Breaking: US Ambassador Killed in Libya
The United States ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed in a rocket attack on the American Consulate in the city of Benghazi on Tuesday, a contractor working at the mission said Wednesday after seeing Stevens’ body. (link)
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And still no official statement from the White House…
Except… there is an official statement.
And . . . cue stupidity.
At this point, Dominique, it’s pretty clear that your attitude about Obama is more about you than Obama. You should get some professional help.
Poor blind Dom…
Dominique caught lying again. What a horrible person she is.
She and Romney deserve each other. Both trying to outrageously politicize the death of our dedicated and brave foreign service professionals. How dare they!
*they
D’oh. Thanks SW. Need coffee.
Romney’s big lie here and the headlong rush to politicize this based on that big lie is unprecedented.
I certainly haven’t seen the likes of it in my lifetime.
And Reince Preibus tweets:
This from the Maddow blog, which gives the accurate timeline of events unlike liars such as Dominque, Mitt Romney and Reince Preibus:
At this point it is accurate to say anyone who supports Mitt Romney thinks it is ok to lie for any purpose at any time and you can even lie about American deaths, while their bodies are still warm, to suit your political purposes, is a ….. well… words cannot express or describe how evil people like Dominique and Mitt Romney are.
This is such an open and shut case of lying assholery. That Preibus would enshrine it as GOP policy is appalling.
While the Dom thing is enraging, back to the matter at hand. I cannot believe we’re at the point that people are DYING because some asshole posted a video on youtube.
also I can’t believe some people think that trashing someone’s religion (when it’s provoked violence in the past) is a smart idea. He’s got his free speech rights, but I hope he’s satisfied that 4 people are dead because he felt like being a jerk.
Satisfied? I sure he feels like his point, what ever it is, has been proven.
Mitt Romney and his team are not ready for the office of President:
Shooting off their mouths before they have the facts. Great foreign policy skills.
Romney needs to be fried in the press and the debates for his statement: “It’s disgraceful that the Obama Administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”
Was there a terrorist fist bump I missed?
Romney needs to be asked at every turn where he finds this sympathy, until he turns into a stuttering mess trying to come up with an answer.
Romney is reportedly referring to the PRE-attack embassy statement about the film, which was the embassy’s attempt to soothe the feelings of its host nation – which is what diplomats are supposed to do. I do think the statement could have done a little more to defend and explain American free speech rights, but that doesn’t excuse Romney’s disgusting attacks.
Jason, I just don’t get how they think this will be helpful to the people of Israel.
the attackers are assholes, the “filmaker” is an asshole, and the people that funded it are assholes.
Everyone loses here.
Romney stuttering through an actual press conference – He’s doubling down on his attacks from last night. The Press is asking him about jumping the gun. He refuses to answer.
The press knows he fucked this up and is lying. The press will not be his friend on this. If you have lost Chuck Todd…
http://citizenjournalistdotorg.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/egyptian-radicals-storm-outside-of-us-embassy-guy-fawkes-masks-on-the-wall/
Yeah, I count exactly two Guy Fawkes masks out of about 100 people in that photo. Think somebody at that link site might have an agenda?
Gawker (and other outlets) are doing some great reporting on the fallout.
Some reports say the rocket attack was planned and they used the protest for cover.
Actors have come forward to say they had no idea that they were participating in an anti-islamic film (all of the heinous parts seem to be dubbed in)
the Sam Bacile guy responsible seems to not exist. it’s definitely a pseudonym, he’s probably not Israeli, no body seems to know what the real deal is.