May 05, 2014
— Ace

It's worth remembering that in 1994 a Chris Lehane-drafted memo conjured up the menace of the "vast rightwing conspiracy" by essentially claiming that any and all derogatory reports on Bill and Hillary Clinton were "conspiracy theories."
There were indeed some claims made by conservatives on the internet that could be termed "conspiracy theories," such as the alleged cover-up of the Vince Foster suicide.
But the Lehane memo also categorized Gennifer Flowers' and Paula Jones' allegations as "conspiracy theories." And of course they were true.
The scandal-plagued Democrats now enact the same playbook, claiming that every true-but-damaging thing said against them constitutes a "conspiracy theory" that no reasonable person could possibly entertain.
“There is a problem when you have so many conspiracy theories that get knocked down by the facts and yet, the adherents to those theories only become more convinced that the facts aren’t what they so clearly are,” Carney said, calling the special committee “so partisan in nature.”Carney went on to criticize the “information loop” on Benghazi saying that Republicans and “certain media outlets” were fueling a false narrative on the attack that killed four Americans.
David Plouffe calls any questions about Benghazi "delusional."
"There's a very loud, delusional minority that's driving our politics that's in control of the Republican Party. There's no conspiracy here at all."
Former Congresswoman (D) Jane Harman likewise claims that Republicans are engaging in "conspiracy theories" about Benghazi.
HARMAN: [L]et me make a couple comments on Benghazi. I know something about this. And the day after the Susan Rice appearances, I -- or the day after the event, I was meeting with some senior intelligence committee folks, because I still advise in some capacities on boards to some of our agencies. And I think there was legitimate confusion.I agree about the point that the video was in Egypt and nobody really knew what the facts were. I'm reading from the Ben Rhodes memo which I've never seen before and it said, "We're not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent."
And I think that was accurate. So --
WALLACE: Because we didn't have actionable intelligence about 9/11. That doesn't mean it didn't happen.
HARMAN: No, it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
WALLACE: It doesn't mean it wasn't a terror attack.
HARMAN: I would call that an intelligence failure. And, by the way, this was an intelligence failure. But it wasn't a conspiracy. And there aren't aliens in Area 51 and Vince Foster wasn't murdered.
And it's time to move on and focus on the real problems in Libya and other problems that affect the --
Sounds like the White House has crafted some new Talking Points about their discredited Benghazi Talking Points.
In the Obama Wonderland of endless dissembling, even the Talking Points have their own Talking Points.
Incidentally, Britt Hume let Jane Harman have it on her rote Talking Points Talking Points.
“You’re right, there wasn’t a conspiracy in the United States to mount the Benghazi attack,” Hume said. ”That’s not the question. The question was whether in the aftermath of the attack, when the administration sent its U.N. ambassador out to explain it to everybody, and she did so falsely, that there wasn’t a conspiracy to create the false talking points that she used. I’m not talking about the CIA talking points, I’m talking about the talking points used on that program that day, which were monumentally misleading, that since have been shown to be false, and based on no intelligence of any consequence that we know of.”Hume pressed Harman to name a single person in the administration who credibly believed that the Benghazi attack was connected to an anti-Islam video. Predictably, she could not do so.
“Ben Rhodes talks about the video five times in this memo, five times,” host Chris Wallace interjected.
Sharyl Atkkisson notes that this is precisely what she means when she talks about the Administration's unending campaign to "controversialize" legitimate, factual reporting they don't like.
SHARYL ATTKISSON: Well, the key words they use such as conspiracy and delusional are in my opinion, clearly designed to try to controversialize a story, a legitimate news story, a legitimate area of journalistic inquiry. To some degree, thatÂ’s successful, but I think primarily among those that donÂ’t want to look at this as a story in the first place. But I see that as a well-orchestrated strategy to controversialize a story they really donÂ’t want to hear about.
The media, she means, by that bit.
The best lie is the one you never have to offer, because you've intimidated people from asking about it at all.
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Posted by: the littl shyning man at May 05, 2014 11:36 AM (tmFlQ)
Dude,
Cass Sunstein wrote a chapter or a book about this.
It is called lie, and call your political opponent a conspiricy monger.
Repeat, forever....
LIV and FSA we are doomed, doomed!
first?
Posted by: The Obvious Sock at May 05, 2014 11:37 AM (q+zA9)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at May 05, 2014 11:38 AM (ZZPs4)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 05, 2014 11:39 AM (PYAXX)
Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at May 05, 2014 11:39 AM (gtjN1)
Posted by: MTF at May 05, 2014 11:39 AM (F58x4)
Posted by: toby928© at May 05, 2014 11:39 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at May 05, 2014 11:39 AM (ZZPs4)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at May 05, 2014 03:38 PM (ZZPs4)
Scape goat
Posted by: The Obvious Sock at May 05, 2014 11:39 AM (q+zA9)
Posted by: ace at May 05, 2014 11:40 AM (/FnUH)
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Ok, who was fired for the intelligence failure?
Also, when this came to light, why did the administration say it was a anti-islamic video if it was an intelligence failure?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2014 11:40 AM (78TbK)
Posted by: Max Power at May 05, 2014 11:40 AM (q177U)
Posted by: Bill at May 05, 2014 11:40 AM (m2CN7)
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Posted by: Criminal reactionary element with a primordial nuclide at May 05, 2014 11:41 AM (1/4XQ)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at May 05, 2014 11:41 AM (wdHk6)
Posted by: ace at May 05, 2014 03:40 PM (/FnUH)
give me a sec, or 17
Posted by: The Obvious Sock at May 05, 2014 11:41 AM (q+zA9)
Posted by: Max Power at May 05, 2014 11:41 AM (q177U)
Posted by: Trimegistus at May 05, 2014 11:41 AM (VJAV8)
Posted by: wth at May 05, 2014 11:43 AM (wAQA5)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 05, 2014 11:43 AM (PYAXX)
Its just crazy to think the former National Security Director would stuff top secret papers in his socks and underwear.
Where do these Republicans come up with these idiotic conspiracies?
Posted by: Democrats circa 2004 at May 05, 2014 11:43 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 05, 2014 11:43 AM (Y92Nd)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth (@Teresa_Koch) at May 05, 2014 11:43 AM (PZ6/M)
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This is the benefit of a strict hierarchy. Obama demands that the left believe something and suddenly they all do.
Conservatives, are too independent for this sort of top down approach, which means we have terrible message discipline...but MUCH better ideas...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2014 11:43 AM (78TbK)
Posted by: MTF at May 05, 2014 11:45 AM (+fuKQ)
Posted by: teej at May 05, 2014 11:45 AM (Nsomq)
Posted by: Cenk Ugyur at May 05, 2014 11:45 AM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at May 05, 2014 11:45 AM (8ZskC)
Posted by: joncelli at May 05, 2014 11:46 AM (RD7QR)
Consider journolist, how the Bush DUI story got out, or Obama's shut down theater.
The State Media call them conspiracy theories, then business as usual, then old news so fast it will make your head spin.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2014 11:47 AM (78TbK)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at May 05, 2014 11:47 AM (ZZPs4)
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Posted by: AMDG at May 05, 2014 11:47 AM (eFytx)
Posted by: eleven at May 05, 2014 11:48 AM (GXZgZ)
While we're on the subject of conspiracy theories . . .
Have any of you other Morons noticed that the reception on AM radio stations carrying Rush Limbaugh has taken a turn for the worse in the past couple of years? I used to be able to pick up his show just fine, now there's a loud hum drowning him out. The station's not that far away, either.
And my local NPR station comes through loud and clear.
Just askin'.
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Wouldnt surpise me if they were jamming it
Posted by: Big Swingin Al at May 05, 2014 11:48 AM (iWo0u)
Harmon's comments sounded reasonable at first, but as I thought about them, they are ridiculous.
She claims that on that Sunday, the White House and others were still confused about what happened. But even if that were true (and it is not), that doesn't explain why Rice went out and said pretty definitively it was the video.
Under Harmon's theory, Rice should have said "We're confused... it could have been a pre-planned terrorist attack, a response to the video, or something else."
That's not what happened.
Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2014 11:48 AM (pWeX5)
Posted by: The Obvious Sock at May 05, 2014 11:48 AM (q+zA9)
Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at May 05, 2014 11:48 AM (gtjN1)
Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2014 11:49 AM (0cMkb)
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Whalid Shoebat has been arguing that the Muslim Brotherhood figures in the administration found the video and wanted to target it because they were looking to go after anti-Islamic speech.
It certainly provides a reason why Obama choose THIS video and on such short notice...and now we are seeing the right person (I forget the name) was in these meetings where they decided on blaming the video...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2014 11:49 AM (78TbK)
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Posted by: mallfly at May 05, 2014 11:50 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Trimegistus at May 05, 2014 11:50 AM (VJAV8)
Posted by: Chaos the Other Dark Meat at May 05, 2014 11:50 AM (oDCMR)
Posted by: Roy at May 05, 2014 11:50 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2014 11:50 AM (XyM/Y)
Posted by: Trimegistus at May 05, 2014 03:41 PM (VJAV
http://tinyurl.com/jwo7dpa
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 05, 2014 11:51 AM (27KaM)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at May 05, 2014 11:51 AM (dvRYt)
That message got passed through so many political hands and propaganda ministers that, by the time the final Talking Points hit the airwaves through Rice's mouth, they had her saying that the Benghazi attacks were IMMEDIATELY PRECEDED by a Bigot Video protest.
It's kind of the way gossip works -- someone says that A is annoyed by B and wants to say something rude about it, and by the time the story gets to Z, the story is that A killed B's mother and raped her corpse.
The Obama White House kept pushing the connection between the attack and the Bigot Video, and over the course of repeated political edits, by people with no new real information, it got to the point that the Bigot Video directly incited the Benghazi attack.
But, of course, there was no protest in Benghazi. None. Oops.
The Bigot Video meme was initially supposed to be a distant, mutli-layered, policy-analyst we're-so-smart-you-wouldn't-understand root-cause kind of explanation. Not a boots-on-the-ground, check-the-surveillance-video kind of explanation. But the former got merged with the latter.
Posted by: Phinn at May 05, 2014 11:51 AM (i5GO4)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at May 05, 2014 11:51 AM (nj9sX)
Comanche Voter:
The Palos Verdes Peninsula is NOT liberal. Unfortunately, it's lumped in with liberal areas so our votes get significantly watered down.
I thought Harmon lived in Manhattan Beach?
Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2014 11:51 AM (pWeX5)
If you have the truth on your side tell the truth
If you have the media on your side go with the media
If you have nothing lie like hell call your opponents names.
They are shouting out lies because everything the Republicans said about Benghazi has proven true. Even if they hide the witnesses and force them to sign "secrecy" contracts.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at May 05, 2014 11:51 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 05, 2014 11:52 AM (PYAXX)
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Posted by: Max Power at May 05, 2014 11:55 AM (q177U)
Posted by: Criminal reactionary element with a primordial nuclide at May 05, 2014 11:56 AM (1/4XQ)
How to handle a scandal:
Deflect
Deny
Evade
Act Stupid
That was their strategy to everything.
And it works.
Posted by: RoyalOil at May 05, 2014 11:56 AM (VjL9S)
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Posted by: S. Muldoon at May 05, 2014 11:58 AM (mvenn)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at May 05, 2014 11:59 AM (5aory)
Posted by: Zombie Teenage Mena, Arkansas Potheads at May 05, 2014 11:59 AM (TOk1P)
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Posted by: Mikey NTH - Wash and Wax Your Wroth at the Outrage Outlet! at May 05, 2014 11:59 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: ejo at May 05, 2014 12:00 PM (GXvSO)
Posted by: toby928© at May 05, 2014 12:00 PM (QupBk)
As a southpaw, I resent that the world is a Vast Right-handed Conspiracy.
Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at May 05, 2014 12:00 PM (JtwS4)
When I watched the vid as soon as I heard about it it had 12k views on Youtube.
I heard on Rush/Hannity/Beck/Levin...some where that it had 4k views when the Egyptian consolute first tweeted about it.
Nobody in Lybia saw the vid
Posted by: The Obvious Sock at May 05, 2014 12:00 PM (q+zA9)
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Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at May 05, 2014 12:00 PM (gtjN1)
There may not be any aliens at Area 51 but that could be where they're keeping his real birth certificate.
Posted by: wth at May 05, 2014 12:01 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 05, 2014 12:01 PM (XUKZU)
Under Harmon's theory, Rice should have said "We're confused... it could have beena pre-planned terrorist attack, aresponse to thevideo, or something else."
That's not what happened.
Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2014 03:48 PM (pWeX5)
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We concentrate on Rice and Hillary while forgetting that Baraka the Dogeater went in front of the UN and said the very same damn thing.
Posted by: Soona at May 05, 2014 12:01 PM (I2drx)
Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at May 05, 2014 12:01 PM (9Bdcz)
Of course one of the best lines ever in anime comes from Vandread, "Merge with me Mr. Space Alien!"
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 05, 2014 12:01 PM (mn8eY)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at May 05, 2014 12:02 PM (5aory)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at May 05, 2014 12:02 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: H Badger at May 05, 2014 12:03 PM (n/0Nw)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 05, 2014 12:03 PM (PYAXX)
Posted by: Damiano at May 05, 2014 12:03 PM (j0wOO)
Posted by: S. Muldoon at May 05, 2014 12:03 PM (mvenn)
Posted by: Syndrome, monologuing at May 05, 2014 12:04 PM (YxFgE)
Posted by: Jay Boy at May 05, 2014 12:04 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Criminal reactionary element with a primordial nuclide at May 05, 2014 12:04 PM (1/4XQ)
Posted by: LizLem at May 05, 2014 12:04 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: RWC at May 05, 2014 12:05 PM (fWAjv)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at May 05, 2014 04:02 PM (0HooB)
something like 6 or 7 months, maybe more
Posted by: The Obvious Sock at May 05, 2014 12:05 PM (q+zA9)
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 05, 2014 12:05 PM (j0wOO)
Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2014 12:05 PM (hdpay)
Posted by: Zombie Jim McDougal at May 05, 2014 12:06 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at May 05, 2014 12:06 PM (gtjN1)
Posted by: RWC at May 05, 2014 12:06 PM (fWAjv)
Posted by: LizLem at May 05, 2014 12:06 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: t-bird at May 05, 2014 12:06 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Verbal Kint at May 05, 2014 12:06 PM (YxFgE)
(Read it out loud if you don't get it the first time)
Posted by: S. Muldoon at May 05, 2014 04:03 PM (mvenn)
Sofa King Half Vast Right Wing Conspiricy....
Posted by: The Obvious Sock at May 05, 2014 12:06 PM (q+zA9)
@baseballcrank
RT @kerpen: As I predicted, Massachusetts was next to shut down their Obamacare exchange.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at May 05, 2014 12:06 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: troyriser at May 05, 2014 12:07 PM (2jF2B)
What's a conspiracy theory that's actually true again? Oh yeah, a conspiracy.
"So you're saying there's a chance..."
– Lloyd Christmas
Posted by: Buckdarmha at May 05, 2014 12:07 PM (2Z20a)
Posted by: Reince Priebus, getting more Cinco de Drinko at May 05, 2014 12:07 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at May 05, 2014 12:07 PM (dvRYt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 05, 2014 12:07 PM (aDwsi)
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Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at May 05, 2014 12:08 PM (PYAXX)
Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at May 05, 2014 12:09 PM (gtjN1)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 05, 2014 12:09 PM (IXrOn)
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One the top 3, along with:
"The check is in the mail," and
"Honest, honey, I won't c*m in your mouth."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2014 12:10 PM (yQq8A)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2014 12:10 PM (WPhwX)
Posted by: Kong at May 05, 2014 12:10 PM (8TbWa)
Posted by: Daybrother at May 05, 2014 12:10 PM (K+k8M)
Posted by: Zombie White House Lamps at May 05, 2014 12:10 PM (TOk1P)
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Posted by: D-Lamp at May 05, 2014 12:11 PM (bb5+k)
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Posted by: azjaeger at May 05, 2014 12:11 PM (0sDl3)
Posted by: LizLem at May 05, 2014 12:11 PM (yRwC8)
“Ben Rhodes talks about the video five times in this memo, five times,” host Chris Wallace interjected.
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Maybe they could ask then Sec of State Ol' Piano Legs about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6akGlF6g-Zw
Posted by: B at May 05, 2014 12:11 PM (VC56G)
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Posted by: Progressive controlled media, now with more NSA! at May 05, 2014 12:14 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at May 05, 2014 12:14 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 05, 2014 12:14 PM (IXrOn)
I was recently attacked as a misogynist for daring to suggest that HRC's time at state was a disaster, and it is our moral obligation to elect a woman. A good turnaround on that is to ask who they'd vote for in a Bachman vs. Cuomo 2016 contest.
Posted by: Kong at May 05, 2014 12:15 PM (8TbWa)
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Posted by: bonhomme at May 05, 2014 04:09 PM (gtjN1)
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So, with lefties, which hand generally ends up smelling like anchovies.
Posted by: Soona at May 05, 2014 12:16 PM (I2drx)
Dunno why guys who promise this still have a dingus after they break said promise.
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That, or flattened danglers.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2014 12:16 PM (yQq8A)
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Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 05, 2014 12:19 PM (aDwsi)
You can bet that they'll be writing books, bragging about how they duped the American people. Since there'll be no consequences, other than turning a once great country into a socialist $h!th0l3, the LIVs and FSAs will never know because they don't read.
Posted by: Hadoop at May 05, 2014 12:19 PM (Ph479)
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Posted by: Progressive controlled media, now with more NSA! at May 05, 2014 12:21 PM (yRwC8)
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Posted by: panzernashorn at May 05, 2014 12:23 PM (gmrH5)
YES!
Notice that it wasn't just any old video they chose to blame it all on -- it was a Bigot Video.
The Left has made bigotry-eradication its No. 1 all-time, all-consuming agenda item. They LOVE to talk about instances of bigotry. It's their dead horse -- they'll beat it whenever they get a chance.
Here, they had an opportunity to change the conversation -- from talk about embassy security and arming-the-Libyan-rebels into yet another conversation about ... racism.
Or, something like racism, at least.
They tried to explain the attack/murder by saying that racism was the ROOT CAUSE, and ended up over-stating that explanation -- that racism was the IMMEDIATE cause.
But, since there never was a protest in Benghazi at all, that explanation fell apart.
Posted by: Phinn at May 05, 2014 12:23 PM (i5GO4)
Posted by: Criminal reactionary element with a primordial nuclide at May 05, 2014 12:23 PM (1/4XQ)
Obvious next move?
Lock up the film maker for being all free speechy.
And shit.
United States of F'n Guatemala.
Posted by: noone, really [/i] [/b] at May 05, 2014 12:23 PM (5ikDv)
Posted by: Nip Sip at May 05, 2014 12:23 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Christopher Stevens at May 05, 2014 12:24 PM (32Ze2)
Posted by: John Boehner at May 05, 2014 12:24 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: H Badger at May 05, 2014 12:24 PM (n/0Nw)
Posted by: panzernashorn at May 05, 2014 12:24 PM (gmrH5)
@80 Oh, and fire Sharyl Atkinson and Lara Logan, because they keep reporting on a non-story
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Logan was the 60 Minutes reporter, correct? She had bad luck because the guy she interviewed isn't a credible witness. His story doesn't match up with the generally accepted chain of events (something I quickly realized when I watched the interview). And unfortunately for her, that was used as an excuse to drop the hammer on her.
If the Benghazi story starts to gain more traction despite the administration's best efforts, I suspect that guy is going to be trotted out and used in an attempt to tar anyone and everyone who supports continuing to look into this. "See, you can't trust what anyone is saying about Benghazi!"
Posted by: junior at May 05, 2014 12:25 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: Daybrother at May 05, 2014 12:25 PM (p0TaU)
Posted by: LizLem at May 05, 2014 12:25 PM (yRwC8)
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Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 05, 2014 12:25 PM (aDwsi)
Fox News Sunday
Host Chris Wallace: "The top Libyan official says that the attack on Tuesday was, quote, his words ‘preplanned.’ Al-Qaida says the operation was revenge for our killing a top al-Qaida leader. What do we know?"
Rice: "Well, first of all, Chris, we are obviously investigating this very closely. The FBI has a lead in this investigation. The information, the best information and the best assessment we have today is that in fact this was not a pre-planned, premeditated attack. That what happened initially was that it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video. People gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent and those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary Libya and that then spun out of control.
"But we don't see at this point signs this was a coordinated plan, premeditated attack. Obviously, we will wait for the results of the investigation and we don't want to jump to conclusions before then. But I do think it's important for the American people to know our best current assessment
Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2014 12:26 PM (pWeX5)
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Posted by: D-Lamp at May 05, 2014 12:29 PM (bb5+k)
Posted by: RWC at May 05, 2014 12:31 PM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Criminal reactionary element with a primordial nuclide at May 05, 2014 12:31 PM (1/4XQ)
Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at May 05, 2014 12:31 PM (9Bdcz)
Posted by: Dennis Kucinich and Henry Waxman at May 05, 2014 12:31 PM (j0wOO)
>>>Host Chris Wallace: "The top Libyan official says that the attack on Tuesday was, quote, his words ‘preplanned.’ Al-Qaida says the operation was revenge for our killing a top al-Qaida leader. What do we know?"
Yup. That's the point where they damned themselves. If they'd just said YES it was a pre-planned attack, unfortunately we didn't have anything close by that could help those poor men or something similar we wouldn't be watching the weaselfest we have now. It would've sucked and hopefully started some real changes in security, but it would've ended there
I bet.
Posted by: Bigby's Fudge Finger at May 05, 2014 12:31 PM (3ZtZW)
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Posted by: alf767 at May 05, 2014 12:32 PM (wE/DP)
Posted by: Preznit FoShizzle at May 05, 2014 12:32 PM (gOoFi)
Posted by: LizLem at May 05, 2014 12:32 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: willow at May 05, 2014 12:33 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: panzernashorn at May 05, 2014 12:33 PM (gmrH5)
Obama did say he "would not rest" until the perpetrators had been brought to justice. He has since gone on to implement the O.J. Simpson strategy of aggressively searching for them on golf courses.
Posted by: torquewrench at May 05, 2014 12:33 PM (noWW6)
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Posted by: RWC at May 05, 2014 12:34 PM (fWAjv)
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Posted by: D-Lamp at May 05, 2014 12:35 PM (bb5+k)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 05, 2014 12:35 PM (IXrOn)
Let's see how this works out in November. along with all those people who didn't lose their healthcare and the record number of people who no longer count in the denominator for unemployment everything should be just peachy for Democrats- right?
Posted by: Marcus T at May 05, 2014 12:35 PM (GGCsk)
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 11:52 AM EDT, Thu September 27, 2012
Fuck these lying fucks.
Posted by: noone, really [/i] [/b] at May 05, 2014 12:35 PM (5ikDv)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 05, 2014 12:35 PM (32Ze2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 05, 2014 12:35 PM (8ZskC)
>>>selling to tourists is now supposedly a no-no. So they say.
So you're saying its like underage high school drinking, where you hang outside a store and acost strangers to buy you a six?
Posted by: Bigby's Fudge Finger at May 05, 2014 12:36 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: RWC at May 05, 2014 12:36 PM (fWAjv)
Posted by: willow at May 05, 2014 12:36 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Iblis at May 05, 2014 12:36 PM (9221z)
(CNN) -- More than two weeks after four Americans -- including the U.S. ambassador to Libya -- were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene has not been secured, sources said.
Posted by: noone, really [/i] [/b] at May 05, 2014 12:36 PM (5ikDv)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at May 05, 2014 12:36 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 05, 2014 12:36 PM (j0wOO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 05, 2014 12:37 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: D-Lamp at May 05, 2014 12:37 PM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Republique De Banana at May 05, 2014 12:37 PM (thLL8)
Posted by: CabaList at May 05, 2014 12:37 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: RWC at May 05, 2014 12:38 PM (fWAjv)
We get a lot of that here lately. They don't come out with a straight denial. They say stuff like "That's absurd!" "That's crazy talk." "That's a conspiracy theory."
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 05, 2014 12:38 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Micihgan and Oiho at May 05, 2014 12:38 PM (vxavs)
Posted by: m at May 05, 2014 12:38 PM (2AqeI)
Posted by: small town girl at May 05, 2014 12:38 PM (ImQSs)
Posted by: D-Lamp at May 05, 2014 12:38 PM (bb5+k)
These asshats.
If there is no conspiracy, why are the survivors silenced? And what were all the spooks doing in the neighborhood that night?
(I know, its been asked before)
Posted by: BunkerinTheBurbs at May 05, 2014 12:39 PM (X3xYu)
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Posted by: Bigby's Fudge Finger at May 05, 2014 12:40 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: D-Lamp at May 05, 2014 12:40 PM (bb5+k)
Posted by: willow at May 05, 2014 12:40 PM (nqBYe)
Can someone let Ace know this is on Page 12 of the white paper listed in post 51
Conspiracy cascades, 2: the role of reputation
. Conspiracy theories do not take
hold only because of information. Sometimes people profess belief in a conspiracy theory, or at least suppress their doubts, because they seek to curry favor. Reputational pressures help account for conspiracy theories, and they feed conspiracy cascades. In a reputational cascade, people think that they know what is right, or what is likely to be right, but they nonetheless go along with the crowd in order to maintain the good opinion of others. Suppose that Albert suggests that the Central Intelligence Agency was responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy, and that Barbara concurs with Albert, not because she actually thinks that Albert is right, but because she does not wish to seem, to Albert, to be some kind of dupe. If Albert and Barbara say that the CIA was responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy, Cynthia might not contradict them publicly and might even appear to share their judgment -- not because she believes that judgment to be correct, but because she does not want to face their hostility or lose their good opinion. It should be easy to see how this process might generate a cascade. Once Albert, Barbara, and Cynthia offer a united front on the issue, their friend David Obvious Sock here, So the revers is also true? Someone can call something a conspiracy even though it is not and the above indicates or am I off my rocker?
Posted by: The Obvious Sock at May 05, 2014 12:40 PM (q+zA9)
@249 (CNN) -- More than two weeks after four Americans --
including the U.S. ambassador to Libya -- were killed in an attack on
the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted
access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene
has not been secured, sources said.
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iirc, that was because the head of the Libyan government got ticked off that the White House contradicted him after he claimed that the Benghazi attack was pre-planned.
Posted by: junior at May 05, 2014 12:40 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: Nip Sip at May 05, 2014 12:40 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Republique De Banana at May 05, 2014 12:41 PM (thLL8)
Posted by: The Obvious Sock at May 05, 2014 12:41 PM (q+zA9)
"In fairness to the secretary, it may be that she wanted to be coy about where they were in Libya for security concerns. That's understandable. But the fact is, it's not clear they've been in Libya for very long," Townsend said on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360°."
"In fairness to the secretary..."
*dry heaves*
Bitch said the FBI was "in Libya" .
HILLARY 2016
Posted by: noone, really [/i] [/b] at May 05, 2014 12:41 PM (5ikDv)
Posted by: D-Lamp at May 05, 2014 12:42 PM (bb5+k)
>>>a walk-up window, right outside of the red light district. Best double cheeseburger I've ever had.
Won't be funny to you or anything, but I had a guy insist he contracted gonorrhea from a cheeseburger during an interview, so you have me chuckling now...
Posted by: Bigby's Fudge Finger at May 05, 2014 12:42 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 05, 2014 12:43 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at May 05, 2014 12:43 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: LizLem at May 05, 2014 12:43 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 05, 2014 12:43 PM (aDwsi)
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Posted by: Anthony Wiener at May 05, 2014 12:43 PM (j0wOO)
Posted by: Daybrother at May 05, 2014 12:43 PM (KaIAt)
I know this about Benghazi, they had that "blame the video" excuse almost while the attack was still on-going per the recently released emails. As if they had it ready.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 05, 2014 12:43 PM (hJauc)
Posted by: Republique De Banana at May 05, 2014 12:44 PM (thLL8)
Patient: I must have gotten it in a public restroom.
Doctor: That's a hell of a place to take a woman.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 05, 2014 12:44 PM (V70Uh)
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Posted by: Daybrother at May 05, 2014 12:53 PM (3G+n5)
Look, at this time, we are completely unaware of anything that could possibly have been construed as bad or negligent.
Those guys in Libya, basically, and unfortunately, killed themselves.
It's not Obama's fault they were so incompetent!
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