Exclusive: The RNC Benghazi Attack Ad that Never Ran

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Source: ABC News

It was the Benghazi attack ad the Republican National Committee created but never aired.

ABC News has obtained an ad the RNC made last fall and approved to air in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. The ad begins with a replay of Hillary Clinton’s famous “3 a.m. phone call” commercial from the 2008 campaign and then cuts to video of the burning U.S. consulate in Benghazi Libya.

Over the images of the attack–in which four Americans were killed–words appear on the screen:

“The Call Came … On September 12, 2012.” As the screen goes black, the words continue: “Security Requests Denied. Four Americans Dead. And an Administration whose story is still changing. The Call Came.”

The video of the Benghazi attack used in the ad includes the sound of gunfire and what appear to be voices of people speaking a foreign language as flames engulf the consulate.

A source familiar with the creation of the ad says the RNC leadership approved the ad but it was scrapped at the last minute because of objections from the Romney campaign, which was concerned the ad would distract from Romney’s efforts to focus on the economy.

While the ad borrows from Hillary Clinton’s efforts to raise questions in 2008 about Barack Obama’s ability to lead the country through a crisis, Republicans are now pointing to the Benghazi attack and the way it was handled to raise questions about the leadership of Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attack.

Democrats will likely point to the un-aired commercial as evidence that Republicans are raising concerns about the Benghazi attack to score political points.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/exclusive-the-rnc-benghazi-attack-ad-that-never-ran/

[Botany]

1. the only thing that the republicans care about Benghazi is how they can make it into an ...

... attack on Obama and Hillary. They voted to cut funding for security for the
State Department's missions.

[Buzz Clik]

3. +1

Politicking. Nothing more.

[Botany]

5. 9/12/12 the day after the attack on our mission in Benghazi

Hillary had just been crying because Ambassador Stevens was a personal
friend of Bill and Hillary's. The republicans have no shame at all in keeping
up this shit about Benghazi.

BTW the Ambassador's father and the parents' of the killed ex navy seal
asked that the deaths of their family members not be made into an excuse
to bring up politics but that had zero effect on McCain, Graham, and Issa
because this was a chance to get their "licks in" on Obama and company.

[geek tragedy]

2. ghouls. nt

[Cha]

4. Poor sick fuck reCons. Did this have anything to do with mittload demurring?..

Campaign Insider Book Argues Mitt Romney Lost Because Of Benghazi

“No single mistake cost Mitt Romney the presidency,” former Romney advisor Gabriel Schoenfeld writes in the opening page of a tell-all book centered on one mistake on a single day in the 2012 campaign: The Republican’s hasty and flawed reaction to the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251304186

[Orsino]

6. Dumbasses.

How appropriate that a Republican attack ad, though, draws inspiration from one of the stupidest, cheapest shots a Dem candidate ever approved.

[CBHagman]

7. And it's the GOP who wants to exploit the deaths.

For all the pious posturing, that's what the Republicans continue to do.

The combined use of propaganda and the existence of a right-wing media structure to ensure its dissemination create an angry, ignorant element who is only too willing to repeat the lies.