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The Right-Wing Lie: Tripoli is Benghazi and Benghazi is Tripoli
Last edited Thu Oct 18, 2012, 03:11 AM - Edit history (1)
"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." -- Attributed to Mark Twain.
They are lying and distorting the tragic events in Benghazi for cheap political gain and they are getting away with it. Seriously getting away with it.
What am I talking about?
1.) The murderous attack took place at the "consulate" in Benghazi, not at the embassy in Tripoli.
2.) The requests for additional security were for the "embassy" in "Tripoli" not for the consulate in Benghazi.
Why is this important?
Because GOP House Committee Chairman Darrell Issa in his staged and rush-to-judgement "hearings" immediately methodically cut off any attempt by U.S. State Department employees to clarify this distinction. Issa's sick goal was to muddy the public understanding of the tragedy and to make it look like the "requests" for additional security had been for Benghazi. And that is not the case.
Stay with me because this is important:
Last night in the Presidential Debate, a man in the audience read his prepared question out loud on national television to over 50 million Americans with the Big Lie neatly included:
"We were sitting around, talking about Libya, and we were reading and became aware of reports that the State Department refused extra security for our embassy in Benghazi, Libya, prior to the attacks that killed four Americans.
Who was it that denied enhanced security and why?"
Who was it that denied enhanced security and why?"
'REPORTS THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT REFUSED EXTRA SECURITY FOR OUR EMBASSY IN BENGHAZI, LIBYA"
WTF?
Folks, the embassy is in Tripoli! Not Benghazi.
The request for additional security was for the embassy in Tripoli, not a consulate in Benghazi.
And that is not a minor distinction. It is part of the big lie.
Where is the lie? Where is the attempt to muddy that up?
On Fox News and its many affiliates, newspapers, magazines and television programs.
On right-wing radio around the clock this lie is being spread.
And even to where that false narrative got exposure to over 50 million Americans last night.
The intention? To play crass politics with a tragedy in a very sinister and sick way. To make a horrific and heart-breaking situation into a Mitt Romney campaign toy. And of course, to discredit the President, Vice-President, the Secretary of State all so Mitt Romney can get elected.
This is how Osama bin Laden was morphed (presto) into Saddam Hussein so the Bush Cabal could make war in Iraq and let bin Laden slip away. And Americans bought it. Hook line
There is no American embassy in Benghazi and the those "discovered" requests for additional security referred to the embassy in Tripoli, not a consulate in Benghazi.
Now, tell a friend and spread the word before the lie gets all the way around the world on this one.
Stop the lie.
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".. From the shores of Tripoli". 
Read the map, fucktards.
