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That House Benghazi Report

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Twenty ways the media completely misread it.

Shocking, I know.

[Update a few minutes later]

This is a key point for those who think the report “exonerates” the administration:

…if you were to ask people who aren’t reflexively defensive of President Obama (as the media tend to be) what their main concerns with Benghazi were two years ago, they’d probably say something along the lines of:

  • That we allowed an ambassador to be assassinated by Islamist militants in Libya.
  • That we didn’t quite seem as concerned as we should have been, as evidenced by our commander-in-chief heading off to a Vegas fundraiser hours after it happened and a general patience about seeking justice.
  • That we claimed that an attack on September 11 probably actually had something to do with a silly video and nothing to do with Al Qaeda.
  • That we officially told the world that “since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others,” as President Obama said.
    That our Secretary of State said of a video made by an American that “We absolutely reject its content and message.”

  • That these statements were dangerously untrue. In America, you’re actually totally allowed to disparage any religion you want. (I myself have fun targeting Methodists.) (Sidenote, check out how our Secretary of State gave a rhetorical beatdown to the Nazis when they complained about a mock trial of Hitler held in Madison Square Gardens in 1934.)
  • That our media seemed more obsessed with covering for Obama than investigating what the heck happened that night.

Now, the report whitewashes, excuses or glosses over almost all of this and fails completely to get at any of the deeper and troubling questions about what’s wrong with our intel community. It only “debunks” claims if you think that bureaucratic ass-covering and rather strained justifications of what I would hope all Americans would agree was a clear intelligence failure count as “debunking.”

Yup.

7 thoughts on “That House Benghazi Report”

  1. since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others,” as President Obama said. Except our nation (AKA “our government”) does reject all efforts to denigrate religious beliefs. That’s what “freed of religion” means.

    American that “We absolutely reject its content and message.” again, the “we” is the US Government, and the US Government is not in the business of denigrating religion.

    mock trial of Hitler – who was not a religious figure.

    1. Except our nation (AKA “our government”)

      So our nation and our government are synonymous? You see no useful distinction between them? You would deny, then, that between 2009 and 2011 Republicans were part of our nation? You would likewise deny that between 2003 and 2007, Democrats were?

      What about libertarians, who have no overt representation in the government? Are they not part of our nation?

    2. “Except our nation (AKA “our government”) does reject all efforts to denigrate religious beliefs. ”

      Do Democrats know this? Even the lightbringer Obama has talked smack about religious people. Should we draw any conclusions from the Obama administration scapegoating someone they perceived as a Coptic Christian for an offense against Muslims? Surely, the Obama administration is aware of the history of conflict between these two groups and the current religious cleansing taking place in Muslim countries where Christians are persecuted minorities?

      Isn’t scapegoating a religious minority denigrating a religion? The man went to jail because of this.

      “That’s what “freed of religion” means.”

      No, it is freedom of religion, or in other words freedom to practice your religion. There isn’t freedom from religion because we can not excommunicate religious people from society as Democrats are trying to do. The Democrat ideal that you can’t practice your religion out of the closet is wrong.

      1. It’s different when Democrats do it because SHUT UP! They’re the party of reason and love, as they frequently shout from their foaming mouths.

      2. Isn’t scapegoating a religious minority denigrating a religion?

        No. It doesn’t denigrate Christianity to point out that an individual Christian made a hateful video that prompted protests in Muslim countries. Do you think it denigrates Islam to point out that an individual Muslim has done something terrible?

        1. “No. It doesn’t denigrate Christianity to point out that an individual Christian made a hateful video that prompted protests in Muslim countries. ”

          There you go again perpetuating Obama’s lie that the video was the cause of what happened in Benghazi. Don’t gruber our way out of that by noting that you didn’t explicitly say Libya because Obama and his administration did specifically say Libya.

          “Do you think it denigrates Islam to point out that an individual Muslim has done something terrible?”

          The two are not the same because the Youtube video had no role in the attack in Benghazi. The guy was a scapegoat. The Coptic community in Egypt then had violence inflicted upon it. The denigration comes from blaming a person for something he was not responsible and his minority community being persecuted because of it.

          No one is scapegoating Muslims or persecuting them.

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