January 23, 2013 - 10:09 pm
Remember, this is the news organization that was still blaming the YouTube video for the attacks even after the people who originally floated that lie had stopped doing so.
They didn’t seem too impressed today.
Sure, they try to soften the blow by wasting two paragraphs on Hillary’s theatrical tears regarding the day she and the President greeted the bodies of those killed in the attack, stood by their coffins…and continued to lie.
Still, they did sneak in this one fairly clear-headed assessment:
In essence, Mrs. Clinton’s approach was to accept the responsibility for security lapses in Benghazi but not the blame.
When you can’t get the lapdogs to drool on command you’ve got a real problem.
“In essence, Mrs. Clinton’s approach was to accept the responsibility for security lapses in Benghazi but not the blame.”
NYT being cute. Those were the words Nixon used about Watergate.
Actually, no—Nixon didn’t use those words. Some comedian who was doing a Nixon impersonation back then used them as a punchline in a skit mocking Nixon.
In other words, it is a Watergate-era version of Tina Fey’s Palin-impersonation line, “I can see Russia from my house!”—which Palin never said, but which it is always assumed she did.
Your recalling that old punchline falsely as something Nixon actually said shows, first, that control of the culture, and particularly comedy (something conservatives have seldom tried, let alone been good at) has immense political power; and, second, that Palin will likely never shake free of that Tina Fey line.
Why the days after Benghazi matter–Because they were deliberate attempts to strenghten the code of political correctness that says “thou shalt not criticize Islams or Muslims”, when the facts in no way supported such an attempt to stifle debate. Because they were deliberate attempts to score donestic political points via falsehoods.
Bengazi matters because it shows attitudes that treat some things as “hate crimes”–which, if you recall, an administration official refused to rule out one day being the law rearding the film in the days immediately after, in testimony to Congress–can in fact be horribly, terribly wrong.
The initial emphasis on the film was part of a continuing attempt by the Democratic Party to put a straight-jacket on American thought, to rule certain things out of bounds for discussion and to demonize those who would, and that’s why the MSM is going to allow this portion of Benghazi to be minimized. They either support such goals, or their love for the Democratic Party is more than their concern for liberty.
The Benghazi lying was about making Islam a protected topic in the United States, at a time when frank questions need to be asked about what Islam envisions for the world.
” an administration official refused to rule out one day being the law rearding the film in the days immediately after”
In English, my sentence should be read to mean: “which an administration official, in testimony to Congress in the days immediately after the tragedy, refused to rule out as one day being possible.”
My apologies.
– aren’t accountable.