The mere mention of the word “Benghazi” now makes almost all Democrat office holders and activists break into hives and start frothing at the mouth
Now, as Fox News breaks a new “Benghazi” revelation, tying an aspect of the “Benghazi” cover-up directly to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s inner circle — The mainstream media largely ignores the story and instead reports on the Fox News “ Obsession with ‘Benghazi’ ”
To counter the kick-off of Congressman Trey Gowdy’s Select Committee on “Benghazi,” Democrats in Congress roll-out a website of all that is "already known” [by Democrats] about “Benghazi”
Just read the comments on any liberal-progressive blog when the word “Benghazi” is mentioned — the verbal gymnastics look like Curly Howard of the Three Stooges dropping to the ground and spinning around, yelling, “Whup ! Whup ! Whup ! Whup ! ....” The subject then quickly shifts to why can’t Republicans, conservatives and sheeple of all other ignorant stripe just give up the ghost and admit that Benghazi was “...an unfortunate tragedy but not a scandal.” Now, exposing the latest attempts to revive the “Benghazi story” the mainstream media is breathing new life into one its favorite bete noires — It’s all because of Fox News.
Two days ago another Benghazi story broke: “A former State Department official has told lawmakers that Hillary Clinton allies privately removed politically damaging documents before turning over files to the supposedly independent board investigating the Benghazi terror attack. *** The account from Raymond Maxwell, former head of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), was first published in The Daily Signal. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, confirmed to FoxNews.com on Monday that Maxwell told him and other lawmakers the same story when they privately interviewed him last year about the attacks and their aftermath. *** Chaffetz said that Maxwell claimed Clinton's chief of staff and deputy chief of staff were overseeing the document operation, which allegedly took place on a weekend in a basement office of the State Department....” (See “Ex-official claims Clinton allies scrubbed Benghazi documents in secret session” by Staff, 9/15/14, Fox News/ foxnews.com [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/15/damage-control-ex-official-claims-clinton-allies-scrubbed-benghazi-documents-in/]).
Locally, in the New York area, that story was picked up in the New York Daily News ( See “Staffers loyal to Hillary Clinton covered up potentially damaging Benghazi documents: former official” by Dan Friedman, 9/16/14, NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-staffers-covered-benghazi-files-ex-official-article-1.1941046]). According to the News, “Raymond Maxwell, former head of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, reportedly claims he discovered an 'after hours' meeting in the basement of State Department headquarters where officials separated Benghazi documents that might put anyone in the front office 'in a bad light’.”
Generally, the main stream media responded with a collective yawn, however there were some notable exceptions — in those cases, the main story was the Fox News Network’s obsession with all things “Benghazi” ( See “REPORT: Fox's Benghazi Obsession By The Numbers” by Hannah Groch-Begley & Rob Savillo, 9/16/14, Media Matters [http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/09/16/report-foxs-benghazi-obsession-by-the-numbers/200694] ; see also “Fox News Aired Nearly 1,100 Benghazi Segments Across 5 Programs, Study Finds” by Michael Calderone, 9/16/14, The Huffington Post [https://www.google.com/search?q=benghazi+news&oq=Benghazi+news&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0l5.9677j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8] picking up and amplifying the Media Matters article). The Washington Post went in slightly different direction in a “Book Review” by focusing on Fox’s coverage of a Benghazi-based book (See “Fox News, Benghazi and ’13 Hours’: A critical look” by Erik Wemple, 9/16/14, Washington Post/ washingtonpost.com [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/09/16/fox-news-benghazi-and-13-hours-a-critical-look/]).
Meanwhile, the Washington Times reports that “Ahead of the House Select Committee on Benghazi’s highly-anticipated first public hearing Wednesday, Democrats offered some of their own answers to questions surrounding the terrorist attack while Republicans urged them not to prejudge the investigation before it starts.... *** Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat and the panel’s ranking member, said Tuesday a newly-launched online clearinghouse with information about the attack and subsequent response is meant to help the committee avoid duplicative efforts from a handful of other congressional investigations and contradict false claims....” (See “Democrats launch Benghazi website ahead of committee hearing” by By David Sherfinski, 9/16/14, Washington Times [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/16/democrats-launch-benghazi-website-ahead-hearing/] [@washtimes on Twitter]).
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EDITORIAL COMMENT: THE “BURIED IN PLAIN SIGHT SO NOBODY CAN FIND IT” AND/OR “BEETLE BAILEY’S NOT WHO YOU THINK HE IS” EDITION
TO: ALL MY BAKER STREET IRREGULARS, AND INTERESTED AND INFORMED BYSTANDERS
One of our company has been harassed and warned-off posting information or pithy commentary on this blog. I withhold any further details so as to protect both the innocent and the guilty ( I fear that the better armed and/or more unstable among you might be tempted to overreact) and I want none of that on my account or on the account of our unnamed BSI.
In any case, some avuncular dude or dudess, whose name rhymes with “Ron Beetle,” has given out some healthy homespun advice to the effect that somebody’s future prospects might suffer if they didn’t follow the healthy homespun advice being given.
HMMM ! You know what we say to that kind of stuff — just keep the information coming — and TWICE THE PITHY for those that don’t like it.
YEAH ! And that also means every “Sarge” and “Colonel Bleep” that stands silently behind any “Beetle Bailey” and/or “Ron Beetle,” or whatever pseudonym they might choose to use, in order to hand out their advice and thinly-veiled threats anonymously.
OMG ?
Gale you are one hell of a Valley Girl.
UPDATE: THE “DICK MORRIS RAGS HILLARY OVER BENGHAZI” EDITION
DICK MORRIS SAYS NEW INVESTIGATIONS AND DISCLOSURES WILL TARNISH IMAGE OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL FRONTRUNNER HILLARY CLINTON
DICK MORRIS SAYS THIS: “[HILLARY] HASN’T HIT THAT BUMP IN THE ROAD YET REALLY .... SHE’S ABOUT TO HIT BIG TIME THE BENGHAZI PROBLEM...”
According to today’s Washington Times, Dick Morris has spoken out against Hillary Clinton and her Benghazi problems on a TV program called “American Forum” on Newsmax TV (See “Dick Morris: ‘Benghazi problem’ due to hit Hillary Clinton hard” by Cheryl K. Chumley, 9/18/14, The Washington Times [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/18/dick-morris-benghazi-problem-due-hit-hillary-clint/]).
Ms. Cumley’s report quotes Morris as follows: “First of all, you have the hearings.... You have the report that there was a document dump going on before the hearings in the basement of the State Department overseen by her chief counsel, Cheryl Mills.... Ultimately, all Capitol Hill eyes will be turned toward one person — Mrs. Clinton.... The hearings ultimately are going to be involving one person, Hillary Clinton....”
Then Morris discussed a few open questions about the 9/11/12 Benghazi attack “...whether there was air support, why there wasn’t, and then the core question, which is why did she spend two weeks lying to the American people — telling them this was about a video that everybody now dismisses as just ridiculous...”
Then Morris said everybody will add that to the “televised testimony” of three guards at the Benghazi facility, who told Bret Baier that “the commander told them to stand down, stay put and not go to the aid of the consulate....” And “When they finally got there — disobeying orders and went there — it was half an hour after the raid started and the ambassador was dead.,” Mr. Morris said.
BACKFILL: WND HAWKS BOOK ABOUT BENGHAZI “SECRET MISSION” AND HILLARY CLINTON
“SOME PEOPLE” ARE JUST LUCKY TO BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME
According to recent social media and Email from World Net Daily, “The U.S. special mission in Benghazi and the nearby CIA annex were utilized in part to coordinate arms shipments to the jihadist rebels fighting the Syrian regime, with Ambassador Christopher Stevens playing a central role, documents an explosive new book released this week. *** The activities, which included a separate, unprecedented multi-million-dollar weapons collection effort from Libyan militias who did not want to give up their weapons, may have prompted the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, charges the new book [‘The Real Beghazi Story...’ by Aaron Klein]....” (See e.g, “Finally revealed: What ambassador in Benghazi was really doing – Operating under orders of Obama, Hillary Clinton on secret mission” Email Newsletter, 9/18/14, WND Super*Store [http://superstore.wnd.com/The-REAL-Benghazi-Story-What-the-White-House-and-Hillary-Dont-Want-You-to-Know-Autographed]).
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: THE “VIEW FROM THE CENTRIST-RIGHT PEAKING AT THE LEFTISH-LEFT” EDITION
“ CRITICAL MESSAGES ABOUT THE FORMER FIRST LADY SHOW THAT SHE HAS A LONG WAY TO GO TO ASSUAGE SKEPTICISM FROM INFLUENTIAL VOICES ON THE LEFT ” — THE HILL
“Liberal activists are slamming Hillary Clinton in a members-only group on Google, with some calling for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for the White House in 2016 to teach the former secretary of State and mainstream Democrats a lesson. *** ‘The establishment Dems need to be punished, and the best way for that to happen is for Warren to beat Hillary in the primary on a populist message," Carl Gibson, a progressive activist and writer for Occupy.com, wrote in an email obtained by The Hill....’ ” (See “Report: Liberals Bash Hillary, Back Warren in Secret Emails” by Todd Beamon, 9/18/14, Newsmax/ newsmax.com [http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/elizabeth-warren-liberals-democrats-president/2014/09/18/id/595602/]; see also original report posted at “Left blasts Clinton in secret emails” by Alexandra Jaffe, 9/18/14, The Hill/ Ballot Box [http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/218134-left-blasts-hillary-clinton-in-secret-emails]).
The Hill also reported that, “The Hill said it reviewed "hundreds of emails" from a the "Gamechanger Salon," a private, members only forum through which nearly 1,500 progressive activists, journalists, and strategists discuss issues and develop messaging efforts. *** The group is run by Billy Wimsatt, founder of the progressive League of Young Voters, according to MediaTrackers.org, which first reported on the Gamechanger Salon earlier this year. *** Its members include prominent Democrats, executives of such powerful unions as the SEIU and AFL-CIO, and officials and members of such organizations as Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee....”
OPPOSITION TO HILLARY THE HAWK
According to the report by Alexandra Jaffe, generally speaking, the emails slammed Clinton as too much of a hawk and too cozy with Wall Street, who hasn’t spoken out enough on climate change, and who will be subject to other personal questions and criticisms. However, left-leaning group’s members seem to be most upset that Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War in 2002 while she was a New York senator.
"The more progressives I talk to, the more people tell me that they’ll never forgive her for voting for the Iraq War ... and won’t even vote for her in the general," Ryan Clayton, a progressive commentator and strategist, said in a July 2013 email. Charles Lenchner, executive director of the progressive group Organizing 2.0, Lenchner said in an interview with The Hill that Clinton — and anyone else who backed the war — was "tainted"; "And personally, I would like to see a Democratic Party where folks who enabled George Bush to drag the country into a permanent war are punished at the ballot box...."
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