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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPopular Conservative Website Tries and Fails to Debunk Our ’13 Benghazis’
A little more than a year ago, I wrote an article for The Daily Banter titled 13 Benghazis That Occurred On Bushs Watch Without a Peep From Fox News. In it I listed 13 terrorist attacks on U.S. consulates and embassies that happened during the years when President Bush was evidently keeping us safe. Throughout the past year, the article has sporadically gone viral among one internet clique or another, and at least one graphical meme has been based upon the list.
Late last week, I began to receive a new onslaught of tweets from readers of a website called the IJReview about an article written by Managing Editor Kyle Becker, titled, 13 Benghazis That Happened Under Bush Viral Meme Taken Apart & Destroyed Before Your Very Eyes. Clearly it was intended to debunk my article hocus-pocus alakazam! before our very eyes.
It didnt.
More here: http://thedailybanter.com/2014/05/popular-conservative-publication-tries-and-fails-miserably-to-debunk-our-13-benghazis-article/
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Popular Conservative Website Tries and Fails to Debunk Our ’13 Benghazis’ (Original Post)
Playinghardball
May 2014
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Bandit
(21,475 posts)1. The majority of deaths from those incidents were not American and we all know how
The Right cares about deaths if they aren't American. That is the Huge difference according to the Right....
smallcat88
(426 posts)2. It's never about justice on the right
Or accountability. It's about finger-pointing. A childish mentality that appeals to the childish minds who listen to these guys.
chowder66
(9,073 posts)3. Good article even for those who
don't like thedailybanter. It just goes to show the lengths that people will go to obfuscate and play politics against the President.
It's good to see "the debunk" get actually debunked.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)4. K & R. n/t
alp227
(32,030 posts)5. Regarding the source "IJ Review"
Before I continue, I should note for those of you who are unaware: this isnt another case in which I get all wrapped into responding to a Twitter troll with zero followers and an egg avatar. IJReview has 52,000 Twitter followers, 4.8 million Facebook Likes, and Becker claims the publication is the #2 conservative site in U.S. traffic. IJReview is indeed quite popular, ranking 407th in the U.S. overall, according to Alexa.com. Well done.
From this article.
From a Buzzfeed article:
The Independent Journal Review which is invisible in the heated Beltway arguments among sites from the venerable National Review and Weekly Standard to the newer Breitbart, Free Beacon, and Daily Caller appears to have outstripped all of them in traffic with a strategy that mimics its wildly successful liberal cousin, Upworthy.
And while the site is unknown among the Washington, D.C., conservatives who dominate the movement media, it is a Beltway product, owned by a company founded by two well-connected Republican political consultants, former Tim Pawlenty adviser Phil Musser and Alex Skatell, a former staffer for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Blue Owl
(50,420 posts)6. The "IdJits" Review
n/t