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Jon Stewart grills Susan Rice on Benghazi attack
LA Times ^ | February 15, 2013 | Meredith Blake

Posted on 02/15/2013 5:36:05 PM PST by Seizethecarp

On “The Daily Show” on Thursday, host Jon Stewart grilled United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice about the Obama administration’s response to the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year.

Stewart pressed her to explain why there was so much back-and-forth between government agencies and why no one seemed to have the straight story.

Stewart asked why there seemed to be more effort put into ironing out talking points rather than preventing the attack in the first place. As he put it, “Why is there a bureaucratic system in place that is so tenacious with the explanation, yet seemingly abdicates a little bit of responsibility for the initial thing?”

Stewart pressed her: “Do you think the bureaucracy is more tenacious and detail-oriented when it comes to the political aspects of their job and less efficacious when it comes to some of the more brass nuts and bolts thing?”

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazihearings; cia; dni; jonstewart; kenyanbornmuzzie; libya; obama; partisanmediashills; rice; susanrice; waronterror
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Yup. Your questions are better, but they assume an admission by Rice that she was lying. Stewart hasn’t set a predicate for that admission for his audience, but he got a long way there with this interview.


21 posted on 02/15/2013 6:05:55 PM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: neverdem; SunkenCiv; MHGinTN; narses; Norm Lenhart
I have long said I wish I could come back in 500 years to read the history books on this time period. The chapters about the deal struck between media and the Obama machine will be like a twisted Hollywood horror plot.

That history was already written a few years ago.

Something about the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic” wasn't it?
Bread.
Circuses.
Ever more Blood and sexual excesses.
Corruption in the Senate.
Power only in the hands of the politically connected ....

8<)

22 posted on 02/15/2013 6:12:25 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Seizethecarp

He’s asking great questions there...did fox ask these? Hopefully.


23 posted on 02/15/2013 6:15:42 PM PST by toddausauras (FUBO x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
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To: toddausauras

The guy from the Weekly Standard on Baer’s panel, when pressed by the lib, flat out said that the” worst case” implication from Stewart’s questions that were unanswered by Rice is that the Obama political team deliberately removed Al Qaeda from the narrative and inserted the video (of course).

The lib had said “Are you insinuating that the Obama political team went into the back room and did this just for political advantage?” The WS guy was quite heated and said it doesn’t matter what I think, it matter what actually happened and we haven’t gotten a straight story yet.

It might be up on youtube soon...


24 posted on 02/15/2013 6:26:21 PM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: Seizethecarp

As of 11/29/12 Stewart was attacking McCain and Graham for asking Rice the same questions that Stewart asked yesterday:

Huffpo article (won’t link)

“Jon Stewart Hammers John McCain, Lindsey Graham Over Susan Rice Hypocrisy”


25 posted on 02/15/2013 6:32:41 PM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Absolute rubbish! Crazy talk! That can’t happen here! This is America!

What really sickens me is that people say ‘I don’t understand this’ and seek out some Oracle to divine it all for them. The thing is we have several. All anyone needs to do to is crack the history books because every single move Obama has made has been made several times before. The results mirror each other and it’s a set in stone certainty they will again.

But people refuse to believe that it can, much less ‘will’ happen again. Always excuses about of ‘different’ this is and how much ‘smarter’ and ‘well informed’ we are.

I would put forward that people to unwilling to learn from history are too stupid to deserve knowledge of it’s benefit.


26 posted on 02/15/2013 6:45:38 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Seizethecarp

Appropriate that a hack for the 0bamugabe administration gets interviewed by a comedian.


27 posted on 02/15/2013 6:47:28 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Seizethecarp. In the context of the partisan media shills’ treatment of Zero and his cadre, this might qualify as a grilling, just “a bit”.


28 posted on 02/15/2013 7:02:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Thanks Robert A. Cook, PE.


29 posted on 02/15/2013 7:03:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Seizethecarp

That was a revealing exchange. The lib had nowhere to go but agitprop so he went to the agitprop. Steve Hayes handled that well. He completely avoided the Alinsky ‘personalize it’ strategy. The lib works for ABC News or the WaPo, I can’t recall which.


30 posted on 02/15/2013 7:06:22 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

‘Something about the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic” wasn’t it?’

Or the end of the Weimar Republic.


31 posted on 02/15/2013 7:11:55 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: Seizethecarp

Great screen name and thanks for the update, I don’t watch news on tv so I appreciate it.


32 posted on 02/15/2013 7:23:34 PM PST by toddausauras (FUBO x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
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To: Seizethecarp

No one is more upset or cares more about this than 0bummer. He will get to the bottom of this and see the killers brought to justice.

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33 posted on 02/15/2013 7:24:23 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Seizethecarp
...am sure the White House was expecting another kissy kissy soft interview from JS like the one on 60 Minutes.

Jon Stewart's capable of being more insightful than all the 60 Minutes crew put together... I'm not sure how it happens but I suspect it has something to do with integrity...

34 posted on 02/15/2013 7:45:10 PM PST by GOPJ ( Illegal immigrants: violent boorish party crashers. Send them home, call police - make them leave.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
In 49 BC Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and launched civil war against Sulla. Sulla's defeat in battle was the fall of the Roman Republic. Has little or nothing to do with what we face today.
35 posted on 02/15/2013 7:51:15 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
Actually Caesar defeated Pompey, of course. Sulla came earlier.

The empire thrived and prospered for centuries after the fall of the republic.

36 posted on 02/15/2013 7:58:57 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Ramius
If that was a grilling I’d send the meat back for more time on the grill. Stewart lobbed softball after softball, ending up with them laughing it up at how stupid anyone is who questions the Obama line.

You're 100% correct. There was NO grilling whatsoever. Just lots of fun, cheery laughter, at how funny it seemed like the talking points were added, edited, etc. And in the end, well no one will ever know for sure... isn't that funny?

What a bunch of lying, pathological evil bastards. May 0dumb0Shit and anyone who voted or supports this RAT bastard commie muslim pig, may they roast for eternity in Hell!

37 posted on 02/15/2013 8:29:08 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: hinckley buzzard
The book, actually, was Gibbon's classic Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. You missed my intended link between the roman republic's fall - because the Senate GAVE UP power to its favored most-powerful-politician ... who then could name himself "emperor" without opposition from the rest of the political class. He did not have to fight to become emperor, the leaders of the republic gave up .
38 posted on 02/15/2013 8:53:29 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Seizethecarp

All this show, is the sad state of the media in the US. How in the tank they are for Obama


39 posted on 02/15/2013 9:00:56 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Eggs ackley. The media in America, however, is the enemy within.


40 posted on 02/15/2013 9:15:09 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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