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rbrnmw

(7,160 posts) Sat May 18, 2013, 12:57 AM May 2013

Awesome Media Matters Article Benghazi Emails

So here's what happened. Republicans in Congress saw copies of these emails two months ago and did nothing with them. It was obvious that they showed little more than routine interagency haggling. Then, riding high after last week's Benghazi hearings, someone got the bright idea of leaking two isolated tidbits and mischaracterizing them in an effort to make the State Department look bad. Apparently they figured it was a twofer: they could stick a shiv into the belly of the White House and they could then badger them to release the entire email chain, knowing they never would.

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/17/abc-news-amp-the-whitewater-tactics-at-the-cent/194120

But President Obama DID release them and now we have the real scandal

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Awesome Media Matters Article Benghazi Emails (Original Post) rbrnmw May 2013 OP

I'm watching with bated breath if corporate media reports on the Jon Karl's shilling BlueCaliDem May 2013 #1

I love it!! rbrnmw May 2013 #3

"knowing they never would".. there's the Cha May 2013 #2

I say outright LIED about what was in them rbrnmw May 2013 #4

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)

1. I'm watching with bated breath if corporate media reports on the Jon Karl's shilling

Reply to rbrnmw (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2013, 01:23 AM

May 2013

for Issa and the Republicans. Hopefully, this little corporate infil(traitor) will be demoted or fired for getting egg in the faces of his network. He was, after all, the channel the Republicans used to gin up this non-scandal.

Ah . . . those Republicans. They underestimate this president at their own peril.

rbrnmw

(7,160 posts)

3. I love it!!

Reply to BlueCaliDem (Reply #1)

Sat May 18, 2013, 04:54 AM

May 2013

I expect the IRS Teabag scandal to be a little of nothing too it was one office it wasn't agency wide and it was not only conservative groups 2/3 of the audits were for other groups not having anything to do with conservative groups.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/05/the-irs-and-the-tea-party-where-is-the-scandal.html

Cha

(297,692 posts)

2. "knowing they never would".. there's the

Reply to rbrnmw (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2013, 03:58 AM

May 2013

rub, ain't it?

What in this green Earth made them think the WH wouldn't release emails when they ALTERED their originals?

I think "altered" is a much better descriptive word than "mischaracterizing".

thanks rbrnmw

rbrnmw

(7,160 posts)

4. I say outright LIED about what was in them

Reply to Cha (Reply #2)

Sat May 18, 2013, 04:58 AM

May 2013

They need to update their playbook. We know their signals now. It really makes me sick.

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