GERALDO Pleads With FOX News: ‘Stop This Politicizing’ Of Libya'

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An impassioned plea to halt the politicization of the attack in Benghazi came from surprising quarters this morning. Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera, appearing on Fox and Friends, rattled through several right-wing talking points about what the Obama administration could have and didn’t do during the Sept. 11 assault, debunking each of them.


Rivera was primarily responding to statements just minutes before by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), who sits on the House Government and Oversight Committee. In his remarks, Kelly claimed that the Pentagon was unable or unwilling to respond to the attack, which wound up killing four Americans, despite “real-time” information coming in. Rivera pushed back on Kelly’s claims and the idea that military assets could have made it to Libya in time:

RIVERA: I think we need to stop this politicizing, we’re getting away from the real issue, which is why wasn’t there security before it happened. But these preposterous allegations, reckless allegations, that somebody — They paint a picture of some fat bureaucrat watching TV. You heard him describe it, Congressman Kelly. I think that’s really beyond the pale.

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1. Poor Geraldo, he has a moment of decency in the wrong venue.

He's not going to convince these Fox & Friends water carriers that they shouldn't politicize Benghazi. He may have just talked himself out of a job.

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2. He has a point.

Arguing about exactly what words were used on what days is just ridiculous and pointless.

There could be a reasonable discussion about

1) Just what was this building and why was the Ambassador there. It was definitely not an embassy and evidently was not a consulate.

2) If this was not a State Department property (the suggestion is that it was a CIA outpost), then what agency was responsible for the security?

3) If it was indeed a CIA outpost, then they probably would not have wanted to draw attention to it with a major show of defense. And really, should we be discussing CIA operations like this?

4) What role, if any, did the Republican Congress play in restricting funds for the security of State Department personnel?

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3. F.U., Geraldo. You played into this shit for years. Dance with the Devil...

[C_U_L8R]

4. If he really meant it

He'd quit.

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5. Of course 9/11 was NOT AT ALL GWB'S FAULT

And the intelligent decision to spend 1 trillion dollars and thousands of lives to occupy Iraq, hey, whatever, no Republican fault there!