Posted on 05/16/2014 7:41:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A longtime political pundit under fire for claiming the American ambassador to Libya was not "murdered" in Benghazi is standing by her claim he died of smoke inhalation.
"I'd like to point out that Ambassador (Chris) Stevens was not 'murdered;' he died of smoke inhalation in that safe room in that CIA installation," Eleanor Clift, a columnist at The Daily Beast, said Sunday on "The McLaughlin Group."
While Clift may be technically correct in light of reports that Stevens died from smoke inhalation, she was criticized because the ambassador died as a result of a fire ignited during a terrorist raid on the Benghazi consulate on Sep. 11, 2012.
She stood by her comment Tuesday during a radio interview.
"I was taking issue with the sort of glib use of the word 'murdered,'" Clift told radio host Steve Malzberg. "My point is that it was a very chaotic event. The CIA was involved, which is why there was a lot of confusion initially, and that all the questions that this special committee is raising have been asked and answered in previous investigations."
Malzberg asked if she would feel the same way if it was her relative. She replied, "I would say he died of smoke inhalation."
Author and columnist Pat Buchanan, who was on the Sunday show's panel, reportedly said he was "stunned cold" by her remarks.
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You can’t fix stupid. She’s a ditz.
So, if I set fire to Eleanor Clift’s house and one of her relatives was sleeping there, and she died of smoke inhalation, I am not a murderer?
OK...
So, if I set fire to Eleanor Clift’s house and one of her relatives was sleeping there, and she died of smoke inhalation, I am not a murderer?
OK...
I guess the two Navy SEALs weren’t “murdered” either. They were killed by a mortar platoon that was out protesting a YouTube video when they decided to kill some Americans. Just a spur of the moment thing.
I guess we could call it “stuck on stupid.” How does she justify her use of language? What is her operating definition of murder? Maybe it has to be Mean Mr. Mustard with a Silver Hammer in the Octopuses’ Garden to qualify.
well, i say he was murdered by way of smoke inhalation...
if i lock someone in a closet and set the room on fire, and that person in the closet dies, am i not a murderer? this woman is out to lunch...
Even when compared to her peers, Zukin is a vicious, nasty, dried-up old leftist hag.
And the people who died at the Twin Towers on 9/11 were just victims of gravity, or structural failure.
If you set someone’s house on fire, and they die as a result, it is MURDER........................
9-11 was “pilot error”.
Peacefully, in his sleep
Further proof and more evidence that liberalism is truly a mental disease.
i guess if someone kills another person by shooting him, she would say he died of internal injuries... or if someone died because he was shot in the head, she would say he died of brain trauma...
yes--physically, those things are true--along with the smoke inhalation... but that has nothing to do with whether or not he was murdered... there are numerous ways to be murdered... why doesn't anybody point this out to her?
If she really believes Amb. Stevens accidentally died of smoke inhalation, she’s a fool. If she said that to provide cover for this sorry excuse of an administration, she’s a DAMNED fool.
Desperate people say stupid things...Clift knows that the hearings are going to finish Hillary..
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