Q: Difference Between a Fox and a Weasel — Fox on Cable 24/7

FOX is GOP Cheerleader-in-Chief

Sometimes GOP is the Frog; Sometimes the Pelican

On the latest about Benghazi, I'm going with the Pelican on this one and not swallowing that line of crap from the Frog.

Update (May 10, 2014): Early Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in the U.S. Now the story:

From the NY Times (December 28, 2013) - excellent article:

Fifteen months after Mr. Stevens’s death, the question of responsibility remains a searing issue in Washington, framed by two contradictory story lines.


1:  That the anti-Muslim video, posted on YouTube, inspired spontaneous street protests that got out of hand. This version, based on early intelligence reports, was initially offered publicly by Susan E. Rice, who is now Mr. Obama’s national security adviser.

2: This one is favored by Republicans: It holds that Mr. Stevens died in a carefully planned assault by Al Qaeda to mark the anniversary of its strike on the United States 11 years before.

Republicans have accused the Obama administration of covering up evidence of Al Qaeda’s role to avoid undermining the president’s claim that the group has been decimated, in part because of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

NY Times shows that the reality in Benghazi was different, and murkier, than either of those story lines suggests. 

1.  Benghazi was not infiltrated by Al Qaeda, but nonetheless contained grave local threats to American interests.

2.  The attack does not appear to have been meticulously planned, but neither was it spontaneous or without warning signs

So, when do facts not matter? Facts don’t matter as long as Mr. Obama is in office (squawks the entire GOP establishment). Cite:

1. Deadly violence against U.S. diplomats, sadly, is a frequent occurrence.
2. The State Department counts 86 "significant" attacks against diplomatic outposts just in 2012, the year of the Benghazi attack.
3. The death toll from these 2012 attacks was not four, but 24. And this is not a new problem.
4. Since 1970, there have been 521 attacks on U.S. diplomatic targets, killing 500 people. The deadliest of these was not Benghazi but a truck bomb explosion in Nairobi, Kenya that killed 213 people, 12 of them Americans. Since 1977, 66 American diplomats have been killed by terrorists.
5. For three years prior to the Benghazi attack, Congress, under both Democratic and Republican leadership, appropriated considerably less for embassy security than the White House requested

Original post from here: This is nothing more than one huge witch hunt and make no mistake about it, it is a witch hunt. In a word, it's enough to gag a maggot (old Marine expression). 

The story from here — it's a real good starting point to this post and it introduced this way — an excellent review of the facts, but hey why would Fox and the GOP accept facts over their sustained hype and opinion, right?

"Fox News has pushed reset on many of its favorite Benghazi myths that have already been put to rest in the wake of the recently released Rhodes email and the House GOP's announcement of the formation of a Select Committee to investigate the attacks."

B/L: There ain't no there, there.