Stephanie Cutter: Benghazi is only an issue because of Romney and Ryan; NYT more or less agrees

Hotair ^ | OCTOBER 11, 2012 | ALLAHPUNDIT

[RobinMasters]

The key bit comes in the last 20 seconds but I’m giving you four full minutes because I want you to watch her blithely assure CNN at the beginning that “the administration has been open and honest since day one about the Benghazi attack.” The administration she’s referring to there is the same one that had a dozen or so different intelligence reports flowing in within the first few hours after the attack pointing to an Al Qaeda connection and yet still sent Susan Rice out to lie to the media about a “spontaneous protest” five days later. CNN helpfully refreshes her memory with a lowlight reel of White House spin, whereupon a cornered flack falls back on her most basic impulse in a desperate situation: She blames the other party for making a big deal out of nothing. And by “nothing,” I mean the murder of the U.S. ambassador and three American consulate personnel.

Ace thinks this is a consummate Kinsleyan gaffe, revealing the Obama campaign’s survival instinct at its most rat-like in the aftermath of Benghazi. Could be, but it’s hard to picture Gibbs or Ben LaBolt saying something like this even in a desperate moment. There’s something here specific to Cutter herself and her Orwellian approach to spin. You saw another example of it just a few hours ago.

[Rca2000]

Yes....because Israel is RIGHT in the midst of everything. That much nuclear fire and brimstone on Iran, Syria, Iraq, etc..would SURELY engulf Israel too...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

In other words, the killing of Americans is OK when we have a leftist President.

[EEGator]

If you hit Iran and the Arabian Peninsula Israel should be fine. This isn’t an actual real scenario. I’m just wishing death upon Muslims.

[USARightSide]

‘__________hope we’ll all survive Islamic Nazism’

Well, at our age, the fear is for our children and grandchildren surviving. . .