The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Benghazi: The Unanswered Question

Last week, American Spectator editor R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. called and asked me to take a look at a Wall Street Journal op-ed column by Kevin G. Norton, “Benghazi’s Record of Broken Trust.” Tyrrell asked me to contact Norton, which I did.  Tyrrell explained he was curious about a question: Where was Obama? You may remember […]

Ruh-Roh: Ambassador Killed by Secret State Department Weapons Program?

Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama — Roger L. Simon, PJ Media Benghazi witness points finger at Clinton on lapses in consulate security — Julian Pecquet, The Hill New whistleblowers coming forward on Benghazi? — Ed Morrissey, Hot Air Lawmakers dig into life-and-death issues of Benghazi — Byron York, […]

Shorter Dan Pfeiffer: ‘Your Partisan Questions Are So Largely Irrelevant and Offensive, I’m Not Going to Answer Them’

When the White House sent Obama’s senior adviser out to do five Sunday shows, his orders were obviously to claim that (a) only Republicans care whether the administration is lying about Benghazi, and (b) the answer to any question about Benghazi is “largely irrelevant”: Wallace repeatedly asked Pfeiffer where the president was and what he […]

Benghazi and Other ‘Concocted’ Scandals

U.S. consulate, Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012 “Fraud flows from the top down, not the mid-level up. Mid-level officials in the White House and the State Department do not call the shots — they carry out orders.” — Andrew McCarthy Well, that’s just “common sense,” but what does common sense count for nowadays? In an […]

The Fate of Basseley Nakoula

Whatever happened to Nakoula, whose video didn’t really inspire the ‘demonstration’ that didn’t actually happen in Benghazi? — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 13, 2013 @rsmccain Nakoula is in La Tuna Federal prison in West Texas bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFi… Scheduled for release on 9/26/13 — Patrick Poole (@pspoole) May 13, 2013 “Hillary’s promise of vengeance to the […]

A Short Lesson in Liberal Media Bias: Has Alex Koppelman Forgotten Fitzmas?

Alternate Headline: It’s Not a Real Scandal, Until @alexkoppelman Decides ‘There Is Something to It.’ newyorker.com/online/blogs/n… | @jeffgurner — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 12, 2013 Scandals always highlight the disparity in how differently the media treat Republicans and Democrats. We are grateful to Alex Koppelman for this latest example: It’s a cliché, of course, but […]

#JayCarneyExcuses Don’t Make Me Give You The Full Jessup Again

by Smitty Is there an American who looks a bigger ass than Carney? None. None bigger ass. #JayCarneyExcuses The vast right wing global fracking voter warming ethanol suppression conspiracy terrified my dog into eating my homework — Smitty TheWackoBird (@smitty_one_each) May 10, 2013 #JayCarneyExcuses Sorry, I was too busy reading the bill. Wait, not even […]

The Big Benghazi Lie: State Department Deleted Key Facts From Talking Points

Jonathan Karl of ABC News reports that an entire paragraph of the CIA’s original assessment of the September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was deleted after political objections were raised by a State Department official. The deleted paragraph — which referenced prior CIA warnings about terrorist attacks in Libya — was one of numerous […]

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