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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josef
October 29th, 2012
7:36 pm
JAY
@ 7:32
Beat me to it and said it better…
RICK H
The Imam Torquemada SENDS people to hell…jeeze, Mec, get with the program…
JamVet
October 29th, 2012
7:37 pm
Can you. It answer for why your hypocrisy of calling one candidate a chickenhawk and the other you gloss over with no mention.
Either you are exceedingly “new” here or you are poorly read.
I’ve blasted BHO since before he was elected. I warned my fellow liberals (NOT to be confused with Democrats) to be prepared to be very disappointed in him. I voted against him and explained in detail why.
Had Ralph Nader not been an option, I would have voted for John McCain. Who unlike Flip, has a pair and is a solid, decent man of principle. I would have been unhappy in doing so, but would and will never vote for Obama.
Ultimately, there is very little real difference between Barack and George – both are pro-war/war criminals, pro-corporation and anti-working class. They take their marching orders from the same 1% plutocracy.
At least Obama is not pro-torture, anti-science (can you say globally cooled, Rick Perry?) and anti-environment as well.
And if you are so easily offended by the word rube, you are probably not going to do very well here. Even so, my apologies.
Gentsu Gen
October 29th, 2012
7:38 pm
Option 3: Romney is smart enough to let the media outrage over the President’s refusal to release details about this–and specifically and most importantly what his personal involvement was (which requires no ‘investigation”; I’m willing to accept that his memory is good enough)–and he’s just waiting for enough of the truth to be revealed before Nov 2 to have an impact.
USMC
October 29th, 2012
7:39 pm
“You seem to be jumping to a conclusion about your own whereabouts, USMC.”–JAY
That was Funny, Jay! Touche!
Ed Miles
October 29th, 2012
7:40 pm
Jay Bookman, you are a coward! Hard to believe there are Americans like you living in this country!
Very sad!
Mick
October 29th, 2012
7:42 pm
ooooooo…lions, tigers and benghazi’s..watch out!!!
josef
October 29th, 2012
7:42 pm
IMAM, USMC
Y’all might want to take a sweater, though…
http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/michigan/hell-2419784/
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2012
7:43 pm
““Would let ‘em know we’re serious, don’t cha think?
No, Sinkwich, it would let them know that we AREN’T serious.”
Serious means if one tries to assault an American embassy or consulate, or is anywhere near such an assault, it’s gonna be a bad day for you.
That is “serious.”
USMC
October 29th, 2012
7:44 pm
“We also call them neocons or simply Republicans. Where was the USMC when the ambassador was killed. The USMC let us down. Why! WHY!”–Taxpayer
LOL! What a stupid statement, but then again look who said it. Not much intelligence there.
I think Taxpayer was at the rally, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio
JoeThePimpernel
October 29th, 2012
7:45 pm
Are you f*****g kidding me?
If Benghazi is “right-wing hysteria,” then Watergate was Left-wing hysteria to the tenth power.
People died in Benghazi on Ubama’s watch. Keeping our ambassadors safe is at the very top of the list of the feral government’s responsibilities. Ubama has usurped so many domestic powers that he has no right to usurp, but the things he is actually supposed to be doing we give him a pass on?
You’ve gone way past delusional and have finally arrived at your aiding-and-abetting the enemy destination.
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
7:46 pm
Republicans are seriously delusional. They want to be in a perpetual war that is funded by perpetual tax cuts. Then again, Republicans do live their lives in faith-based realities.
josef
October 29th, 2012
7:46 pm
MILES
You might wanna thing twice…Big Daddy’s a half-hillbilly military brat with a mean streak…this urbane sophisticate intellectual day job is just a cover…:-)
Georgia
October 29th, 2012
7:47 pm
So Glenn Beck proved that it was Hillary all along. She alone knew that Obama was reading “My Pet Goat”, when Benghazi broke.
Empty hair is the new potted plant. Trump is a potted plant, the first one I’ve ever seen. The stench just isn’t fading. I wonder how many heads are rolling. Who didn’t move heaven and earth to stop him? Wow. I certainly don’t care to ever see Trump again, or hear that commanding delivery of his.
USMC
October 29th, 2012
7:47 pm
“ooooooo…lions, tigers and benghazi’s..watch out!!!”–Mick
Great Mick, tell that to the 4 people killed due to Obama’s Ineptitude.
Marty Huggins'
October 29th, 2012
7:47 pm
JamVet
October 29th, 2012
7:37 pm
That is one of the few times I have seen you post anything of that sort.
Maybe you could give us some links of other times you have done so.
May I ask why me pointing out basically exactly what you posted makes me a Republican Rube I believe is what you called me?
I have maintained for the last two years that President Obama is GWB with a better tab and a different stance on abortion.
From what you have posted I assume you are voting then for the the lesser of two evils?
Jay
October 29th, 2012
7:47 pm
Given the Ed Miles post and others, I suspect we must have been posted at some right-wing site ….
JamVet
October 29th, 2012
7:48 pm
General Andy roars!
Ready! Fire! Aim!
(He went to the Dick Cheney Academy of Military Response.)
Which is to say we went to war with the dipsh*t VP we had not the competent VP we would have liked to have…
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
7:49 pm
Where was the USMC when the ambassador needed him/them. The USMC failed US and the ambassador. Why! WHY! Why is the USMC a failure. What do they need? More money? A guaranteed pension plan!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
7:49 pm
Given the Ed Miles post and others, I suspect we must have been posted at some right-wing site ….
Drive-by trolls.
USMC
October 29th, 2012
7:50 pm
So a YouTube Video was at fault for the deaths at Benghazi, that’s it.
And the Obama regime sent the militia out to arrest a citizen in California…. Sad!
That’s worse than the Apple Dumplin’ Gang!
josef
October 29th, 2012
7:50 pm
IMAM
You sayin’ they ain’t from ’round cheer?
Mick
October 29th, 2012
7:51 pm
usmc
I like how you blame the president instead of the people who attacked…convoluted blame, that’s the heart of this matter…
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
7:52 pm
USMC–the epitome of empty and of course he needs someone to tell him. It’s not as though that straw man has a brain.
Jay
October 29th, 2012
7:52 pm
And after a little checking around, I found it: It’s “The Revenge of the Freepers!”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2952063/posts
My favorite post so far on that thread:
“If Stevens was offed because the Russians had figured out that he was managing the CIA operation running weapons to Syria through Turkey, or because of his long relationship with the President and the knowledge that he is at least bisexual, then Zero would need him dead in either case, lest he be nabbed and forced to talk.
Should that news finally make it past the MSM spike, it then wouldn’t be just “right wingers” who would be “hysterical.”
I’m not going to read further, but I have a feeling that one will be hard to top. But hey, if you find something even more entertaining, feel free to post it. I’m running off to meet some folks.
USMC
October 29th, 2012
7:53 pm
“Y’all might want to take a sweater, though…”–Josef
St Simons
October 29th, 2012
7:53 pm
If the wingnutz reeeeeally wanna manufacture some outrage to excite
their base to show up, they should look into that watermelon patch
in the back yard of the white house, or that picture of the president
with the bone in his nose & a cig in his mouth. You’ve seen the emails.
THAT’ll stir em up.
Cmon cons – think ‘target marketing’
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2012
7:54 pm
“Which is to say we went to war with the dipsh*t VP we had not the competent VP we would have liked to have…”
Biden? He’s as incompetent as you are.
JamVet
October 29th, 2012
7:55 pm
Marty, it would seem that we both have each other pegged incorrectly!
From what you have posted I assume you are voting then for the the lesser of two evils?
Then you assume incorrectly.
I do not do that. I vote my conscience and for the man I think is the best one in the race.
“That lesser of two evils” crap is just code for the Republicrat stranglehold on our democracy. (I love how that d word drives the neocons apesh*t!)
Nader is much more correct – the proper phraseology (put that in your vocabulary pipe and smoke it, Andy) is the evil of the two lessers.
And again I have made repeated posts about who I will cast my vote for and why.
http://www.voterocky.org/
josef
October 29th, 2012
7:56 pm
USMC
Me? Well, I HAVE been to Hell and back!
vince
October 29th, 2012
7:56 pm
This is why I DO NOT GET The Atlanta Urinal any more. Jay is a A$$ and I will not support it.
sara
October 29th, 2012
7:56 pm
Hey Jay, would you be willing to fill AmbassadorSteven’s job in Libya? I’m sure you’ll agree it is perfectly safe…right?
USMC
October 29th, 2012
7:56 pm
“I like how you blame the president instead of the people who attacked…convoluted blame, that’s the heart of this matter…”–Mick
No Mick, I am not afraid to BLAME the TERRORIST for the attack on Benghazi.
IMAM Obama on the other hand WAS scared to call it a TERRORIST attack.
OBAMA BLAMED THE ATTACK AT BENGHAZI ON A FRIGGIN YOUTUBE VIDEO! What a moron. This is what happens when you put a man in office with NO experience.
What a joke!
JKL2
October 29th, 2012
7:57 pm
USMC- MADONNA BOOED AFTER TOUTING OBAMA IN LA. CONCERT
Can we at least agree that she’s a slut?
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
7:57 pm
Cmon cons – think ‘target marketing’
That’s easy for you to say but come on! A Republican that thinks!
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
7:58 pm
I think most people in the electorate now view Obama as a self serving president with little regard for the true good of our country. Benghazi only illustrates once again for many what’s already known about this narcissistic president. He puts himself above what’s right but his followers refuse to acknowledge his short comings only because of their blind allegiance to an ideology that the majority of Americans repudiate.
TurnThePage
October 29th, 2012
7:58 pm
What’s amazing is all the foreign policy successes we don’t hear about because they were successful and deemed not useful political footballs to attack the President with.
Ask yourself this: Are you angered by the death of our ambassador because he was killed brutally by a mob or because you now are apart of an angry mob yourself and want the taste of blood satisfied?
Let it go…Romney already has because there’s nothing there.
USMC
October 29th, 2012
7:58 pm
“Me? Well, I HAVE been to Hell and back!”
That’s why I’m hanging with you, Josef!
They BOTH suck
October 29th, 2012
7:58 pm
vince
You did exactly that by coming on the AJC website then clicking on the article.
The AJC and Bookman appreciates your patronage.
JamVet
October 29th, 2012
7:59 pm
C’mon, General Andy.
Even by your lameass standards that last one was childishly weak. (An air ball of blogging, as it were.)
Up your game or go back to Kyle’s, where you are exalted as a mental giant of Republican thought…
Mick
October 29th, 2012
7:59 pm
usmc
Your poutrage is the real joke….maybe you’ll get your wish and romney will be your man, it’s almost a certainty that events will occur, then we’ll see if the etch a sketch is working properly…
USMC
October 29th, 2012
8:00 pm
“Can we at least agree that she’s a slut?”
I will go as far as MORON or USEFUL IDIOT, well…. you do have a point there.
I just don’t want to get on Jay’s bad side.
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
8:00 pm
This is why I DO NOT GET The Atlanta Urinal any more. Jay is a A$$ and I will not support it.
I just love it when cons show up to tell everyone that they are not here to support the AJC. They’s so funny.
Mick
October 29th, 2012
8:01 pm
recon
Glad you think that you speak for “most americans”, I wouldn’t even go there…
brianhd71
October 29th, 2012
8:02 pm
I wouldn’t call it hysteria. Why don’t you explain how Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods can beg for help while their lives are on the line and our president can go to bed early because he has to campaign the next day. How does that make sense in any universe? Blame it on a video. Make it go away! We can’t brag about sending the terrorists on the run while our embassy burns!
Violating Libyan soveriegnty? What about ours? Why weren’t US Marines stationed their already? This is the most incompetent administration since Carter, but the real shame is the lack of coverage by the mainstream media and the piss poor excuses by Jay Bookman
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
8:02 pm
Odd how the con poutrage is so perfectly synchronized with the finger movements of their owners. By the way, why did the USMC fail our President. Why! WHY! The USMC fails and people die! Good thing he has reliable Seals.
USMC
October 29th, 2012
8:03 pm
“Your poutrage is the real joke….maybe you’ll get your wish and romney will be your man, it’s almost a certainty that events will occur, then we’ll see if the etch a sketch is working properly…”–MICK
Whatever Mick, you still don’t make any sense; even when you try and use big words you are not comfortable with.
Aren’t you the one that was Championing Socialism a few months??? That’s what I thought!
josef
October 29th, 2012
8:03 pm
MICK
Not all Americans, just the closet cases…
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
8:05 pm
Mick you speak for 20%…enjoy it, while the rest of us concern ourselves with what’s best America and our children.
josef
October 29th, 2012
8:06 pm
MICK
Those children being only those come by “the natural way” of course…
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
8:06 pm
Why don’t you explain how Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods can beg for help while their lives are on the line and our president can go to bed early because he has to campaign the next day.
But he stayed up and watched the whole thang on live feed! You really need to synchronize your faith-based reality with the rest of the faith-based con realities.
YouLibs
October 29th, 2012
8:07 pm
If you don’t have an economic policy that you’re willing to lay out clearly for the electorate, if you’re not willing to be transparent about your taxes for the past few years, if the only thing you have to offer to those of the electorate who got the Y chromosome is a trip backwards for forty years, but you want to get your hands back on the power structure, what do you do?
You lie, you obfuscate, you make people afraid of gay folks, you make people afraid that someone is going to take their guns away, and most recently, you make Benghazi seem like a bigger deal than 9/11/01. It’s pretty disgusting to me.
Jessica
October 29th, 2012
8:07 pm
Can you honestly say that what happened in Benghazi is getting too much media attention, or even adequate coverage? It appears that the so-called journalists in this country have chosen not to investigate the incompetence and/or corruption here because they are afraid it will look bad for the President. It’s no secret that the media folks generally like Obama and don’t want to hurt his chances for reelection – even if that means ignoring something as important as what happened in Benghazi. It’s sad and shameful that the only ones who are willing to actually look into the whole mess are the hacks at Fox News.
josef
October 29th, 2012
8:08 pm
TAXI
@ 8:06
Logic and proportion having fallen sloppy dead…
Mick
October 29th, 2012
8:08 pm
recon
I’ll gladly enjoy my life with those 20 percenters if you somehow think you are with the other 80…
USMC
October 29th, 2012
8:09 pm
“Odd how the con poutrage is so perfectly synchronized with the finger movements of their owners. By the way, why did the USMC fail our President. Why! WHY! The USMC fails and people die! Good thing he has reliable Seals.”
I don’t need to say anything, Taxpayer.
You make yourself look like the idiot you truly are. It’s fun to watch! Have at it!
Billybob
October 29th, 2012
8:10 pm
blah blah blah……….the lie about a video to the people of america and to everyone listening to hussein at the UN will come out in the investigation and we can talk again jay…..8 days until your ideology is out of power and buried by hussein’s own words for years to come……enjoy lib
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
8:11 pm
mick, thank you…I am and I will.
josef
October 29th, 2012
8:11 pm
YOU LIBS
“…you make people afraid of gay folks, you make people afraid that someone is going to take their guns away…”
Well, as long as they don’t take away the gay folks guns…
USMC
October 29th, 2012
8:11 pm
“But he stayed up and watched the whole thang on live feed! You really need to synchronize your faith-based reality with the rest of the faith-based con realities.”–W-2 Taxpayer
Taxpayer is voting for a CHRISTIAN! But don’t tell her!
Oh the outrage!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
8:12 pm
You make yourself look like the idiot you truly are.
Oh, the irony.
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
8:14 pm
“You make yourself look like the idiot you truly are. It’s fun to watch! Have at it!,” USMC exclaims as he types single handedly while winking at himself in the mirror.
JamVet
October 29th, 2012
8:14 pm
The good news?
You fake conservtives and your fake conservative candidate only have eight more days of this particular hell.
THEN…
You get to move to the next inner circle in Dante’s story!
Hang tough, and don’t go too postal, though.
2016 is just around the corner!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
8:15 pm
…..8 days until your ideology is out of power and buried by hussein’s own words for years to come…
Another prediction bookmarked.
Will you still be here after the election?
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
8:15 pm
The libs are in a panic about what’s appearing more each day as their impending loss and America’s rejection of socialism.
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
8:17 pm
USMC, the faux comrades are in a panic.
Mick
October 29th, 2012
8:17 pm
usmc
I think that you need this issue to justify your politics, because at the end of the day, all you conned that feign such sorrow over “four lives lost” just seem to using their deaths for your own political means…
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
8:17 pm
Why is it that Republicans interpret “faith-based” to mean “Christian”? Probably some Pavlovian response. They really need to consider branching out and getting a fact-based education.
BufordP
October 29th, 2012
8:18 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QebIV1e0IwU
Tom(Independent Viet Vet-USAF)
October 29th, 2012
8:19 pm
Just heard that Rasmussan poll in Ohio was +2 for Romney, any chance that is true, after being way behind last several months? No MSNBC followers need respond, thanks!
JamVet
October 29th, 2012
8:20 pm
Of course “Billybob” will be here after Romney loses. Just writing as Bobbybill or Bubbajohn or gawdknowswho…
Del, took off in a huff and that lasted exactly how long?
The cons cannot quit this place.
Granted, Kyle’s is not the Rue Morgue that Wooten’s place was, but as often as not, it blows…
Mick
October 29th, 2012
8:20 pm
recon
You have met the enemy and it is yourself, the libs don’t even care if you exist…
garyk
October 29th, 2012
8:23 pm
October 25, 2012, Daily Kos: “CNN confirmed yesterday that US intelligence has for the first time publicly acknowledged that some of his assailants belonged to the same al-Qaeda groups…(The Issue raised about) security at the Benghazi consulate is really secondary to the question not being discussed about what the US Ambassador was doing there. How is US national security actually impacted by US covert involvement in regime changes in the region? That is the major policy issue nobody is now talking publicly about. Nonetheless, one can now safely conclude that the larger policy issue of US coordination of regime change operations in the MENA region is implicated by these events, and that there are serious second-thoughts emerging about the wisdom of allowing Islamic militants to be recruited, armed and trained in areas that the US has recently had a role in regime change. “
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
8:23 pm
Granted, Kyle’s is not the Rue Morgue that Wooten’s place was, but as often as not, it blows…
Kyle’s is the kiddie table and Criberius holds sway there.
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
8:23 pm
“the libs don’t even care if you exist…”
Gee mick, you’re a too cool…well you know the rest.
weetamoe
October 29th, 2012
8:24 pm
Or option three: keep quiet and let the nasty vulgar little martinet bring about his own demise. Meanwhile the father of the heroic Navy Seal weeps; Mr Nakoula languishes in solitary; a group of school children are led in a song demonizing the candidate who dared challenge our dear leader; the Pakistani doctor who fingered Osama lingers in solitary; and the reluctance of major media outlets to even report on or discuss such things is adding to the divisiveness and mistrust that might well doom us all. But as said little martinet explained, he *won.*
USMC
October 29th, 2012
8:24 pm
OBAMA ACCEPTS ‘OSAMA BIN LADEN’ DONATIONS….
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obama-accepts-osama-bin-laden-donations/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
8:25 pm
Whirled Net Daily?
Birthers.
Look before I leap...
October 29th, 2012
8:27 pm
“Serious means if one tries to assault an American embassy or consulate, or is anywhere near such an assault, it’s gonna be a bad day for you.”
OK. Say Elbonia has a consulate in Cape Hatteras. Now by virtue of a treaty with the UK, Elbonia has a Naval Air Station in the Bahamas.
Now Elbonia does something that riles up the good folks in NC and they march on the Elbonia consulate. It’s a big, mean, nasty, boisterous crowd.
According to your post, Elbonia would be justified in sending in a squadron of A-10’s to strafe NC Rte 12 ?
Joseph
October 29th, 2012
8:27 pm
Obama watched the attack in real time Bookman… Its sad that you just can’t except another failure by this failed President……
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/10/28/Report-Obama-Watched-Benghazi-Attack-From-Situation-Room
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
8:28 pm
Jammy, now you know it wasn’t in a huff…I proved a point. Of course you blog over on Kyles and typically get your butt kicked, but kudos for going back for more.
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
8:28 pm
OBAMA ACCEPTS ‘OSAMA BIN LADEN’ DONATIONS….
Tales from the Crypt! I liked that show.
dp0706
October 29th, 2012
8:31 pm
Jay Bookman is a pathetic excuse for a journalist. Its typical of liberal to ignore the facts when it comes to their own but if this would have happened when Bush was in office it would have been front page news every day until the election. Notice how the fatality numbers in Iraq/Afghanistan are not/have not been reported since Obama took office? Gee I wonder why that is……
TaxPayer
October 29th, 2012
8:31 pm
Obama watched the attack in real time Bookman
We all did! I mean it was broadcast on CBS and NBC and ABC.. Oh! The cons didn’t get the live feed! Well, FOX News could have gotten the live feed too if they had only said please to President Obama like he asked.
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2012
8:31 pm
Look isn’t serious, is he?
Methinks it’s likely. Obviously an O’bozo voter.
Or maybe a pinko like Nader.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 29th, 2012
8:32 pm
Foaming at the moth breitbart?
This just keeps getting better and better!
Fred ™
October 29th, 2012
8:34 pm
josef
October 29th, 2012
7:56 pm
USMC
Me? Well, I HAVE been to Hell and back!
+++++++++++++++++++++
If you are talking about here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan
Then I have been there and back as well. I was there the day President Nixon resigned. I was at a church summer “wilderness camp.” We spent a couple of days camping out and learning to survive then went 3 or 4 days on canoes down a river (it was really a creek lol). We stopped in the Hell store on the river where I saw Nixon on the TV resigning. LOL i was a kid and remembered more that I was in Hell, than the significance of the President resigning.
LIberal Pariah
October 29th, 2012
8:35 pm
Just today Obama said AGAIN, that the ‘folks’ who are responsible for the attack will be brought to justice. He STILL can’t call them TERRORISTS. Can some enlightened sycophant explain to me why? Other than he is MUSLIM sympathizer. Otherwise, it makes no sense.
Peter
October 29th, 2012
8:37 pm
USMC.. Obama is in a fight no doubt, will he win.too close to call…….But he DID save the country after the Bush charade……
The Bilking of America for a few…….. the proud the Filthy Rich in the WAR Machine and oil industry.
If the blind lemmings want to hand the powers back to the same crowd, I cannot do a thing about it, but I will vote, and as we know it will not really count, as the other real scam on American’s is the electoral college.
Bush lost the popular vote, but was handed the election 5-4 by the Republican Supreme Court…..if Romney wins the court will move farther to the right, American’s WILL lose more freedoms, and you can be proud you were a part of the shackling of All Americans.
Unfortunately you and your family will lose, because you are not part of the 1%…..if you were you wouldn’t be on this blog.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 29th, 2012
8:38 pm
Jammy, now you know it wasn’t in a huff…I proved a point
LIberal Pariah
October 29th, 2012
8:38 pm
I suppose maybe it was VIDEO EXTREMISM that was responsible for this attack since no one in this administratiion is allowed to use the term ISLAMIC EXTREMISM.
Dantes
October 29th, 2012
8:38 pm
Panetta’s excuse flies in the face of logic and facts. The military is frequently called to missions where there is little or no intelligence. Certainly, they had a drone overhead and someone was attacking the embassy. Hmmm, that’s not hard to figure out, anniversary of 9/11 in a jihadi stronghold. What more did they need to know.
Panetta is lying, and someone in his command structure is lying or derelict of duty.
This is a pretty pathetic attempt at a cover up, even by the low standards of the ajc.
They BOTH suck
October 29th, 2012
8:39 pm
What exactly is a Muslim sympathizer?
I think there are 700 million or more Muslims.
Does he sympathize for all of them and all their actions or just some of them and some or all their actions?
Explain exactly how that works since you seem to know so much.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 29th, 2012
8:39 pm
Bookman @ 7:25
“The truth will come out.
Yes, I’m confident that it will.”
And will that include that it was a “terrorist” attack ?
JamVet
October 29th, 2012
8:40 pm
Of course you blog over on Kyles…
Just to torture you jarhead cut and runners…
On topic, option three is that Flip got so mercilessly hammered over sticking both feet in his nasty mouth from the get go on this matter – by saying that our personnel overseas sympathized with their attackers – that he has cut and run from it altogether.
A timid, weak, little man, unfit to lead.
But these cons could not care less and will vote for him anyway.
Sucks to be them…
Fred ™
October 29th, 2012
8:41 pm
Peter
October 29th, 2012
8:37 pm
Unfortunately you and your family will lose, because you are not part of the 1%…..if you were you wouldn’t be on this blog.
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Really? People who make $345,000 aren’t allowed to blog here? I guess I better quit persuing this next business deal or I may be banned……..
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 29th, 2012
8:41 pm
LIberal Pariah:
“Just today Obama said AGAIN, that the ‘folks’ who are responsible for the attack will be brought to justice. He STILL can’t call them TERRORISTS.”
Two points:
1) If “you” say “folks” that makes you a racist.
2) Bookman can’t bring himself to call them terrorists either.
Thulsa Doom
October 29th, 2012
8:41 pm
“all you conned that feign such sorrow over “four lives lost” just seem to using their deaths for your own political means…”
Kinda like Cindy Sheehan, code pink, and all the anti-war protestors who mysteriously collectively disappeared the day W left office and O walked into office. Where they really anti-war? Or just anti-Bush? The fact that they’ve all but disappeared from the face of the earth as we drone bomb civilian villages in Pakistan gives us the answer.
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2012
8:42 pm
My previous comment is in moderation.
Whether you see it or not it was really good!
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
8:42 pm
“The truth will come out.
Yes, I’m confident that it will.”
Unfortunately, post election but I think enough has come out now to help make the difference next week.
Fred ™
October 29th, 2012
8:43 pm
Recon 0311 2533
October 29th, 2012
8:28 pm
Jammy, now you know it wasn’t in a huff…I proved a point.
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Yes it was in a huff and you proved no pont. Well unless the point was that when you call Americans who aren’t far right wing nutcases traitors who should be shot and get called on it you can’t get the person who sets you straight banned for taking you to task…………..