[xzins]

Allow me to call into question the very nature of the “research” conducted by the NYSlyme.

First, it was after the fact about a well known event. It sounds like it was using people vested in the event. And, it sounds like impressions after the fact were shared.

Go into the streets in Boston NOW, and interview “interested” people about the marathon bombing. Then make a report on their “impressions”, and see how influenced their impression are NOW by the facts that have come out since the moment it happened. Their “at the moment it happened” impression can never be recaptured.

And we have proof that social media didn’t start circulating discussion about the video until 24 hours after the attack. And we know for a FACT, that it wasn’t translated into Arabic at the time of the attack.

[mojito]

You're spot on. See how this story dovetails with the interests of both the WH and the Libyan terrorists. The WH can claim vindication on the absurd video story, and more importantly: if the perps are not AQ but just some guys upset about a video, then the WH doesn't have to hunt them down and capture them.

So of course the AQ perps have every incentive to lie to credulous Slimes journalists: “See, we aren't AQ, we're just some guys who got crazy after seeing big Mo ridiculed in a video we never saw.”

What this idiotic story can not whitewash is the fundamental fact that Stevens was begging for more security for months before this happened. Would he have done that if he was only worried about an excitable mob?