{"id":12177,"date":"2014-02-12T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T08:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2014-02-12T00:11:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T08:11:50","slug":"the-report-you-wont-see-on-faux-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/the-report-you-wont-see-on-faux-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Report You Won’t See on Faux Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"

There a few things that the Republican base know, beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt.  One of them is that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton murdered four Americans in Benghazi.  The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise<\/em>, have broadcast repeatedly that Obama officials ordered the military to stand down, to prevent them from saving the Americans from Obama\u2019s Muslim terrorist allies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0212Benghazi\"In a new report<\/a> released on Tuesday, the House Armed Services Committee concludes that there was no way for the U.S. military to have responded in time to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya to save the four Americans killed that night. In doing so, the report debunks entirely a right-wing myth that says the White House ordered the military not to intervene<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For months after the attack that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, conservative media was awash in reports that on the night of the assault the Obama administration at some point ordered the military not to take action<\/a> that would have saved lives. This supposed \u201cstand down order\u201d led to a bevy of right-wing conspiracies [propaganda delinked<\/em>] about why the President and his administration had let the Americans die. <\/p>\n

\u201cWho told the SEALs to stand down?\u201d Rep. Steve King asked in Nov. 2012<\/a>, in just one of many interviews with Republicans referring to the response to Benghazi as \u201cworse than Watergate.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

As Media Matters reports, Fox News cited reports of a stand-down order no fewer than 85 times<\/a> during prime-time segments as of June 2013. As the new report \u2014 which the Republican majority of the committee authored<\/strong> \u2013makes very clear<\/a> in its findings, however, no such order ever existed. \u201cThere was no \u2018stand down\u2019 order issued to U.S. military personnel in Tripoli who sought to join the fight in Benghazi,\u201d the report says, noting that the military was not positioned to respond to the attack. <\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the military\u2019s preparations on September 11, 2012, majority members have not yet discerned any response alternatives that could have likely changed the outcome of the Benghazi attack,\u201d the report concludes<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

There was just no way that even the Republicans, who quietly issued this report, could twist the evidence to conform with their conspiracy theories.  Nevertheless, they knew that the report would do little damage, because most Republican voters will never know it exists.  Why?  It will never be reported on Faux Noise<\/em>, or anywhere else within the Republican media bubble.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There a few things that the Republican base know, beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt.  One of them is that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton murdered four Americans in Benghazi.  The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, have broadcast repeatedly that Obama officials ordered the military to stand down, to prevent them from saving […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}