Right-wing hysteria over Benghazi feeds upon itself

ajc ^ | 10/29/12 | Jay Bookman

[Libloather]

Right-wing hysteria over Benghazi feeds upon itself
4:25 pm October 29, 2012, by Jay Bookman

Fox New anchors, right-wing websites and talk-radio hosts around the country are ginning up a wave of mass hysteria about the decision by the Obama administration not to attempt a military rescue of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya. (Glenn Beck is even telling listeners that the treason is more widespread, and that Stevens was acting as a gunrunner for al Qaida in Libya and Syria. I kid you not.)

Obama’s crime is said to be so heinous that mere impeachment for refusing to intervene would be insufficient. If you Google the words “Benghazi” and “traitor,” you get some 518,000 hits, almost all of which cast President Obama as that traitor. The criticism extends as well to the mainstream media, which as my email informs me, is being accused of covering up a scandal of such dimensions that it would supposedly dwarf Watergate.

But I have a question.

According to NBC News, Mitt Romney hasn’t mentioned Libya in his campaign appearances around the country since Oct. 12, which is more than two weeks ago. Now why do you think that is?

[Libloather]

Bookman wastes his time deflecting. Lots of comments at the link.

[FoxInSocks]

the decision by the Obama administration not to attempt a military rescue

At least they're admitting Obama affirmatively declined to act.

[middlegeorgian]

The AJC is still in circulation?

[Mortrey]

I’m of the opinion that the writers at the ajc AND the talking heads on local news are airheads-—absolute “oides”, that wouldn’t know how to wipe themselves if they didn’t have a crack to follow.

[Carry_Okie]

If Stevens was offed because the Russians had figured out that he was managing the CIA operation running weapons to Syria through Turkey, or because of his long relationship with the President and the knowledge that he is at least bisexual, then Zero would need him dead in either case, lest he be nabbed and forced to talk.

Should that news finally make it past the MSM spike, it then wouldn't be just "right wingers" who would be "hysterical."

[Carry_Okie]

I’m of the opinion that the writers at the ajc AND the talking heads on local news are airheads-—absolute “oides”, that wouldn’t know how to wipe themselves if they didn’t have a crack to follow.

Their editors are not.

[I see my hands]

Way to give air to leftist propaganda.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

When I think back on the Left-wing hysteria that fed upon itself to give us Watergate, it makes me so angry that they scoff at a sitting President not lifting a finger to do the job he is actually supposed to to do.

[festusbanjo]

Jay is a long time leftist that never met a liberal idea he didn’t love or a conservative he didn’t hate. I imagine he still gets turned on when he pictures a Dennis Kucinich/Cynthia McKinney presidential ticket in his dreams .

[skeeter]

Jay Bookman - it is so painfully obvious that there is something terribly wrong with this administration’s reaction to the whole Benghazi tragedy - and so obvious that they sought to deceive the American people - that if you cannot at least admit that much debating you, or reading anything you have to say on the subject, is the worst kind of wasted time.

[Prov1322]

Bookman is a complete stranger to the truth and the textbook definition of mendacity.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

MSM Headline:

Big deal.. so they didn't get rescued.. people die everyday.
Rightwing Bigots Stir Mass Hysteria Over Nothing
"This is not a Hollywood movie."

or

MSM employees prove that they really are skid marks on Journalism's shorts.

[aimhigh]

In response lot a Benghazi article in our local rag, I was surprised by all the liberal articles used to discount this cover up. Just like Vince Foster, Juanita Broderick , etc . . . .

[ez]

I think it is a little over the top to be using the words “impeachment” and “traitor” at this point. Let’s just make sure the American people know what happened here so they can vote this loser out of office.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Bill Clinton -> Lewinski
Barry Obama -> Alinski
Carter -> Brzezinski

[mrsmel]

There is a very simple litmus test to discover whether this is ginned-up “hysteria” or a cover-up on the part of the MSM-

How would this be covered if the C-I-C at the time was a Republican?

I think even this moron would have to acknowledge to himself, very differently than it’s being covered now with the Democrat Hussein at the helm.

[ArrogantBustard]

Four men are dead.

It’s not ‘hysteria’.

[blueunicorn6]

Because the Obama administration is telling Romney and the old media this is a national security issue. OK. Then why are we overthrowing governments in Libya, Egypt and Syria? And save me the free the world speech. The Democrats wet their pants over our involvement in Nicaragua which was communists in our own back yard. This involvement in the Middle East doesn’t make sense......unless you read THE ILLINOIS PAY TO PLAY blog. Obama and Hillary are just grifters out to set the Middle East on fire so they, and their Democrat buddies can make money rebuilding. They are like arsonists who own the home furnishing store in town. They set fire to a house to burn up all the homeowner’s furniture so the homeowner has to come to their store to buy replacement furniture.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

... “impeachment” and “traitor”...over the top...Let’s just make sure the American people know what happened here so they can vote this loser out of office.

OK. Then how about "prosecution" and "conviction".