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Baitball Blogger

(46,676 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 04:53 PM Mar 2017

Brace yourselves. The Right is trying to paint the Democrat's outrage over Russia to their Benghazi.

Not that any of us believe they are similar in any way because Benghazi had no credible evidence, but I do think that it is very telling that the Right is warning Democrats that it could turn into their Benghazi. It suggests that they knew all along that it was only meant to stoke their base.

So, we need to keep throwing the facts in their face until Dana Summer and The Federalists run out of innuendo to throw at us.

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Brace yourselves. The Right is trying to paint the Democrat's outrage over Russia to their Benghazi. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Mar 2017 OP
Poor dopes C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #1
It's kind of admitting that Benghazi was a partisan game wasting millions of tax money- no? bettyellen Mar 2017 #2
lulz .... ++++ JHan Mar 2017 #3
Benghazi ultimately failed because there were no facts to justify the outrage. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2017 #4
All due respect Benghazi "worked perfectly Cosmocat Mar 2017 #8
I haven't heard anything about Hillary Clinton in three months! yallerdawg Mar 2017 #5
There was no evidence in the Benghazi which hunt liberal N proud Mar 2017 #6
Wouldn't that mean tacitly admitting the Benghazi investigations were a fraud? The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2017 #7

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,145 posts)
4. Benghazi ultimately failed because there were no facts to justify the outrage.
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 05:01 PM
Mar 2017

There was no there there, and eventually the con collapsed upon itself.

Russia, on the other hand, already has facts to justify the outrage.

Cosmocat

(14,558 posts)
8. All due respect Benghazi "worked perfectly
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 06:30 PM
Mar 2017

As intended.

The powers to be knew it was bullshit, but it was the rally point for their gate mongering first over four years, and was vital to damaging Hills public profile.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
5. I haven't heard anything about Hillary Clinton in three months!
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 05:05 PM
Mar 2017

They get to pull that kind of shit, but we don't?

Even if we're not tragically exploiting deaths or referencing Russian hacks or fake news propaganda spread across social media.

We're not pissed because we lost an election.

We're pissed because they gave us a sociopathic, corrupt, racist misogynist -- and all we are doing is documenting it in shock!

liberal N proud

(60,332 posts)
6. There was no evidence in the Benghazi which hunt
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 05:20 PM
Mar 2017

trump Russian operatives have all been less than discreet in their activity.

There is a red trail a mile wide that leads from trump to the Kremlin.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,576 posts)
7. Wouldn't that mean tacitly admitting the Benghazi investigations were a fraud?
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 06:08 PM
Mar 2017

A huge, expensive, politically-motivated fraud? That's what they're claiming about the demands for investigating the Russia connections, so if they try to compare this to Benghazi they'll be admitting that was totally bogus.

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