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Don't mess with John Sununu... at least if you don't come armed with the facts. That's what CNN's Soledad O'Brien found out when she tried to imply that Mitt Romney erred at Tuesday night's debate when he called out Barack Obama over the attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
First, a review for those of you who missed the debate and have not followed the timeline regarding the murders in Libya and Obama's public statements regarding them. Make no mistake... Barack Obama and his team purposely tried (and are still trying) to mislead the American people over the cause of the attack.
September 11, 2012 -- Four Americans including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens were murdered in a terrorist attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
The very next day, Obama gives a speech in the Rose Garden talking about the murders. The full transcript can be found here. The important passage as follows:
No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.
When you look at the context of the full speech AND the exact words as presented here, it is clear that this is a GENERIC statement of American policy. Basically, acts of terror will not be condoned. Barack Obama did NOT say that the attacks in Libya were a terrorist act.
Here's the video of the speech:
So... what happened next? September 11, 2012 was a Tuesday. On that Sunday, September 16, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice appeared on five talk shows and mentioned NOTHING about a terrorist attack. She said over and over again that it was a spontaneous uprising because of an anti-muslim Internet video.
Barack Obama was interviewed by Univision and asked if the attack was terrorism. He said he'd get back to them. He was asked on The View... same response. Obama also made a speech to the United Nations and NEVER mentioned that the murders were an act of terrorism. Oh... but he did mention the Internet video six times.
Why is all this important? Because during the debate, Obama made it sound as if he stated it was a terrorist attack the very next day:
Candy Crowley's behavior here was not only unprofessional, it was wrong. She was wrong when she sided with Obama. As pointed out by Fox News, in a interview on CNN, Crowley admitted she was wrong:
The moderator in Tuesday night's presidential debate, after appearing to side with President Obama on the question of whether he called the Libya strike a terror attack from the start, conceded afterward that Mitt Romney was "right" on the broader point -- that the administration for days insisted it was a spontaneous act.
"He was right in the main. I just think he picked the wrong word," Candy Crowley said of Romney on CNN shortly after the debate ended.
Crowley was referring to the tense exchange in the final half-hour of the debate, when Romney questioned whether Obama had called the attack an "act of terror" rather than "spontaneous" violence that grew out of a protest against an anti-Islam video.
So Romney was right. We all know he was right. For days and days, Barack Obama and his team perpetuated a lie. The murders were never about an Internet video. And yet, that's what he kept saying. At the debate, he tried to step back from that storyline, and Romney would have hammered him on it if not interrupted by Crowley.
Those are the facts, and yet, people like Soledad O'Brien continue to spin for Obama. Watch John Sununu work his magic:
It's unreal that O'Brien tries to label as fact something that does not exist. Obama did not say the Libyan murders were a terrorist act. Yet she goes on and on.
Even though the economy still is front and center on the minds of most Americans, this is a HUGE issue. Please inform people about it. Why would Obama perpetuate a story about a video knowing that it was untrue? What does he have to gain by that? To make it seem that is efforts against terrorism are working? Guess what? They aren't!
October 17, 2012 @ 2:11 pm
Maybe I’m stupid and missed something. However, the infamous “Rose Garden speech” did not refer directly to the attack on Benghazi as an “Act of Terror”. That phrase, no matter how many times it’s played, is in a generic context and lacks anything more than a generalization of political rhetoric.
I tip my hat to John Sununu for standing up to this poor example of a broadcast “journalist” who was only out to attack rather than report. If she had been responsible, she would have included the excerpt by Candy Crawley where she admitted that Romney was right.
Hold the MSM accountable! Make our elected officials accountable! Keep our Country intact! Don’t be seduced by misinformation, fabrications, or out and out lies! THINK and KNOW what is what. Don’t depend on these sources exclusively as more often than not, as we have seen over the past years, these sources have other agendas besides being accountable for their responsibility to their viewers, readers, and listeners.
October 17, 2012 @ 2:51 pm
There is one line in Obama’s statement in the Rose Garden that everyone has ignored that speaks to what he was trying to portray as the true reason for the attack – “While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants.” This is obviously referring to the video that they tried to use as the driving force behind the attack. The motivation for this is obvious – a terrorist attack could be construed as a foreign policy failure on the part of their administration. I don’t think that they expected the media response. They are use to being insulated from having to take responsibility for their actions.
October 17, 2012 @ 3:03 pm
I have to disagree. It sounds to me that he WAS referring to the original 9/11, as well as Benghazi, when he said, “acts of terror like these”.
There was no mention of the video in this tape. When did the video story first arise?
Whether he called it an act of terror at this time, or not, Obama, Clinton, and their lackies blamed the attack on the Mohammed video. For two weeks! He had the intelligence report by the time he gave the Rose Garden talk. And based on the Senate hearing last week, they knew that it was an act of terror almost immediately.
October 17, 2012 @ 7:18 pm
People are always speaking about context. If there is any doubt as to what Obamanation meant, comparing his statements in the Rose Garden with those before the United Nations and those of his staff on their news rounds leaves the issue unquestionable…they blame it on the video. But to me, it is a side issue as to what caused the violence. Whether spontaneous or an act of terror, why was there not enough security to protect the lives of Americans on sovereign soil? His entire administration and their duplicitous statements leave them with blood on their hands. This entire administration is an accomplice in the murder of Stevens and the others. Obama, Clinton and Rice especially should be impeached. What have we come to?
October 18, 2012 @ 4:27 am
cbr1, I noticed that statement you quoted also. He talks about the Ambassador being attacked, and then refers to the video, with the statement you quoted, so the part of his speech specifically related to the attack on the ambassador in Benghazi, he calls a “senseless act of violence” in response to a video. Later on in his speech he says that “acts of terror” will not shake the resolve of the American people in a broader and general sense. If he had labeled it an act of terror, then why was the entire administration and the UN Ambassador still continuing to blame the video. It is easy to understand why he tried to cover it up, because he does not want an act of terror on the record during his watch, plain and simple. He was flappin’ his big yap to much about getting OBL and Al Qaida is dead and GM is still alive.
October 18, 2012 @ 6:29 am
This woman will never learn-don’t mess with th Bull Dog! He will never back down and always has the facts-not some misconception, trumped up BS like this anchor person. Everyone who sees the actual speech and has followed the timeline of events know the administration messed up and lied big time.
October 18, 2012 @ 10:51 am
I guess I must be very dense because I don’t understand why the Republicans would agree to 4 debates with 4very liberal moderators and expect fairness ;is anybody really surprised at the outcome??
October 18, 2012 @ 10:56 am
That is why FOX NEWS has higher RATINGS then CNN MSNBC and such.
They use FULL CONTEXT and don’t play games.
This is amazing – I’ve seen more of this lady and well once again, I see why FOX has higher Ratings then CNN.
Maybe if CNN jumped out of the OBAMA KOOL AID DRINKING and let themselves detox, ya withdrawl will suck. They might start seeing the clear lies that everyone else sees.
Again, this is simply amazing. That must be one strong KOOL AID!
October 19, 2012 @ 1:01 am
One only has to realize that the media’s credo is “We never let FACTS interferer with a “good” story”
I worked in the print media for 20 years.
October 17, 2012 @ 2:45 pm
Ya gotta love Sununu. He tells it like it is. Crowley disgraced herself to protect Obama’s lie. O’Brien is nothing more than an Obama hack without credibility. It is no wonder CNN is losing viewers.
October 17, 2012 @ 3:13 pm
The AP “fact check” that came out after the debate is a PERFECT example of how the mainstream media shapes the news to favor ODUMBER. They “appeared” in their fact check to be pretty even-handed about who said what and who exaggerated, cherry-picked numbers, etc. But they purposely made NO MENTION of the exchange about Libya, in which the Great Eared One uttered the most blatant lie (of many) he uttered during the debate.
Since public attention has suddenly become focused on just HOW biased they are, and polls show that 60% of us think everything they say is BS, they’ve become a little more circumspect in their biased efforts to help ODUMBER get re-elected, except for morons like Soledad O’Brien, who does not even have sense enough to TRY to hide her worship of the Great Eared One. But never forget that they are STILL in his corner, and are going to help him and hurt Romney in any way they can. So, just when Romney had ODUMBER On the ropes and caught in a blatant lie, Crowley jumps in and questions — who? Romney! Implying that he is WRONG when he said ODUMBER refused to call the murders in Libya a terrorist attack. He was NOT wrong, but he never got the chance to drive that point home because of HER convenient interruption. You see how these people work? They will stop at NOTHING to try to stick us with four more years of this incompetent Communist POSER they so adore!
October 17, 2012 @ 3:16 pm
Is it me or this whole site really messed up all of a sudden?
October 17, 2012 @ 3:34 pm
The site is definitely messed up. I just sent them an email about this problem.
October 17, 2012 @ 9:48 pm
There is nothing wrong with this except that all the comments are against Obama, so they all of a sudden have problems and blame it on the server. And Ms. O’Brien is a poor example of a person from Long Island. I hope this effects your ratings, which are very poor any way.
October 18, 2012 @ 10:55 am
She Knew Knew got blasted by Sununu for the liar that she is. Soledad makes us all solidly mad.
October 17, 2012 @ 3:18 pm
LarryD please read the transcript. Obama did not say “acts of terror ‘like these’”; he only said “acts of terror”. After referring to 9/11/01 events, not 9/11/12 events. And yes, he did mention the video in his Rose garden speech. Make sure to have your facts in line before you opine.
October 17, 2012 @ 3:27 pm
Here is Obama’s reference to the video, from his Rose Garden speech on 9/12: “Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.” As if this was a reason for the attack!
He then went on to speak about 9-11-01, ending that with: “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.”
And then he went on to the UN and the talk show circuit blaming the obscure video for the attacks. The guy is DANGEROUS to our SAFETY as a nation and need to be gone….immediately if not sooner.
October 18, 2012 @ 1:00 am
Nice catch rosecoats
Find larryd use of words fascinating. The actual statement from Obama was quoted in this article. A link to the transcript was provided. Yet, larryd wrote it as saying some thing Obama did not say
Also, Obama claimed he said, “this was an act of terror” which is completely false and no one, apparently in the world, understood him to be saying the attack was a terrorist act.
Watched BBC World News, NHK both report the attack was caused by a video from a demonstration, as did NBC Nightly News, PBS Newshour, and this ABC video on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0wllKURCq8
A world leader claims he told the world it was a terrorist attack and they all report it was caused by a video, despite his making it perfectly clear in the Rose Garden
Either the whole world is nuts, or Obama has lost his ability to communicate which renders him unfit for office.
His only words remaining to be said, I, Barak Obama hereby resign from the office of President of the United States, immediately
October 17, 2012 @ 3:19 pm
ODUMBER called the Benghazi murders a “terrorist attack” the same way they “didn’t know the embassy needed help” (Joe Biden’s lie to support Obama’s lie). They are LYING people–you can tell they are, because their LIPS ARE MOVING. The CLOSEST they come to telling anything but a lie is a half-truth.
With this Benghazi thing, they have finally been caught in a lie they can’t slither out of–even with the media’s help. And about time, too!
October 17, 2012 @ 3:20 pm
In the rose garden speech the President made a generic statment that we would never fail to address a terrorist attack but he never called the Bengahzi attack an act of terrorism. When he says that he did he is a g/d liar. neither did he talk about the video because that had not been made up yet.
October 17, 2012 @ 3:29 pm
What else can you expect from this corrupt lap-dog media?
October 17, 2012 @ 5:17 pm
This is so typical of the left to keep spinning and spinning half-truths while making their opponents look wrong. President Cry-baby was using his typical “lawyerise” throughout his “debate” to say he said one thing when he said another. It’s just so tiresome. There is no truth in him or his communist media puppets.
October 17, 2012 @ 5:40 pm
“Why would Obama perpetuate a story about a video knowing that it was untrue?”
Along with this question, I would also like to hear Obama explain WHY he had law enforcement to arrest the guy on a “parole violation” since it is now confirmed that this video had nothing to do with the terrorist attack. The guy has said all along that he did not produce the video, so he should be released and Obama should apologize to him.
October 17, 2012 @ 6:39 pm
I am waiting for the conspiracy Theory to take hold.
Fast & Furious was about getting the gun control through the UN.
Libya could be about what I have heard as conspiracy. Lower security, Kidnap the Ambassador, send in the Seals to save him.
Obama goes back to the White House for four more years a HERO!
It back fired when the Terrorist killed him. The White House scrambled to find something to blame it on. Has anyone seen that stupid trailer? I don’t believe it started any riot.
October 17, 2012 @ 8:04 pm
I have the feeling Mr. Obama reads Orwell’s “1984″ and pines for a world without an Internet. Technology has made it tougher for a tyrant to establish a Ministry of Truth, where history can be re-written to favor Big Brother’s version of things. CNN and MSNBC are doing their best, of course…. but it just isn’t enough to fool those of us with common sense and logical thinking skills.
October 17, 2012 @ 9:52 pm
Candy Crowley let her personal opinions overrule her job as moderator.
A moderator is ONLY present to see that the people engaging in the debate keep to the subject, abide by time limits allowed to each participant and assure a civil tone to the debate.
Crowley knew better than to insert her comments into the debate and good for Romney in NOT commenting. He knew the analysts (at least the fair ones) would sort it out. This is a woman who does not need another chance as a Presidential debate moderator….EVER!
October 17, 2012 @ 10:42 pm
I would like to know how Mrs Crowley was so prepared for the Governor’s response She just happened to have a copy of the transcript ready when Obama told her to check the transcript.
I agree with the people who say this squack should never be permitted at a debate ever again.
October 18, 2012 @ 9:37 am
i agree. she also shouldn’t be allowed to cherry pick the questions to be asked and not allowed to ask questions that obviously favors one side. Most of the people in the audiance ended up only being props. CNN is a liberal leading advocate for the left and will do anything along with the other worthless media to defend this do nothing, take no responsibilty, resultless administration starting with their dishonest(liar) leader.
She was supposed to be a moderator not an advocate for one side. Someone should also monitor the times allowed for each candidate to make sure it’s balanced out at the end.
October 18, 2012 @ 12:03 am
When is challenged what is a president to response?
“PLEASE PROCEED”…..”PLEASE PROCEED GOVERNOR”…..and then in a debate when time is running out..”GET THE TRANSCRIPT” …….and when a debate host decide to take side and start debating the other candidate…”CAN YOU SAY IT A LITTLE LOUDER CANDY?”
Is that an act of an honest man? Is that an act worthy of a president?
October 18, 2012 @ 1:12 am
Foreign policy failure. No more no less. MSM, start doing your job.
October 18, 2012 @ 5:31 am
About his speech in the Rose Garden….
“The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack.” Then goes on to say how we will work with the Libyan government to find those responsible. Then he directly speaks about the video. “Since our founding the US has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, but there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts. Already many Libyans have joined us in doing so. This attack will not break the bonds between the United States and Libya.”
Then he continues to speak about Ambassador Stevens., noting he says “Secretary Clinton and I relied deeply on his knowledge of the situation on the ground there.”…and more about Ambassador Stevens.
Then he switches topic to 911.
“Of course yesterday was already a painful day for out nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 911 attacks. We mourn with the families who lost on that day.” … and continues about visiting the graves of soldiers, and those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the statement about ‘acts of terror’ verbatim….
“As Americans let us never, ever, forget that our freedom is sustained because of people who are willing to fight for it. To stand up for it, and in some cases lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people, and the service of both civilian and military who represent us around the globe. No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn 4 more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waiver on our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.”
Notice that he says today we mourn 4 “more” Americans, switching the topic back to the Benghazi attack, and he refers to it as a terrible act. And during the 2nd debate he referred to people who attack Americans as ‘folks”. What is up with that? My grandmother called family members “folks”, but she never referred to her enemies or people she did not like as “folks”.
October 18, 2012 @ 7:06 am
This whole thing about blaming the video for the attack was a CYA for claiming that the “war on terror” was over. Obama was gloating that Al Qaida had been dismantled and its leadership destroyed to the point that they were no longer a threat. This is why it took two weeks for Obama to finally say it was an act of terror. He was shown clearly that Al Qaida was not gone. For him to acknowledge the obvious that others in the administration were finally embarrased into admitting, was to show he was again a failure. Obama was like a little kid kicking, screaming, and throwing a fit to have to admit he was wrong.
All of the helping Muslems gaining their “so called” independence blew up in his face. The people he helped over throw Ghadafi were probably taking weapons that we may have supplied them to carry out the attack. This was another kind of “Fast and Furious” gone bad. Of course Obama was doing his best to blame someone else for his failure. That is what he does best. He apologizes for things he can not be held responsible for and blames someone else for things that are his fault.
October 18, 2012 @ 9:28 am
he still can’t “man up” for anything and NEVER takes responsiblity. It is disgraceful to see someone denegrade the highest office in the land. It’s time to put in a man in the white house instead of a whiney little boy.
October 18, 2012 @ 6:56 pm
Yes I agree with you! He is very childish.
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October 18, 2012 @ 4:48 pm
All the anger at how the debates are handled by the media is fun to read, but getting rid of Obama and Biden won’t solve the country’s problems. We need to clean out the Senate and the House. That’s a much bigger issue. We need intelligent, informed voters. One of the first things we might try is getting rid of the party lever on the voting machines. Make every voter register their choice for each candidate for each office one step at a time. They might even have to think about their choice. Couldn’t be worse than the present method.
October 18, 2012 @ 7:18 pm
Can’t agree with you more pudgy. However I think that a different president will get more out of congress. I am wondering how people like Reid and Pelosi are going to act with Romney. But also I am convinced that even the dems in Congress are stonewalling Obama. No one wants to be led by Obama. And in the last year and a half, Obama he has turned into such a dog. I have a business partner that I ended up with, not by my own choosing, and the guy is a dog for money, and a liar! So I can spot the style of character that one acts with when they lie, motivated by being a dog for something they want. Obama was pandering to Crowley like a dog to help him out for the whole 2nd debate, and she caved and threw him bones when he whined with just a look. The best way to get rid of a dog is to starve it. (Which is what I did to my business partner, and he sold his shares.) I think the entire congress is trying to starve Obama out, both democrats and republicans. There are a lot of good people in congress, on both sides, and there are a lot I think have to go on both sides. But if we can’t get rid of them, they need the right person to lead them. It is clear that both sides do not respect Obama as a leader. Any lip service they might pay is out of political loyalty and correctness.
October 19, 2012 @ 7:31 am
“So Romney was right. We all know he was right. For days and days, Barack Obama and his team perpetuated a lie. The murders were never about an Internet video. And yet, that’s what he kept saying. At the debate, he tried to step back from that storyline, and Romney would have hammered him on it if not interrupted by Crowley.”
Wait a darn minute. The feds arrested the maker of the video. So, what that amounts to is that they continued to blame the video DAYS after the Sept 11th attack. This shows that they were continuing to attempt to cover this up. If Crowley had not interrupted him, I believe Romney WOULD have nailed him to the wall on that.
October 19, 2012 @ 12:11 pm
I too tried to post a response several times to this one and it kept timing out on me, so I think they were having server issues. I think that future debates should be moderated by registered voters who voted in the last primary. When they sign in to vote, they can decide whether or not they want their name put into the lottery to be drawn as debate moderator. The lottery could be run at the state level with the state board of elections monitoring the process. If drawn the person would have to sign a confidentiality/non-disclosure agreement similar to the one used by reality TV contests that if they disclosed their identity to anyone prior to the actual event, they would immediately be disqualified. No names would be released to anyone until the day of the actual event, when the moderator and backup would be sequestered to prepare. Their only job would be to read the question, introduce the questioner and monitor the time to allow each candidate to have their alloted time and not go over. Instead of media idiots put the debates back into the hands of the electorate – “We the people” are the ones who vote and “We the people” should be the ones to ask the questions and monitor the debates. I think a lot more people would watch if regular folks were moderating instead of media idiots. Just a thought. As for MSM Crowley, she deserves to have a Donald Trump moment (You’re fired!) for her unqualified and inaccurate comments during the debate.
***NOVEMBER 6,2012 – NATIONAL TAKE OUT THE TRASH DAY!***
October 26, 2012 @ 11:05 am
Take out the trash- well put. Because the garbage includes the buffoon and insulting Biden, the racist Eric Holder, the failure Hilary Clinton, the bag woman Susan Rice, anti-Business and economic growth lisa Jackson of the EPA head, currency manipulator Ben Bernanke, AIG bonus Tim Geithner and a host of weirdo in-House czars who actually write and determine policy for the Golfer-In-Cheif.
October 26, 2012 @ 10:55 am
Let’s say that Obama did say the day following 9/11/2012 that Bengazi was an act of terror and not a spontaneous demonstration that became an act of terror. So then how do you explain Jay Carney’s announcements, Ambassador Rice’s Sunday TV shows comments and Obama’s own comments at the UN that it was the video that caused the attack? Either he was lying on 9/12 or he and his administration was lying after 9/12. Can’t have it both ways but regardless, Obama is a liar.