Posted on 10/25/2015 5:51:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Did you watch Hillary Clinton’s testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi? If you did you should get a colonoscopy soon, because in those 11 hours you had enough smoke blown up there to give colon cancer to everyone in the country.
If we had an honest media, the headlines Friday would have been about how the former secretary of state and current Democratic Party front-runner for president was caught lying to the American public about the cause of the Benghazi attack. Headlines would scream of how Hillary Clinton said one thing in private – to her daughter, the leaders of Libya and Egypt – and the exact opposite to the American people.
There was a time when knowingly and willfully telling someone the reverse of what is true was called a lie. Now it’s considered a creative interpretation. Hillary knew while the attack was ongoing, and told her daughter Chelsea in an email, that the terrorist attack on the US compound in Benghazi was “by an Al Queda-like (sic) group.” Does Chelsea have special security clearance allowing her to receive real-time briefings on ongoing terrorist attacks on Americans? Are security clearances transmitted via DNA? Of course not.
Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to lie to her own child. Everyone else? Sure, why not? Everyone else is disposable the moment they outlive their usefulness.
Even those who are still useful, still trying desperately to remain in the good graces of our would-be queen, tread so lightly as to be ready for humiliation at her whim.
Lanny Davis is a nice man. I know and like him. So it is with no great pleasure I write this. But his email to Hillary, a woman he’s known longer than I’ve been alive, assumes they are friends. But that relationship is not something I recognize as friendship, and I hope you don’t either.
In 2010, Lanny begged his decades-long friend, a woman for whom he’s thrown himself on countless grenades, for the simple favor of a few minutes of her time to say nice things to a reporter writing a Davis profile. In a long, embarrassing email, Davis asks for “a personal favor” from his “dear friend Hillary.”
I can’t bring myself to quote it, so take a moment and read it for yourself. Just know, after decades of loyalty and a willingness to publicly humiliate himself to protect her and her family, Hillary did not comply with Lanny’s basic favor.
That’s who Hillary Clinton is as a person.
If we had an honest media you would know all of this. More to the point, if we had an honest media you would have forgotten who Hillary Rodham Clinton is in the first place. There is no reason to remember the wife of an obscure southern governor who didn’t win a state in his failed 1992 bid for the Democratic nomination. If we had an honest media, that is.
As it stands, she sits frighteningly close to the Oval Office, smug in the knowledge her stenographers at every major news outlet have no interest in exposing her failures as secretary of state or as a person.
How, during an 8-hour attack, does she speak with the president only once and not speak with the secretary of defense or the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at all, yet claim there was nothing the military could have done? I can be in London in six hours, yet in the first hour of the attack can she determine not a single military asset would get to Benghazi in time in a region marinating in our military assets? She can say these things only because she knows they won’t be fact-checked.
I don’t think she acted out of malice. I think she was following orders. Those orders would have come from President Obama. The complete lack of immediate action tells me they were both overwhelmed. Two novices at the levers of power in times of high stress didn’t perform well. No surprise there.
There was a lot that was learned from Thursday’s hearing, and you’d know a lot more about it if we had an honest media. As it stands, “journalists” were on the exact same page as the Democrats on the committee – step over the bodies of four dead Americans and protect Hillary. Agenda Über Alles.
When you read the email plea from Lanny Davis and the “reporting” on the hearing by any major news outlet, you’d be hard-pressed to tell them apart, not in substance but in tone. It’s sad, pathetic…and not surprising in the least.
PS: Just when you’d thought they’d hit bottom, these same media press release reprinters found a new way to spin for Hillary. When both Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee dropped out of the race, the story was framed as a victory for Hillary. Two men with a collective ZERO in the polls whom the media had all but completely ignored suddenly became worthy of attention because the story could be reflected onto her.
>>If We Had An Honest Media…
It is honest (in a Louisiana politician kind of way): it supports a common agenda.
The entire media is owned by 6 Left-leaning multinational conglomerates. Does anyone expect that to support American ideals??
I hope that President Trump initiates a whistle-blower campaign. Put some people in jail. Untouchable people. Go after some top people and screw them to the wall. Then announce amnesty for anyone who confesses or provides firm evidence against corrupt bureaucrats in either party. Scare people into exposing the whole game.
Clean the stables.
I would love to see a Trump/Cruz victory in 2016. With Trump and Cruz announcing that certain news media outlets will no longer be granted press passes (for past misbehavior).
How long will CNN, MSNBC or others last if they don't have access to the White House or any other Republican controlled parts of government?
Just because you call yourself a journalist or news organization doesn't mean you automatically receive a press pass.
Hillary is receiving very little support from the Democrat leadership.
The American Press are supporting her, but they’ve been paid to support her.
We all know how much Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman Schultz can huff and puff and scream and carry on, but very little from them defending their girl Hillary.
Why?
They are scared to death that Hillary committed espionage against the United States and they don’t want to be tied to supporting a traitor.
I know you think this is somehow important.
But, come on now. Get real.
It’s football season!
Who cares about the fate of the world or nation?
The real concern is about how the local high school, college/university and pro teams are playing. Plus there’s all that beer to drink and brats to eat.
Priorities, man, p[priorities
Do I really need to put a /sarc on it?
That’s what Trump will do. He will call out Hillary for a lifetime of lies and deceit 24/7 day after day month after month. . The media will howl but it will not do any good. It’s going to stick to Hillary like stink on....
If wishes were horses, we would all take a ride.
If horseshit were apples, we would eat until we died.
We have no MSM. We have propagandists for the DNC.
If they had ice water in hell, they wouldn't be quite so thirsty.
There is no requirement for an unbiased media. There is no requirement for an honest media. This whole “truth above all” crap is a fairly recent phenomenon in the newspaper world.
I am not defending left wing bias. But, where is the right wing bias? If it would be so popular, how come there are fewer and fewer conservative newspapers, TV networks, or magazines.
No one is stopping them.
Whoever debates Hillary, should invite the families of the Benghazi terrorist attack victims sit front and center and then ask Hillary to look them in the eye and apologize for lying to them.
Exactly. With so many 'super rich' people supporting the republican party and conservative values, why haven't they established more outlets to counter this crap? They let them basically take over the school system and damn near every other source of info and education.
Elijah Cummings repeatedly said that the hearing would be about THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.
Hillary was caught numerous times playing the “I don’t remember who” card only to fess up when the questioner presented full elaborate detail.
She repeatedly lied by omission and played dumb. She was not there to tell the WHOLE truth and Elijah didn’t serve to INVESTIGATE this matter, he served as an obstructionist to cover up her crimes and lies.
It’s been a 40 year lurch to seize the control of media, academia and even corporations.
Conservative push back is going to require extensive boycott. Bleed them dry of $$$.
I suspect his time is running out. He knows too much.
“”Whoever debates Hillary, should invite the families of the Benghazi terrorist attack victims sit front and center and then ask Hillary to look them in the eye and apologize for lying to them.””
Yes - but also all the women in her husband’s life - Willey, Jones, Lewinsky, Broderick, Grayson, Flowers - the whole bunch of them just to make her uncomfortable.
Hillary - uncomfortable? Well, I can dream!
There is a network in CA called One American Network. Hopefully they will become nationwide, soon.
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