https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2012/09/16/spontaneous-uprising-or-premeditated-murder/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 03:59:58 -0400<![CDATA[It’s a long, long way from John Bolton. This morning, Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, made the rounds on television talk shows. She was peddling the administration’s desperate fantasy narrative that the murders on September 11 (September 11, Kemo Sabe!) of four U.S. diplomats, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were not premeditated attacks. No, no. That would have been impossible.  We had it on the highest authority, namely from El Presidente himself, that the day he was inaugurated “Muslim hostility will cease.” So: those couple hundred chaps, with RPGs in tow, “spontaneously” assembled outside the consulate in Benghazi. Apparently, they just spontaneously knew the ambassador would be there, even though the visit was “confidential.” They also spontaneously knew the layout of the compound and the location of his safe house.  I guess there must also be some way to spontaneously equip yourself with RPGs and (according to some reports) mortars in that poverty-stricken city. It’s by no means clear that anyone in Libya had actually seen the 13-minute video Innocence of Muslims.  But according to Ambassador Rice, that amateur work of anti-Muslim propaganda was so powerful that it precipitated the spontaneous attack.]]>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:30:25 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2012/09/16/spontaneous-uprising-or-premeditated-murder-n117064