# Guess what 60 Minutes decided to do last night? (Answer: Benghazi) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 28, 2013, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429 "2013-10-28T09:40:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/281 "2013-11-08T13:57:42Z")
Given that CBS presented false information and has now acknowledged it, then, using the \*\*Shodan \*\*version of logic used re Dan Rather and the Bush AWOL documents: The entire Benghazi incident simply didn’t happen! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/282 "2013-11-08T14:09:13Z")
“60 Minutes” apologizes for Benghazi report [http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50158736n](http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50158736n) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/283 "2013-11-08T14:14:31Z")
Holy hell, that Lara Logan is an attractive woman. It’s like Charlize Theron and Naomi Watts had a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/284 "2013-11-08T14:18:27Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I understand [this \*60 Minutes \*representative](http://learnjavafx.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f133d69883401156f88b4c2970c-800wi) will be giving a statement shortly. I got a really, really good laugh out of that one. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/285 "2013-11-08T14:21:14Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Holy hell, that Lara Logan is an attractive woman. It’s like Charlize Theron and Naomi Watts had a kid. And really, those two should give it a go. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/286 "2013-11-08T15:22:45Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Holy crap, **adaher** ’s wrongness aura has developed the ability to affect off-board events to perpetuate itself! [Snap](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16816792&postcount=220)! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/287 "2013-11-08T15:26:13Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Now, if only we can figure out how to harness this power for good… Why? Seems like he’s doing a good enough job on his own. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/288 "2013-11-08T15:35:31Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Holy crap, **adaher** ’s wrongness aura has developed the ability to affect off-board events to perpetuate itself! > > And this isn’t an isolated incident. In summer in the Elections forum, adaher mentioned how Virginia voters wouldn’t go for a sleaze like Terry McAuliffe, but would prefer socially conservative but clean politicians like Ken Cuccinelli and Governor Bob McDonnell. Within a week, a scandal broke over McDonnell (and to a lesser extent Cuccinelli) accepting ‘gifts’ from Star Scientific executives. > > Now, if only we can figure out how to harness this power for good… **Adaher** seems to to exhibit the super-powers of the character ‘Trevize’ in Azimov’s “Foundation Trilogy”: no matter what he thinks or says, the opposite is always true. I wonder if the Board would ever consider giving him the honorary title of “Anti-Compass”… ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/289 "2013-11-08T15:36:38Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Now, if only we can figure out how to harness this power for good… Isn’t not having Cuccinelli as governor for the good? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/290 "2013-11-08T16:02:01Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > Criticism of their preparation for defense must recognize that Benghazi was not the only threatened target in the world. “You don’t understand. We’re potentially incompetent all over the world, not just in Benghazi!” ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/291 "2013-11-08T16:09:35Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > “60 Minutes” apologizes for Benghazi report > [http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50158736n](http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50158736n) So Obama was successful in intimidating them into shutting up and going away. Isn’t great to live in a country where the press is “free”? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/292 "2013-11-08T16:15:30Z")
Still want to know what the heck Stevens was even doing there when he should have been at the main embassy back in Tripoli. For all their bluster, nobody seemed eager to take on _that_ target! My reading on him suggests he was quite popular among the Libyan people generally, so perhaps he was trying to leverage that popularity in a troubled area. Dunno, but would like to. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/293 "2013-11-08T16:19:09Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > So Obama was successful in intimidating them into shutting up and going away. Isn’t great to live in a country where the press is “free”? Congratulation on having a completely non-falsifiable belief. Whatever evidence disagrees with your view, you can simply ignore with statements like that one, with absolutely nothing to support it besides your cognitive dissonance. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/294 "2013-11-08T16:25:07Z")
Cognitive dissonance, the number one threat to the Republic! Remember him when your Mother’s March Against Cognitive Dissonance volunteer comes calling and give! And give generously! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/295 "2013-11-08T16:33:41Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Remember him when your Mother’s March Against Cognitive Dissonance volunteer comes calling and give! Yes, one should give generously when MAC’D on. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/296 "2013-11-08T16:36:57Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > “You don’t understand. We’re potentially incompetent all over the world, not just in Benghazi!” His point is that a threat against the embassy is pretty meaningless when every other embassy was threatened with attack too. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/297 "2013-11-08T16:39:20Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > His point is that a threat against the embassy is pretty meaningless when every other embassy was threatened with attack too. You don’t understand! Every country hates us, not just Libya! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/298 "2013-11-08T16:52:42Z")
I am on the edge of my seat waiting for **adaher** ’s post explaining how the retraction is terrible news for Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/299 "2013-11-08T16:59:25Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I am on the edge of my seat waiting for **adaher** ’s post explaining how the retraction is terrible news for Obama. Isn’t it obvious? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/300 "2013-11-08T17:03:30Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > So Obama was successful in intimidating them into shutting up and going away. Isn’t great to live in a country where the press is “free”? I honestly can’t tell what is conservative delusion and what is mocking of conservative delusion any more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429.md?page=16)