# The GOP Banghazi/Anti-ERice Stupidity...it Burns!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 27, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291 "2012-11-27T18:53:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/1 "2012-11-27T18:53:07Z")
…and zee goggles, zey do nothing! Seriously, fucking John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte continuing this bizarre anti Susan Rice crusade over perfectly reasonable comments she made is fucking sickening. “Oh Noez!! She caan not be Secretary of State because she didn’t instantly say it was a terrorist attack. I mean she didn’t say those exact words…” Christ on cracker, because A) It was five fucking days after the attack is the time frame they are focusing on…on a talk show; B)She used the notes that the CIA gave her, that specifically left out the possible terrorist involvement, because, you know security concerns and stuff; 3) She even said that it was an attack based on radicals taking advantage of the situation; and 4) She said it was all very preliminary. So shut the fuck up, concern yourselves whit finding out who did t, how it can be prevented and stop playing those fucking political games. Go yell at some clouds you stupid fucks. ---
**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 27, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/2 "2012-11-27T18:54:41Z")
On the other hand, “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” is a perfectly acceptable use of intelligence by a potential Secretary of State. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/3 "2012-11-27T19:00:37Z")
There are people, even among us, who would read those two posts and blink with confusion, wondering whatever could be the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/4 "2012-11-27T20:49:01Z")
But what about Obama sitting in his lair and laughing at the live streaming video of Real American Patriots being killed while he stroked his white fluffy cat? ---
**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/5 "2012-11-27T20:53:03Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > But what about Obama sitting in his lair and laughing at the live streaming video of Real American Patriots being killed while he stroked his… \ > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > …white fluffy cat? Oh, not at all where I though you were going with that. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/6 "2012-11-27T22:25:33Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > But what about Obama sitting in his lair and laughing at the live streaming video of Real American Patriots being killed while he stroked his white fluffy cat? This is an outrage! Why hasn’t Obama given the American people any information on this new cat? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/7 "2012-11-27T22:39:02Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > This is an outrage! Why hasn’t Obama given the American people any information on this new cat? They’ve been hushing it up. The cat was born Persian. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/8 "2012-11-27T23:50:38Z")
OMG! Even the **CAT** is Muslim!!! ---
**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 28, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/9 "2012-11-28T00:03:19Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > On the other hand, “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” is a perfectly acceptable use of intelligence by a potential Secretary of State. Wasn’t that Cheney? ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/10 "2012-11-28T00:03:44Z")
It just gets worse. [TPM wonders if this is the dumbest thing John McCain’s ever said](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/11/stupidest_thing_mccain_ever_said.php): > [@](#): > > There are so many things that have happened. The interesting things finally, we knew in hours of all the details when we got bin laden, they making a movie out of it and we are ten weeks later and finally our ambassador to the united nations who appeared on every national sunday show is now saying that she gave false information concerning how this tragedy happened as far as the spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video. Right. It’s just so strange that we would know more about a SEAL Team 6 mission that the President oversaw the planning of for a year and was monitoring in real time than we do about an unexpected, chaotic attack by a Libyan terrorist group at a US consulate. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/11 "2012-11-28T00:23:26Z")
I think the only inappropriate thing about the Benghazi affair was how before the bodies were even cold, Romney had to sprint to a microphone and start masturbating about it. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/12 "2012-11-28T00:45:55Z")
Can I ask a question. She was Ambassador to the UN correct? So why the fuck is she being treated like she was an expert on the situation and should have known all of the details instead of the reality that she was just reading the cuecards the administration made for her? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/13 "2012-11-28T01:15:29Z")
She lied! To the American people! It wasn’t the Libyan People’s Liberation Front, it was the People’s Front for the Liberation of Libya! ---
**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 28, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/14 "2012-11-28T01:21:22Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Can I ask a question. She was Ambassador to the UN correct? So why the fuck is she being treated like she was an expert on the situation and should have known all of the details instead of the reality that she was just reading the cuecards the administration made for her? The CIA gave those to her, not the administration. She was the one chosen. Get over it. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/15 "2012-11-28T01:38:38Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > The CIA gave those to her, not the administration. She was the one chosen. Get over it. Get over it? I think my fellow Pubs are idiots for raking her over the coals for something she had no personal knowledge of. Maybe you should read for understanding before assuming Republican = disagreeing with your view. ---
**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 28, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/16 "2012-11-28T01:44:25Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Get over it? I think my fellow Pubs are idiots for raking her over the coals for something she had no personal knowledge of. Maybe you should read for understanding before assuming Republican = disagreeing with your view. I mistook what you said as taking issue with her competence as a spokesperson. Hug? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/17 "2012-11-28T01:46:59Z")
I got what you were saying, but your phrasing offered an opening for ambiguity you didn’t actually intend. For instance, “cue cards” is kinda suggestive, like she was parroting something she didn’t actually believe. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/18 "2012-11-28T01:49:38Z")
Hold it right there! There will be no, repeat, **NO** hugging in the Pit! ---
**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 28, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/19 "2012-11-28T01:54:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hold it right there! There will be no, repeat, **NO** hugging in the Pit! Sorry, I forgot where I was. Hug? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291/20 "2012-11-28T03:12:34Z")
Big monstrous painful rib-cracking bear-hugs, the kind that lead to punctured lungs? Those are still okay, right? (Opening hairy ape-like arms REAL WIDE…) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291.md?page=2)