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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 10:01 AM Oct 2015

This Hillary-bashing Chris Stevens/Benghazi meme is going around again. And it's FAKE, of course.

I was tweeted this photo in regards to Hillary by a RWNJ (ie: "Hillary is a terrible person - Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi", yadda yadda). But the photo is FAKE. Just want to let people know in case a RWNJ tries to pull this stunt on you. Yep I like Bernie but will vote for Hillary too! Was very proud of her kicking Republican ass during the most recent Benghazi theater performance.

The guy who did the discovery/research on this photo meme isn't even a Hillary fan (he says he despises her), but evidently he just got tired of the RW stupid and decided to put a stop to it in re: this photo meme.

Anyway, here's the photo the RWNJs are posting everywhere:




And here's how/why IT'S FAKE:

http://ross-elder.com/2014/12/21/chris-stevens-torture-photo-not-chris-stevens/

The official reports, as well as many photographs and even a video posted by CNN, show ambassador Stevens fully clothed, uninjured, other than soot from the fire, being pulled from the rubble of the building and carried off – presumably to the hospital in which he was later found. The people surrounding Stevens at the time were not being violent toward him. They were helping him. So, the assertion Stevens was raped, brutalized, beaten, burned, and tortured prior to his death seems to have no credibility.

. . .

The photo above is NOT Christopher Stevens. The photo above is from a torture training session conducted at an army facility in Argentina.

http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/internacional/argentina-tuvo-democracia-centro-aprender-torturar_117834.html


Be careful out there. Lots of Benghazi bullshit flying against Hillary and it's all - well -- bullshit.

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This Hillary-bashing Chris Stevens/Benghazi meme is going around again. And it's FAKE, of course. (Original Post) Triana Oct 2015 OP
Thanks for the heads-up, BlueMTexpat Oct 2015 #1
Bookmarking underpants Oct 2015 #2
Our greatest threat is from within. nt. NCTraveler Oct 2015 #3
Could you please include a trigger-warning in the title? DetlefK Oct 2015 #4
That pic came across my twitter also. I blocked riversedge Oct 2015 #5

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
4. Could you please include a trigger-warning in the title?
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 10:21 AM
Oct 2015

I once posted something similarly shocking without a trigger-warning, so I'm not the right person to moralize on this, but it would be nice anyways.

riversedge

(70,306 posts)
5. That pic came across my twitter also. I blocked
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 10:38 AM
Oct 2015

that person and reported it a while ago.--but it must still be circulating--like so much vile RW crap does.

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