Fox News host Chris Wallace admitted that Fox's "stand down order" narrative about the 2012 Benghazi attacks was false, but still allowed disreputable source Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) to desperately try and redefine the debunked claim into a new attack on the Obama administrationFox News has persistently pushed the myth that the administration had issued a "stand down" order to stop reinforcements from coming to the aid of American diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya during the September 11, 2012 attack. Though the claim was rapidly discredited,by June 2013, the network had repeated the charge at least 85 times in prime time segments, and the allegations didn't stop there. In early February, a House Armed Services Committee report and a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report put the myth to rest.On the March 2 edition of Fox Broadcasting Network's Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace admitted that the Senate report had thoroughly debunked claims of a "stand down" orderand reported that The Washington Post Fact Checker had given Issa "four pinocchios" -- the rating it issues for "whoppers" -- for his suggestion that "Secretary Clinton told [then-Defense Secretary] Leon [Panetta] to stand down, and we all heard about the stand-down order for two military personnel. That order is undeniable."But Fox's focus on the facts was short lived. Though Wallace's acknowledgement of the facts led Issa admit that the term "stand down" was not "used in some sort of an explicit way,"Wallace made no move to question Issa's attempt to spin the administration's supposed "failure to react" to the attack as the kind of thing that could "represent a stand down":
well that clinches it there are real facts and there are Issa contrivances and those are the ones Fox and republican will let stand. my thought was given bot sides does their base choose the facts or the witch hunt, i'm sure they find the thrill of a snipe hunt more enthralling.
WALLACE: But to be honest, you do not have any evidence that Secretary Clinton told Leon Panetta to stand down.ISSA: Well, the use in answering questions in a political fundraiser -- that was in response to a question -- the term "stand down" is not used in some sort of an explicit way.But rather the failure to react, the fact that only State Department assets and only assets inside the country were ever used, that members arms forces, gun carrying, trained people were not allowed to get on the aircraft to go and attempt to rescue.Those kinds of things through State Department resources represent a stand down. Not maybe on the technical terms of "stand down, soldier," but on the American people believe is a failure to respond what they could have.WALLACE: All right.
we saw Bush have laws rewritten so he could torture "legally" or was that bush" now this crazed zealot who has yet to find anybody guilty of anything mainly because he's investigating the wrong party. he now wants to change the interpretation of the English language to fit his hysteria, now maybe some of their base didn't catch it but millions did.
for a party that has hounded Pres. for 5 years about money they signed off on being spent why are they allowing Issa to go on the multi million dollar tirade and inquisition that has proven fruitless, guess it's their spending alone that is ok after all they do tend to do over multiple times ObamaCares 49 times or so.
we know who is wasting money and our time money that could extend unemployment, kids lunches, infrastructure jobs, and yet they are content to complain about how bad it is and how slow recovery is while doing nothing about it and smiling as they blame Pres. Nov.4th be there.
Even Issa's effort to repackage his attack falls flat. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has already debunked claims that further assistance could have been sent from U.S. military bases,criticizing the conservative media's "cartoonish impression of the military" which has ignored the need for "planning and preparation before we send people in harm's way."As Gates said: Given the number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from Qaddafi's arsenals I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi under those circumstances.
and Issa and the gang either push Benghazi or impeachment, still having trouble making up your mind for Nov. 4th?
