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Stephanie Cutter: Benghazi is only an issue because of Romney and Ryan; NYT more or less agrees
Hotair ^ | OCTOBER 11, 2012 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 10/11/2012 1:30:11 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; impeachnow; libya; waronterror
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To: miss marmelstein

Oh; Obama showed up at some microphone somewhere with Slick Hilly Clinton, with the most serious looking expression I’ve seen on his face - like he was wearing a mask. Hilly had her arms outstretched and raised as if to say, “I’m in control here!” - Then they proceeded to go on and on for days trumpeting that it was some obscure video dissing Mohammed that caused the 9/11 (!!!) uprising at Benghazi. - Wow! Two birds with one stone; a “crisis” AND another chance to attack our pesky Constitutional right to free speech; even arrested the guy who was supposed to have made the video . . and on and on, for DAYS, they kept telling the same story . . until it became clear it is a lie.

“Ned” in the First Reader was more qualified than these yahoos. - Slick Hilly’s done a disappearing act; and I WISH Obama and his whole commie crew would join her. - I sure as shootin’ am ready to at least give Romney and Ryan a try.


21 posted on 10/11/2012 2:00:11 PM PDT by Twinkie (Live and let live.)
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To: EEGator

6 of those 57 MT nukes—there wouldn’t be much of the M.E. left inhabitable!!@

Too bad there are no B(or W) 53’s left....the 9-10MT yield would do a LOT to “calm down” the M.E. problems...


22 posted on 10/11/2012 2:05:09 PM PDT by Rca2000 ( NEVER underestimate the power of "one little election", in WI.....)
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To: RobinMasters

It’s been downgraded from “a bump in the road” to “not an issue at all”


23 posted on 10/11/2012 2:06:16 PM PDT by randita
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To: RobinMasters

Cutter said Benghazi was a “terrible tragedy”.

I wonder if 9/11/2001 was just a “really bad day” in her world.


24 posted on 10/11/2012 2:08:58 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


25 posted on 10/11/2012 2:09:10 PM PDT by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

These people are beyond shameless.


26 posted on 10/11/2012 2:16:44 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Nachum

I might add, I am praying they’re all BUMPS IN THE ROAD!


27 posted on 10/11/2012 2:17:29 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: RobinMasters

Not a bad looking broad , but dumb as a rock.


28 posted on 10/11/2012 2:19:55 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: fatnotlazy
 
 
Even worse, this is an unmistakable signal to anyone who works in any capacity for the Obama Regime that it would be wise to understand that at any time they are utterly expendable for the sake of petty political expediency and should be considering if their paycheck is worth it.
 
 

29 posted on 10/11/2012 2:22:09 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: RobinMasters

I heard the same talking points last night from Anderson Cooper (and BTW, why is he on TV? So hard to listen to/watch). Saw it coming...the heartless Republicans are using this tragedy for political gain.


30 posted on 10/11/2012 2:22:42 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: Rca2000

“...there wouldn’t be much of the M.E. left inhabitable!”

This is a problem?


31 posted on 10/11/2012 2:24:31 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: RobinMasters

OMG. The Obama campaign today blamed the 4 dead Americans for their own deaths because they didn’t Libya was such a dangerous place,


32 posted on 10/11/2012 2:35:34 PM PDT by o2bfree (All us minorities got us an Obamaphone!!!)
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To: GeronL
Over the years I met plenty of State Department folks (in the DC area) ~ they've all had an experience or two about almost getting killed.

The risks are not unknown. What this situation has is earlier high level presidential involvement in the area/country followed in short order by what looks like criminal indifference to the plight of the people the president sent in to do State department work.

Sounds like Representative Cummings is equally indifferent.

33 posted on 10/11/2012 2:35:39 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: miss marmelstein; EEGator

‘__________drop a bomb on Mecca.’

And Medina.
Muzzles would know Allah didn’t ‘save them holy cities. . . ‘

How ‘bout a missle?

The lack of outrage regarding the murders in Benghazi by we citizens was deafening. Was puzzled by that after a few days.


34 posted on 10/11/2012 2:36:54 PM PDT by USARightSide (SUPPORTING O U R TROOPS)
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To: miss marmelstein

Husband wrote a letter (published) maybe 2 years ago to the newspaper about that very subject: that if H. Truman hadn’t dropped that bomb, he wouldn’t have been alive. He was a sailor aboard a ship, destination unknown, when the war was declared ‘over.’


35 posted on 10/11/2012 2:43:26 PM PDT by USARightSide (SUPPORTING O U R TROOPS)
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To: RobinMasters

The Kenyan must be worried that the Nobel Prize folks ask for the Peace prize back.


36 posted on 10/11/2012 2:47:43 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001. NEVER FORGET.)
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To: RobinMasters

37 posted on 10/11/2012 2:53:27 PM PDT by timestax (Why not drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff ? ? ?)
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To: RobinMasters

Just saw an interview by Bret baer with this cutter nut.Wow, she just figured she could talk all over him and it made her look even more like the idiot than we think she is.


38 posted on 10/11/2012 3:43:49 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: RobinMasters

ombama took the video lie to the UN...


39 posted on 10/11/2012 4:22:10 PM PDT by stylin19a (Obama -> Ransom "Rance" Stoddard)
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To: USARightSide

Glad your husband survived WWII. I just hope we’ll all survive Islamic Nazism.


40 posted on 10/12/2012 3:46:49 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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