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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Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 29th, 2012
5:10 pm
It’s now well documented that though necessary requests for additional security were ignored and later denied
Nope. You know where Tripoli is?
Scrivener
October 29th, 2012
5:11 pm
Option three: People (like those found on this blog) have been accusing Romney of politicizing this incident, and he’s trying not to do that and figures that the media should be taking the lead, which, of course, they’re not.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
5:11 pm
General Ham has been hung, drawn and quartered.
DownInAlbany
October 29th, 2012
5:12 pm
Navy wife
October 29th, 2012
5:03 pm
Regarding Romney not pouncing on this, you forgot option 3: When your opponent is hanging himself, get out of the way…
Or 3b: When your opponent is digging a hole for himself, don’t take the shovel away from him!
josef
October 29th, 2012
5:12 pm
Other half
Like I said, we can argue the “could’ves” BEFORE the attack, and we can argue the “shouldn’t'ves” AFTER the attack, but it’s the attempts to apply those to the events in real time that I find specious…
mbtc
October 29th, 2012
5:13 pm
All of you right wing partisans don’t give a rats ass about people dying in Benghazi. But you do care a whole lot about bringing this president down. You’re the worst of the worst.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 29th, 2012
5:13 pm
One retired Air Force General stated that F-16’s out of Aviano, Italy could have been scrambled to at least fly intimidating low altitude runs over the attackers that very well could have caused them to break off their assault
Wow, retired AF generals knowing what planes are on a base currently and their ready status. Someone needs to ask that general where the security breaches are that he gets that info….. unless of course, he did not really know anything. I mean Del did not post a link for a source.
DebbieDoRight -Will Be Good And NOT Ask Questions About Anyone's "Supposed" Military Service. AMEN.
October 29th, 2012
5:14 pm
josef: I thought we wore this one out last night…
Well, the Boortzie’s and the LimpBalls as well as the Koch Brothers don’t want this one to go away yet. It’s all over Breibart, again; as well as on all the talk radio shows. Again.
barking frog
October 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
Benghazi is not going away.The
investigation is not in a war zone
and does not involve the attackers
thus should be finished.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
General Ham is being served in the main lobby in a white wine reduction.
DownInAlbany
October 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
CJ
October 29th, 2012
5:09 pm
DownInAlbany @4:30,
I assume you pursued the answers to those questions each time our diplomatic facilities were attacked when Bush was president (about a dozen). If so, what did you find out? If not, why not? Is it possible that you only care about the answers to such questions when a Democrat is in the White House?
Are you a “truther?”
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
“Nope. You know where Tripoli is?”
Non-argument you haven’t been keeping up with the developments.
CJ
October 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
What say you, DownInAlbany?
You asked a lot of questions? Did you seek and find the answers to such questions the dozen or so times that our diplomatic facilities were attacked under Bush? Or do you have one standard Republican presidents and a different standard for Democratic presidents?
ad
October 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
The GOP game plan – Anything to take the focus off of Romney. If it makes you fox-addicts feel better, go ahead.
ohtriton
October 29th, 2012
5:16 pm
Jay your wrong on all accounts. If you had ever served in a spec ops unit or as a PMC you would understand that rescuing and or giving the guys on the ground what they need to defend themwelves and win the fight is always possible if a commander has experience and guts which the pres does not have. I served in the military and US state dept for 18 yea and I’ve never experienced this utter disregard for the US, empathy toward our enemies, and sheer incompotence as the pres has displayed in the last four years. Keep backing and making excuses for this terrible pres and person so we can continue to increase our debt and allow our enemies to come to our door step.
PS. Fox has got it the closest to being correct than any other news orgnization. Don’t hate.
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
5:16 pm
Republican operatives have spotted the General. He is under house arrest at the local Holiday Inn Express. Word on the streets of Benghazi is that he likes their continental breakfast.
They BOTH suck
October 29th, 2012
5:16 pm
RB
You have stated numerous times that he AJC has not run any stories on Libya. As usual you are wrong.
http://projects.ajc.com/search/?term=libya&x=0&y=0
You can take the time now to take out the ones that are from Wingfield, Bookman and Dupree and read to you are content.
Glad I could assist. Don’t mention it.
Anytime.
Joseph
October 29th, 2012
5:17 pm
I guess Obama didn’t want to be bothered so he really couldn’t engage on Benghazi….
josef
October 29th, 2012
5:17 pm
mbtc
“Bush II, unleashed the most costly misadventure in terms of human life and treasure in the history of the nation? ”
Say what? No fan of Bush, myself, and not of the opinion that Iraq II wasn’t a boondoggle…but, really, have you this little knowledge of American history?
Try that little misadventure back a century and a half ago on for size…
DebbieDoRight -Will Be Good Forever and Ever. AMEN
October 29th, 2012
5:17 pm
All of you right wing partisans don’t give a rats ass about people dying in Benghazi. But you do care a whole lot about bringing this president down. You’re the worst of the worst.
Word.
USMC
October 29th, 2012
5:17 pm
“That’s 750 I should have kept in the bank”–Marty
That bad, huh? I just got the HTC OneX. It is simply AMAZING… for a phone.
Anyway, I agree with you on the snarky little typo comments traded on the blog. It’s funny, isn’t it?
Their political stance CANNOT be argued logically/realistically, so they paint their opposition as Sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, bigoted.
Or they point out a typo
markie mark
October 29th, 2012
5:17 pm
if the right is all so full of crap, why doesnt the media demand a full investigation so that can be shown or seen by the world? I dont see any of the “mainstream” print OR TV news media making even an attempt. Politics? I dont know, but I suspect. But I damn will bet ya that if W was in office right now that would be headline news every night. They may not find anything done wrong, but the truth would be chased like nobodys business, and answers would be demanded.
ConServAmerican
October 29th, 2012
5:17 pm
1) The president took an oath to protect our soverign nation,That includes ordering protection of our diplomats and staff in Benghazi utilizing all means necessary to accomplish the job.
2) It is a fact that the White House knew within minutes of the attack, and chose to do nothing. Remember folks, we live in a time where everywhere in under video surveillance.
3) Why all the mis-information coming out of the White House in the days after the attack? Why did our United Nations Ambassador Price go out on public speaking engagements trying to blame this all on some anti-muslim video on YouTube that had some 16 hits prior to the White house blaming in the for the Banghazi attack?
4) Remember we lost 4 true American Hero’s in that Benghazi attack.
guy
October 29th, 2012
5:18 pm
You don’t have to question this administration’s attitude about Libya as they are lost. Seriously, we need to come home from all these countries because they don’t want us there to begin with.Then,we won’t be having our people murdered in their country. When you go into their country these things will happen.It is not worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CJ
October 29th, 2012
5:18 pm
DownInAlbany,
You’re confused. Trutherism has to do with the attacks on 9/11.
I’m asking you about the attacks on U.S. consulates, embassies, and other diplomatic facilities during Bush’s time in office? Or did Fox News not tell you about those?
Rightwing Troll
October 29th, 2012
5:18 pm
So now we’ve moved from just “denying assistance” to “Obama ordered troops to stand down and ordered a general arrested for trying save Americans”???
Wingnuts are thick… but consistent… you can always count on them to raise their game if they don’t think their poutrage is taking hold…
Union
October 29th, 2012
5:18 pm
i did read somewhere that an ac-130 and some drones were in the area and could have been used.. sure.. if you wanted to take out the whole compound.. when we speak of precision.. the kill box is in direct correlation to the size of the ammo..
Jay
October 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
It’s now well documented that though necessary requests for additional security were ignored and later denied.
No conceivable security detail in Benghazi would have been sufficient to fight off a force of some 150 armed men, which is the estimate I’m now seeing. It merely would have added to the American death total. Without the support of host-nation personnel — and there was none in Benghazi — most full embassies could not withstand an assault of that size.
Embassy Marines are not there to protect the embassies; that is the job of the local host-government military.
DownInAlbany
October 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
CJ
October 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
What say you, DownInAlbany?
You asked a lot of questions? Did you seek and find the answers to such questions the dozen or so times that our diplomatic facilities were attacked under Bush? Or do you have one standard Republican presidents and a different standard for Democratic presidents?
Yes, I did ask a lot of questions. All of which you’ve chosen not to answer.
Yes, I followed Bush’s mistakes as closely as O’s.
No, I do not have double-standards.
I have answered your questions. Will you answer even one of mine?
USMC
October 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
Oh, and Marty, I only paid $325 for the HTC One X…. Not to rub it in.
They BOTH suck
October 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
RB
Will even help you out a little more. When you open the link and see the list. The ones that do not say “blog” are the stories and not the Bookman, Wingfield, etc pieces………
Do not mention it man; glad to assist.
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
Republicans confirmed today that President Obama had no part in the death of Osama bin Laden.
josef
October 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
“Nope. You know where Tripoli is?”
Somewhere close to the Halls of Montezuma?
DebbieDoRight -Will Be Good Forever and Ever. AMEN
October 29th, 2012
5:20 pm
Being good sux.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 29th, 2012
5:20 pm
Non-argument you haven’t been keeping up with the developments
Wingnut developments (aka wild speculation), you’re right. You got facts? Real facts? Cause so far your “facts” are being smashed faster than Gallagher smashes watermelons at a farmer’s market.
DownInAlbany
October 29th, 2012
5:20 pm
CJ
October 29th, 2012
5:18 pm
DownInAlbany,
You’re confused. Trutherism has to do with the attacks on 9/11.
Not confused at all! I know what a “truther” is. I suppose you blame Bush for 9/11 (the original)?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
5:20 pm
But I damn will bet ya that if W was in office right now that would be headline news every night.
How is that media investigation going in the search for answers about the weapons of mass destruction, sport?
ad
October 29th, 2012
5:21 pm
Romney’s plan for fixing the economy will only get us deeper in debt. He has no balanced tax plan, he’s backed off gov. spending cuts and he claims he’s going to increase military spending. Of course, he’s a citizen of the world, so it doesn’t really matter to him how the country’s finances are – just the finances of the uber-rich.
DebbieDoRight -Will Be Good Forever and Ever. AMEN
October 29th, 2012
5:21 pm
No, I do not have double-standards.
BushSh##t
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 29th, 2012
5:22 pm
josef –
debbie, oh please, you can be a “little” bad. We like bad Debbie.
Rob Jones
October 29th, 2012
5:22 pm
With only some of the facts in due to presidential stonewalling, this is clearly a HUGE scandal that points to both Obama’s warped views on how to label and deal with Islamic terrorists, but his very intergrity for lying and now covering up what happened, what he knew and when he knew it. 4 Americans were murdered after hours of siege and calls for help. The ambassadors residence was set afire with him inside–this happened in real time at the WH. Panetta’s excuse of not sending military without know all facts is patently absurd. The order to withhold came from the very top–I’m sure Obama would clear himself if he could. Instead he refuses to answer questions.
DownInAlbany
October 29th, 2012
5:22 pm
DebbieDoRight -Will Be Good Forever and Ever. AMEN
October 29th, 2012
5:17 pm
All of you right wing partisans don’t give a rats ass about people dying in Benghazi. But you do care a whole lot about bringing this president down. You’re the worst of the worst.
More like, 4 Americans are dead and all you care about is protecting the president! Works both ways, sport.
Rightwing Troll
October 29th, 2012
5:22 pm
“josef: I thought we wore this one out last night…”
It’s the only “watergate” they got… the previous 7 fizzled out, went as limp as one of our resident wingnuts without his viagra…
indigo
October 29th, 2012
5:22 pm
Bush and Cheney lied about Iraq and, as a result, thousands of Americans have been killed.
4 American civilians died in Benghazi.
This kind of manufactured hysteria is just one of the many proofs that
the far right is desperate for a whiter White House.
Conservative denials of this become more and more hollow with each passing day.
mbtc
October 29th, 2012
5:22 pm
“Remember we lost 4 true American Hero’s in that Benghazi attack.”
And you could really give a isht about that.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
i did read somewhere that an ac-130 and some drones were in the area and could have been used..
I did read somewhere that I will be driving for the ELF team in the Monaco Grand Prix.
getalife
October 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
cons are racists and terrorist sympathyzers .
barking frog
October 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
DebbieDo
I’m in the market for a personal
attacker if you are available. I was
the commanding general at Pensacola
Beach invasion in 1973.
Jay
October 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
I’ve just been watching Fox continue to flay this dead horse. The level of willful stupidity on display is stunning.
Mr. Snarky
October 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
“But your post was that it is par for the course for cons. When in reality it is par for both sides as evident by a quick google search.”
Perhaps it is, but not in my circles. I don’t waste my time with such pursuits. You guys seem to have plenty of time to waste.
‘Course maybe it’s just a pleasant distraction from the fact that it looks like Mitt is headed for defeat.
Greg
October 29th, 2012
5:24 pm
I wonder if Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein had waited till all the facts were in that we would have had a Watergate. I commend Jay for his outstanding writing. He’s won a lot of awards for his skills. With that said, you can be a great composer and still be wrong. Keep up the good work Jay. How’s your brother Paul and Ed feeling these days?
Greg
Rightwing Troll
October 29th, 2012
5:24 pm
“More like, 4 Americans are dead and all you care about is protecting the president!”
Where are the crocodile tears for the 4,486 Americans who died for W’s lies?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
5:24 pm
…but his very intergrity for lying and now covering up what happened…
The smoking gun is the mushroom cloud.
tired of the lies
October 29th, 2012
5:25 pm
Until we clear DC of ALL INCUMBENTS no truths will ever be disclosed.
EJ Moosa
October 29th, 2012
5:25 pm
“No conceivable security detail in Benghazi would have been sufficient to fight off a force of some 150 armed men, which is the estimate I’m now seeing. It merely would have added to the American death total. Without the support of host-nation personnel — and there was none in Benghazi — most full embassies could not withstand an assault of that size. ”
They were there on behalf of who? The United States government.
Just how long did those there who were US citizens defend the site?
It was a cowardly response from a cowardly President who was more concerned about injury to the attackers than to the defense of the Americans.
It’s pathetic leadership/
Obama is NOT someone you want getting the 3 am call. Hillary said it. Obama has confirmed it.
Hell, he cannot even handle the call during normal business hours.
markie mark
October 29th, 2012
5:25 pm
All I see from the left here is a willingness to accept whatever the left “powers that be” feeds them, in a way they would never accept if the administration was to the right…..amazing….you I watch you guys enough to know most of you are intelligent, even though I disagree with your politics….
ad
October 29th, 2012
5:27 pm
“Clearly a huge scandal” – uh – no. Cooking CIA data to make the case to go to war, outing a CIA agent who was the wife of someone who tried to tell the truth and being responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of others – that’s a “huge scandal.” This isn’t even as big as Reagan’s getting the Marines killed in Lebanon. This is just something to take the focus off of Romney’s wish-washy positions on the issues and lack of any viable plan for the future. Romney’s whole schtick is “I’m not Obama.” Sorry, that’s not a plan.
Brosephus™
October 29th, 2012
5:27 pm
Geez…
I long for the day before microwave ovens, instant noodles, instant photography, and other crap that helped us to devolve into this instant gratification, instant results society.
I’m sitting this one out as speculating does nothing at all to bring back those four lives, nor does speculation solve the issues of what really happened.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
5:27 pm
All I see from the left here is a willingness to accept whatever the left “powers that be” feeds them…
The smoking gun is the mushroom cloud.
We will be greeted as liberators.
The invasion of Iraq will pay for itself.
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
5:27 pm
Meanwhile, John McCain has confessed that President Obama was one of the Keating Six.
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
5:27 pm
There’s no way this unfortunate incident can be glossed over and the administration is learning that lesson the hard way. If there’s truth to a report that Obama was actually seated in the situation room watching the assault in real time his credibility will be forever ruined as this nations CnC.
USMC
October 29th, 2012
5:28 pm
“Right-wing hysteria over Benghazi feeds upon itself”–JAY BOOKMAN
No Hysteria, just the Fact!
The President of the United States blames a major Terrorist attack on a YOUTUBE VIDEO!
So, either Pres. Obama:
1) LIED to the American people
OR
2) Is an INCOMPETENT Commander in Chief
It’s really that simple folks, The Lib/Socialist can try and muddy the water, but the facts remain: Obama is being dishonest or is inept OR both!
markie mark
October 29th, 2012
5:28 pm
Kamchak, I am not and have never been, your sport. And each news item is separate….but hey, lets not investigate ANYTHING you may disagree with, right?
Former Marine
October 29th, 2012
5:28 pm
Explain how the SEALS got killed on site? SEALS are “Special Forces” and were painting the target for distruction when they were killed. Seems this reporter is as far LEFT as he claims the rest of us are far right. REAL TIME INFO??? Like we had at Normandy? WAKE UP..the guy who wrote this is part of the problem
josef
October 29th, 2012
5:28 pm
Our Obama detractors are constantly harping about how we are being seen in the outside world. I’d suggest that they take a look at how the foreign press is seeing them in this…
Scrivener
October 29th, 2012
5:29 pm
Jay says:
“I’ve just been watching Fox continue to flay this dead horse. The level of willful stupidity on display is stunning.”
I’d say that time will tell that Fox has been right all along, and you, Jay, and your fellow travelers on this blog will be shown to be the stupid ones.
Rob Jones
October 29th, 2012
5:29 pm
You really have to be silly to equate a war authorized by congress and based on overwhelming bipartisan belief of WMD in Iraq with what went down in Benghazi. It is either dishonest or ignorant to argue that way, but that is the way of the Left.
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
5:29 pm
If it were not for all that cheap Iraqi oil we have now thanks to the Bush/Cheney administration there’s no telling how low gas prices could be today. I’m thinking it could be $1.80 per gallon easy.
They BOTH suck
October 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
Recon
Who is reporting that Obama actually watched in real time?
Could you post that link?
Thanks
Fred ™
October 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
YO KAM!!!!!!!!!!!
Got snow? I forget exactly where you are but just saw on Channel 2 (WSB) a bunch of snow where they were in N. Carolina. The reporter said he was about an hour north of…….. crap, I forget, Asheville? Is that about 4-5 hours from here? I think he said Yancey. There was a good bit of snow.
USMC
October 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
“I’ve just been watching Fox continue to flay this dead horse. The level of willful stupidity on display is stunning.”–JAY BOOKMAN
I KNEW IT!
Jay Bookman watches FAUX News! Where is Fred when we need him to castigate JAY!
Cspike
October 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
Jay, how about this from the Wall Street Journal:
There was an “announcement earlier this month that Gen. Ham will be replaced as head of the U.S. Africa Command. On Monday, Gen. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said that Gen. Ham’s reassignment from the Africa command was not because of Libya.” (William McGurn, 10/29/12)
Yeah. I’m sure it was just a coincidence.
Seriously?
Marty Huggins'
October 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
USMC
October 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
I got an idea………
You can give me 300
That way you can be all trendy and say you paid for an iphone5 and I can feel better about my stupidity.
Just saying
October 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
Well we may never know since liberal media outlets refuse to ask any questions at all. They’re to bsy trying to determine if Romney still backs that candidates view on abortion.
Jay
October 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
“Explain how the SEALS got killed on site? SEALS are “Special Forces” and were painting the target for distruction when they were killed.
They weren’t SEALs, they were former SEALs. And they got on site because they were hired to be there as private contractors to provide security.
Orange12
October 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
I’m going to ask the same question I asked last night. You’re the Man at 1600. The call comes in. What would you do?
Why, I would make a mud puddle out of em and splash them till they ain’t no more.
markie mark
October 29th, 2012
5:31 pm
and at least, Kamchak, THAT WAS AN INVESTIGATION…by everybody and their brother…(but you knew that)
josef
October 29th, 2012
5:31 pm
BROSEPHUS
@ 5:27
Your mouth to G-d’s ears…
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (aka "Knuckle-Dragger")
October 29th, 2012
5:31 pm
If it is no big deal, why concern yourself with it? Your continuing preoccupation with the subject indicates you know there is more there than the state-controlled media will cover, and you are trying to get everybody to “move on”. As Democrats like to say, the “seriousness of the charge” warrants further investigation. Y’all jump all over stuff with way less information than this.
They BOTH suck
October 29th, 2012
5:32 pm
markie mark
Did the FBI stop their investigation?
USMC
October 29th, 2012
5:32 pm
Hey! There’s Fred.
Man, you missed the Master Plan I laid out for the Dawgs winning the BCS CG! It was a beauty!
I’ll give you a hint: It starts with an UNRULY and Nasty Defense!
Jeffrey
October 29th, 2012
5:32 pm
I was discussing politics with a fox news watcher. They started saying outrageous things, so I said,”easy fox news”. The person knowing what I meant replied,”no this is true”. Telling dontcha think.
DwayneL
October 29th, 2012
5:33 pm
No need for Romney since he’s talking about his plan to fix the economy, something that obama doesn’t have! His failings on Liyba are coming out every day. This president is a moron and will be replaced very soon!!!
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
5:33 pm
Rumor has it that FOX News beats those dead horses as much as they do in order to properly tenderize the meat for their cafeteria. They save a lot of money as compared to better cuts of beef. That Murdoch is a real tight wad according to anonymous reports from Doocy and Hannity.
RB from Gwinnett
October 29th, 2012
5:33 pm
Keep, seriously????? You’re calling blog posts news reporting??? I thought you clowns claimed jay was just an opinion writer and now you want us to accept other opinion writers as news???
Choke down another gallon or 2 of that koolaid, keep.
Rob Jones
October 29th, 2012
5:33 pm
It would be presposterous to think that this author or the media in general would be handling this outrageous incident and coverup if it was Bush in office. They would be all over it and rightfully so. This is not going away, it is only going to get worse. It will destroy what’s left of Obama’s legacy. The presidency is already lost. Romney will win handily next Tuesday and the Benghazi story will continue to get worse for Obama.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 29th, 2012
5:34 pm
I heard reports that the news room at Fox has Sponge Bob on 24 hours a day….. if reports are true, they may have improved their credibility.
Thomas
October 29th, 2012
5:34 pm
Bookie- were you comatose during the media’s daily filleting of W for 8 years? Much of it was more than well deserved. The WH for four years has been dealt with kid gloves. There is no right or wrong answers. There are only correct answers. The media from both sides enable the extremist views.
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
5:35 pm
TBS,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951777/posts
josef
October 29th, 2012
5:35 pm
ORANGE
Okay, and how would that have saved the lives of the Americans inside the consulate?
USMC
October 29th, 2012
5:36 pm
“That way you can be all trendy and say you paid for an iphone5 and I can feel better about my stupidity.”–Marty
My girlfriend, who loves her Iphone, started playing with my HTC phone this weekend and now wants to get one. It was funny to watch.
She kept saying, “Honey it’s SO big!”
Boy, talk about an aphrodisiac! I loved it!
Moderate Line
October 29th, 2012
5:37 pm
Jay is either attacking Romney or defending Obama. Whenever your defending you are losing.
CJ
October 29th, 2012
5:38 pm
It would be presposterous to think that this author or the media in general would be handling this outrageous incident and coverup if it was Bush in office.
It would be…except for the fact that there were a dozen such attacks on diplomatic facilities when Bush was in office…and the media barely noticed.
Marty Huggins'
October 29th, 2012
5:38 pm
Jay
October 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
In all fairness you nor foxnews has near enough information to make a declaration either way.
Unless you have been given information the rest of the public does not have yet.
Unless you are of the opinion that administrations both past and present have been less than truthful with us.
Or maybe there were WMD and this attack was about a video.
JamVet
October 29th, 2012
5:38 pm
ORANGE
Okay, and how would that have saved the lives of the Americans inside the consulate?
This should be very enlightening…
ad
October 29th, 2012
5:38 pm
Bush and the neocon Wolfowitz – Iraq would pay for its own reconstruction with its oil money. That didn’t work out so well. Where’s the Fox outrage?
mbtc
October 29th, 2012
5:39 pm
Mitt won’t sully himself with this. This “prong” of the attack to win back the presidency for the oligarchs is left to the noise machines on radio and tv. If only a few dunces and tools fall for it and perpetuate the narrative, like our right wing friends on here, perhaps, just perhaps that will put them over the top. That’s their very transparent reasoning. And, who’s to say, it might work. But I doubt it. Sandy will steal their thunder. And I guarantee the furor over this will end next Tuesday, as it’s usefullness will be over.
Fred ™
October 29th, 2012
5:40 pm
Former Marine
October 29th, 2012
5:28 pm
Explain how the SEALS got killed on site? SEALS are “Special Forces” and were painting the target for distruction when they were killed. Seems this reporter is as far LEFT as he claims the rest of us are far right. REAL TIME INFO??? Like we had at Normandy? WAKE UP..the guy who wrote this is part of the problem
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Actually your lack of higher brain functions and ability to comprehend the written word are part of the problem, not Jay’s OPINION piece.
SEALS are NOT Special Forces. Special Forces are Special Forces. They are an elite ARMY unit. SEALS are an elite NAVY unit. They are both part of the Special OPERATION group.
Stick to saying “aye aye gunny” and leave the thinking to those better suited for it there sport.
USMC
October 29th, 2012
5:40 pm
“Right-wing hysteria over Benghazi feeds upon itself”–JAY
JAY, Will you at least admit that Benghazi was a Terrorist attack and NOT the result of a YOUTUBE video, which Obama and the UN Ambassador, professed for the longest time??
Susan Rice on Benghazi Libya: Not pre planned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG64×31wyCU
JamVet
October 29th, 2012
5:40 pm
The WH for four years has been dealt with kid gloves.
No, it is just that this administration hasn’t f’ed up one tenth as often…