Mark Steyn: Benghazi bungle requires act of urgent political hygiene

Orange Country Register ^ | October 26, 2012 | Mark Steyn

[billorites]

"We're going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video," said Hillary Clinton. No, not the person who made the video saying that voting for Barack Obama is like losing your virginity to a really cool guy. I'll get to that in a moment. But Secretary Clinton was talking about the fellow who made the supposedly Islamophobic video that supposedly set off the sacking of the Benghazi consulate. And, indeed, she did "have that person arrested." By happy coincidence, his bail hearing has been set for three days after the election, by which time he will have served his purpose. These two videos – the Islamophobic one and the Obamosexual one – bookend the remarkable but wholly deserved collapse of the president's re-election campaign.

You'll recall that a near month-long attempt to blame an obscure YouTube video for the murder of four Americans and the destruction of U.S. sovereign territory climaxed in the vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden's bald assertion that the administration had been going on the best intelligence it had at the time. By then, it had been confirmed that there never had been any protest against the video, and that the Obama line that Benghazi had been a spontaneous movie review that just got a little out of hand was utterly false. The only remaining question was whether the administration had knowingly lied or was merely innocently stupid. The innocent-stupidity line became harder to maintain this week after Fox News obtained State Department emails revealing that shortly after 4 p.m. Eastern, less than a half-hour after the assault in Benghazi began, the White House situation room knew the exact nature of it.

We also learned that, in those first moments of the attack, a request for military back-up was made by U.S. staff

[billorites]

Mark Steyn is in Concord tonight hosting a fundraiser for our next NH Governor, Ovide Lamontagne.

Thank you Mark.

[Rennes Templar]

We need some adults in the WH.

[tet68]

Remember your first time?

Remember the good looking guy,
whose voice sent a tingle down your leg?
Remember how he told you he’d help you
with your rent and even put gas in your car?
Remember how he said he’d respect you for
your decision and always stand beside you?

Remember the guy who hasn’t called in 6 months?
The guy who gave your phone number to all his
friends in that sleazy bar down town?
Remember the guy who “borrowed” your college
funds and promised to repay you “in a few days”?
Remember how he promised you a free abortion
when you told him you were late?

Now he wants you to trust him again,
now he wants you to give it to him again.

Are YOU going to REMEMBER???

How could you FORGET!

[JustaCowgirl]

We need some adults in the WH.

We need some human beings in the WH.

[Savage Beast]

"the government of the United States lied to its own citizens as thoroughly and energetically as any totalitarian state, complete with the midnight knock-on-the-door from not-so-secret policemen sent to haul the designated fall guy into custody."

Anybody else scared?

[onyx]

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[Savage Beast]

"Charles Woods says that, at the ceremony, Joe Biden strolled over to him and by way of condolence said in a 'loud and boisterous' voice, 'Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?' One assumes charitably that the vice president is acknowledging in his own inept and blundering way the remarkable courage of a man called upon to die for his country on some worthless sod halfway across the planet. But the near-parodic locker-room coarseness is grotesque both in its inaptness and in its lack of basic human feeling for a bereaved family forced to grieve in public and as crowd-scene extras to the political big shot."

[G Larry]

Only folks left to save Obama from having to admit he gave the order to withhold the defense of our Ambassador:

Tom Donilon = Nat’l Security Advisor
James Clapper = DIA
Leon Panetta = Sec Def
Gen. Dempsey = Chairman JCS

[throwback]

A flailing, pitiful campaign has now adopted Queen Victoria's supposed wedding advice to her daughter: "Lie back and think of England." Lie back and think of America. And then get up and get dressed. Who wants to sleep twice with a $16 trillion broke loser?

I guess this is why we're all entitled to free prophylactics now.

[Cookies4ever]

bungle requires act of urgent political hygiene, G Larry wrote:

Only folks left to save Obama from having to admit he gave the order to withhold the defense of our Ambassador:

Tom Donilon = Nat’l Security Advisor
James Clapper = DIA
Leon Panetta = Sec Def
Gen. Dempsey = Chairman JCS

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My money is on either Donilon or Clapper. One of them will fall on the sword and take the blame to cleanse Obama from this filth.

[pabianice]

[Former Fetus]

If voting for Barack Obama is like losing your virginity to a really cool guy , does it mean that having had him as president for 4 years after I voted Republican is the same as being RAPED?

[Albion Wilde]

New tagline alert:

[billorites]

"is the same as being RAPED?"

Uh, you know...
Uuuuh...

[virgil]

Just looking at the cable TV guide right now. On TCM is All the President’s Men. On the channel after it is, The Fast and the Furious. The channel before says The Walking Dead. Maybe the media is sending a subliminal, that obamster is through, but I’ve had a couple drinks too. TGIF.

[Delta 21]

The President of the United States of America.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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[Ann Archy]

We need some AMERICANS in the White House!!

[Rummyfan]

These two videos – the Islamophobic one and the Obamosexual one – bookend the remarkable but wholly deserved collapse of the president's re-election campaign.

[Rummyfan]

Why would Obama and Biden do such a thing? Because to launch a military operation against an al-Qaida affiliate on the anniversary of 9/11 would have exposed the hollowness of their boast through convention week and the days thereafter – that Osama was dead, and al-Qaida was finished. And so Ty Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Chris Stevens were left to die, and a decision taken to blame an entirely irrelevant video and, as Secretary Clinton threatened, "have that person arrested." And, in the weeks that followed, the government of the United States lied to its own citizens as thoroughly and energetically as any totalitarian state, complete with the midnight knock-on-the-door from not-so-secret policemen sent to haul the designated fall guy into custody.

BEST... STEYN... EVER!