You have the president of the United States being asked for assistance during the raid on the consulate in Benghazi on September 11 but because he is running for re-election in part based on his having defeated al Qaeda he refuses to send support and instead heads off to a fund raising dinner in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, for two weeks or more, he insists in public that the reason for the attack on the consulate was a spontaneous demonstration about a Youtube video on the birth of Islam. He therefore does not do what he was elected to do, he fails to defend his ambassador when under attack when he could have done so, has the maker of the video which had nothing to do with the raid arrested and put in jail and then lies repeatedly for the following two weeks about what he had known almost from the very first hours of the attack.
There is something so sickening about this that it defies my ability to understand such duplicity and deceit. Not only should the American people not re-elect this man; he should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. He should be shunned by all decent citizens. He should become an electoral pariah, poison to any other Democrat who might in any way be associated with him.
The story of Benghazi is coming out and in a rush. The mainstream media, Obama’s enablers, are still doing what they can to cover up but this is now so far beyond the political normal that it will very soon become impossible to deny what is now evident beyond argument to anyone who has been following the story up until now. Here is an excerpt from just one such story of the many that are now rushing into the daylight from the few remaining media outlets in the United States that are not themselves lying and suppressing the fact in order to save this scoundrel of a president from becoming the ex-president in a few weeks’ time.
With all this information – from frantic messages sent by operators on the ground to highly detailed overhead battle-scene video – who invented the asinine idea that the attack was collateral damage from a flash-mob reacting to a provocative video? The record there is incriminating. For weeks afterward, the administration party-line was that the video, not al Qaeda, was responsible for the disaster, a major point of President Obama’s September speech to the United Nations. But when that story had morphed into an indefensible fiction, the party line shifted again, memorably summarized by Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. during his debate with Congressman Paul Ryan: ‘We didn’t know’ because the intelligence establishment was still beavering away.
What I cannot understand is the nature of the greater good the media see in Obama relative to Mitt Romney that doing all they can to hide these disastrous and dishonest actions they are hoping to preserve in having this man re-elected.
Clarice Feldman says the same: This is from The American Thinker where Clarice is trying to make the same point of exasperation. Where will the line be drawn for some people? If this isn’t beyond the realm of acceptability in a President, then when can a president be said to have gone too far? Over to Clarice:
In the simplest of terms, we knew there was general danger and had made inadequate security arrangements. When those arrangements failed (as they were almost certain to) we had a number of opportunities to protect the Ambassador and others — nearby military support, assistance from a nearby Spectre gunship and from teams stationed 2 hours away at Sigonella Air Base, All of this help was denied as coldly as the earlier requests for additional security and 4 Americans were murdered, giving our enemies an unwarranted victory.
From which she concludes in much the same was as I did:
Stand Down, Obama and your administration. All of you. Stand Down. You’ve failed to carry out your responsibilities of office. You treated American lives, including that of an ambassador — the official representative of your country — with utter disregard for their safety. You’ve lied to us about this tragedy so many times and in so many ways you can no longer credibly lead. You’re crass and vulgar and without regard for truth, law or common decency and deserve to be drummed out of office.
I don’t know what else there is to say other than to thank Token for the suggestion to include the above cartoon as well. The core of the mainstream American media are themselves beyond disgusting.
Why did it take weeks for pundits to wake up to the reason it was being blamed on the video? I and possibly others posted here a fortnight ago that it was because it upset the giant killer AQ is dead election narrative.
Hopefully the scales have fallen from eyes in time for this to get out to the US electorate.
Abu Chowdah
29 Oct 12 at 1:31 am
When Romney wins I hope he doesn’t go mushy and forgive this abomination of a presidency by not pursuing Obama and the clowns surrounding him who are responsible for this scandal – one that’s resulted in the brutalisation of four Americans.
That nation needs to know the truth. And may it serve to smother the hyped up nonsense that’s used to construct an idea of Obama as some kind of great transformational leader with the plain truth.
Ant
29 Oct 12 at 1:59 am
Leftists cannot be trusted with authority. They are feckless juveniles who screw everything up in order to bring down the West. They must be totally banned and censored.
Fisky
29 Oct 12 at 2:04 am
Obama, from the second presidential debate transcript
He was lying. It’s pathological. Note the downplay on words – the embassy was “overrun”. No, it was “under attack” which we now know he saw in real time.
Gab
29 Oct 12 at 2:12 am
After he’s out of office, it’ll be too late to impeach him, so what sanctions could he face? Malfeasance? Misconduct while in public office? Treason?
Cold-Hands
29 Oct 12 at 2:19 am
It should have been impeachment ever since Fast and Furious became well known, and now this. Going back to the day, there was a considerable delay in any announcement from the Administration, and then there was Romney’s statement, which the msm and Obama treated with disdain. From that point, Obama et al were unable to admit the truth, captured by their lies, and then subsequently repeating them over the coffins of the slain. Obama couldn’t bring himself to be seen to agree with Romney during an election campaign. That kind of flip-flop would have been intolerable to the campaign team, and probably personally unacceptable to Obama.
As Abu says the whole killing OBL / defeating AQ narrative could not be endangered, but not just because of the election. Obama had built himself a personal bubble about this. So assured was he, that his pattern of attendance at National Security briefings declined, and similarly his administration were simply unfocussed and complacent ever since OBL’s death. The subsequent cover-up has now been blown, due to the Congressional enquiry. If there were any patriots amongst the Democrats in the house, impeachment proceedings should begin now, as they must surely know that Obama is heading for a loss anyway. None seem interested in retrieving any dignity in the situation however.
Keith
29 Oct 12 at 4:35 am
What’s the chances that the MSM were accessories before the fact as well? That sort of detail would rather explain the actions thereafter…
Driftforge
29 Oct 12 at 5:24 am
Pat Caddell is sickened by the Media coverup as well, says the MSM is a threat to democracy.
Here he is being interviewed by Jeanine Pirro accompanied with Anne Coulter on Fox News, one of the few news outlets reporting on the Benghazi tragedy.
Rudiau
29 Oct 12 at 5:31 am
Was General Ham, Commander of Africa Command, sacked for trying to help rescue the survivors of the attack? Apparently the CIA team fought on for 7 hours, whilst aircraft were available in much less time than that, and Special Forces were only 2 hours away. If Ham was sacked for trying to save Americans against the orders of the President, it will show that there is no level to which Obama will not stoop – except to then lie about it to the American people for a month after the event. Let’s not forget that Hillary told a grieving parent that they would prosecute the maker of a film that had nothing to do with the event. These guys are evil filth, happy to sacrifice anyone and any principle to stay in office.
John Comnenus
29 Oct 12 at 5:58 am
If Obama is reelected he will be impeached over Benghazi.
The question is whether Biden will tactically abandon Obama so he can become president.
Farfetched? We are talking about extremely amoral people.
Token
29 Oct 12 at 6:34 am
Clarice Feldman at American Thinker expounds a little more on the tragic consequences on inaction.
Rudiau
29 Oct 12 at 7:06 am
How Conservatives on Twitter Forced Obama to Face the Benghazi Debacle
Rudiau
29 Oct 12 at 7:25 am
Who knew that Obama would turn out to be just like a stereotypical Hollywood villain?
dd
29 Oct 12 at 7:43 am
Daniel Henninger in the WSJ: Suddenly, a Credibility Gap — Benghazi has damaged voters’ willingness to believe in Barack Obama.
sdog
29 Oct 12 at 8:03 am
Bambi is simply too indecisive and lame for this.
I am still betting that his Petticoat Praetorian Guard took the call – probably Valerie Jarrett. It’s the radicals in the White House who would somehow conflate their best interests as not doing anything which might upset the Arab Street – like calling in fire on an armed mob.
Of course, Mr Bucks Stops Here, Bambi will still have to wear this, as a testament to his lameness.
Myrddin Seren
29 Oct 12 at 8:04 am
Instupundit picked up a cartoon that expresses the approach of the MSM to surpress news of Benghazi using the 3 monkey theme.
Very good.
Steve K, this would be a great image to add to your blog piece, very effective.
Token
29 Oct 12 at 8:06 am
“I’m so sick of the media dictating the terms of the narrative in this country. Everything has changed in the last few years. Conservatives used to take it, and we’re not taking it anymore.
“…WAR.”
Breitbart lives.
sdog
29 Oct 12 at 8:10 am
Tokes, I simply cannot see this happening. Firstly, he won’t be re-elected and secondly, if he is, there is no way this disgrace would be revisited, no matter how many people tried to run with it.
However, he should definitely be held accountable one way or the other for his administration’s disgraceful criminal bungling of this matter.
Rabz
29 Oct 12 at 8:21 am
Sdog, the war has only started.
The Regressives in the media will soon be viciously attacking their competition in the blogosphere as it is clear the old news model is failing. (I know there have been attacks, but you’ll see ugly cubed after the election regardless of whether the Sun King wins or loses).
It is clear that Conservatives get their news from non-MSM sources. The question is when will Independents branch out?
Token
29 Oct 12 at 8:32 am
Rabz, I don’t believe the Sun King will be re-elected, but there is a strong probability he will be at this stage so it is worth noting.
All I want to do is note the with the Fast & Furious and Benghazi, there is enough for the Republican lead congress to impeach Obama after the election.
If you saw Biden during the VP debate, you’d konw Biden would knife Obama in a heartbeat to get the big chair.
Token
29 Oct 12 at 8:34 am
True, but could you imagine all the preposterous, obfuscatory bullshit that would go on? They could make it run for four years easily.
Rabz
29 Oct 12 at 8:37 am
Why do you do that, dude?
sdog
29 Oct 12 at 8:38 am
Because I enjoy it and it irritates people.
Sorry Spot, that’s just me.
Rabz
29 Oct 12 at 8:45 am
One powerful attack on Howard in 2007 was the whole handover to Costello. I see that if it was played the right way it could be an effective way for surrogates to put doubt into undecided voters minds.
See above. You’ve got to use every weapon in your arsenal.
Token
29 Oct 12 at 8:46 am
I’m referring to use doubts over Biden, not Rabz preference to give creative names to his political foes.
Token
29 Oct 12 at 8:47 am
“The Regressives in the media will soon be viciously attacking their competition in the blogosphere”
We’re “Internet nutjobs”, didntcha know?
The great irony in all this is, like Gillard, they have immeasurably damaged the cause the willingly claimed to represent – the first black guy in the White House. In not downplaying this, his responsibility was not only tithe US, but to the African-American population in showing the world that they could do it, and do it well. In the old KKK days, this would be used as evidence that they can’t. He has not only let down his own countryfolk, but his own race and people.
The Beer Whisperer
29 Oct 12 at 9:10 am
It’s not a good weapon if it makes your side, rather than the other side, look retarded.
sdog
29 Oct 12 at 9:12 am
Of course, if we want to go full intrigue, rather than just blind opportunism in the White House, how about this ?
The Al Qaeda attack went on in waves for seven hours.
They took the Consulate and killed the ambassador, which was probably the main political target.
And then spent hours assaulting the CIA compound. Disrupting the CIA’s efforts to track weapons and militant groups was the main operational objective.
But on the doorstep of the Mediterranean with the U.S. Military all over the place, how suicidal or confident do you have to be to maintain a seven hour siege, including dragging up heavy weapons in the shape of mortars and not be wondering about eating a Hellfire missile at any point ?
Al Qaeda seems to have been spectacularly unconcerned about being counterattacked, at least until the reinforcements were on their way in from Benghazi airport in the early morning ?
Do they have friends in high places ?
Myrddin Seren
29 Oct 12 at 9:13 am
Right-wing internet nutjobs…
I know the hate is already coming through, but as the business models continue to fail due to the ad revenue chasing the eye-balls the anti-business economically illiterate lefty media will try to use crony capitalism to regulate their competition out of business.
It will fail as they are economically illiterate and they don’t understand how commerce has change.
Therefore, they will be even more vicious.
Token
29 Oct 12 at 9:14 am
Because it annoys people.
+1
It also makes you look silly.
kae
29 Oct 12 at 11:12 am
Bolt has a brilliant link to Jon Stewart, a US TV show on the Benghazi attack. Really funny.
Jannie
29 Oct 12 at 11:36 am
You’re hardly in a position to be criticising others.
Anyway, big bloody deal.
Rabz
29 Oct 12 at 11:51 am
I agree, the baby talk is counter-productive.
But I am digging your new avatar.
Abu Chowdah
29 Oct 12 at 2:45 pm
This interview with John McCain is interesting. He is calling for the drone photo’s to be de-classified.
Didn’t this man challenge Obama’s ability to be effective in foreign policy 4 years ago? Its a bummer he was correct.
Token
29 Oct 12 at 3:42 pm
Leaks, Lies, Libya…Lack of Leadership.
Rudiau
29 Oct 12 at 4:20 pm
Very good article on NYT bias.
JohnB
29 Oct 12 at 5:28 pm
A long time ago I made friends with an American IT specialist who worked for the US State Department through an internet game called ‘Eve Online’. This man spent time working in various hotspots around the world (Iraq, Afghanstan, Syria, Lebanon to name a few) and often during those stints he would disappear offline, sometimes for hours at a time, only to return to tell stories of mortar shells etc landing in/near the places he was stationed.
On Sept 11 2012 while playing Eve, my friend (whose name was Sean Smith) posted the following 2 lines of text into the game’s chatbox, before disconnecting abruptly:
We knew that he was stationed at the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. We all assumed that, like every other time he had done the same thing over the past few months, Sean would be back online after a few hours and have another story about the locals ‘celebrating’ a local wedding or similar.
Sean never came back online. Instead he, the US Ambassador, and 2 ex-Navy Seals who were trying to stage a rescue attempt were killed by what is now widely accepted as an al-Qaeda led attack.
President Obama has, from day one, tried to deny the reality of that attack, deflect blame away from himself and his administration, and refused to answer questions from the families of those men killed in Benghazi.
Obama, and his senile side-kick Biden, have either ignored or made coarse jokes to the families of the deceased when their bodies were returned to US soil.
This president… this ‘man’ (and I use the term in the loosest possible sense) absolutely disgusts me, and when the full truth of what happened on that day is finally revealed and his incompetance… his chicken-s**t attitude… his outright COWARDICE is finally revealed to the public I hope that he is arrested, tried for treason and crimes against humanity, convicted, and sentenced to serve the rest of his natural life in the deepest, darkest, most putrid and filthy hole that can be found.
And even that would be too good for him.
Brian of Moorabbin
29 Oct 12 at 5:47 pm
Whatever.
kae
29 Oct 12 at 6:00 pm
Werem’t there early reports that the Ambassador was merely being taken to hospital by these kind people?
Is there a full timeline of the bullshit that’s come out over this incident?
Fleeced
29 Oct 12 at 6:56 pm
the better explnation is a screw up both at the time and afterwards in communicating what it was.
Jim Rose
29 Oct 12 at 8:35 pm
No, Jim. Clarice Feldman is more likely on the money, just as those cynics here are more likely on the money when they say the latest “Grand Visions” relating to water and Asia are just pre-poll manoeuvring, signifying nothing much more than (for this admin) business as usual.
blogstrop
29 Oct 12 at 8:56 pm
Brian, how long did you know Eve for?
Token
29 Oct 12 at 9:21 pm
The best way to work through the timeline is this longer video by Bret Baier of FoxNews. Start around 13 min.
20:15 deals directly with what happened with Stevens. Looters found him, but they were happy that he was alive and took him to the hospital for treatment (but he died due to smoke inhalation).
Do yourself a favour and watch the whole video, but I warn you, you will be very, very angry at the lying douches in the Obama admin afterwards.
A summary report can be found on this video by Bret Baier of Foxnews, it spends more time on the period after the attack.
Token
29 Oct 12 at 9:32 pm
Token, any chance you can find the Special Report that includes material released last week? It should have screened 10 hrs ago on Fox. Baier talked about it on Wednesday.
dover_beach
29 Oct 12 at 9:39 pm
I don’t think it has been posted online yet Dover. I can find Special Reports home page and through it found the web edition from 24/10 which has more info than I’ve seen before, but there is no details on the show from 28/10.
I can’t see any tweets about the show yet (I found the introduction to the show via Mark Steyn). We’ll see tomorrow.
Token
29 Oct 12 at 10:02 pm
http://inagist.com/all/262635070899228673/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABaqrjhtBmo
sdog
29 Oct 12 at 10:10 pm
Wow you are good Sdog, only 177 views at that link.
Talk about smoking hot and new.
Token
29 Oct 12 at 10:25 pm
sdog, I tips me hat. Token, thanks for trying.
dover_beach
29 Oct 12 at 10:35 pm
Token, you mean Sean?
‘Eve Online’ is the computer game I met him in, way back in 2006.
A great article about Sean and his time in Eve Online.
Brian of Moorabbin
29 Oct 12 at 11:40 pm
I’ve followed this for the past several weeks and I’m simply staggered at what Ozero has got away with and the extent of the cover up to protect him. Clarice Feldman’s piece in The American Thinker yesterday was a beauty.
I heard and later watched a calm and moderate Charles Woods speak of the weak little coward’s whiney voice and limp handshake as he looked past him and at the ground when his son Tyrone’s body came home.
Woods also stated straight out that Clinton lied to his face.
Put yourself in his shoes. His adult son has been sacrificed to save the muslim in chief from upsetting his Middle Eastern masters. The vile little man has watched the military video as it was unfolding, decided Tyrone Woods had no political worth, sauntered off to bed then flew to Las Vegas to sell more of his anti US poison. Put yourself in Charles Woods’ shoes – they’d have to prise my teeth off his jugular with a crow bar.
Obama is a filthy piece of work, the most deliberately divisively racist senior national leader in my 40 odd year adult memory and his pig ignorant constituency rise and applaud. He publicly spits on Tyrone Woods’ integrity, sense of duty to those for whom he was responsible and his courage and the slobs applaud.
Watch Jeanine Pirro on Fox (http://bobagard.blogspot.com.au/) interview four senior military figures yesterday, they are scathing. The commander of the USS Cole describes Obama’s action to deny assistance as “culpable negligence”.
Mick Gold Coast QLD
30 Oct 12 at 12:23 am
Has http://www.soopermexican.com/2012/10/28/how-conservatives-on-twitter-forced-obama-to-face-the-benghazi-debacle/ been taken down? I had to read it using google cache.
Cold-Hands
30 Oct 12 at 12:46 am
Thank the dextrosphere on Twitter
sdog
30 Oct 12 at 12:48 am
“this is a repost from my website being crashed by an Instapundit link”
sdog
30 Oct 12 at 12:50 am
Jim Rose got it right – the most likely explanation is simple miscommunication. Unfortunately, most on this blog have lost any semblance of balance, and can only interpret evidence and events in one way – one that maligns Obama – no matter how far-fetched the conspiracy theory necessary to sustain such interpretations.
William Bragg
30 Oct 12 at 1:34 am
Bullshit.
And Jim Rose is a serial, unrepentant plagiarist so don’t assume anything “he” writes here is even his own work anyway.
sdog
30 Oct 12 at 1:39 am
WASHINGTON EXAMINER:
Gab
30 Oct 12 at 1:40 am
Watch the link in the last paragraph of my post and then come back with your “miscommunication” lie, because that is all it is.
The US president decided the not optimal death of several people serving US interests in Benghazi should be written off as a mere bump in the road in his jihad. The effete little half black half white grub deserves only to be run out of town with his family in tow.
Mick Gold Coast QLD
30 Oct 12 at 2:21 am
And who is “William Bragg” anyway? This is either the first time this person has ever seen fit to insert himself into conversation at the Cat, or it’s an old user with a brand new sockpuppet created apparently in aid of supporting Jim Rose’s “miscommunication” defense.
sdog
30 Oct 12 at 3:08 am
My apologies if these links have already been posted here. This Benghazi business is truly sickening, why aren’t the Americans burning down the White ouse?
Moslem Brotherhood penetration of the Obama administration.
and:
Senior US Army and Navy leaders stood down:
CIA station in Benghazi offered to help, ordered to stand down:
Obama was watching the attack as it occured:
The protocol followed in these situations:
The Benghazi attack was a botched kidnapping attempt:
Why are the US Military still taking orders from this man? Why aren’t the tumbrils rattling down Pennsylvania Avenue?
old bloke
30 Oct 12 at 4:10 am
from that link,
Old Bloke,
I have read that before and is a very worrying aspect of Obama’s Admin.
Seems the Lefts new religion is Islam while damning Christianity.
Rudiau
30 Oct 12 at 8:16 am
Discovering the details of the deliberate abandonment of these strong young men by their president (small p only) has moved me to ask that question too, old bloke.
I wonder also about the generals who are too pith weak to stand and speak out against all his offences in dealing with the wars with islam. I fear they have all become career public servants.
As to the botched kidnapping possibility – with this dissolute charlatan anything is possible.
The US is being surrendered, the MSM knows it and is reporting none of it.
Mick Gold Coast QLD
30 Oct 12 at 10:05 am
The real Bill is that rich socialist troubadour, whose guitar sports the motto, ‘this machine kills fascists’. His transatlantic politics idealise the revolutionary 1930s with Woody and pie in the sky and the honest workers v the evil capitalists. Its amazing that such a primitive economic mind could produce such sublime poetry and music about love and relationships.
This is probably not the same guy, despite some obvious similarities.
Jannie
30 Oct 12 at 11:48 am
More details have come out noting that the trouble that was brewing that night in Benghazi was seen by observers near the compound:
The inaction of the US agencies – CIA, State Dept, Military is amazing. Once again the obvious question is posed:
Token
30 Oct 12 at 12:37 pm
This is how the article ends noting how it looks like the Obama admin via Ambassador Stevens was funnelling arms to the rebels in Syria:
Token
30 Oct 12 at 12:49 pm