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http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/09/11/extremely_modest_turnout_at_benghazi_memorial_rally.htmlExtremely Modest Turnout at Benghazi Memorial Rally
By David Weigel
Posted Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, at 1:42 PM
There are not one but three events around the Capitol today to memorialize the four Americans murdered in Benghazi one year ago. They started with a 10 a.m. press conference asking for a select committee to investigate this; they continued with a rally on the West Lawn. Not to focus too much attention on optics, but it was a fairly shambolic affair, with the hundred or so protesters unsure of when the events would start. Noon? Half-past? When the "Million Muslim March" arrived at the Capitol from Pennsylvania Avenue?
It ended up starting shortly before 1, and it looked like this:
The lawn didn't fill much more than that; a dozen or so people hid out in the shade (it's 90 degrees today, and humid), off camera. As to what was said, I'll have more on that later.
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Extremely Modest Turnout at Benghazi Memorial Rally (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2013
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lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)1. Another Port-a-Potty event.
... which Faux will claim was attended by thousands.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)2. If Fox Noise run pics
Be sure to count the palm trees.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)3. Oy!
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)4. I had forgotten that today was the anniversary of that attack too.
RIP Ambassador Stevens and the other victims.