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Susan Rice Has an Interesting Take on Why Fox Turned Her Into a 'Villain' After Benghazi
Townhall.com ^ | October 23, 2019 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 10/23/2019 7:49:06 AM PDT by Kaslin

Former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) often sparred in the wake of the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans. Graham repeatedly blasted the Obama administration's inaction and misleading narrative about the attack.

Rice recalled all the tension during an interview on the "Pod Save the World" podcast with former Obama adviser Tommy Vietor this week, when the two compared Sen. Graham to excrement and accused him of "lying" and "raising money off the death of four Americans."

“He’s been a piece of s**t,” Rice chimed in. “I said it! I said it, dammit. Finally. He’s a piece of s**t."

Rice's and Vietor's stark assessment of Graham is one thing, but I was more interested in Rice’s perspective of the Benghazi scandal that made her one of the most infamous figures in politics. Back in 2012, Rice spoke for the Obama administration on several different news shows claiming that the terror attack on the U.S. consulate was the result of a spontaneous YouTube video. In reality, it was a premeditated attack. Fox News was one of several networks to expose Rice's misleading take. Yet she claims that the news outlet was just trying to peg her as a villain.

"It knows how to energize and rile up its viewers," Rice said of Fox. "Making them angry is how they get ratings. And the way to make them angry is to create villains that they can target and vilify. And you always need fresh villains."

Rice had given the network the “wherewithal” to be villainized, she mused.

“Because I had given them five different sets of video on these shows," she said. "And they could loop them, and they could turn me into a new villain."

“Now on Fox, many years later, they just need to say my name and it’s like people start twitching it’s like an automatic trigger point.”

Rice has a new memoir out in which she claims she was just repeating the talking points provided to her by the CIA.


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Worshipful Susan Rice gets her daily orders from the Obama police state.

Image result for obama and susan rice in WH

"Get me dirt on Penguin books so I can shake them down for a big bucks book contract."
"Lois Lerner loved that dirt you got on conservatives."
"And get me the IRS files of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi."

21 posted on 10/23/2019 9:05:52 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: timestax

bttt


22 posted on 10/23/2019 9:20:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And honest folks knew she was lying!


23 posted on 10/23/2019 2:52:43 PM PDT by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: Kaslin
Rice has a new memoir out in which she claims she was just repeating the talking points provided to her by the CIA.

Fox NEVER made her out to be a villain. They painted her as a 'patsy', while they questioned why Hillary was hiding while she sent Rice to lie for her. They painted HILLARY as a coward, liar and villain. Rice was only criticized for her willingness to 'take one for the team'. And as it turned out, they were 100% on target...

24 posted on 10/23/2019 3:09:16 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: morphing libertarian

She’s a sociopath. They all are. Joe brags on camera about corrupt behavior, and investigating it is about the election. Rice lies to bereaved families and the nation, and it’s about fundraising for elections. This is sickness. The only cure is repeatedly and resoundingly being defeated.

No more of these electoral-only victories. It must be a landslide in 2020, both popular and electoral. But not just the presidency. They must suffer a total loss of any control in the House and a Republican super majority in the Senate. They must have multiple years of just shutting up and crying into their beer after hours. The MSM must go bankrupt and out of business, with new, more balanced news outlets gaining prominence after their demise. Outlets with integrity and credibility. The deep state swamp must be utterly drained.


25 posted on 10/23/2019 3:11:26 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: ETCM

Rice has a new memoir out in which she claims she was just repeating the talking points provided to her by the CIA.”

Then when she found out she was being used to lie to the world, she should have resigned. but she took a promotion from her hero Imam Obama.


26 posted on 10/23/2019 3:11:28 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Eleutheria5

agreed but then has to imprison the criminal.


27 posted on 10/23/2019 3:12:22 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: morphing libertarian

but THE MAN has to imprison the guilty.


28 posted on 10/23/2019 3:12:55 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Kaslin

Susan Rice, eh? It’s hard to believe she used to be a man.


29 posted on 10/23/2019 3:46:22 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Hang more than a few of them. Susan, no. She’s merely a lying shill for the real criminals. So she does 10 years for obstruction of justice and being a bitch. Hillary, however, from the highest yardarm. With Brennan, McCabe, Comey and others dangling alongside of her. As for Obama, best have Trump pardon him after he tells all. Then he can live out the rest of his life in luxury on Martha’s Vineyard, an outcast and a disgrace.


30 posted on 10/23/2019 3:50:23 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Kaslin

Thanks to Obama and McCain, they managed to destroy stability resulting in the murder of countless Christians in the region. Special place in hell.


31 posted on 10/23/2019 4:16:57 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: morphing libertarian

I saw a movie last night called “Sicario” in which rogue CIA agents team us with FBI agents who are not rogue.

At the end of the movie, after an FBI agent SEES something she shouldn’t see, she is threatened by the CIA guy to sign a paper saying everything in the op went “ACCORDING TO THE BOOK.”

I was reminded of what Susan Rice did when President Trump was inaugurated. She wrote an email to herself saying that all of the officials Leaving did “EVERYTHING BY THE BOOK.”

I have a feeling she saw that movie.


32 posted on 10/23/2019 4:49:00 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Maris Crane

LOL i think the movie came out later. Brolin did a good job playing get er done in both movies, Don’t know how true it is. never been in battle but in prison riots. Sometimes you survive by going over the line.


33 posted on 10/23/2019 4:51:37 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: morphing libertarian

It came out in 2015.

Just at the right time......


34 posted on 10/23/2019 4:58:43 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Maris Crane

got it


35 posted on 10/23/2019 5:02:31 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: himno hero
"Obama purposeful built a team of anti British christian colonists. All of them totally against the heritage that gave the world achievement and progress."

8 years and for what? He sits in the most expensive choom room in DC and gets fried and watches sports. It's the sweetest karma ever.

36 posted on 10/23/2019 6:25:41 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: Alberta's Child
"Jeez — Even Susan Rice is throwing Obama’s CIA under the bus."

Can we remember that ValJar told Bobo to put Rice out there, specifically to take her down a peg, or two, or three.

37 posted on 10/23/2019 6:26:40 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: Kaslin
Rice spoke for the Obama administration on several different news shows claiming that the terror attack on the U.S. consulate was the result of a spontaneous YouTube video

Rice has a new memoir out in which she claims she was just repeating the talking points provided to her by the CIA.


38 posted on 10/23/2019 6:31:49 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: Kaslin

She’s a villain because she sold out her countrymen and women in Libya and freedom for Iran. She’s worse than a paid traitor because she did it for power, not a cause. When you look up “POS” in the dictionary of American slang, you will see her picture ext to it.


39 posted on 10/23/2019 6:47:31 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Liz

20. American University’s School of International Service (which I attended in grad school) has gone leftist decades ago starting when they hired MARXIST priest Brady Tyson in the late sixties. Today I refer to AU as “UnAmerican University or Moscow on the Potomac.


40 posted on 10/23/2019 6:55:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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