An ABC News reporter tried dressing down Rand Paul (R-Ky.) after the senator chided Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during today’s Benghazi hearing.
“Curious: What is Rand Paul’s foreign policy background? Did he serve in the military? Did he study, live, do business or charity overseas?” tweeted Terry Moran, co-anchor of ABC’s Nightline.
It was Moran’s only tweet of the hearing.
“I’m glad that you’re accepting responsibility,” said Paul during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting. “I think ultimately with your leaving that you accept the culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11. And I really mean that.”
“Had I been president and found you did not read the cables from Benghazi and from Ambassador Stevens, I would have relieved you of your post. I think it’s inexcusable,” he said.
Paul said he didn’t suspect Clinton of “bad motives” but said that it was a “failure of leadership.”
Paul, elected in 2010, was added to the committee for the 113th Congress. It raised some eyebrows among the GOP as the libertarian senator has an isolationist-leaning foreign policy similar to his father’s.
In response to Moran’s question about charitable work, Paul, an ophthalmologist, is a member of the international Lions Club, through which he founded an eye clinic to help those who can’t afford to pay for eye surgeries or exams.
Paul recently returned from a weeklong fact-finding trip to the Middle East, including a stop in Israel — after which he said any cuts in aid to the Jewish state shouldn’t be drastic.
– testifying to smirk and act bored.
What is Terry Moran’s foreign policy background?
Much less than his brother’s who works for PJM. Rick Moran is the smart Moran. Terry is the administration lackey.
They’re all lackeys.
Damn, the entire Moran progeny must be bad seed. Explains the insipid posts here, though. It all begins to make sense – closet leftists, Terry just a tad more obvious.
I don’t believe that Richard Moran and Terry Moran are related. Although I suspect Richard Moran IS a closet moderate.
Rick Moran, who posts articles here, at American Thinker and sometimes at Frontpage News, and who also has his own blog, is Terry Moran’s brother. But the acorns didn’t fall far from the tree.
Rick Moran is a left winger who claims the mantilla of being a conservative and if you disagree with his opinion on his blog, he will go into a profanity laced diatriabe against you personally (telling you how smart he is and how stupid you are) and then ban you from his blog so you can’t respond to his diatribe.
One is a closet liberal, the other one is blatant. That is the difference.
While MC’ing fundraising galas in Washington, Terry Moran might have an exchange with a congressman on a foreign policy committee, or something. That gives him foreign policy experience. At such galas, people give boatloads of money for charity, and a good MC can goad them into giving even more by the time the evening is over. Might even approach the time and labor Rand Paul (and many other doctors) have given free of charge to the poor.
Rand Paul was RIGHT ON, and he was exercising oversight by and for the people with his questions, unlike most of the other senators, who did not earn their pay today. We pay these workers (senators) to perform oversight on the executive branch, not schmooze with Clinton on the peoples’ dime.
Someone should answer Moran back–What was Obama’s foreign policy experience? It never seems to matter for the left.
Moran was acting as a Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign aide; she probably served in the same capacity for Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Speaking of which, our foreign policy rot set in during that era.
Here is why Hillary Clinton demanded that Bill bomb the Christian Serbs on behalf of the Albanian Muslim narcoterrorists.
This Moran (Terry) is a he.
And what are Terry Moran’s foreign policy credentials other than reading Thomas “the idiot” Friedman?
“Moran was acting as a Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign aide;”
And her tweet shows that she’s still wearing her presidential knee pads.
Shhh, Michelle might hear you.
What is Terry Moron, er, “MORAN”‘s foreign policy background? Has he ever done anything? Anything at all?
Curious: What was Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy background before being appointed SecState? Did she serve in the military? Did she study, live, do business or charity overseas?
Good observation. She went from a President’s ‘significant other’, then carpetbagged a Senate seat, then somehow finagled SecState from the guy who defeated her Presidential run. Executive experience she has none, nor foreign relations. Weasly domestic partisan lawyering is really her specialty, along with delaying investigations by special prosecutors and now by Congress.
It was interesting to hear the Dem Senators chipping in with laudatory remarks about her great achievements, all carefully rehearsed to reinforce her hopes for President in 2016.
Who really knows what her “Foreign relations” might be?
Well, she did dodge sniper fire in Bosnia. *smirk*
Oh yeah. I forget Rambo Clinton’s excursions behind enemy lines. (cough cough)
Can you imagine the MSM apoplexy if Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann had lied through her teeth like that about some heroic deed? These damn Clintons lie so easily, it’s almost supernatural.
I would pay to watch Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin compete in the Hunger Games.
How would you “dress” Hillary in the field? You damn sure can’t carry her out.
While that brave little girl walked across the tarmac with flowers for her. John Fitzgerald Kerry should step aside and let that girl have the job, although she was never BFF with Assad, our moderate partner.
Not only that, what is her record at fat bottom…uh Foggy Bottom? She lost Egypt, Libya and likely Syria to Islamists, went on a worldwide drunk tour and accomplished little else except losing an ambassador due to her incompetence.
And what was Dear Liar’s foreign policy experience in 2008? Or domestic policy? Or any other experience other than smoking weed?
Forging documents.
An illegal trip to build relationships with Pakistan terrorists
In Hillary’s defense, if she couldn’t even figure out her POS husband was cheating on her repeatedly how can we expect her to have the slightest clue what was going on in Benghazi?
“In Hillary’s defense…” Great lead in.
Yes, and we must adnit she can make tough decisions, such as whether to search Vince Foster’s office before his body was found.
Does it take ANY type of policy experience to know when something fails? I know Hillary is a failure, on many levels, yet I don’t have medical, foreign, state dept. or other experience. She failed at all of those. Like watching a kid fall off a bicycle, I don’t have to know how to ride one to understand the failure.
This is just outrageous.
Especially after the string of foreign policy blunders that date to the 1st day of Obama’s 1st term (Russia reset, willing to chat with the Iranians, Benghazi, Mali, offing the Brits, offing Israel, the so-called Arab Spring, tolerance of the Muslim Brotherhood).
Good grief. I’m having trouble resisting the release of a string of ad feminams.
You forgot about Honduras.
Just about everybody has forgotten about Honduras, so thanks for the reminder. That incident was the most telling and glaring reminder of how Obama and Clinton view the workings of government.
It was forgotten because there has ben an avalanche of scandals and disturbing behavior and policy moves from this dangerous clown posse. But most Americans are largely oblivious to all this. If it’s not a 3rd-rate burglary by a Republican, it isn’t a scandal.
Failing to protect an embassy has nothing to do with foreign policy. An embassy compound is supposed to be our land. Why the hell did they out source its security? Have we ever contracted the KGB to guard our embassy in the Soviet Union?
“…Have we ever contracted the KGB to guard our embassy in the Soviet Union?”
Only on the outside; but, unlike Benghazi (which is not an embassy, or even – really – a consulate) there were U.S. Marines on the inside of the gate.
Where was Hillary’s foreign policy experience before getting the job?
Watching all the prise heaped on Hillary from the left for her “accomplishments”, I thought I was watching the Muslim Brotherhood Senate rather than the Senators from the United States
Rand Paul rocks!
Talk about Truth to Power!
Rand Paul 2016!
The House of Lords is not going to criticize another member of the aristocracy.
This is NOT about experience…look at our imperial president. THis is about authority and responsibility. Sen Paul is taking his authority seriously. He has the right to grill Hillary for NOT taking her authority seriously. She abuses her authority and refuses to accept correct responsibility. Mr. Moran would never chastise Chuckey Shmukey for not having any firearms experience!! Di-Fi doesnt even recognize the firearms she is trying to ban, for crying out loud. Someone needs to tell this Moran jerk to shut the HECK up.
Great comment. Rand is doing his job.
The ABC reporter is not interested in the story or country. It’s personalize and demonize.
“Curious: What is Rand Paul’s foreign policy background? Did he serve in the military? Did he study, live, do business or charity overseas?”
Paul’s statements and questions to Hillary were precisely targeted on the duties of a head of an organization, and had naught to do at all with foreign policy. He illuminated her failure to ensure that really important questions, such as immediate risk to the consulate and its people, got forwarded to herself – even if just a FYI – instead of stopping two layers down. That is standard in all military orgs, and certainly should be at the US State Department. He is absolutely right that she should have been relieved of duty and a competent person appointed, immediately after the disaster.
In fact, Rand Paul was making the statements and asking the questions that Hillary’s boss Barack should have been doing, the day after the disaster.
This is what clear thinking men that understand authority do … I’m used to being around guys like Paul and I support him; more especially because he has no fear. Rather; Paul treated Hillary with respect … I thiunk it may be the first time EVER that she’s been held to account for ANYTHING. Being married to Bill, she’s used to wearing the pants, so she’s unaccustomed to real men … what a surprise it must have been to her.
What’s Terry Moran asking us for? If he asks that, isn’t it a question he asks of himself, whence he, and ABC, then set about to investigate and report the answers?
Is Moran still a reporter or has he morphed into some Grand Inquisitor who barks out questions in the Digital Wilderness?
He’s just barking out snivels for self-gratification. His question is merely rhetorical.
You’re right about that, IS, especially since the questions Moran offers up have little to no bearing on the criticisms Paul levels with respect to the way in which Clinton conducted her duties and responsibilities.
No, it was not rhetorical; It was ad hominem. It was meant to dismiss the significance of the valid statement by diminishing the person who made the statement. If you cannot defend, then you must attack.
Look at it another way: What if a reporter had done what Rand Paul had? Would the reporter’s credentials be challenged? Doubtful. Reporters are not required to have knowledge.
“Is Moran still a reporter?
None of the leftists are reporters. They are leftist propaganda spreaders. The day that decent Americans recognize that and stop treating them as some kind of knowledgeable specialists is the day we can start to turn America around,IMO. Every bit of training so called journalists receive today is designed to turn them into leftist propaganda spreaders and nothing more.
Further proof Rand Paul and his libertarian message are of great concern to the MFM for 2016 and beyond. A man who has core conservative beliefs and can express them clearly and forcefully is a serious threat to their status quo. Fully expect the GOP will annoint Jebby anyway.
Nope, the establishment will want to annoint Jeb but it won’t happen, people are tired of the ruling class. The Bush family has done enough damage to our country, no more of the new world order thought, no more embracing the Muslim Brotherhood…The options for 2016 will provide voters with good choices if candidates are willing to run.
I’m still trying to figure out how being a first lady and one term Senator qualifies one to be Sec of State. Heck she wasn’t even a community organizer prior to being elected.
Don’t forget, Hillary was also First Lady of Arkansas for many years. To the Beltway crowd, that’s experience in an exotic, impoverished, 3rd world region that’s as alien to them as the surface of Mars.
Me, too! And I’m also still trying to figure out how being a one-term senator and community organizer qualified Mawgli to be POTUS.
This man’s reputation just SOARED in my opinion!!!! Finally, somebody telling Hillary to her face that she screwed up. It’s about time. It is just shameful that nobody is being held accountable for what happened in Benghazi and, worse, the four people who “resigned” at the State Department simply were given other jobs inside the State Department. I guess you can’t shame the shameless, espcially in Washington. So much congratulations to Rand Paul for standing up to these lowlifes. There really may be hope for at least some people in Congress.
My God, if ONLY the presstitutes like Moran had asked the same about Obama in 2008. (Oh, who am I kidding; the fix was in from the beginning.)
Mr. Moran is effectively saying that no American may criticize the government on foreign policy unless they have a resume of experience in the field. Why have a democracy, then?
Interesting how everybody here is falling for the “HC-deflection”. The key question to have asked –over and over until answered truthfully– is, who gave the order for U.S. rescue assets to “stand down”? Clearly, Shillary would have had no such authority, yet is “taking full responsibility”, which is a contradiction. So, to repeat, WHO gave that treasonous order, or what circumstances might there have been to justify NOT giving this order?!
To my mind, there can be only one answer, and we all know it. So, this entire dog and pony show around HC has no purpose beyond preventing that question from being seriously, publicly, asked! — SQUIRREL !!!
our ambassador and his loyal staff were set up by this administrations non action…where are the parents of these men continuing to speak out on this issue? no way could hitlery walk with a legal full court press…obama would cut her loose in a nanosecond
Good point!
Too bad we no longer have real reporters who ask real questions. The big ones: Why was the US ambassador in Benghazi on 09/11/2012? What were the Benghazi consulate and CIA annex working on? Why was the Benghazi consulate security outsourced to locals? Did President Obama make the decision not to respond militarily to the Benghazi attack? Was the Obama reelection campaign involved in the response to the Benghazi attack?
the 2008 election ushered in a president who needed a v p pick to give him credibility on foreign policy, of which he possessed none. mr moran, you are just another example of a sycophantic media gleefully in bed with current administration. however, times change and i’d hate to be a member of that media when that time comes…patriots are watching
If, as an IT director, I’m managing a COBOL language developer, and he’s not delivering the programs I need, and I fire him, I sure hope some punk-ass reporter isn’t going to ask me what my background in COBOL is.
He probably knows not to support members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
012313 – Sen. Rand Paul Questions Secretary Clinton at SFRC Benghazi hearing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHh52PRLIcI
Hillary Clinton Admits the U.S. Government Created al-Qaeda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZK6SVlQ1Y&feature=related
One of the only ways to effectively deal with the corrupt MSM is to deprive them of the oxygen they need: Money. This is done by refusing to watch their networks, purchase their media, or anything produce and sell.
The Right needs to understand that this is an existential fight that the Left is winning because they, like Charlie Sheen, understand that “winning” is what its about.
Suggestions:
Don’t watch NBC
Don’t purchase anything offered by the NYT
While there are many other options, it’s a start.
What does Rand Paul know? He probably knows enough to not leave Americans in the lurch when it comes to their rescue on foreign soil.
Paul reached the appropriate conclusion. It’s really enough that Paul’s not stupid, but how would a journalist, a member of the leading dunce profession, know that?
The Clintons are the toughest vampires on the planet. It will take silver bullets or wooden stakes to keep them in their crypts.
Does Terry Moran grow broccoli? If not, what right does he have to eat broccoli?
Paul Rand doesn’t have any journalism or news anchor experience either, but he is asking better questions and making better observations than any of them have.
Regarding foreign policy knowledge, Rand has had a great teacher in Obama on what not to do.
How not to alienate your allies and embrace your enemies. And how not to get American troops killed in a war zone with recklessly dangerous rules of engagement.
When Obama said the surge would never work in Iraq, Rand learned that Obama is a rank amateur when it comes to wartime tactics.
And regarding Benghazi, Rand has learned how to lie and refuse to tell the American public what happened; to explain his role in letting four Americans get killed by terrorist. Rand learned what a fool Obama was to tell the American people why the White House didn’t lift a finger to try to rescue them.
And regarding appointments, Rand learned never to hire for Secretary of State, an idiot blond, who tells the family of the Benghazi dead that the facts leading up to their deaths don’t matter.
Whether Rand knows any more about foreign policy than that I tend to think, yes.