Guy Arrested for Benghazi Attack Has Been Hanging Out in Plain Sight for Ages
Obama done caught him a terrorist. Yay! Except . . . what took so long?...
Hm. He sounds easy to find. If you care...
Doesn’t sound like Obama cared.What's this remind me of -- oh yeah: "In six games!"
Got any nominees of your own? All serious candidates considered. I warn you, though, you can forget about low-hanging fruit -- so don't comb the gutters for small-time operators peddling fringe Benghazi truther bullshit like... um... um... popular radio blowhard Joe Walsh ("Timing of Benghazi Arrest Suspicious")... Ah, prairie shit -- everybody!
Our host already knows this but of course the FBI and Special Ops have been tracking this dude for a year so as to nab him with no one harmed because that is the difference between the right-wing WAR-WAR all the time that causes yet more disasters and the Obama approach which is more surgical and precise. And, of course, that makes the MSM sad because not enough explosions and technicolor.
ReplyDeleteI understand the suspect has already said the riots were sparked by a video, then used opportunistically by the attackers. This was of course the story that Obama and Susan Rice "peddled" when it happened. In Bitter Fear Land, where the GOP lives, that version was shot down based on two nig facts: 1) Obama always lies, and 2) Terrorists are all-powerful masterminds. Now here comes the "mastermind" saying Obama & Rice were spot-on... so will the rightwingers belatedly congratulate our intel community for being the world's best... or insist this is evidence of collusion? "Their stories match up! PROOF that Obama and the terrorists coordinated from the very start!"
ReplyDeleteCan I nominate the entire Republican house membership? Their instant reaction was "This Benghazi arrest is just a way to distract from, uh, something--like maybe Benghazi!"
ReplyDeleteOr maybe the nut who claimed it was done to help Hillary with her book sales should get the nod.
I'll go with the last option there. Especially since the Heritage Foundation spectacle over the weekend where rightwing luminaries opined about how Obama is working with Jihadists, and Hillary and he are secretly imposing Sharia law even as we speak!
ReplyDeleteAfter that it'll only be a few weeks until the Benghazi truthers go full on like their original namesakes and start claiming no one was killed at all. And that the damage to the embassy was caused by explosives planted by the U.S. government.
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows that Obama is in the pocket of big Book Publishing. Hell, Simon & Schuster's CEO probably was the one who actually did the killing at the embassy in Benghazi. All so years later he could gain the megabucks to be had from Hillary's book from the market who thinks she's involved in a massive cover-up.
ReplyDeleteMan cannot live on sour grapes alone, but Patterico is damn sure going to try.
ReplyDeleteWell if you want some spicy skreeeeeee there's Shoebat.
ReplyDeleteThis too smacked of suspicious timing and contrivance. Obama bemoaning the “phony scandals” known as Benghazi and IRS and recently, the VA scandal, the Bergdahl swap, the ISIS march on Mosul, and news of a lame excuse that Lois Lerner’s emails have been lost in a computer crash have been compounding Obama’s problems.
So why not attempt to neutralize all of those troubles with the announcement that a top Benghazi suspect had been arrested and is on his way to the U.S?
Not sure how Obama could get too worried. Apparently the world is one big Parcheesi board and he can tip it over and dump all the pieces whenever he isn't winning.
Nice try, Roy. I read you in order to not have to read that shit.
ReplyDeleteMy preferred version is that they tracked him for a year just to play out more rope for the GOP to hang themselves. It may not be true, but it should be.
ReplyDeleteI prefer to think that they tracked him for a year to research his mating habits, diet, and migration patterns.
ReplyDeleteObama done caught him a terrorist. Yay! Except . . . what took so long?...
ReplyDeleteHm. He sounds easy to find. If you care...
I'd say the evidence is pretty strong that the president cares about tracking down terrorists, given that he stayed on task and tracked down this other guy who killed a lot of Americans, and about whom his predecessor had this to say, on March 13, 2003:
Q: But don't you believe that the threat that bin Laden posed won't truly be eliminated until he is found either dead or alive?
W: Well, as I say, we haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.
Patterico notably had nothing to say at the time, or in the following almost 7 full years of the Bush presidency, about the president's failure to kill or bring bin Laden to justice, even after Bush had publicly stated that it wasn't a priority for him.
Obama? He made it a priority; bin Laden was dead within 18 months of Obama taking office. And it didn't require a full-scale war to get him, either. This time, it took 21 months to round up the wanted party, again without starting a full-scale war. This indicates the patience and maturity to see a job through, even one that takes longer than a few hours or days without a payoff.
Sounds like Patterico's problem is that he wasn't gratified immediately enough. Like all toddlers, delayed gratification is a concept he just can't grasp. Mommy won't buy a new toy racecar? SMASH the racecars you have in a fit of rage. Can't find the guy who attacked and killed thousands of your fellow citizens? BOMB the shit out of a big piece of real estate; with any luck you might even hit the guy who did it, but even if you don't, things go BOOM!
I wish just once one of these asshole terrorists were the Bond villain that the right imagines them to be. "No, wingnuts, I expect you to die".
ReplyDeleteThere was a Foxbot who claimed that the raid was timed to give Hillary something to talk about during her scheduled interview on Fox that evening. That's got to be worth something on the grounds of sheer self-centeredness.
ReplyDelete"Timing of Back Child Support Payments Suspicious"
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Well I think they just tracked him for a year while they waited for him to reply to Obama's "do you like me? yes/no/maybe" note
ReplyDeleteDistraction! (See comments.) http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/380577/benghazi-suspect-captured-us-forces-patrick-brennan
ReplyDeleteLeftie: You can call "distraction" for anything.
Rightie: With this administration, anything is possible!
Leftie: (Gives up, talks to somebody else.)
From Freeperville:
ReplyDeleteTo: don-o
U.S. captures Benghazi suspect in secret raid
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was it Hillary or zer0 that they caught???????
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posted on 6/17/2014, 10:35:10 AM
by Vaquero
Oh, this is a new one - the Benghazi capture is a distraction from Lois Lerner's emails.
ReplyDeleteToo bad he caught the guy a little bit too late to distract us from the righteous outrage over Obama chewing gum at D-Day.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, "Obama halitosis mars D-Day observance."
ReplyDeleteRemember, they were also crying "Wag the Dog" when Clinton intervened in the Balkans, because it was a limited, low-casualty intervention that actually accomplished what it set out to do.
ReplyDeletePattercakes' problem is that he's a moron.
ReplyDeleteThat was the stupidest MTV personality ever (and the competition is fierce), who is now a FOXBusinessbot. She's maybe in the top 10 stupidest at FBN.
ReplyDeleteJeffrey Godlstein: "I question the timing", and writes regarding a WH press briefing on the capture:
ReplyDeleteThe fact is, everyone in that room – and everyone in the country who has followed this presidency, for that matter — knew that this whole dog and pony show had been orchestrated, that Obama has been holding back what he believed to be a trump card for a time when the heat for some of his lawlessness and fecklessness began to pierce his air conditioned super town car and threatened to interrupt his golf outings.
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We are on to Obama and this administration. And our frustration is over the GOP’s timidity in holding him to account, preferring not to rock the boat so that they can perhaps default their way back into power.
All of them disgust me.
Right. If only Darrell Issa, et al, et al were less timid Godlstein, for whom disgust is both a cardinal humor and an eternal schtick, would be less disgusted.
Good nomination. Wow.
ReplyDeleteWas that Kennedy? It's so hard to tell her from Sippy Cupp.
ReplyDeleteI refuse to get out of the boat, but I nominate whoever uses this to conduct some fancy investigative journalism and conclude that bin Laden is alive, well and did the killings himself.
ReplyDelete'Cos I know that is out there.
Remember the squawking when some Democrat tried to introduce anti-profiteering legislation around the time the Iraq invasion started? Lets you know just what the Redoublechins' priorities are.
ReplyDeleteThose grapes are beyond sour into fermented.
ReplyDeleteOh, THAT explains the radio collar.
ReplyDeleteOf the Brain-Dead Kennedys.
ReplyDeleteNow infected with ergot.
ReplyDeleteShorter wingnut reaction, reduced to joke form:
ReplyDelete"The food here is terrible!"
"And the portions are so small!"
She's still around? I thought that washed-up annoyance would be selling used vinyl at Ernie November's by now.
ReplyDeleteI nominate Trey Gowdy, or Tres Pouty, if you will.
ReplyDeleteAh, so the Obama Time Machine can go forward in time as well as back! Great! Who's going to win the Oscars or the World Series? Inquiring minds want to know!
ReplyDeleteSheesh, what a bunch of idiots.
How did he stop fondling a gun long enough to type that?
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Is that part of 15,000 word thesis about how liberals steal the language and the language is sacred, and, hold on he has to go listen to Mark Levin eviscerate language, facts, history, and morality for three hours.
Good god, the weird stuff is he into on the side: lawsuits, wars against Brett Kimberlin, alliances with Robert Stacy McCain, listening and promoting neo-Confederate sympathizer Tom Woods....
ReplyDeleteHe and Goldstein deserve each other
'That dern Obama used our own stupidity against us!'
ReplyDeleteIt's been said before but I must reiterate: The timing is obvious. This is just another distraction by Obama to take attention away from the House Benghazi hearings!
ReplyDeleteDoesn’t sound like Obama cared.
ReplyDeleteWhat's this remind me of -- oh yeah:
now I remember...
Read the thread first, meanie. Read the thread first....
ReplyDeleteNot exactly on-point, but it revolts-and-saddens me to my core that this, if correct (it does after all come from Faux Nooz) passes muster as 'justice' in today's 'Merka:
ReplyDelete"Khattala is now being held aboard a U.S. Naval ship -- the USS New York -- as it makes its way to the United States... Officials hope to have as much time with him as possible before having to read his Miranda rights and hand him off to a lawyer. The decision on when that should happen rests with President Obama... At the moment, officials describe the Navy vessel carrying him as being on a "slow" trip back to the United States...."
On behalf of your still-civilised allies and global neighbors, I say Grrrrrr.
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diet
ReplyDeleteWe already knew about the smoothies.
That was the stupidest MTV personality ever (and the competition is fierce), who is now a FOXBusinessbot.
ReplyDeleteIn one of my recurring dreams, Martha Quinn suddenly appears on set, shivs Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, and ambles off. (I will draw a discreet veil over the part of the dream involving Downtown Julie Brown.)
Ernie turned her down so Faux took her
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