CNN's O'Brien Furiously Spins to Blame Republicans in Congress for Dead in Benghazi

NewsBusters.org ^ | October 10, 2012 | Matt Vespa

[newheart]

Soledad O'Brien checked her journalistic credibility at the dressing room door

Uhhh... I'm not sure she had any to check in the first pale.

[TigerClaws]

CNN does get paid for these services.

[Truth is a Weapon]

That dog won’t hunt. Are they trying to tell us that he who spews forth executive orders like vomit couldn’t figur out how to save four lives? That is nonsense. When has Congress ever stopped him?

[FlingWingFlyer]

O’Brien is a ditz. Her act got old a long time ago.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Why was Ambassador Stevens in such a high-risk place on 9/11 with little to no security??? THAT is the question! He should’ve been assigned to Tripoli that week, NOT Benghazi. He was ‘set up’.

[FryingPan101]

You know what? I’m starting’ to buy in to this stuff. Poor Obama. He just never had a chance to be a leader. He got steam-rolled by Republicans every inch of the way. Solidad, thank you for shining a light on this issue. Poor Obama. Um, so why do you want to re-elect poor Obama?

[Fitzy_888]

They hired a local militia in Benghazi called the February 17th Martyrs Bridgade and paid them $30 per day stipend. The background check for the February 17th Martyrs Bridgade is simply: “Yo...you got an AK-47?”

What’s to worry about?

Forward!

[nutmeg]

They hired a local militia in Benghazi called the February 17th Martyrs Bridgade and paid them $30 per day stipend. The background check for the February 17th Martyrs Bridgade is simply: “Yo...you got an AK-47?”

Unbelievable. I'm watching some of the the re-airing of today's Capitol Hill hearings on C-SPAN right now... my blood is boiling.

God bless Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) by the way...

[yellowhammer]

"Was there any budget consideration and lack of budget which lead you not to increase the number of people in the security force there?”

“No, sir,” said Charlene Lamb

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/329977/top-revelations-libya-hearing-katrina-trinko

[bronxville]

I watched th hearings today and any time they referred to the February 17th Martyrs Bridgade - they said Febuary 17th or 17th Bridgade. Martyrs was always omitted.

[DemforBush]

Pathetic, even for ol’ Soley. Even if State Department security funding had been cut (it wasn’t), even the most nominally competent leadership would have found a way to reallocate assets to priority locations.

The administration dropped the ball in Benghazi, and they’ve added insult to injury by trying to foist a narrative that a 5th-grader could see through onto the American people.

[AmericanInTokyo]

On election night I can truly see this individual hyping tensions live on TV nationally, if Romney wins, and subliminally encouraging uncivil, pissed off entitled-class people to take to the streets in civil disorder and anarchy out of anger. I would not put it past this O'Brien individual. I really would not put it past her to start LA type riots on a national basis, hyping the race card. Watch this one closely.

[Bon mots]

Don't let this story die... Nixon was forced to resign for less.

This leads right to the top, just like Watergate.

Can't wait for the rats to attack each other with finger pointing and recriminations...

[lentulusgracchus]

[Transcript, quoting Soledad O'Brien]
So when there are complaints that, in fact, that there was not enough security, you've just said absolutely, that you cut. You are the one to vote against, you know, to increase security for the State Department, which would lead directly to Benghazi. That seems like you're saying you have a hand in the responsibility to this.

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Notice how quickly O'Brien recriminates against the congressman: You cut. You have a hand in ... this.

Fifty bucks in the dark, she spent 40 minutes on the phone before the interview, talking to White House staff, just like Georgie Clintonopoulos and his cellular hotline to Rahm and Begala and Serpent Head.

[pepsionice]

If you look at O’Brien’s numbers....she’s not getting any real viewership. Probably more folks watching local reruns of Seinfeld or the Andy Griffith Show at that time-slot, than her CNN show.

Last week, they noted that all four prime-time hours on CNN are now lower than the Fox Morning Show, the combined hour of Stewart and Colbert on the Comedy Channel, or any of the six prime-time hours of Fox News. Piers Morgan isn’t even worth mentioning anymore. They could replace Piers with Barry Bonds, and I think the hour would stay about the same.

[justlurking]

FYI, the vote that allegedly cut this funding was 149 Democrats and 147 Republicans.

HR 2055

Elijah Cummings has been leading this talking point, and he voted for HR 2055.

Chaffetz voted against the bill that allegedly cut the funding.

[Kaslin]

So in other words more rats were for the cuts. What hypocrites

[ripley]

It’s that pesky Mr. Bush who’s responsible for all this.

/sarcasm/