Clinton: Benghazi Critics Don’t Live In ‘Evidence-Based World’
Source: TPM
TOM KLUDT 7:08 AM EST, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2013
A week after being bombarded with questions from congressional Republicans over the September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview published Friday that many of those critics have a loose grasp on reality.
"There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts," Clinton told the Associated Press in her final one-on-one interview before she steps down from her post at the State Department on Friday. "They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable. It's regrettable for our political system and for the people who serve our government in very dangerous, difficult circumstances."
Read the entire interview here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/01/3211567/ap-interview-clinton-raps-her.html#storylink=cpy
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BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)Rest up, Mme. Secretary.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)...because they have NO ideas whatsoever that would be good for America, so instead they have chosen to make up meaningless shit to try and drag America down down down to their honor-deficient level.
Americans are noticing. That is why Republicans get NO respect. They don't deserve any.
sinkingfeeling
(51,469 posts)at the crazies that want 'balanced' teaching. No support for evolution nor climate change. They just are meaningless in their world, so make sure all children aren't taught science.
brer cat
(24,591 posts)Hillary could have chosen to be a bitter woman a la McCain, but chose instead to serve her country with grace, dignity and courage. Her legacy is assured whatever she does in the future, while the legacy of most of her detractors will be in the trash can.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)I can't stand her current critics, but Hillary hasn't been the great hero that some make her out to be.
Again, though, the party that ignored the PDB saying 'Bin Laden determined to strike in US' and let 3000 die in the towers have no business saying, "Four people died and you should have known!"
Beacool
(30,250 posts)The rest of us would have told the Tea Party nuts in the Senate to go eff themselves.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)NCcoast
(480 posts)Every now and then Hillary just nails it.
I confess, after two Bush administrations I was not comfortable with another Clinton administration. What am I, a peronista? These dynastic first families are a troublesome phenomenon. And I was bone weary of Republican Clinton bashing after Bill's eight years in the white house. Hillary was per-vilified. At least they'd have to come up with a new bat-sh*t crazy scenario, you know the whole, alien, Kenyon, socialist, secret Muslim ball of wax. I admit I wasn't fully prepared for how whacked out and far fetched the GOP/teahadists were prepared to go on Barak. It's pretty impressive. That said...
If Hillary runs I'm behind her 100%. She's ready and she has the stones to take it to these people. As FDR said, 'I welcome their hatred.' I think he speaks for Hillary as well. We need that right now. I think it's time to put someone in the white house who'll go right at them, hammer and tong. Run Hillary run! I'm with you girl.
ieoeja
(9,748 posts)Bill Clinton was the first President assaulted by the newly minted GOP propaganda machine. The attacks carried all the earmarks of Cold War era propaganda attacks. The FBI figured the American President had to have been targeted by some foreign country and launched an investigation of that attack.
Turned out to be American businessmen employing former members of the CIA propaganda team and providing college scholarships to conservative kids so long as they majored in journalism. Or, as the FBI called it, a "vast right-wing conspiracy".
Righties think that phrase made Hillary look paranoid. So I always like to remind people that she was quoting an FBI report.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Thanks.
Also: I might end up arguing this point with someone and any links you have to that info would be very helpful.
elleng
(131,054 posts)an October 17, 2004, The New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove[1]):
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwe'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors
and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
Hekate
(90,769 posts)... called The Librarian, set in that period. Beinhart got those ratf--kers to the T.
It was published in 2004, and I just finished it this week after a friend loaned it to me recently. I think it would have been unbearable to read during the Bush administration.
And the horrible thing is: they're still out there spreading money around and pulling strings.
underpants
(182,861 posts)Yes this my own thread on DU but I think it is apt
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4734773&mesg_id=4736165
elleng
(131,054 posts)Thanks.
patrice
(47,992 posts)underpants
(182,861 posts)David Frum - he was fired from American Enterprise Institute for saying the obvious
http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/03/23/frum-republicans-originally-thought-that-fox-wo/162116
Amonester
(11,541 posts)As most polls confirm.
dembotoz
(16,820 posts)i like the way that flows
nice turn of phrase
think it could be useful in places like repsones on facebook
BootinUp
(47,177 posts)Its going to leave some scars.