RE: Benghazi: What's the Charge Again?
May 10, 2014 at 4:55 pm
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2014 at 5:38 pm by Heywood.)
(May 10, 2014 at 4:03 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/09...tail=email
Quote:Rep. Paul Ryan is still complaining about CNN’s Candy Crowley’s 2012 debate moderation. Specifically, about the fact that she corrected Mitt Romney for saying President Obama took 14 days to call the 9/11 attack on the Benghazi compound “an act of terror,” when Obama said those words in the Rose Garden the very day after the killings of four Americans.
No wonder republicunts hate facts. So inconvenient.
In the Rose Garden, Obama said: "No acts of terror" not "an act of terror" as you claim. You need to get your facts straight. In the Rose Garden Obama specifically called the attack "brutal" and "outrageous" but he never specifically called it "an act of terror". Just because he used the phrase "no acts of terror" in his speech doesn't mean he was calling it a terrorist act. He was referring to terrorists acts in the general (hence his use of the plural).
What is a fact is that the day after the attack, Obama agreed he is reluctant to call this specific act a terrorist act. In fact he admits he believes there were people out to target Americans from the start, yet his administration sent Rice out on the Sunday morning stump to portray this as a spontaneous uprising. Obama lied. Obama mislead people during the debate and Crowley and CBS gave him cover.
