McLaughlin Group‘s Eleanor Clift : ‘Ambassador Stevens Wasn’t Murdered’

Mediaite ^ | May 11, 2014 | Evan McMurry

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Daily Beast columnist Eleanor Clift said on Sunday’s The McLaughlin Group that late U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was killed the night of the Benghazi attacks, had not been murdered but had died from “smoke inhalation.”

“I’d like to point out that Ambassador Stevens was not ‘murdered,’” Clift said, using air quotes, “but died of smoke inhalation in a CIA safe room.”

This did not land well. “It was a terrorist attack, Eleanor,” panelist-for-life Pat Buchanan said. “He was murdered in a terrorist attack.”

Clift responded that it was an opportunistic terrorist attack inflamed by the anti-Muslim video, the blaming of which has caused so much trouble. “It was still a CIA [outpost],” Clift said. “If you’re going to put somebody on trial, put David Petraeus on trial, not Hillary Clinton.”

Host John McLaughlin finally stopped the discussion, saying “We’re going to be returning to this subject, I’m sure, repeatedly over the next six months.” Promise?

Watch the clip below:

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

[laweeks]

Eleanor Clit is one of the reasons that I wrote that show off years ago. When they got to her to ask her her opinion, I invariably had to change the channel.

[scrabblehack]

It’s filmed on Friday, no? Some affiliates show it as early as Friday evening....at least they used to.

[scrabblehack]

Hey, Mary Jo Kopechne didn’t drown.

[Lazamataz]

[hinckley buzzard]

Eleanor Clift was a routine fixture in the Cleveland Plain Dealer for years. She never had an original idea, feeding off the coattails of her husband liberal atheist columnist Tom Brazaitis. Once he died she has been mailing in reruns for the last decade and making a fool of herself generally.

[556x45]

Well, really when you analysis it (even not so carefully) they really aren’t anything more than propagandists.

[PhiloBedo]

WRONNNGG! (McLaughlin’s voice)

[kempster]

Sounds like she has her talking points mixed up. Check the dates on the top of the page Eleanor then ask yourself, “what difference, at this point, does it make”?.

[onedoug]

islamism

[dfwgator]

WRONG!

[skinkinthegrass]

She was always was a screeching W*tch!
Liberalism, always does that.
It is a self-inflicted mental Disorder.

[MayflowerMadam]

I’m hearing, “Eleanoah, you slut!” from the old SNL skits.

[TXnMA]

"‘Ambassador Stevens Wasn’t Murdered’"

...and the children at Mt. Carmel weren't murdered by the FedJBTs' tear gas and fire, either... </SARCASM>

[ken5050]

I didn’t know McLaughlin was still alive..let alone on the air..

[ridesthemiles]

Pat Buchanan must have been close to having a stroke over her comments.

Are there any other life forms on the planet she comes from??

[MayflowerMadam]

The SNL skits with fake Clift, McLaughlin, Buchanan, etc., were back in the ‘80s, I think. Still hilarious.

[ken5050]

Ask and ye shall receive...Allow me to make your day..(maybe your week??)

Here ya go!!

[Reddy]

How do you know that Ambassador Stevens was NOT tortured if no autopsy has been released?

[TigersEye]

There is no evidence of it. The fact that he lived for 3 or 4 hours is amazing. The fact that he died about the same time he was found is not.

[trisham]

But her brain is dead.