Posted on 12/16/2015 6:26:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Our news media are so overwhelmingly obsequious to the Democrats that Hillary Clinton can imply the relatives of the Americans killed in Benghazi are liars on national TV, and no one in the press blinks an eye or finds it newsworthy.
ABC is about to host another one of those hide-and-seek Saturday night Democrat debates. There is something very ironic here: It was on this network where she made that outrageous statement.
Clinton lied to her former employee (and donor) George Stephanopoulos on his ABC program "This Week" on Dec. 6. In his toughest question of the day, George told his pal, "Some GOP rivals and family members of the Benghazi victims are saying you lied to them in the hearing. They point to emails that you sent the night of Benghazi attack, one to your daughter, Chelsea Clinton, saying... 'Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an al-Qaida-like group.'" He added that she had told the Egyptian prime minister on a phone call on Sept. 12, 2012, "We know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film."
Clinton denied ever telling the Benghazi relatives that it could be blamed on an anti-Muhammad video: "No. ... I understand the continuing grief at the loss that parents experienced with the loss of these four brave Americans. And I did testify, as you know, for 11 hours. And I answered all of these questions. Now, I can't -- I can't help it that people think there has to be something else there."
So are the relatives of these deceased heroes liars?
None of the networks picked up on this question and answer. The Washington Post only picked up her hawkish talk about fighting ISIS, not her attack on the Benghazi relatives. The New York Times and USA Today completely skipped any mention of her ABC interview.
The New York Post did what all of them should have done. They rounded up the relatives, who reiterated that Clinton told them as the caskets arrived at Andrews Air Force Base on Sept. 14, 2012 that it could be blamed on a YouTube video. Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, recalled hugging Clinton and that "she said we are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of my son."
Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, said Clinton is "absolutely lying. ... She said it was because of the video." Smith's uncle backed her up.
Kate Quigley, the sister of Glen Doherty, agreed: "When I think back now to that day and what she knew, it shows me a lot about her character that she would choose in that moment to basically perpetuate what she knew was untrue."
That matches what Clinton said at the ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base: "We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with."
Quigley was stronger in a Boston radio interview: "This is a woman that will do and say anything to get what she wants. I have very little respect for her. I know what she said to me and she can say all day long that she didn't say it. That's her cross to bear."
These relatives can occasionally be found sharing their pain and outrage in interviews on Fox News and on CNN. But ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS can't find them.
The same outlets that lionized "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan over and over again as she trashed Bush as a "terrorist" in August of 2005 stay silent. Today, any grieving relative who lacerates Clinton is just buried in a cave like nuclear waste.
She’s a classy ho isn’t she.
Hillary Clinton is beneath contempt; the fact that she leads the democrat candidates for president is a national disgrace.
She was too busy dodging sniper fire to keep to her story...
She is beneath contempt.
Hillary Rotten Criminal will pay for her lies and crimes. If not in this life, in the next.
Take it to the bank.
This shows how she’d be as president. Absolutely no regard for anyone that can’t help her personally increase her power.
This is what troubles me about America. It’s not some much people like Obama and Hillary as it is the people who would actually vote and support them. There’s just WAY too many of them for America to have a ‘happy’ future.
I watched and listened to her statement next to the coffins. What the family’s say is, of course, absolutely true. What she says is an absolute lie.
While it probably occurs in both parties, I'd have to say the 'rats are more inclined to take an "end justifies the means" approach. They will vote for Hillary or Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy, or Baraq Obama, and cheat at the polls because the results are all that matters to them.
Of course it’s true what the families said, and don’t forget Hillary lies because all liberals lie. It comes natural to them. They cannot help it.
Hitlory is using the Saul Alinsky play book.
she’s calling the families liars, but hell will freeze over before the MSM confronts her.
I am hoping that it is Cruze that gets the nomination just because I think that out of all the presidential candidates he has the most potential to destroy her in a debate. Hillary Clinton lies all the time and is not called on her lie because most people don’t have the ability to totally recall what has been said. Cruze has the ability as seen in the debate to take her word and throw them back at her.
No surprise there. Hillary was even tighter with Alinsky than was Obama.
Hiliary blatantly lies about coming under sniper fire in Bosnia, but everyone else is the liar.
Hmm-hmm.
Yes. That is one big advantage Cruz has over Trump
Cruz is an accomplished lawyer and will use her lies to make her look terrible.
Trump invited Clinton to his wedding and has previously stated that Clinton would make a great president.
Yep.
You nailed it.
I am hoping that it is Cruze that gets the nomination just because I think that out of all the presidential candidates he has the most potential to destroy her in a debate. Hillary Clinton lies all the time and is not called on her lie because most people don’t have the ability to totally recall what has been said. Cruze has the ability as seen in the debate to take her word and throw them back at her.
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