive first.

Man, that was embarassing.
Twice.

I don’t know…I don’t know…I don’t know where I’m gonna go when the volcano blows!

63 The Ghost of a Flea  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:10:51pm

re: #61 ProTARDISLiberal

He doesn’t care about what happens to poor people.

Glenn strikes me as yet another libertarian who has complex rationalization mechanisms for why he only complains about the issues that affect his sense of security and his civil liberties.

64 erik_t  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:13:12pm

re: #63 The Ghost of a Flea

Glenn strikes me as yet another libertarian who has complex rationalization mechanisms for why he only complains about the issues that affect his sense of security and his civil liberties.

I note that, for all practical purposes, there isn’t another kind.

65 darthstar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:15:24pm
66 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:19:10pm

re: #64 erik_t

I note that, for all practical purposes, there isn’t another kind.

I’ve always hoped to meet a libertarian who has actually looked honestly at the practical effects of his favored policies, and accepts that there will be HUGE problems, but is willing to accept them even at some cost to his own wellbeing. You know, like pacifists who believe nonviolence is so important that they’d die rather than take up arms.

But no. Unlike pacifism, libertarianism is essentially selfish.

67 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:40:06pm

re: #8 EPR-radar

The alternate reality where Obama’s first term was some kind of disaster that ensured a loss in 2012 and ascendency of this GOP for the next 10-20 years (i.e., the Carter scenario the GOP so fervently desired), really doesn’t bear thinking about.

It’s because the GOP elitists banned Sarah Palin from talking about Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers…

oh wait…yes, she did talk about them (incessantly) during the campaign, directly after the elections and ever since…

68 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:43:08pm

re: #10 Linden Arden

So Benghazi is all they have left?

I am amazed at the desperate attempts to kill Obamacare. If it were destined for failure like they say they would have easy wins lined up in 2014 and 2016.

Just like Rick told Ilsa in Casablanca…they’ll always have Benghazi…

69 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:46:01pm

re: #13 wrenchwench

It’s on topic. Really. The little guy’s name is Ben. Benghazi.

Or it’s on topic because I’m lying.

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I adore hedgies and would so love to have one. This is one of my many favorite hedgies photos:

Happy Hedgehog is Happy

70 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:47:05pm

re: #14 darthstar

Anyone care for a 150,000 foot free fall?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c

nope. However, I totally enjoy that thrill vicariously.

71 ericblair  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 4:54:58pm

re: #63 The Ghost of a Flea

Glenn strikes me as yet another libertarian who has complex rationalization mechanisms for why he only complains about the issues that affect his sense of security and his civil liberties.

That seems to be the distinction between “civil rights” and “civil liberties.” You wouldn’t think that they’d need to be differentiated, unless you want to separate out the “liberties” that affect white male middle class Americans from “rights” that concern wimmenz, poorz, blahs, and all those other rabble.

72 Jay C  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 5:19:53pm

re: #50 Mateo Scourge

Which leads to the question - WHY did he want to show America is weak, and why would he want to do this 2 months before the election?

Which answer is what Mitt Romney blurted out like, what, a few hours after the Benghazi attacks (and swiftly backpedaled) - that Obama’s reluctance to engage in mindless Muslim-bashing *somehow* meant that he was “sympathetic” to terrorism, and that said “sympathy” *somehow* led to the attack. Of course, it was all fearful BS (even Mitt tried - sadly, successfully, to bury this ), but it just played into the longstanding derangement most wingers have over President Obama. ODS - the Silent Killer….

73 GeneJockey  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 5:31:53pm

re: #72 Jay C

Which leads to the question - WHY did he want to show America is weak, and why would he want to do this 2 months before the election?

Which answer is what Mitt Romney blurted out like, what, a few hours after the Benghazi attacks (and swiftly backpedaled) - that Obama’s reluctance to engage in mindless Muslim-bashing *somehow* meant that he was “sympathetic” to terrorism, and that said “sympathy” *somehow* led to the attack. Of course, it was all fearful BS (even Mitt tried - sadly, successfully, to bury this ), but it just played into the longstanding derangement most wingers have over President Obama. ODS - the Silent Killer….

What I remember about that announcement by Mitt was the smug, smarmy smirk on his puss as he left the podium. Probably thought he’d scored big. That’s life inside the bubble - all his friends told him how great it would be to score points on Obama over this, then at the debate he did his famous faceplant. I could watch the moment when Candy Crowley corrected him over and over - he starts out leaning forward, like his prey is in the trap, then his eyes pop open, his head jerks up, he takes an involuntary step backwards. Ah, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot, already in the mouth.

74 EPR-radar  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 7:10:49pm

re: #73 Mateo Scourge

What I remember about that announcement by Mitt was the smug, smarmy smirk on his puss as he left the podium. Probably thought he’d scored big. That’s life inside the bubble - all his friends told him how great it would be to score points on Obama over this, then at the debate he did his famous faceplant. I could watch the moment when Candy Crowley corrected him over and over - he starts out leaning forward, like his prey is in the trap, then his eyes pop open, his head jerks up, he takes an involuntary step backwards. Ah, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot, already in the mouth.

Ah yes, the famous smirk, with the helpful “Nailed it!” caption provided by the internet hive mind.

No Romney, I’m not about to forget your pathetic attempt to score a few political points from the deaths of 4 American diplomats in the line of duty.

75 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 7:18:10pm

Just wait for the 1-year anniversary.
OBAMA WENT TO NEW YORK CITY AND NEVER EVEN MENTIONED BENGHAZI!!11!!!!!

76 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jul 29, 2013 7:20:03pm

But G-D forbid that someone should show the tiny coffin of a Sandy Hook victim.

77 steve_davis  Tue, Jul 30, 2013 5:08:40am

re: #21 Mateo Scourge

What mystifies me about the whole BENGHAZI!!!!11!!!!!! thing is why anyone would give a shit about what it was that they were supposedly lying about?

What is the big hairy deal about whether the attackers attacked because of the video, and why does it matter whether an initial assessment, carefully couched in qualifiers, was accurate?

It’s a big deal because Benghazi. Dear Gentle Uncle Benghazi. Obama should never be forgiven for not using his superpowers to stop the mugger who would eventually kill Uncle Benghazi, while Obama was selfishly in a wrestling ring making some spending money while tossing bin Laden around.

78 RedSquareBear  Tue, Jul 30, 2013 8:07:33am

re: #57 Mateo Scourge

That would explain the Nehru jacket and hollowed-out volcano.

A Nehru jacket needs neither reason nor explanation.


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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
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