Of course they did. And nobody who follows politics on either side is the least be surprised, so let’s just forestall the ostentatious OUTRAGE that generally attaches to such stories.
Instead, I’d like to reiterate a point I made here earlier today: in order to be reasonably and accurately informed about the failed or dangerous political machinations of the left in this country, we are forced increasingly to rely on foreign media.
Our contemporary journalists — most of whom graduate from universities whose journalism departments are rather openly “progressive” — act as they’ve been trained to act: following the orders and dictates of those for whom they are PR activists; and looking to sabotage those who seek to upset that power dynamic, of which they are an integral part.
When the revolution comes, it will be televised. The key to our success will be to shut off the damn tv and refuse to pick up any kind of local liberal rag.
But enough sermonizing. Here, from the Telegraph UK:
Now that Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has confirmed there was an explicit link between al-Qaeda and the attack, questions are being asked about the role Dr Rice played in trying to play down the significance of the attack. The Republicans have already called for her to resign from her post for misleading the American people.
But the real smoking gun is whether the Obama administration was warned in advance that al-Qaeda was planning an attack. A number of Israeli newspapers have suggested that Washington was warned as early as September 4 – a week earlier – that the environment in Benghazi was becoming increasingly hostile and anti-American, while in London the Foreign Office took the decision to withdraw all its consular staff from Benghazi two months before the murders. This decision was based on an intelligence assessment made by MI6 that al-Qaeda was openly operating in the area following a failed assassination attempt on Sir Dominic Asquith, Britain’s ambassador to Libya, in June.
It is well known that British intelligence works closely with its counterpart in America, and if MI6 knew al-Qaeda was operating in the Benghazi region, then it is highly likely that the CIA did too.
Suddenly the Administration’s “it’s nothing to do with us, guv,” defence is starting to look rather thin, with potentially disastrous consequences for Mr Obama’s re-election prospects.
Poor scribe. His conclusion leads me to believe he thinks we have a free and impartial press in this country. While what is really going on in many newsrooms — and almost assuredly with the aid and counsel of people within the Obama administration and campaign apparatus — is a strategy for how to release information in dribs and drabs, how to modulate and direct the important informational nodal points that will have to come out, now that certain findings have come to light, such that emphases is tactically controlled, and the narrative carefully monitored.
After all, they only have to keep the stories at bay for another 30-some-odd days — during which time Mitt Romney, who has declared whining about misinformation campaigns and media malfeasance off limits — will know doubt do something very elitist and white and anti-woman/gay/immigrant/working man/middle class/venture capitalisty/tax evasivey.
At which point the news cycle can be recalibrated, and the narrative flow once again controlled with an iron-fisted collusion between the activist, progressive legacy media and their champion of “fundamental transformation” who, thus far, has upheld his end of the bargain.
This country is barely even recognizable anymore.
— Which is why I forgive the UK writer for his misunderstanding of who it is here who does our reporting for us.
(h/t Pablo)
It’s going to be hard as hell to bottle up when there are many material witnesses with material wounds and personal interests in seeing to it the guilty parties pay. They’re going to talk, and soon.
Which is why “no comment” makes its appearance on the stage[d].
I’m starting to think that maybe Obama is sort of a huge douche or something. Or is it just me?
Before long, our bankrupt country will need to bail out the bankrupt media machine it relies upon to bail it out after it bails out the bankrupt machines it relies upon.
Libyan security upgrade denied, Ambassador Stevens died, Obama Administration then lied…
– LibyaGate and FFgate are both going to snowball and the Obama administration is about to relearn the old lesson of Watergate.
– Even Krugman is starting to cover his ass, writing disparaging posts on Obama’s handling of the “fiscal cliff” problem.
– Various Lefties are hedging their bets, not wanting to be caught on the wrong side of things should the wheels come off the Wonces wagon. Progressives are nothing if not Uber fickle.
The Douche Anti-Defamation League would say it’s just you.
InTrade has Obama at $7.52 (and thus Romney at $2.48). I’m thinking I may need a piece of that action.
Right after I hit the tip jar, of course. Priorities!
The USA, as we knew it, is gone. A Romney win can’t turn this ship fast enough even if he has the perfect plan and its executed to perfection.
It looks like the social collapse part is already starting. Detroit is a harbinger of what will spread like cancer.
http://tinyurl.com/9v7jla4
This kind of behavior, and the cops doing nothing about it, would have been unthinkable in say 1980. This isn’t a “riot” like Watts or the Rodney King shit, this is straight up flagrant disregard and making your own local law.
“A time for choosing”, Reagan said, but we live in a time where the choice is being made for us and any choosing is being done by people raised since infancy to choose dependency over liberty.
For fear that we might miss the forest for the trees, this administration was trying to deflect suspicion and blame from al-Qaeda in the murder of our Ambassador. Yes, we’re covering for al-Qaeda now.
Agreed. Obama can’t afford for Benghazi to have been a terrorist attack because Obama personally destroyed Al Qaeda forever when he personally choppered in to Pakistan and killed Bin Laden with his bare hands.
The Obama narrative has always been that all terrorism was Al Qaeda, and Al Qaeda existed in the sole personage of Osama Bin Laden, e.g. “Afghanistan and Iraq are distractions from the real issue which is getting Bin Laden”. Obama’s narrative fails if Al Qaeda is still launching terrorist attacks long after Bin Laden was killed.
Al-Qaeda doesn’t want covering. No, we’re(they’re) still covering for Obama.
No, they don’t want it. Yes, it’s for Obama. But it is what we’re doing.
We (through Obama) are selling children to Satan ostensibly to fight terrorism.
Then when we catch the terrorists we read them their rights and give them a court appointed legal team.
This country is fucking insane.
I hate it as bad as wordpress apparently hates me.
This country is fucking insane.
– Well clearly something like 47% of it is. Which means that every election from now on will be a crap shoot, and as immigrants continue to flood in it will only get worse.
– The good news is that once it all collapses we will go back to a frontier nation. Illegals will either flee because all the goodies and handouts will dry up, or be booted out to leave whatever resources remain for legal Americans. You’ll see a whole lot of this counter-culture bullshit disappear almost over night. Gay marriage? They’ll be lucky just to survive.
– Social justice will be called what it really is. Legalized theft to give stuff to people to damned lazy to work for it.
– Might see the rebirth of our nation and its true dream of freedom and the pursuit of happiness, natural rights, and all that old outdated crap the Left hates so much.
– Being a Progressive could be hazardous to your health.
drudge
“DAILY CALLER: ‘For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America’… Developing tonight… “
– Obama’s riding scared, and dirty. With the good rev by his side.
– Which blacks is he referring too, because it certainly can’t be the 75% unemployed blacks in the inner city. They can’t be exploited because they don’t do anything.
in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America
that’s true if you neglect to mention aa, food stamps, section 8, medicaid, free.public schools, college football ….
– But you know, I take that back. You know who’s exploiting the Blacks. Obama is exploiting the Blacks, and they’re either too fucking dumb as a group, which I don’t believe, or they’re too embarrassed to admit it, even to themselves.
– I would tell them if they asked, that if they ever hope to escape institutionalized racism, Obama’s stock in trade, they have to first stop supporting dividers and class warfare ideologues like Barack, or they’ll never be free of it. Never.
that’s
true if youinteresting@bbh
Pastor Offers Fiery Rebuke of Fellow Blacks: End Your ‘Slavish Devotion to the Democrat Party’
I was hoping Sean got his little mitts on the Kahlidi tape.
This will do though.
Who cares about speeches he gave 15 years ago? You look like desperate idiots digging that shit up.
Focus on the crimes and attrocities he is committing now.
2007. So, a sitting US Senator.
“OBAMA DECLARES HOW POOR PEOPLE: ‘Need help with basic skills, how to shop, how to show up for work on time, how to wear the right clothes, how to act appropriately in an office’… Developing…”
Yeah, that’s the poor’s problem. They just don’t know how to show up for work on time.
No shit, Moe. Hannity was touted as showing a mystery tape.
Speculation abounds. But apparently only among us idiots.
What’s wrong with a little focus on who exactly this Marxist piece of shit is? Meanwhile, we get to see how the media that was flogging what Romney might have done in 1965 deals with Senator Race War.
Chris Davis just tattooed another one. Hang on to that lead RedSox.
Perhaps the fact that all of us here are not in the least bit deluded about what a lying POS is Obama is crowding out the fact that half the country thinks he’s not all that bad.
I mean, he’s trying real hard and stuff.
Of course Obama is exploiting Blacks.
He puts on Street-Blackface when he needs to. He puts on Whiteface when he needs to. He puts on Clean-Well-Dressed-Articulate-Non-Scary-Blackface when he needs to.
He believes he is a new kind of Man – A New World Man – someone who has moved beyond the old, useless classifications.
Didn’t Nietzsche write a book predicting Obama’s coming?
They don’t need to be targeting you guys, you already know what he is. This would have been great in 08, but it is old news now. This is Hannity preaching to the choir.
If you want to make statements, fine. Rail about him being a Marxist.
If you want to get him replaced shine a spotlight on the steaming pile of shit he has made of this country in the past four years.
the fact that half the country thinks he’s not all that bad.
I mean, he’s trying real hard and stuff.
Exactly. They voted for him, they don’t want to hear I Told You So’s and if you start in about him being a Marxist they think you are nuts.
Focus on his record. Romney won’t do it and it is probably going to cost him the election.
Hannity bangs on his record for 4 hours a day. Romney’s not playing the tape. “He’s not who he told you he was.” is not a bad thing to show the Honey Boo Boo audience.
“If you want to get him replaced shine a spotlight on the steaming pile of shit he has made of this country in the past four years.”
and does it make sense unless you show baracky giving his vision of the future circa 2007?
Romney won’t do it and it is probably going to cost him the election.
– Well yes and no. We really don’t know what Romneys made of just yet. We’ll know after tomorrow night. We already know, in spades, what Bummblefuck is all about. If Romney doesn’t pin Obama’s ass to the wall on his 4 year disaster of a record, then he deserves to lose. Or put another way, he probably won’t be any more effective than Obama, and things are so fucked up we can’t afford a passive do nothing, so either way we’ll be fucked if that’s the case.
– html-fu fail….
Sometimes we get a politician that surprises. I’m hoping this is one of those times.
I want Romney to blister the paint off Jughead. Hit him right in his thiny-thin skin. For 90 minutes.
Jughead gets the first question out of the gate. But, Romney gets the last word or at lest that’s the way they’re reporting how the toss went.
Is this beemoe our own beloved BMoe, with the hound dog avatar?
I’m kinda hoping not. I’m expecting beemoe to start telling us not to use Obamas middle name next.