Thursday, December 10, 2015

Benghazi Again! (Part 19 Million)

They have no shame: It’s confirmed, Fox News lied egregiously (again) in its latest Benghazi “bombshell” - Salon.com:

 On Wednesday, I picked apart the latest attempt by conservatives to churn up some old-fashioned Benghazi conspiracy theorism, as Fox News used some clumsy sleight of hand to suggest that the Obama administration had lied about not being able to save the people under attack at the Libyan diplomatic outpost. Fox’s entire argument was based on a newly released, partially redacted email that, per the conservative network, “contradicted” former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s claim that there were no military assets capable of arriving to Benghazi in time to make a difference. As I and others noted, the email didn’t actually contradict Panetta, and the whole thing was trumped-up nonsense. Well, now the Democrats on the Benghazi committee have released the full, unredacted email, and it confirms what we already knew: Fox News lied, and rather egregiously so...

2 comments:

billy pilgrim said...

more importantly, i'm through season 1 of nypd blue. about half way through there started to be episodes about the character's personal lives. i would have thought that milch would have spent more time on andy and his salt water fish than medovoy and abadando.

Bob Harrison said...

the whole show, imho, is about the evolution of andy sipowicz. some very powerful scenes later on with franz & smits, not to mention the most unlikely romance in the history of tv.