What Difference Does It Make?
January 23rd, 2013 - 1:17 pm
What difference does it make?
What difference does it make?
What difference does it make?
What difference does it make?
What difference does it make? No difference at all.
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No of course it would make no difference if we finally were allowed to hear from and the media finally asked where are the survivors and why we haven’t heard a peep from them. Of course it would make no difference if the loved ones of those who died found out they were hung out to dry during an eight hour firefight in which the attackers were searching for detainees and ‘liberating’ CIA files on gunrunning to Libya for their Iranian paymasters to blackmail the U.S. with later (it doesn’t take eight to nine hours just to kill four or five cut off Americans, even if they have M-16s and several clips plus special forces experience). Of course it would make no difference if Terry Moran admitted it was never a real consulate and the CIA was up to something in Benghazi. Of course it would make no difference if he quoted Lt. Col. Anthony Schaffer or anyone else with mil/intel experience who says their sources indicate a massive Fast and Furious style op was sending guns and MANPADs to the Al-Nusra front and other groups in Syria. And of course it would make no difference because as @ReginaldQuill and other BigSis twitter drones insist, anyone who thinks gun running to Syria was a part of the Benghazi story is an agent of ‘Russian agitprop’, not someone simply following the facts whereever they may lead.
[sic] meant the attackers at Benghazi were looking for kompromat on U.S. gunrunning FROM Libya to Syria. Maybe to use to get the Obamanistas to threaten to shoot down the IAF jets bound for Iran if it comes to that, lest the Iranians expose how many jihadis got CIA-funded and marshalled arms in Syria, including the Al-Nusra Front the State Dept. later branded as a terrorist group.
What difference does anything make? Let’s just keep the same people in charge regardless of whether they made egregious errors or not… Let’s not look at what mistakes were made and why, since they make no difference it’s no problem if we make them again and again and again.
Hey, that airliner crashed because the pilot was drunk? What difference does it make if the passengers died because of his irresponsibility and incompetence or because a meteor struck the plane? The passengers are still dead!
Hey, you didn’t pay your income taxes for 10 years? What difference does it make? Somebody else paid THEIRS and besides, it’s all funny money anyway.
As long as Democrats are in charge, failure does not count because they mean well (even when they don’t give a shit.) What difference does it make? None whatsoever!
Everything thing counts, including differences. Americans are watching, some are turning to the right, while some on the right are throwing up. Americans don’t eat dog shit. Watch out for the times are changing. Hopefully, I pray, not many will die. Take care, plan for the long game.
#2
I am not sure I am endorsing any particular point of view, nor promoting a particular narrative other than to say the checksum of the administration’s message is wrong. As to what the content of the message actually is, whether it says this about Russia or that about Iran, or whether it says anything at all is not for the moment determinate.
But whatever it is they’re messaging it ain’t it. We know the negative, as to the positive, we are no further ahead. About all we can reasonably conclude is that the video is probably not the cause of anything material. Who set Nakoula up, what happened in Benghazi, who attacked, how they knew about the CIA safehouse, what the consulate was doing, whether there were prisoners, what Hillary knew, these questions are still as unanswered as the day they were put.
This is a hell of a way to run a railroad. And when Hillary said, “what difference does it make”, I thought, “what difference did it make if Steiner existed or not?” So far we’ve got zip. This has been a total waste of time. Maybe what Hillary meant to say was: “what difference does this committee make? I’m not answering you anyhow.” Benghazi is like the Voynich Manuscript; we think it may mean something because they’re so evasive about it. Like they had something to hide. Maybe it’s just a reflection of their own gibberish policy. It occurred to me that they themselves may not know what it means.
The Honorable Madam Secretary knows her testimony could be used in commercials against her in 2016. This is why she’s been trying so desperately to avoid the event. Her animated, melo-dramatic response to a potentially lethal question comes directly from the Clinton playbook. Remember when Chris Wallace asked Bubba about letting UBL go? He did the same thing with his feigned outrage & wild finger- waving.. “I tried to kill him!” How dare you?
Mouth-breathers & LIVs will see the passionate reaction to the big question and assume that the only crime committed was in asking it. The interviewer becomes the villain. It’s pathetic that this stuff works. BTW, the video of the Wallace/UBL interview on Youtbue is entitled, “Bill Clinton Kicks the Crap out of Fox News.”
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
A congressman shows Hillary a whole series of photos of protests outside American embassies where the black Al Qaeda flag was flying and asked her if she was aware of those incidents. She admitted that she was very aware of them.
So where was the follow up question, “Did you ever bring these incidents to any elected federal official from the President on down BEFORE the Democrat convention in Charlotte, where such a big deal was made that “Al Qaeda is dead, General Motors is alive?”
Did you tell Obama, or Biden, or Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, or Chuck Schumer?
NUJ @ 1 – Putin wasopennly gunrunning to Assad while he was killing tens of thousands of civilians.
“What Difference Does It Make?”
I’m sure it was the same thought the Politburo members had when they ousted Gorby. Finally breaking the sham of legitimacy of the ruling class, they quickly discovered how few would actually come to defend their power.
5. wretchard
am not sure I am endorsing any particular point of view, nor promoting a particular narrative other than to say the checksum of the administration’s message is wrong.
Of course lots of people know stuff don’t add up. After the “What difference does it make” show, the point is neither you nor I, and now apparently Congress, can do anything about it.
Also Obama’s been advised to go around Congress for the ‘urgent need for climate change’, Supreme refused to hear the challenge to Clean Air Act ruling (1/22/2012).
Taken together, we now effectively have only one branch of the government dictating.
From the USA Today, a Drudge like juxtaposition of stories.
Interesting coincidence getting your debts paid off just when you were going to testify. But what difference does it make? Were we fools to think that God was good? That love would never die? That people loved their country? That truth made a difference in the grand scheme of things?
Or was it all just a matter of slipping people a bill to get to the head of the line; of paying a hack to write a book for you, make up the story of your life? Was menacing people or withholding cocktail invitations all it took to silence a generation of scribes?
And if we knew which it was, what difference does it make? Here’s a question that occurs to everyone in the Life when they’ve passed their twenties. “Why should I not sell out?” Who gives a damn? The eternal human miracle of history is that some do, and go on, even if they can’t explain why. “I will bear the Ring, though I do not know the way.”
#3 Buck O’Fama,
What difference does anything make? Let’s just keep the same people in charge regardless of whether they made egregious errors or not… Let’s not look at what mistakes were made and why, since they make no difference it’s no problem if we make them again and again and again.
The Obama administration has reduced the US government to a debased kabuki theater (as if it weren’t already), and their Media lapdogs are licking it up. It’s all thoroughly disgusting. Why the majority of my fellow citizens still take the national news media seriously is beyond me.
You might reasonably say “What difference does it make who attacked us and why?” on the afternoon of 7 Dec 1941 while you are fighting fires and rescuing trapped sailors at Pearl Harbor. That was the equivalent of what the SECSATE said today; what difference did it make right then?
But the next day, or a week later, it made a hellava difference on what you did. Because if it was a tragic mistake or a rogue IJN Admiral, you might not go to war. If it was IJN Emily bombers launched from an island in the Pacific (as actually occurred some months later) rather than carrier strike you might fight the war very differently. But a day or a month or 5 months later it does make a difference as to what you do.
Hillary! effectively said that they were still living in the moment of the disaster and had not figured it all out yet, since it was too shattering to deal with.
wretchard (#10) You missed the best one! As so many of the elitist in the MSM like to say “0bama is the smartest man to ever be President!” What difference does it make if 0bama won’t show is college transcripts or say if 0bama ever took an IQ test and what its score is… 0bama’s Einstein mental abilities are all relative so whats the difference.
Wait…the last clip (no pun intended).
Was that confirmed or refuted that Lanza did NOT use an assault rifle. I somehow missed this (But then, I am skimming the news more nowadays, to keep my blood pressure down).
Oh my God, it took me a couple of months to get the image of that fat swine, Candy Crowley out of my mind. Now she’s back.
Heard a clip today on a local talk show of folks being interviewed about Obama’s place in history. (It didn’t sound like it was at a MENSA meeting). Most placed him 1st or second behind maybe Lincoln or in a couple cases, Bubba Clinton. Can the schools get any worse in America?
Bob Bechel on FNC’s The Five tonight gave the best explanation yet for “What difference does it make?”
He said it means, “We got away with it. We knew it was going to be a close election. So we made up the video excuse. And it worked.”
I guess he also could have added, “We got away with it. We knew that it was going to be a close election and that the Bengahzi attack imperiled one of our key narratives, that we had defeated Al Queda. So we made up the video excuse. And it worked. We got away with it. The MSM lined up with us and agreed, even chastised the Republicans for trying to use the disaster to their advantage. Romney even refused to do so for the most part. And Candy Crowley even called down Romney on it during one of the debates. So we won the election. We lied, but it does not matter now.”
RWE/16: ‘Bob Bechel on FNC’s The Five tonight gave the best explanation yet for “What difference does it make?”
He said it means, “We got away with it. We knew it was going to be a close election. So we made up the video excuse. And it worked.”’
No kidding, he said that? That is a pretty damning admission against interest. i don’t suppose anybody is going to save that and drag it out for the mid-terms, to fuel a firestorm of anti-D fear and loathing? “They won your vote with a lie. They don’t respect you enough to tell you the truth. Do you want them back, or do you want them gone?”
We could hope for that…
The used ten thousand lies. They did it before and they did it again. You can say they always do but even by the standards of the US Democratic Party in 2008 they were blatantly dishonest and in 2012 they dispensed with any shadow of restraint. They know that by binding the media to the crime, by making them overt co-conspirators, they are protected against future criticism. That was the point of the Journolist. For the same reason the KGB would not accept treason for free. You had to take the silver so they knew you were unable to turn on them.
In Florida they sent out a fake message that claimed to be from the Israeli consulate endorsing Obama. They did it the weekend before the election so they could not face blowback. Once the election is over it does not matter. The only hope would have been if the Governors and Attorney Generals in places like Florida and Ohio had had the guts to say “No.”
We now owe them nothing. No obedience no loyalty no comity. They are not sovereign, only in power. We owe ourselves and our loved ones and our civilization our best efforts to preserve and survive. That means that we are not called upon to seek out suicidal confrontations. Do not break the law. File your taxes. Do nothing that you do not have to.
Hillary Clinton has been evil from the get-go.
(Agree w Blast)
In the long run, they can tell all the lies they like. The only people they’re fooling is themselves. The bovine feces they’re shoveling are for the domestic market. Our enemies – for instance, the murderers who carried out the attacks – knew the administration’s lies were such long before they attacked.
The idea that they need to maintain national secrets is a total crass self-serving pile of crap when everyone outside the U.S. already knows the alleged video was a laughable fabrication.
Just as insulting as having the execrable Eric Holder – responsible for the delivery of THOUSANDS of military grade rifles to proven murderers in the Mexican Drug Cartels – condemn the legal ownership of firearms by law-abiding U.S. citizens.
This is a government of criminals, far worse than the darkest times and crimes of any previous administration.
In the fullness of time, even if they round up and execute EVERY SINGLE US CITIZEN whom they regard as politically unreliable (and don’t doubt for an instant that these lovers of Chairman Mao Zedong would scruple to do so…) their festering boil of a government will collapse. It is eating itself from the inside already. People in Chicago have already been murdered over the crimes committed in promoting a certain cipher of a politician to national office. That will surely accelerate. That’s the sort of monster we have ruling this nation.
They will make Nero and Caligula look like boy scouts.
Several times Hillary indicated that we should rely on the trained “professional’ security people. Can she give us the names of four such individuals who are not currently on paid leave pending an investigation?
Oman #17:
Yes, he actually said that. Not the expanded version I gave in my third paragaph, but all that stuff follows logically anyway.
And note what Hillary! said:
“We face an expanded Al Queda spreading across North Africa…”
That follows logically, too. Al Queda is alive and expanding and General motors is limping along with the same unbearable union legacy costs as before and the company is contracting as a result, while the private equity market has been poisoned as a result of Obama’s stiffing them.
That would make too long a bumper sticker and would take at least both sides of a T-shirt.
I heard a rumor that chocolate rations might be increased again this month. Have you heard that, citizen?
We lied, but it does not matter now…
Indeed. And the ambassador and several other fine men are dead—but so what? (apparently).
Except that someone seems to be forgetting that “what goes around comes around”.
Eventually.
Chalk it up to arrogance. Or presumption. Or ignorance. Or wishful thinking. Or “But I’m a good person, really, I am” syndrome.
I can’t but imagine that our Confabulator-in-Chief is having the time of his life watching Hillary squirm. (Oh the joys, the joys….)
It’s enough to make one begin to feel a bit sorry for her….
(Well, not quite…)
Weary G #14 “Was that confirmed or refuted that Lanza did NOT use an assault rifle.” What difference does it make? NY has and CT will have new gun laws in place before the police report is issued in March.
Bill G. (#25) the very fact that it is being kept as an unknown is proof Politics will have more to do with this crime than the people or weapons did!
If 0bama and his inner circle are really as smart™ as their equally brilliant™ media lackeys have been proclaiming, then the whole lot of them are essentially malevolent rather than merely incompetent and/or clueless dreamers. Either way, their marx is showing.
What difference does it make? Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia!
What would have happened if after the December 7 1941 attack by IJN forces the Secretary of State Cordell Hull stated a popeye cartoon about the Emperor of Japan had caused the attack then he left the country questions unanswered then had several misadventures leading to hospitalization before showing up five months later before the committee and when asked why “Nineteen ships, including five battleships, and about 150 U.S. planes were destroyed; more than 2,300 soldiers, sailors and civilians were killed Hull said at the time it was caused by the Hirohito cartoon, repeatedly BUT WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE” if that wasn’t true.
What difference does it make, Obama won.
For Hillary, the democrats and half the nation it makes no difference at all, for the four dead and the enemy it makes all the difference in the world.
wretchard@10:
And you still can hear me singing
To the people who don’t listen
To the things that I am saying,
Praying someone’s gonna hear.
And I guess I’ll die explaining
How the things that they complain about
Are things they could be changing,
Hoping someone’s gonna care.