Posted on 01/27/2013 4:55:44 AM PST by Kaslin
Let’s roll the tape:
"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and to do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator."
It was a dazzling play, instantly destined to enter the lore of political hardball and be studied and dissected for decades.
Such a perfect eruption of concentrated, seductively appealing dishonesty had to have been crafted by the father of high-wire lies, the master distracter himself, the Big Bill. The formidable but workmanlike Hillary lacks the creative gift and mendacious flair to actualize the McCarthy-Hellman standard: “Every word is a lie, including “and” and “the.”
Let’s admire her bravura work. Roll the super slo-mo, please:
"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans." Wait, read her lips. I think she said: “Have you questioners no decency or understanding of the gravity here? Four Americans died! This is much too serious and difficult for you to be asking me serious and difficult questions about it!”
Poor Senator Johnson. Look at his head snap back with the hit!
Roll tape:
"Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans?”
“Or?” Just two options? Either it was an angry movie review that spontaneously spun out of control, or it was some guys out fitness striding who combusted really spontaneously?
That’s a new one. No one until our distraught, reputation-saving, would-be future president ever suggested anything remotely like it. A bloody attack on an American mission that materialized from nothing. The Big Bang writ small.
It’s not accidental the Secretary’s false A or B excluded the truthful C: It was a planned attack on America by Al Qaeda affiliates on the anniversary of 9/11.
The Administration cretins are still lying through their whitened teeth and the sleeping dogs of the press are still refusing to bark. There are times when you might be forgiven for understanding why Bill Ayers decided only some really loud noises might wake the people up.
Back to the tape:
“What difference at this point does it make?”
That’s a powerful head fake: “Nothing can bring back the dead, you petty politician. Why are you asking these questions? Why can’t you just support the transformative vision of our historic president and stop trying to dig up inconvenient facts that our loyal protectors of the press have been so good to help us keep buried?”
Tape:
“It is our job to figure out what happened and to do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator."
Wow! Did you SEE Hillary’s neck-snapping spin and dive into the end zone?! Right over the flattened senator, across the goal line, and into the safe embrace of the media refs who raised triumphant arms, screeched “7!!” out their whistles, and immediately fed the highlight into the news cycle’s repeating loop.
Let’s break it down. “Why are you asking me about the nature and genesis of the attack? Or the motives, possible planning, and tactics of the attackers? Don’t you know our solemn duty—the only thing we can do--is figure out the genesis and nature of the attack, the motives, possible planning, and tactics of the attackers?
That’s how we can be prepared to make sure nothing like this will ever happen again. So please! Stop asking irrelevant questions about the genesis and nature of the attack, the motives, possible planning, and tactics of the attackers. This is too important for politics!”
It was a show for the ages. For our age, anyway.
For the record, Madame Secretary, it makes all the difference. It matters for public accountability: Understanding how the attack developed sheds light on how reasonable or not the decisions were that preceded it. It helps the public gauge the magnitude of the failure and reasonable consequences for a diplomat or politician who claims “full responsibility.” Is that just a convenient phrase to survive the news cycle, or does it mean something?
It matters for the administration’s credibility: People have a right to know if their government dealt straight or if it maneuvered feverishly to conceal and mislead for advantage in the campaign’s closing weeks. Every lie advanced the president’s narrative and deflected criticism. Coincidence?
It matters for understanding the larger global context and US interest: A planned Al Qaeda terror attack on America runs counter to the president’s story of positive trends in the Middle East. Is America’s stock rising or falling? Is Al Qaeda dwindling or resurgent? Was the US mission as rumored an illegal conduit of arms to Islamist rebels in Syria?
When John F. Kennedy took a bath in the Bay of Pigs, he couldn’t blame it on a Cuban fiesta that got out of hand. He never dreamed of trying. He had to own his policies and their consequences. A more professional press of the day helped ensure it.
We’ve fallen far if we’re transfixed by temper and tears. What was the issue again, anyway?
We know what happened.
A girl was in charge when a man was required.
Much like the GOP PhonyCon Liberals have wimped out on overturning ObamaCare, and going after Obama Eligibility...they will wuss out on going after Hillary, too
The PhonyCon Liberals in GOP Talk Radio and Media will blather a little, but eventually back down also.
But, hey, we are getting Illegal Alien Amnesty...
I read this in the VFW magazine in AUG 2012 - pretty important event in 1946...
http://digitaledition.qwinc.com/display_article.php?id=1112158
Liberals hate anyone questioning their outright and known agenda...these wolves want dead sheep - to conduct their propaganda — and anyone alive that speaks out against them usually ends up - well - like that guy on the park bench...Vince Foster!
It's because of people like you, the rats were able to shove the 0bamaCare that they didn't read down our throat.
It's because of people like you that the rats will succeed in taking second amendment rights away from us
It's because of people like you who totally ignore that it is the rats that want amnesty for illegals, and not the republicans they will get it
what difference does it make? If it makes no difference then why lie about it for weeks, Hillary?
The difference, you cankled bitch, is between your moldy pantsuits and a prison term with jumpsuit
Kaslin, you are exactly right.
A different scenario:
“With all due respect, the fact is we have four dead Americans. What does it matter if it was this family of four that was shot by home invaders or if the family had shot them with their B-52 assault things? What difference at this point does it make?”
OR the sensitive Stupid Republican version:
“With all due respect, the fact is we have an American woman who was raped. What does it matter if it was done by a crowd of militant Muslims or just a gang of black guys looking for something to do? What difference at this point does it make?”
So in the same breath she says “what difference does it make” and “it’s our job to find out what happened.”
Seriously? Those are two opposing statements.
Thank you
The appropriate response to this statement, that she should have been immediately confronted with, is:
It makes a huge difference because it goes directly to the competence and honesty of the 0bama administration. You are right, it is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, and that starts with you telling the truth, Madame Secretary. Now - let's start again.
Exactly. How can you take steps to make sure something never happens again if you don't think it's important to find out why it happened in the first place?
Officer, unhand that man with the smoking gun. What difference does it make who did it and why. It won’t bring back his victim.
“What difference does it make, Madame Secretary? Your statements after the incident indicate that you were either lying or incompetent. We are here to determine how much of which and to what degree.”
I too receive the VFW magazine and I missed the article; thanks for posting this dynamite article!
I too receive the VFW magazine and I missed the article; thanks for posting this dynamite article!
I too receive the VFW magazine and I missed the article; thanks for posting this dynamite article!
What difference does it make?
If I had been on the panel I would have responeded to that with:
Let’s ask the loved ones of those killed what difference it makes. And in lieu of their answer let’s send Chelsea to Libya to replace the ambassador. While we’re at it let’s ask Vince Foster’s and Ron Brown’s loved ones what difference it makes how they died. And why stop there? Let’s ask Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick etc, what it matters that they were raped/molested?
I know all the above wouldn’t have made it out because her head would have exploded at some point.
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