Chuck Todd is pounding the Benghazi drum

[tavernier]

on the Today show. Says that this will be Hillary's biggest problem to explain in 2016.

I looked closely to see the strings on his arms as he was moving around but I think they make the puppets more life like these days.

[FarPoint]

1. The media propaganda machine wants this to be a problem.

It's all about manipulation of "We the people" to conform to corporate dominance.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Yikes, I just saw the polling on this

70% of Americans think Benghazi! Is a big problem. Republicans seem to be good at ginning up fully-fake scandals, and Democrats suck at stopping them.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Really? Where?

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Uh, oops, my bad

Fox and other crazy sites. I skimmed some Google results without benefit of first drinking coffee and the sources didn't register in my compromised noggin. Very irresponsible and embarrassing.

Holy crap.

Sorry.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. I'm sure that Benghazi is impt to the wingers

Other people not so much

[Cha]

4. I call Bullshit on chuck todd.

Chuck Todd: It's Not Media's Job To Correct GOP's Obamacare Falsehoods

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chuck-todd-it-s-not-media-s-job-to-correct-gop-s-obamacare-falsehoods-video

If there were anything there there it would be a different story but it's all rw propaganda and it turns out chuck todd's job is to carry their water and bats.

[DetlefK]

6. "Benghazi!" only works because of the short attention span of the viewers.

Fox "News" can recycle the same lies every few months, because the viewer doesn't remember that they already had been proven lies last time.

In the run-up to an election, this is different: Every argument gets dissected and put on a list, so the candidate can get weighed with it. This time, the viewer will take note if someone calls bullshit.

"Benghazi was Hillary Clinton's and/or Obama's fault!"
"The investigation said otherwise. Next argument, please."
"But, but... Benghazi!"
"I said: next argument, please!"
"Benghazi?"
"NEXT ARGUMENT!"

[B Calm]

7. I thought it was proven fact that congress underfunded embassies

before the attack. You'd think the republican congress would be hiding in shame, but no instead they do what they do best, point the finger.

[LisaLynne]

8. That's why pointing out the facts will never work with them.

They just ignore it and feel no shame about arguing absurdities.

[B Calm]

9. They know the majority of people are ignorant,

so what the hell. . .

[LisaLynne]

10. And barely paying attention.

If they keep repeating something enough, people will think, "Hey, I keep hearing that. It must be true and mean something..." And they don't have the time or curiosity or even critical thinking skills to find out the actual truth.

[Savannahmann]

11. The news covered this yesterday

It was in the news, and makes for some interesting reading.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-report-attack-on-us-compound-in-benghazi-could-have-been-prevented/2014/01/15/5e197224-7de9-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html

A long-delayed Senate Intelligence Committee report released Wednesday faulted both the State Department and the intelligence community for not preventing attacks on two outposts in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, in 2012.

The bipartisan report laid out more than a dozen findings regarding the assaults on a diplomatic compound and a CIA annex in the city. It said the State Department failed to increase security at its mission despite warnings, and blamed intelligence agencies for not sharing information about the existence of the CIA outpost with the U.S. military.

The full report is 85 pages. http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/benghazi2014/benghazi.pdf

The administration doesn't come off looking all that good. It is not the smoking gun for the lame CT nonsense, but more than enough fodder for those who want to blame the admin.

However, the thing is that it is a bipartisan report, which means the Senate Democratic Majority agreed with the Rethug minority on the language.

CNN link for those who detest the Washington Post. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/15/politics/senate-benghazi-report/index.html?hpt=hp_bn3

The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/benghazi-embassy-attack-preventable-us-senate-report

Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540433/U-S-embassy-assault-Benghazi-resulted-death-American-ambassador-preventable.html

I'm sure there are other links. But you get the point.

[spanone]

12. fuck chuck. the wingnut media has fanned the benghazi flames since it happened

pathetic losers...