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KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
19. The Highest Quality Bullshit From Bullshit Mountain...
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 12:55 PM
Nov 2012

This "controversy" started when their "Fast and Furious" poutrage ran out of pout and evidence. This is a Faux Noise manufactured "scandal" that was meant to help Rmoney bail out of his ill-fated tweets while the Benghazi compound was under attack (he got pummeled in the corporate media for jumping the gun and trying to politicize the murders) and attempt to diminish President Obama's successes in killing bin Laden and helping encourage the "Arab Spring" and the revolution in Libya.

It's a pure Rovian game of attacking one's strength as your opponent is usually prepared to defend against something they're weak on, but not something they assume is a positive. Turn that positive into a doubt or negative and you put your opponent at a big disadvantage. A classic example is the Obama campaign's attacks on Bain...suddenly the thing Willard thought was his strongest campaign asset became a liability. This was a desperate act by rushpublicans to embarrass this administration and to make it look weak in the past campaign. They failed.

The fun part of this "scandal" is to ask a teabagger your question...I'll bet you don't get the same answer from two people and then if you probe further you'll find they have no clue what they're talking about. Just ask them to name the capital of Libya...if they say Benghazi...that tells you a lot as their credibility on the topic.

Right now the unhinged and Faux noise are grappling to find some kind of "balance" in a world shattered by a rare encounter with reality. Now the hopes are to spark some type of "controversy" to rally the disheartened...

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Republicans dennis4868 Nov 2012 #1
I figured as much and just want to arm myself before giving battle on FB and Yahoo. They throw coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #4
Not true - Rove was Fox as well n/t malaise Nov 2012 #16
I don't think they know Whisp Nov 2012 #2
+1. EOTE Nov 2012 #5
They keep changing the accusations after each one is disproved, but Lucinda Nov 2012 #3
Ah, the old 'stab in the back' meme, first deployed by coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #6
+1 nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #17
I think what they want to uncover is that Ambassador Stevens TwilightGardener Nov 2012 #7
LOL MynameisBlarney Nov 2012 #27
Was there a move by Wellstone ruled Nov 2012 #8
I think that was de-railed by Darrell Issa outing a CIA ops location, in the presence of MSM & patrice Nov 2012 #28
Reason? No need for reasons. The RW media bellows angrily and throws out valerief Nov 2012 #9
Yeah, it's really been annoying trying to rebut some of the claims because coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author fleur-de-lisa Nov 2012 #10
From some CNN boards I -- Hell Hath No Fury Nov 2012 #12
Yeah, this seems to be the sense of this thread thus far. That Obama somehow coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #13
If you know there is a gun being held to the Ambassador's head, what do you do? patrice Nov 2012 #29
The Republicans SLASHED $300 million from the embassy security budget Berlum Nov 2012 #15
but wouldn't that be the SoS job? n/t Whisp Nov 2012 #26
The allegations are very serious. Polldancer2012 Nov 2012 #14
Thank you for the succinct and clearly worded list. I appreciate your coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #18
no problem. Polldancer2012 Nov 2012 #22
nm Incitatus Nov 2012 #30
The Highest Quality Bullshit From Bullshit Mountain... KharmaTrain Nov 2012 #19
Yeah, now it's starting to come together for me. Willard jumped on the deaths coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #21
Seems These Same People Are Very Defensive Of The Petreaus Fiasco... KharmaTrain Nov 2012 #25
If only Obama had used his Kryptonic superhearing librechik Nov 2012 #20
While not exactly responding to the questions I raised in my OP, your response is coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #23
you betcha, c_u! librechik Nov 2012 #24
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