Right-wing hysteria over Benghazi feeds upon itself
Fox New anchors, right-wing websites and talk-radio hosts around the country are ginning up a wave of mass hysteria about the decision by the Obama administration not to attempt a military rescue of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya. (Glenn Beck is even telling listeners that the treason is more widespread, and that Stevens was acting as a gunrunner for al Qaida in Libya and Syria. I kid you not.)
Obama’s crime is said to be so heinous that mere impeachment for refusing to intervene would be insufficient. If you Google the words “Benghazi” and “traitor,” you get some 518,000 hits, almost all of which cast President Obama as that traitor. The criticism extends as well to the mainstream media, which as my email informs me, is being accused of covering up a scandal of such dimensions that it would supposedly dwarf Watergate.
But I have a question.
According to NBC News, Mitt Romney hasn’t mentioned Libya in his campaign appearances around the country since Oct. 12, which is more than two weeks ago. Now why do you think that is?
Option one: Mitt has joined the mainstream media as part of the pro-Obama conspiracy of silence to protect the president.
Option two. Romney’s military and foreign affairs advisers have told him that not even a minimally responsible case can be made that Obama should have intervened militarily at Benghazi, and that Romney would deeply embarrass himself by suggesting such a step.
Let’s be clear: There is no indication — none — that U.S military officials advised the president or anyone in the administration that a rescue operation was possible, and that the administration ignored that offer. The evidence is entirely to the contrary.
As Defense Secretary Leon Panetta explained, “(The) basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information about what’s taking place. And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.”
That would be Gen. Carter Ham, the head of U.S. Africa Command, and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They are men of training and experience; they know where our military assets are located; they know their capabilities, and they know the difficulties involved in inserting and extracting an armed force into an uncertain situation in another country.
It is of course frustrating and heartbreaking to learn that CIA officers stationed near the Benghazi consulate had asked three times for military assistance and that those requests had been denied. But that is real life. This is not a Hollywood movie.
Here’s how Fox News reported the news above:
The most provocative piece of that report is the claim that a Special Forces team stationed at an air base in Signonella, Italy, two hours from Benghazi, was ready to intervene but orders were never given. But here’s how such mass hysteria gets fed by partial information, in both senses of the word “partial”. As it turned out, the Special Forces team in question was not based in Sigonella but had to be assembled and transported there from elsewhere in Europe.
“U.S. officials say (the team) did not arrive in Sicily until after the attack was over,” CBS reports. “Even if the team had been ready in time, confusion about what was happening on the ground in Benghazi — and State Department concerns about violating Libyan sovereignty — made a military rescue mission impractical, the officials say.”
Arguing against mass and willful hysteria using facts, logic and expert professional opinion is a losing battle, of course. It doesn’t matter that our top military people believed a rescue effort would be impractical and would probably end in the loss of even more American lives. What matters is that talk-show hosts and others can stir up millions of Americans raised on Rambo movies to believe that their leaders could have helped to rescue a well-respected U.S. diplomat and his team, but simply decided it wasn’t worth the effort. Because the president is a traitor.
That makes no sense. It is such a ridiculous notion that in most eras it would never even be broached in public debate. But this is an era in which many are predisposed to believe the most ridiculous things if it justifies their hatred of Obama, and a time in which when emotions are heightened by a hard-fought presidential campaign. So nonsense reigns.
– Jay Bookman
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Butch Cassidy (I)
October 30th, 2012
8:05 am
Yaaaawn….Greetings from Zone D in Manhattan. I see the party faithful have now started to use 4 dead Americans as part of their poutrage. They must have really been pissed when they found out 4,000 died under GW.
Jay
October 30th, 2012
8:07 am
“Hahaha. You can’t make this bs up.
Actually G-Dog, you can because you just did.
Chrysler, for example, is not moving Jeep production to China. That is an out-and-out lie. Chrysler is in fact increasing its U.S. production of Jeeps, and has announced it is hiring another 1,100 workers to do so.
Yes, it is also reopening plants in China to produce Jeeps for sale IN CHINA, not for export here.
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2012
8:08 am
Greetings from Zone D in Manhattan.
Butch! glad to hear from you.
I hear the Hackensack has loosed its furies on a few small defenseless Bergen County towns. I can visualize a lot of modest, working-class neighborhoods getting washed away but haven’t seen anything on the intertubes yet…
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
8:10 am
1.4 trillion $ deficits every year!! But he promised to cut it in half!!How come he didn’t? Cause his policies were a friggin disaster!!
Well, given that appropriations bills begin in the House, why didn’t the GOP controlled House simply give him spending bills to cut those deficits in half just as he said he would? Is it because of the fact that even the GOP numpties understand that cutting spending would cripple our economy?
straitroad
October 30th, 2012
8:10 am
Hysteria? Jay, you are not an individual who’s grounded in reality. Now that we are getting information about the actual events that took place, it is inconceivable that the administration would have sent Susan Rice out and other surrogates to try to deceive us into believing that this was spawned by a protest. It may soothe your insecurities to have like-minded folks on this board tell you how talented you are and pat you on the back no matter how false your drivel gets, but it doesn’t change reality. The reality is this: the adminstration screwed up, then panic set in, and now there’s no where to hide. Four people died needlessly and you have the gall to label those trying to find answers as hysterical. Maybe you’re the one with balls the size of cue balls.
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
8:10 am
dB
They’re butthurt just because Obama breathes…
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
8:11 am
Cons have advanced from hysteria to sheer lunacy. They not only do not need facts to support their claims, they ignore facts that are presented and even replace facts with their hallucinations.
JKL2
October 30th, 2012
8:13 am
Mainstream media, propaganda wing of the Democrat party, seems to be doing it’s best to cover up a pre-election crisis. What a shock.
Aquagirl
October 30th, 2012
8:13 am
Aquagirl, So you believe
I believe I know little about what really happened in Benghazi or who should have done what.
I KNOW there’s a lot of pompous blowhards who think they DO know yakking on the internet and making fools of themselves. Come to think of it there’s a few right here.
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
8:14 am
Butch
Glad to hear from you…. Stay dry my friend.
Gerry
October 30th, 2012
8:15 am
Rational…you assume some cuts, which were needed, kept them from doing anything? Are you really this dumb? This is about being attacked twice in May and June. The Embassador sending warning letters to fall on deaf ears. Emails showing this. Oh but some tiny cuts prevented us from doing anything. haha. Whatever. This is the president who has gone around any law he wants to spend spend spend. Look no further than welfare. This is about an admin that fell asleep and then tried to lie their way out of it. And people DIED!!! Listen to the father and brother speak. they want answers and the pathetic media outlets aren’t even pressing them cause they want this inept pres reelected. Truly disgusting.
JKL2
October 30th, 2012
8:15 am
butch- They must have really been pissed when they found out 4,000 died under GW.
Please show me where Bush blamed it on a video.
TiredOfIt
October 30th, 2012
8:16 am
Why do the right-wingers get so much enjoyment out of Benghazi and the death of Americans? Reading their comments you can almost see the smiles on their faces.
Why are you so desperate, if you are so sure “lying man” will win? Speaking of “lying man” why is he still saying that the Jeep factory in Ohio is going to China when the company has denied it. Once a liar always a liar.
JKL2
October 30th, 2012
8:16 am
-I KNOW there’s a lot of pompous blowhards who think they DO know yakking on the internet and making fools of themselves. Come to think of it there’s a few right here.
named aquagirl…
Willis
October 30th, 2012
8:17 am
Let the Republicans hoot and holler all they want about Benghazi.
What people want to know is what Romney, who left the Governor’s office in Massachusetts with a 31% approval rating, is going to do about jobs. Of course he will tell us his secret about how to ship jobs to China and make money for himself on Day One.
will the "REAL" Mitt Romeny please stand up...
October 30th, 2012
8:18 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE
Mark
October 30th, 2012
8:19 am
Brose
Why didn’t the president try and work with the gop and fix the economy istead of ramming his hideous health care law down our throats. Something 65% of the country didn’t want. Huh huh? And he had control of congress the first two years ya doofus.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 30th, 2012
8:19 am
JKL2
October 30th, 2012
8:15 am
butch- They must have really been pissed when they found out 4,000 died under GW.
Please show me where Bush blamed it on a video
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.
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Please show us all that Bush ever figured out WHO to blame it on!
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2012
8:21 am
Please show me where Bush blamed it on a video.
“Ah hear the rumors on the Internets.”
DannyX
October 30th, 2012
8:21 am
Jay, remember how ridiculous the birther nonsense got a few years back?
These are the people you are dealing with here. Crazy is as crazy does.
Shawn Stafford
October 30th, 2012
8:22 am
Insert Bush instead of Obama, then imagine what it would look like. In case your confused, the mainstream media wouldn’t be able to talk about anything else. In fact, I bet Jay would write multiple articles about Bush’s incompetence, failed policies, crimes and desire to see him arrested. Instead. Nothing to see here, just move along. Glaring hypocrisy…
JamVet
October 30th, 2012
8:23 am
Wow.
Sometimes the over the top stuff written here is seemingly meant to do nothing more than just get a reaction.
But the Thin Guy?
That one is seriously messed up in the head…
Williebkind
October 30th, 2012
8:24 am
So the video does not exist, the creator of the movie is not in jail, the four Americans are alive, the terrorist were not involved, the 9/11 day had no significance, and the Obama administration had no idea what was happening, and the administration had to wait and see? Well, hell all things are good!
willie lynch
October 30th, 2012
8:24 am
If they would have just locked up Obama after he killed Steven Foster we wouldn’t be dealing with this. Then he tried to choke W to death in the White House no less. Yeah, I never fell for that choking on a pretzel nonsense.
Down with Obama, Osama, yo mama, whatever…
TiredOfIt
October 30th, 2012
8:24 am
Romney: I’m lying for the lord. Gotta love religion?
MadMax
October 30th, 2012
8:24 am
Let’s see. This blog was up in arms over Romney’s ill chosen words about the 47% and how callous the man is. Now the president abandons his post to attend a fund raiser in Las Vegas and lets four men die without getting involved and they don’t find that callous at all. Actions speak louder than words. I don’t know if he could have done anything to prevent the deaths of those four men but I expect more frorm our president than greeting the casket as that was too late and only ceremonial.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 30th, 2012
8:25 am
WILLIS
Exactly how many jobs did Romney actually offshore? Any idea?
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2012
8:25 am
Insert Bush instead of Obama, then imagine what it would look like.
~80-90% Gallup approval in the months after the attack.
RationalThoughts
October 30th, 2012
8:25 am
Gerry
Last time i checked the military, security, embassies, protecting our citizens on foreign soil, all cost money.. so yeah, that “tiny” half a billion dollars denied for EXTRA SECURITY does mean something. But hey, never let facts get in the way of a good story, eh? The sad part is IF troops were sent in, I am almost sure folks like you would have said it was a “campaign stunt” to show how tough he is on foreign policy…right?
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
8:26 am
Why didn’t the president try and work with the gop and fix the economy istead of ramming his hideous health care law down our throats.
Why didn’t Jack Cousteau hand feed great white sharks near Seal Island in South Africa?
As far as I can tell, the president did try to work with Congress as a whole to fix things. What he got in return was outright stonewalling by the GOP. While you and others try to blame the president for the failure of Congress to do anything worthwhile, people like me laugh. People like me, who actually know how the Constitution set up our government, realize that the president doesn’t have a friggin’ thing to do with Congress other than to spew words.
Legislation from Congress has to come from Congress, has to be written by Congress, and has to pass votes by Congress before the president can do anything to them. A Republican healthcare bill passed without a single Republican vote. The supply side idea of tax cuts to stimulate the economy was used in the stimulus AND with the payroll tax cut. Free trade agreements were signed with three different countries by the president. Every bill that passed Congress has been signed into law by the president. So you tell me how you’ve come to the conclusion that the president has not worked with the GOP in Congress?
indigo
October 30th, 2012
8:27 am
Republican propaganda experts are using Benghazi in a cold and calculating way to hurt Obama as much as possible. The right-wing hysteria comes from the Republican gullible electorate who believe every lie these propaganda experts tell them.
Sherman captures Georgia starring Eminem
October 30th, 2012
8:27 am
….Atlanta has burned down to the ground….Sherman headed South towards Statesboro…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-yKhDd64s
Williebkind
October 30th, 2012
8:27 am
Insert Obama’s grils in the embassy, then imagine what it would look like!
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 30th, 2012
8:27 am
Are the LIBs on this post suggesting the BO and his appointees did a terrific job with responding to Benghazi? What was the response aside from some obligatory invesigation?
We all know the first several shots our of the press machine weren’t exactly robust or accurate..
Williebkind
October 30th, 2012
8:28 am
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
8:26 am
Good deflection! That must be the liberal DNC instructions this morning.
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 30th, 2012
8:28 am
JKL2 – “Please show me where Bush blamed it on a video.”
You got me. 4,000 Americans killed based on imaginary WMD’s and a completely fabricated reason for invading a sovereign nation, but you’re right, there was no video.
Congrats on your well deserved victory.
PMC
October 30th, 2012
8:29 am
My problem with the whole thing Jay is that we have the best military on the planet. It’s inexcusable that a rescue mission would not be feasable. I don’t watch opinion news programs because they are as worthless as two party presidential debates where any of us could answer for the “candidates”.
It’s inexcusable that our people, military and civilian diplomats would be in such danger. I’m not blaming it politically on Obama or Panetta or anyone personally. Obviously they didn’t want this to happen, but it’s inexcusable that any US Embassy on this planet, but especially those in war torn areas would not have such sufficient defense meaures that an attack on it or the people within it’s sphere of protection would be suicide.
I would hope personally that whomever is leading the state department going forward, would absolutely never let this happen again.
willie lynch
October 30th, 2012
8:29 am
Shawn Stafford
October 30th, 2012
8:22 am
I’ve posed the question on more than one occasion so maybe you can give a credible answer. Why are people less upset that Cheney and Bush would not go before the 9/11 Commission without the other being in the room and without being under oath? We should never discount human life but there were 3000+ people killed on 9/11 and the president and vice president didn’t want to be sworn to tell the truth on record. Where’s the outrage? I find the silence on this quite astounding.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 30th, 2012
8:29 am
INDIGO
Gullible? How is it that you are less gullible that the wingnuts on the right? You have more in common with them in the sheep department than you will possibly ever admit.
Why was BO’s response so awe inspiring?
Aquagirl
October 30th, 2012
8:30 am
Insert Bush instead of Obama, then imagine what it would look like.
You don’t have to imagine a surprise attack under G.W. Bush where Americans died unless you’re under 12 years old. So maybe you should brush your teeth and get to school instead of using mommy’s internet to embarrass yourself.
kayaker 71
October 30th, 2012
8:30 am
Meanwhile, an American who produced a video expressing his 1st Amendment rights is still in jail on some trumped up probation charge, drug there in the middle of the night at the order of the Justice Dept. And the lies still keep rolling in to appease those who either just don’t give a tinkers damn what happened or are so far up Bozo’s butt that they try to spin their own story, Bookman being one of them. So many questions still unanswered….. but its election time, my friends. Wouldn’t want to tell the truth quite yet.
Mick
October 30th, 2012
8:30 am
Nice work jay, this column has gotten the conned dander up beyond expectations…keep playing them like a fiddle…
Right Wing Bible Thumpin' Gun Nut
October 30th, 2012
8:31 am
Them WMDs was really there. Dick Cheney said they was.
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
8:32 am
Insert Bush instead of Obama, then imagine what it would look like.
~80-90% Gallup approval in the months after the attack.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx
Click on GW Bush and notice that huge spike around September 2011. Day 240 in office, and Bush’s approval rating was at 90%. He didn’t touch 50% until day 970 in office. That’s a total of 730 days, or exactly 2 years of more than 50% approval.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 30th, 2012
8:32 am
Why didn’t the president try and work with the gop and fix the economy istead of ramming his hideous health care law down our throats.
Why didn’t the GOP want to work with the newly elected Prsident instead of having a secret meeting the evening of the innauguration?
Subversives.
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 30th, 2012
8:32 am
Can someone let me know when Romney is expected to visit NYC and talk about how the State needs to foot the bill for Sandy? I’d really like to attend that rally.
carismar
October 30th, 2012
8:33 am
From Thomas Sowell:
The belated release of State Department e-mails shows that the Obama administration knew, while the attack on the American consulate was still underway, that it was a coordinated, armed terrorist attack. They were getting reports from those inside the consulate who were under attack, as well as surveillance pictures from a camera on an American drone overhead.
About an hour before the attack, the scene outside was calm enough for the American ambassador to accompany a Turkish official to the gates of the consulate to say goodbye. This could hardly have happened if there were protesting mobs there.
Why then did both President Obama and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice keep repeating the story that this was a spontaneous protest riot against an anti-Islamic video in America?
The White House knew the facts — but they knew that the voting public did not. And it mattered hugely whether the facts became known to the public before or after the election. What the White House needed was a process of “cooling out” the voters, keeping them distracted or in uncertainty as long as possible.
Not only did the Obama administration keep repeating the false story about an anti-Islamic video being the cause of a riot that turned violent, the man who produced that video was tracked down and arrested, creating a media distraction.
All this kept the video story front and center, with the actions and inactions of the Obama administration kept in the background.
The White House had to know that it was only a matter of time before the truth would come out. But time was what mattered, with an election close at hand. The longer they could stretch out the period of distraction and uncertainty — “cooling out” the voters — the better. Once the confidence man in the White House was reelected, it would be politically irrelevant what facts came out.
As the Obama administration’s video story began to slowly unravel, their earlier misstatements were blamed on “the fog of war” that initially obscures many events. But there was no such “fog of war” in this case. The Obama administration knew what was happening while it was happening.
They didn’t know all the details — and we may never know all the details — but they knew enough to know that this was no protest demonstration that got out of hand.
From the time it took office, the Obama administration has sought to suppress the very concept of a “war on terror” or the terrorists’ war on us. The painful farce of calling the Fort Hood murders “workplace violence,” instead of a terrorist attack in our midst, shows how far the Obama administration would go to downplay the dangers of Islamic extremist terrorism.
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
8:33 am
Good deflection! That must be the liberal DNC instructions this morning.
Nope. I don’t belong to the DNC, nor do I receive anything from them. Once again, you simply show how much of a dumbass you are. Please don’t try to think anymore. I’d hate for you to kill that one remaining brain cell that you have left.
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
8:34 am
Have Republicans in Congress worked out what benefits they will cut in order to fund FEMA yet. People are waiting. What will Mitt do? Let them eat cake, so long as they can afford it. Only your hidden camera video knows for sure.
Obama causes NYC Crane Collaspe #FoxNews
October 30th, 2012
8:36 am
“We Report and the nations idiots and racist believe”
DBCOOPER
October 30th, 2012
8:36 am
http://www.teapartytribune.com/2012/10/29/obama-fires-top-admiral-for-advocating-libyan-rescue/
More of Bokky’s Hysteria. Right! Jay the Fat Ladies warming up pal.
Georgia
October 30th, 2012
8:37 am
Remember that you have to spam what’s trending to make money on spam. That’s what twitter is. Spam. You can make money by haunting multiple blogs and spam what’s trending. That’s why there’s so much white noise on every single stinking blog. The spammers don’t care what they’re actually texting. It could be a coffee enima recipe for that extra bit of freshness for the non homophobic everyman. Who cares. They’re making money by baiting readers with creative news analysis. This time it’s business. Romney didn’t have a foreign policy beyond Obama’s shadow so Glenn Beck had to come up with one. Listen to twenty minutes of Rush and you’ve got your spam for the day. Rush trends. Beck trends. His listeners actually tweet what they hear in real time. Then they attack all the blogs with the trending buzzwords.
Everyone knows this, right? I mean, is there one cave dweller out there who doesn’t know about trending spam attacks on blogs by entrepreneurs? It’s not political. It’s business.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 30th, 2012
8:37 am
GRANNY
Actually BO threw the initial obstructionist grenade between election and inauguration…remember the “”we won and I’m president so get over it” comment when he was approached with a GOP bill that among other things, eliminated tax from unemployment recoveries and reduced the bottom two tax brackets?
TiredOfIt
October 30th, 2012
8:38 am
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 30th, 2012
8:32 am
Can someone let me know when Romney is expected to visit NYC and talk about how the State needs to foot the bill for Sandy? I’d really like to attend that rally.
++
It will be a while, “lying-man” doesn’t want to get his 500.00 dollar shoes wet.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 30th, 2012
8:38 am
Let the Cons have their hysteria – it takes their mind off their failure of a candidate. A guy no one can really like.
Anniem
October 30th, 2012
8:39 am
Oh wait…I see it now…this was all a plot on Obama’s part because he wanted to endure the endless accusations about what he should have done, what he should have said . He really wanted to give fodder to idiots like Beck and Fox and Limbaugh-are you all serious??? The right is grasping at absolutely any drivel they can find embarass The President. What would Williard have done??? Oh, I know, he would have fired off the drones, sent in troops a day later and sprayed the country side with their firepower then would have been so sad when he met their caskets at Andrews.
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
8:39 am
Paul Broun was in charge of blessing the door that President Obama walked through and that was supposed to exorcise the evil Kenyan socialist communist fascist conservative Christian Muslim capitalist that was hiding in him. Blame Paul Broun for your party’s failure to complete the mission.
tc
October 30th, 2012
8:40 am
Here is a question I have. The administration continues to claim that they gave out the best information they had at the time, which was that the attack was due to reaction over an american made film. Then exactly where did that information come from. There is no answer to that question. All of the information that has been found or put out by either side does not suggest that they had any information linking the attacks to the film. Why can’t the administration explain where they received the information linking the attacks to the film. If they would explain that it would clear a lot of this up. My guess is that they have a very poor source and they know that that would only lead to further problems. To me this is the start of the problems the administration has. The American people have a lack of trust with the current aministration as they should.
indigo
October 30th, 2012
8:41 am
Stevie Ray – 8:29
Bush and Cheney’s lies about WMD’s have resulted in 4,000 American military deaths. This seems to mean nothing to you.
A still unclear attack in Benghazi resulted in four American civilian deaths. You and other cons are going all to pieces over this.
And now, you can’t wait for a Bush clone to be our next president.
And you call ME gullible?????????????????
Obama/Biden 2012
October 30th, 2012
8:41 am
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Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 30th, 2012
8:42 am
Stevie Ray “benjamin Button” Or “Merlin”….clown guy
I believe he said that a year afterwards…..
You really can’t save time in a bottle.
Dixie Chicks
October 30th, 2012
8:42 am
Where is George W. Bush?
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 30th, 2012
8:42 am
tc -”The American people have a lack of trust with the current aministration as they should.”
Actually, I pretty much distrust all administrations. Why is this one so special for you?
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 30th, 2012
8:42 am
remember the “”we won and I’m president so get over it” comment
I remember something like that. And next week he can say it all over again.
mwuahahahahahahahahaha
Aquagirl
October 30th, 2012
8:42 am
The Tea Party Tribune—oh yeah, keep reading that. Try to get your IQ in the negative range and provide even more laughs.
Right Wing Bible Thumpin' Gun Nut
October 30th, 2012
8:43 am
I plan my huntin’ season around Glenn Beck’s broadcasts. He and Dick Cheney, now that’s a ticket that would make America great again!
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
8:43 am
Actually BO threw the initial obstructionist grenade between election and inauguration…
Nope. The obstructionism has been steadily escalating since the 1980’s. We’re just witnessing a continued escalation of the confirmation skirmishes, legislative battles, and other crap. Obama’s, Boehner’, Cantor’s, Pelosi’s, Reid’s, nor McConnell’s actions in the 2000’s have anything to do with it other than simply adding fuel to the already raging fire.
gadem
October 30th, 2012
8:43 am
Republicans are politicizing this entire Benghazi event, but they were very silent when men and women were being killed by the thousands in Iraq. Death in Iraq is ok…death in Benghazi not ok.
Doggone/GA
October 30th, 2012
8:44 am
“Why didn’t the president try and work with the gop and fix the economy”
Because you can’t “work with” people who only have 2 answers: “No” or “My way or the highway”
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
8:45 am
Tom Price was given one simple job–say “I Object” to everything that President Obama wanted–and Tom could not even handle that. Blame Tom Price for his failure to say “I Object” in a sufficiently whiny voice often enough to block passage of ACA. That one is on Tom Price’s shoulders. He’s a failure.
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2012
8:45 am
Actually BO threw the initial obstructionist grenade between election and inauguration…remember the “”we won and I’m president so get over it”
Remember, folks–our Stevie Ray is an “independent” and totally just wants to light a candle on both sides!
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 30th, 2012
8:45 am
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/01/23/obama-to-gop-i-won/
Here is what was said about “I won”.
Mitch McConnell
October 30th, 2012
8:46 am
“Why didn’t the president try and work with the gop and fix the economy”
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I do not care about fixing the economy. My main objective is to make sure that Barack Obama is a “one term” President.
The Truth
October 30th, 2012
8:47 am
Funny how the Cons call the AJC a “liberal rag”, but they spend all day trolling AJC’s blogs spewing their idiocy.
Anniem
October 30th, 2012
8:47 am
tc the answer to your question lies in reading. The information obtained from a lawyer who was in the area said that as the terrorists were closing off the streets to the embassy he saw them instructing groups of students to lead the advance on the gates shouting their revulsion to the video. It was to distract from their intention to then attack with heavy weapons-it was felt the security staff would not attack the students and would be distracted by their demonstration…thus the intitial confusion.
Jeff
October 30th, 2012
8:49 am
Sure starting to sound like “Black Hawk Down” to me, There was gunships within an hour that could have destroyed the terrorist.. But the main question is this, Why on the eve of the aniversary of 9/11 was there not a much stronger detachment of security on at these locations.. When you project weaknes then you get attacked..
JKL2
October 30th, 2012
8:49 am
butch- You got me. 4,000 Americans killed based on imaginary WMD’s and a completely fabricated reason for invading a sovereign nation, but you’re right, there was no video.
Not sure where they ever got that intel: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcripts/clinton.html
Mitch McConnell
October 30th, 2012
8:49 am
These are “MY” famous words:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gM-1HbK4qU
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2012
8:50 am
“Come on! all he had to do was send a gunship out there and kill a few hundred people and everything woulda been cool!”
/your right-wing punditry class, third division
DannyX
October 30th, 2012
8:50 am
“Now watch this drive.”
trueblueeagle
October 30th, 2012
8:51 am
Four Americans dead
Why does the liberal media protect Obama?
Thats the big question it reminds me of Germany from 1933 to 1945 both socialist.
Bookman can you answer that?
Right Wing Bible Thumpin' Gun Nut
October 30th, 2012
8:51 am
What’s Anne Coulter got to say about this? If she weren’t a woman and so butt ugly I might vote for her.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 30th, 2012
8:53 am
JKL2
Wrong President, Wrong Year, Wrong Argument
Mr. Silly Bloomers!
sam
October 30th, 2012
8:53 am
my sources told me that Obama actually was there in Libya at the time with a team of Navy Seals but wouldnt let them engage because they were finishing up a game of hoops
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
October 30th, 2012
8:53 am
well done, JKL, for pointing out that they were all DESTROYED … in other words, they were no longer in existence.
East Lake Ira
October 30th, 2012
8:53 am
You made Wonkette:
As Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution notes, the whole “Obama shoulda sent GI Joes to beat COBRA” scenario is purely speculative:
DannyX
October 30th, 2012
8:53 am
“Thats the big question it reminds me of Germany from 1933 to 1945 both socialist.”
Lol! Yea, the situations are exactly alike.
Great example of right wing hysteria, keep them coming!
Georgia
October 30th, 2012
8:54 am
Why doesn’t Trump join in the fray? Where is the potted plant with the flip flopping empty hair? I’d say he’s gone full Stalin and is executing every single member of his staff who should have known he was stepping in a big pile of poo. Trump is a queer deer. He once sang, “Green Acres” on television. It was a disaster, but it only made you love him more. Remember when he tore into Rosie O’donnell when she mimed his hair flip flop on the View? He overkilled her. You can’t attack an comic like that. The little old ladies in Peoria won’t understand. But, then he created one of the most entertaining shows ever. If he said, “you’re fired” to a wannabe loser that we hated, boy did we cheer!!!! Television doesn’t get any better than that.
But Trump proves that luck is a fickle angel. how unlucky it was that he wasn’t saved from that big reveal. How to rehab? If he gives five million to the poor kids in chicago, it might begin the rehab. Naw. He’s is never to command respect again. Every single new yorker who meets Trump can out debate trump. Even the homeless. Debating Trump is like debating an empty hair. Would you listen to Trumps braying ever again? After the Veep debate, Eric Erickson said that Biden acted so poorly that Mary could ride him into Bethlehem. He should have saved that one.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 30th, 2012
8:54 am
Liberal media.
That’s still on of the great comedic lines of all time!
Another Obama Apologist Against Right Wing “Hysteria” — Peach Pundit
October 30th, 2012
8:55 am
[...] Mike Hassinger · 0 comments TweetJay Bookman’s post yesterday at the AJC dismissed me -and hundreds of thousands of other Americans- as imbeciles and hysterics eager to be [...]
Paul
October 30th, 2012
8:55 am
JAY
Want to see the undecides break for Obama and the Democrats? Just have the DNC distribute conservative responses from this thread to your two questions.
There’s being an ideologue, and then there’s detachment from reality.
A Review of Dick Cheney’s “In My Time”
October 30th, 2012
8:56 am
After the illegal invasion of Iraq, justified through bald faced lies, Halliburton was given exclusives to contracts for the rebuilding of that country. In carrying out these contracts Halliburton stole billions, some consisting of pallets stacked 6 feet high with hundred dollar bills just disappearing. The fraud and abuse was blatant to the extreme.
Appearing before a Congressional Committee in 2004, Cheney was asked by Senator Patrick Leahy to produce the documentation showing where the missing billions in Iraq had gone to. Cheney told Leahy “Go f$%k yourself” and hence telling the American people the same thing as it was our money that was stolen.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 30th, 2012
8:56 am
Thanks Mitt!
The fatal meningitis epidemic sweeping the United States can now be traced to the failure of then-Gov. Mitt Romney to adequately regulate the Massachusetts pharmaceutical company that is being blamed for the deaths.
At least 344 people in 18 states have been infected by the growing public health crisis and 25 have died so far.
But the epidemic may also play a role in the presidential campaign, now that state records reveal that a Massachusetts regulatory agency found that the New England Compounding Co., the pharmaceutical company tied to the epidemic, repeatedly failed to meet accepted standards in 2004 — but a reprimand was withdrawn by the Romney administration in apparent deference to the company’s business interests.
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/romneys_lax_regulation_fueled_meningitis_outbreak/
The Benghazi story is bull!
October 30th, 2012
8:56 am
The military always uses intelligence and strategy before deploying troops or any type of military force. Anyone that thinks differently is just stupid.
GFJacket
October 30th, 2012
8:58 am
Did Bush know about 9/11 prior to the attack? Did Bush know there were no WMD in Iraq prior to the invasion?
Your answer to these two will tell you whether you can look at the Benghazi incident with any sense of objectivity….
As a final consideration. . . if the parties were reversed (especially if Bush were still President), would your questions/explanations be the same?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 30th, 2012
8:59 am
“Way to go Brownie” or “Christie told reporters yesterday that he’d spoken to Obama, “and he told me that if, at any point over the next 48 hours, I was not getting something from the federal government that I should call him directly at the White House and that he was going to be there. And I should just not worry about dealing with anybody else, call him. So I appreciate that call from the president. It was very proactive. And I appreciate that type of leadership.”
But I am sure that the clown car of posters who are posting silly lies about “Obama lied, people died” fail to comprehend real leadership skills from our President.
Paul
October 30th, 2012
9:00 am
Hi Butch
Glad you’re okay. My brother’s been visiting. Lives a couple blocks off Times Square. Due to fly back thru Philly on Thursday. Says as long as Times Square is lit up he has power.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 30th, 2012
9:00 am
By the way, if you want to help, in addition to money to the American Red Cross, give blood.
Millard Fillmore
October 30th, 2012
9:01 am
Jay- your continuing idiocy is very entertaining. The issue clearly was not whether PrezBO should do a rescue mission but that PrezBO lied to the American people about the entire event and attempted to cover up the fact that the embassy had previously requested additional security. The fact that someone died in this mess does not bother you??!?!?!? You are defending PrezBO by attempting to change the subject. Get real.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 30th, 2012
9:01 am
The Benghazi story is bull!
October 30th, 2012
8:56 am
The military always uses intelligence and strategy before deploying troops or any type of military force.
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They are NOW.
2001 – 2008 Not so much.