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David Corn: 'For Many Conservatives,' Benghazi Like a 'Candy Store,' But 'The Bins Are Empty'
NewsBusters.org ^ | May 4, 2014 | Tom Johnson

Posted on 05/04/2014 3:10:25 PM PDT by Kaslin

This past week was the biggest in a long time for Benghazi news. How did some of the leading lights of the lefty blogosphere handle the Ben Rhodes e-mail and related topics? We report; you decide.

1. David Corn of Mother Jones, best known for bringing to light the Mitt Romney 47-percent tape, wrote on Friday that the Rhodes e-mail is "pretty standard stuff" and that "all the fuss about [it]...is smoke, not fire." Corn admits that the White House "certainly has bungled part of its Benghazi reaction" but that the Republicans' case nonetheless "should have been...closed, a long time back."

Corn wrapped up by suggesting that conservatives' obsession with Benghazi resembles an untreatable "virus," one that apparently makes them really hungry for sweets (emphasis added):

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To: don-o
His reelection was more important to him then a terrorist attack when 4 Americans were killed. Including Ambassador Stevens.

The rats in the Senate and the House did the same thing during the 2008 and 2010 election because their reelection was more important to them than passing a budget

21 posted on 05/04/2014 4:06:23 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

The WH lies about EVERYTHING! If it is not important why are they lying and covering it up. When do they ever tell the truth? Who was in Benghazi? We still don’t know because they are allowed to keep using the “ongoing investigation” ploy. Just like Fast and Furious and IRA and NO ONE in the press gives a crap except Fox and they have given up on F&F too. This is what a successful stonewall/coverup looks like.


22 posted on 05/04/2014 4:07:34 PM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: Kaslin

If the bins are empty then what do they have to worry about and why did they have to come up with the video lie?

Pray America wakes up


23 posted on 05/04/2014 4:16:25 PM PDT by bray (The Republic of Texas 2022 is here)
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To: ought-six

David Corn is a leftwing lunatic who works for the leftwing site Mother Jones. That should tell you more then enough

24 posted on 05/04/2014 4:17:06 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: okie01
To a degree, the Left sees nothing in Benghazi because they want to see nothing in Benghazi.

Take that one step further. They demand that we see nothing.
25 posted on 05/04/2014 4:17:59 PM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: bray

We need to pray that it is not to late


26 posted on 05/04/2014 4:18:41 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Dear Mr. Korn,
Yes we can see the bins are empty although there
appears to be a lot of candy spilling from the trunk
of Hillary and Barak’s car...


27 posted on 05/04/2014 4:20:27 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Kaslin

David Corncob...Mother Jones....it should be renamed Father Marx...


28 posted on 05/04/2014 4:30:12 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: dforest

We don’t know where Obama was that night..did anyone every asked a gay bathhouse manager if he was there that night?


29 posted on 05/04/2014 4:32:41 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Kaslin

“all the fuss about [it]...is smoke, not fire.”

Poor choice of words considering there were hours of smoke and fire in Benghazi that night brought about by muslim terrorists — and which culminated in untold injuries and four dead Americans. All this because the obama administration refused to even ATTEMPT to come to their rescue!

And instead of being outraged about that terrorist attack, and calling it what it was, the obama administration played politics — and continue doing so!

I’m outraged that there hasn’t been a bigger “fuss” for those Americans and their families!


30 posted on 05/04/2014 4:35:19 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: Heart of Georgia

Did you honestly expect the left being outraged about the terrorist attack were 4 Americans were killed including Ambassador Stevens?


31 posted on 05/04/2014 4:47:44 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: ClearCase_guy

1. Where was Obama?
2. Where was Hillary?
3. The military would have wanted to mobilize, who told them not to?
4. Many more than 4 could have been killed that day, others were saved - that IS a big deal.
5. How did you know there way no time to do anything? The battle raged for hours, could’ve been another day for all we knew.
6. Everybody knows that for weeks Obama and crew said it was about a video. They kept saying it, over and over, even when all the evidence pointed elsewhere and the CIA never mentioned a video.
7. They promised the families justice. What has been done? They lied to the face of the families stating they’d “get the person responsible (for the video)”. That is wrong itself, free speech.
8. They said we need to understand how this happened so it can’t happen again, yet this administration stonewalls on coughing up documents - we’ve still not received everything. How can we get to the bottom without being able to know everything that happened? Back to items 1,2,3.
9. We all know this was because of POLITICS - Obama, Hillary, etc. let these people die without lifting a finger because they wanted to blame A VIDEO so as not to look weak before the election.

...but for ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/CNN/OBAMA, there’s not a story here????????????

This is such an amazing insult to the American people.


32 posted on 05/04/2014 5:06:46 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: ought-six
Corn is probably a communist...works for Mother Jones.

He's one of the people who created the lies about Valerie Plame. He's awful.

33 posted on 05/04/2014 5:10:17 PM PDT by what's up (su)
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To: exnavy

Well played.


34 posted on 05/04/2014 5:12:37 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: Kaslin

Empty, eh? Is that why the administration has been blocking every attempt to look into it, because it is ‘empty’?


35 posted on 05/04/2014 5:13:14 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: don-o
In the 10 p.m. phone call, was it Hillary telling Obama about the video, or Obama telling Hillary about it? Who first concocted the story?

Obama was not continuously in the situation room, but from my recollection of what Vietor said, it's possible that he was there at least briefly. But I don't recall exactly what Vietor said about it.

36 posted on 05/04/2014 6:02:04 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

pretty sure the bins are full of American blood

leave it to a democrat to equate dead Americans with candy


37 posted on 05/04/2014 6:02:41 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: what's up
He used to be connected with The Nation magazine--another militantly left-wing magazine.
38 posted on 05/04/2014 6:03:14 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

This is the same David Corn who thought Romney’s 47% statement was so important, but the death of four Americans, one an ambassador is not important. The only thing you need to know about Corn is that Democrats can do no wrong and Republicans and conservatives can do no right.


39 posted on 05/04/2014 6:03:59 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: falcon99

I remember when he was on FNC, he always let little spittle out when he talked. I knew right then what a lunatic he was


40 posted on 05/04/2014 6:34:51 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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