Annals of Derp: Depravity, Germanity, and Wikipedia

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Andrew C. McCarthy of the National Review wrote in reference to the tragic or comic demise of the Special Select Committee on Benghazi:

‘We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with.”

Those words, depraved words, were spoken by then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton, with President Obama by her side, on September 14, 2012. This was at Joint Base Andrews, during the most sacred of rites: the return of the remains of Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, and Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, all slain in the line of duty in Benghazi.

Nice en-dash, Andrew! (No snark, a mere hyphen in "then–secretary of state" wouldn't have been right, as Wikipedia clarifies.) But, uh, depraved?

So I went and commented.

Annals of derp: The latest from Benghazi

War criminal Allen West trying to go full McCarthy, with a tale of a seatmate on a flight from Detroit who told him what *really* went on in Benghazi:

West’s source also informed him that there was a covert weapons scheme going on in Benghazi that saw us arming radical Islamists with weapons so they could overthrow Gaddafi. West says that it’ll make Iran-Contra “look like the Romper Room,” and that it came back to bite us in the end.

Worst was when those thugs found out they were wasting their time, given that Qaddafi had been dead for nearly a year.

Image by Liza Sabater.

(I think it's pretty well known that if the CIA was funneling weapons anywhere out of Benghazi it was to opposition in Syria, which is bad enough to make Iran-Contra look like, maybe, Teletubbies, but only because it looked like Teletubbies in the first place.)

Can't let West go without noting the extraordinarily McCarthyite shamelessness and slime with which he attempted last week to impugn the patriotism of Rep. Tammy Duckworth, who lost three limbs in Iraq (of course West lost his honor as a man and a soldier in Iraq, so maybe he feels as if he's her equal in some respect).

Cheap shots and ancient myths

Mousepad from Zazzle.

BENGHAZI!!! smoking gun

Via email from Foreign Policy, a report from Massimo Calabresi at Time magazine: the guilty party behind the Susan Rice talking points that wrongly suggested the incident at the US consulate in Benghazi was a mob infuriated by the Innocence of Muslims home video was—wait for it—Time magazine.

And other organs of our fearless journalistic establishment (such as Al Jazeera), which is why I remember being perfectly certain that it was the story myself. That's what [jump]

Projection?

Shorter Kevin D. Williamson, "Unnecessary Lies", National Review Online, May 6 2014:

OK, so we couldn't come up with any coherent reason why the Obama administration would have been conspiring to tell lies about the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in September 2012. But that totally doesn't mean they weren't doing it! Like, maybe they were just keeping in practice.

Cheap shot: Inventing Benghazi

At the "Groundswell" meeting of May 8 2013, where neo-Crusader Christian goblins Jerry Boykin and Frank Gaffney were helping to plot the creation of a "scandal" around the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Boykin reported, per Karoli:

And I think it's okay to share with you, wouldn't you say so Frank, that the Speaker was, I thought he was very coherent last night when we talked about this. And that he believes that the process needs to play out before we get a special committee...

Yes, when they caught Boehner being (apparently) coherent, they knew they must be onto something special.

Image from the People Of  Earth: Attention interview with John Boehner (July 2011), a work of transcendent genius.

Also check out Driftglass for the designation of the scandal as Whitewater 2.0, which pretty much says it all.