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riversedge

(70,084 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:02 PM Oct 2015

Clinton to @Rep. Jim Jordan I'm Sorry My Facts Don't 'Fit Your Narrative' On Benghazi

I thought this was one of her best lines yesterday



Clinton To GOPer: I'm Sorry My Facts Don't 'Fit Your Narrative' On Benghazi


By Catherine Thompson PublishedOctober 22, 2015, 1:19 PM EDT 75638 views

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton chided a Republican member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi during her Thursday testimony for twisting her own words to "fit his narrative."

.................Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) pressed Clinton on a question that has been examined by previous panels investigating the Benghazi attacks: why the Obama administration initially and inaccurately attributed the attacks to a spontaneous protest over an anti-Muslim YouTube video. The Ohio Republican repeatedly spoke over Clinton and accused her of not being square with the public in order to preserve the "success story" of the administration's intervention in Libya.

Jordan argued that Clinton knew all along that the attacks had "nothing to do with the film," citing emails she sent to the prime minister of Egypt and to her family.

"Why didn't you just speak plain to the American people?" he asked.

"I did," Clinton responded, having argued that she referred to the violence as an attack that some assailants had justified on the basis of the video.

"If you look at my statement as opposed to what I was saying to the Egyptian prime minister, I did state clearly and I said it again and in more detail the next morning," she continued. "As did the president. I'm sorry that it doesn't fit your narrative, congressman. I can only tell you what the facts were."


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Clinton to @Rep. Jim Jordan I'm Sorry My Facts Don't 'Fit Your Narrative' On Benghazi (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2015 OP
The more they report on it, the more Presidential she looks and the more... Walk away Oct 2015 #1
I loved that line too. BlueMTexpat Oct 2015 #2
Anyone brave enough ......? missingfink Oct 2015 #3
And someone made a poster to go with it.... riversedge Oct 2015 #4
Photo of the handshake at the end -Clinton-Dowdy riversedge Oct 2015 #5

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
1. The more they report on it, the more Presidential she looks and the more...
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:14 PM
Oct 2015

moronic, unprepared, unorganized and out classed they look.

By the way, where did they all go???? I haven't seen them out trying to spin the hearings in their favor. Perhaps that is just impossible.

BlueMTexpat

(15,365 posts)
2. I loved that line too.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:21 PM
Oct 2015

Jordan was certainly among the nastiest questioners. He's so dumb that he doesn't even realize that she completely outclassed him.

Why am I not surprised to see that Jordan is the "head" of the "Freedom Caucus" - the nastiest and craziest group of GOPers of all? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/meet-the-right-wing-rebels-who-overthrew-john-boehner-20151006

missingfink

(174 posts)
3. Anyone brave enough ......?
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:22 PM
Oct 2015

to see how the RW sites are reporting this sham of an investigation? I would be interested in a report.

riversedge

(70,084 posts)
4. And someone made a poster to go with it....
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:27 PM
Oct 2015


Sharoney ?@Sharoney 21h21 hours ago

You can stand down, now, #BenghaziCommittee - the country has your number.


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