#Benghazi is Back Because It Never Left ~ Jon Karl is Thrilled

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The Benghazi Political Circus
The #Benghazi Witch Hunt

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@DarrellIssa @GrahamBlog @SpeakerBoehner @foxnews @jonkarl - STFU. pic.twitter.com/9JArc3GseV

— amk4obama (@amk4obama) May 2, 2014

Well, Benghazi is back - but then it was never gone, and it will probably never be gone. When the last Tea Partier lays down his gun and rides into the Sunset, Benghazi!!!!! will be carved on his headstone, right next to Molon Labe.

A new document has been found in which a White House Aide tells Susan Rice to follow the CIA talking points, which we already know that she did. Yawn. None of this is really new, nor is it a smoking gun. It's the last gasp of a dying party, but hey, they got nothin' else. Besides, it changes the subject from Cliven Bundy and his racism, so Sean Hannity is heaving a sigh of relief.

This new thing is brought to you by Judicial Watch, a conservative "watchdog" group ~ yeah, they are going to be unbiased, right? Look at their tweet!

We get the #Benghazi documents Congress can't: http://t.co/sxqvch9ZCA #tcot #tlot pic.twitter.com/DgdjR0B9w2

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) April 30, 2014

Oh, Look ~ Rep. Darrell Issa has started a new investigation!
Surprise!!! (NOT)

Starting soon: @GOPoversight hearing on #Benghazi, Instability, & a New Gov: TUNE IN LIVE: http://t.co/eUtYHhVKiT

— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) May 1, 2014

LIVE: #Benghazi, Instability and a New Government -- WATCH HERE: http://t.co/URUkiCbqRS pic.twitter.com/g3FeCNHbV4

— GOP Oversight (@GOPoversight) May 1, 2014

From Fox News

New emails indicate a White House adviser helped prep (UN Ambassador Susan) Rice for her Sunday show appearances and pushed the explanation linking the attack to an anti-Islamic film -- and now, the White House is facing credibility questions after having downplayed their role in Rice's "talking points."

. . . During a heated briefing with reporters Wednesday afternoon, Press Secretary Jay Carney repeatedly tried to claim that the so-called "prep call" with Rice -- as it was described in one email -- was not about Benghazi. The prep session, he said, was just about the demonstrations elsewhere in the Muslim world that week.
"It is not about Benghazi -- it is about the protests around the Muslim world," Carney claimed.

. . . the documents obtained and released by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, included a Sept. 14, 2012, email from White House aide Ben Rhodes, an assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for strategic communications.

The Rhodes email, with the subject line: "RE: PREP Call with Susan: Saturday at 4:00 pm ET," was sent to a dozen members of the administration's inner circle, including key members of the White House communications team such as Carney.
In the email, Rhodes specifically draws attention to the anti-Islam Internet video, without distinguishing whether the Benghazi attack was different from protests elsewhere.

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And who was in the "heated debate" with Press Secretary Jay Carney? None other than ABC's Benghazi Warrior, Jonathan Karl, who was once fooled by some fake emails about Benghazi. Why he gets to ask questions now is a mystery, because he has no credibility left as a reporter, and now merely shills for the Right. Someday his visage will hang in the Benghazi Hall of Fame, right next to Lindsey Graham and Darrell Issa.

It would be funnier if it wasn't such a boring waste of time!

ABC’s Jonathan Karl and Fox News Try to Fool the Public with More Bogus Benghazi Emails http://t.co/mZELHXrLl8 #Benghazi #p2b

— Sarah Reese Jones (@srjones66) April 30, 2014

GOP shill @JonKarl is outraged #Benghazi pic.twitter.com/XarozpyEZ0

— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) May 1, 2014

And of course all the other Pundidiots and Politicians have to chime in.

UPDATE: Joe Scarborough Loses His Mind on Morning Joe, Transcript Via NewsMax

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So the email that you all are talking about is written by deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes. I think we flashed it up there. To then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice. The email was sent two days before Ambassador Rice went on five Sunday talk shows and blamed an anti-Islamic video for the attack.

One of the goals listed in the email, "To underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy." So they're trying to really clarify exactly what her focus is.

Republicans say the email is a smoking gun and should have been released with the rest of the Benghazi material, as we were talking about. But the White House disagrees, arguing that it was about broader Middle East policy and didn't have to be released.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Oh, that's ridiculous.

. . . DONNY DEUTSCH: I want to put up a warning for the Republicans because obviously the Republicans are seizing on this and jumping in. I think this is fools gold for 2016. I do not think the Benghazi – I think if they focus on this-

SCARBOROUGH: What about the cover-up for the White House? I got everybody here – I got everybody here apologizing for the White House.

DEUTSCH: I'm not.

SCARBOROUGH: What about a cover-up here, Donny?!

DEUTSCH: I am talking about political strategy. I think that-

SCARBOROUGH: Okay. But why are you jumping to political strategy instead of talking-

DEUTSCH: I'm just giving my point of view.

SCARBOROUGH: No, why aren't you talking about what Jay Carney did, the double speak?!

DEUTSCH: Because – it is double speak, but I'm talking politics. This is a political show.



SCARBOROUGH: So tell me, what's the politics of the White House lying about something that we all know they're lying about. When Jay Carney is saying it's not about Benghazi when you know it's about Benghazi! And we know it's about Benghazi.

DEUTSCH: If they're gonna run against Hillary Clinton on this, I think it's a bad political move.

SCARBOROUGH: And Chuck Todd knows it's about Benghazi. And he [pointing to Mike Barnicle] knows it's about – everybody watching knows it's about Benghazi. And you're talking about how the Republicans – you see the White House spokesperson lying on national television. You see an ABC News person shocked that he's lying and treating the press corps and Americans like their stupid, he's says it's not about Benghazi.

Republicans and conservatives have been called fools for a year now for saying this happened. They don't release it with the original documents that are released. They finally reluctantly are forced to release it. Then you have the White House lying about it yesterday saying it's not about Benghazi. And your only reaction is, "Hey, Republicans better not overreact to the cover-up."

DEUTSCH: My reaction is this, that we as voters understand both Republicans and Democrats are political animals and are going to manage a crisis in their situation to their favor. So what I am saying it's both-

SCARBOROUGH: So when Democrats cover something up, it's politics.

DEUTSCH: Joe, Joe, you know what?

SCARBOROUGH: When Republicans cover something up, it's a scandal.

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There you have it. Cold, hard evidence that a high-level White House aide instructed Ambassador Rice to blame Benghazi on a YouTube video.
~ Sean Hannity on Fox News, via Heritage Foundation

We now have the smoking document,” Krauthammer said, “which is the White House saying, ‘We’re pushing the video because we don’t want to blame it on the failure of our policies.’
~ Charles Krauthammer of Fox News, via Politico

Let’s be clear: The Rhodes memo certainly seems to confirm the allegations Republicans have been making for more than a year: the White House was intentionally spinning after the attack so as not to damage their reelection prospects. The White House denied this, and now there is evidence the critics were right. Isn’t the mainstream media the least bit curious about what happened?
~ Conservative Pundit, Jennifer Rubin, on Washington Post

Email from Ben Rhodes on #Benghazi: pic.twitter.com/uNWLLNwjHD

— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) April 30, 2014

This email is a smoking gun. http://t.co/oqK838DiGP #Benghazi

— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) April 29, 2014

The email shows political operatives in the White House working to create a political narrative at odds with the facts. #Benghazi

— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) April 29, 2014

The political shop at the White House took over early on. #Benghazi

— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) April 30, 2014

We need a joint select committee to find out the truth about #Benghazi — NOW: http://t.co/Y1mqt5sVkl

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 30, 2014

Appalled that Obama admin. defied congressional subpoena for #Benghazi documents. Full statement: http://t.co/NJfPSv3EAU

— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) April 30, 2014

It appears that more has been done to protect internal emails than to bring the murderers of four brave Americans to justice. #Benghazi

— Eric Cantor (@GOPLeader) April 30, 2014

Obama admin's stated email goal to Rice was not just false, it was politically motivated.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 29, 2014

#Benghazi secret emails revealed -- they can't hide from this: http://t.co/vDE06OSELX

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) April 30, 2014

Jon Karl and Mitt ~ Obama is Weak Because Putin Does Stuff

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Mitt just can't seem to go away. Yes, during the last Presidential debate he did sort-of predict that Vladimir Putin might cause trouble in the future. Duh. But when asked what he would do differently from President Obama about the invasion of Ukraine, he had nothing but sanctions and more sanctions, which is what is happening now. Then along comes White House Press Corps member Jonathan Karl riding posse for Mitt, asking the President to 'splain his Fail, and Obama was having none of it. Epic smackdown!

Transcript of CBS Face the Nation March 23, 2014

Good morning, Governor, and welcome back to FACE THE NATION. During the campaign, and I want to start with this, you took a lot of heat for saying that Russia was our greatest geopolitical foe. In the third debate, the President came down pretty hard on you about that.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA (2012): A few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America you said Russia. Not al Qaeda, you said Russia. And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War has been over for twenty years.

BOB SCHIEFFER: I'm sure, Governor, you're tempted this morning to say, I told you so, but do you really believe that what happened in Ukraine had anything to do with what President Obama has or hasn't done?

MITT ROMNEY (2012 Republican Presidential Nominee): Well, there's no question, but that the-- the President's naivety with regards to-- to Russia and his faulty judgment about Russia's intentions and objectives has led to a number of foreign policy challenges that we face. And unfortunately not having anticipated Russia's intentions, the President wasn't able to shape the kinds of events that may have been able to prevent the kinds of circumstances that you're seeing in the Ukraine as well as the things that you're seeing in Syria.

. . . BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, we had put on some sanctions now, they don't seem to have done much good. You're saying if we had done it earlier, how-- how actually would we have done that? And-- and are the sanctions they put on now, do we need stronger sanctions?

MITT ROMNEY: Well, let's-- let's step back. I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try and take actions to shape it in some way. And that's, of course, what this President has failed to do and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well. They thought resetting relations with Russia, handing out gifts to Russia would somehow make Russia change its objectives. Well, that certainly wasn't the case.
Had we from the very beginning of the demonstrations in Crimea, excuse me, in-- in Ukraine, had we worked with our allies and said, look, let's talk about the kinds of severe sanctions we would put in place if Russia were to decide to move and had we then communicated that to Russia beforehand, not put in place the sanctions, but communicate, look, Russia, stand down here. Don't you think about grabbing territory or these are the things that will have to happen. These are the actions we will take. And by the way, Russia, we're not going to interfere with your base in Sevastopol and so forth. Had we communicated those things there is always the potential that we could have kept them from invading a country and annexing it into their own?

Transcript Via RealClearPolitics

JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS: Mr. President, thank you. In China, in Syria, in Egypt, and now in Russia we've seen you make strong statements, issue warnings that have been ignored. Are you concerned that America's influence in the world -- that your influence in the world -- is on the decline? And in light of recent developments, do you think Mitt Romney had a point when he said that Russia is America's greatest geopolitical foe, if not Russia, who? And Mr. Prime Minister, do you think these sanctions will change Vladimir Putin's calculation? Or cause him to back down. Where do you see a Russian red line where if they go any further, into Eastern Ukraine, into Moldova, when would options beyond sanctions have to be considered?

BARACK OBAMA: I think if the premise of the question is that whenever the United States objects to an action and other countries don't immediately do what we want, that that's been the norm, that would pretty much erase most of twentieth century history.
. . . Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength but out of weakness...
. . . The fact that Russia felt compelled to go in militarily and lay bare these violations of international law indicates less influence, not more.

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Mitt Romney Returns and Attacks President Obama For Not Having Psychic Abilities http://t.co/eKsy8Evbj0 via @politicususa

— Steve Wallace (@Stwallace23) March 23, 2014

Mitt Romney expressed concern about the President's foreign policy. Apparently, he has money hidden in lots of those countries...

— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) March 25, 2014

If Mitt Romney could see the future so well, why didn't he see himself losing the presidency twice?

— Liberal Librarian (@Lib_Librarian) March 25, 2014

Mitt Romney Would Have Admonished This Putin Fellow To Stop His Jackanapesing And Tomfoolery At Once http://t.co/i3i0mzarPZ

— Wonkette (@Wonkette) March 24, 2014

Mitt Romney: "My solution to the Ukraine Crisis is exactly like Obama's, except I would have sanctioned Russia during the Olympics."

— clydetheslyde (@clydetheslyde) March 23, 2014

Jonathan Karl auditioning to be press secretary on Mitt Romney's next presidential campaign.

— Libido Shuffle (@eclecticbrotha) March 26, 2014

@eclecticbrotha At press events, Jon Karl always looks like he's going to report Obama for being late to homeroom.

— David McLemore (@dave_in_sa) March 26, 2014

Jon Karl ABC: Is Mitt dreamy Mr. President? I think he is. Can we revisit debate zingers?

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 25, 2014

Jon Karl, ABC was the guy who wrote fake emails about Benghazi. So we know where he is coming from @Lawrence

— AnnaB (@azannaphx) March 26, 2014

Jon Karl, ABC was the guy who wrote fake emails about Benghazi. So we know where he is coming from @Lawrence

— AnnaB (@azannaphx) March 26, 2014

What Jon Karl did today wasn't 'tough journalism.' He was brand building by feeding the right-wing noise machine.

— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) March 26, 2014

Jon Karl is a regional powerless reporter who asks questions out of weakness rather than strength. @Freefree0Bobbie @jonkarl

— AAmom (@AVD911) March 25, 2014

Mr President If a woodchuck could chuck wood how much wood could a woodchuck chuck BENGHAZI!!!! #JonKarlQuestions

— Lupita wannabe (@Xultar) March 25, 2014

@Xultar @word_34 @setislady @jonkarl Could not believe the audacity, transparency, stupidity.

— Marilyn Bush (@marilynrbush) March 25, 2014

Try again, Jon Karl. #hack

— David Pleasant (@dpleasant) March 25, 2014

Shorter PBO to RW Arsehole Jon Karl: Foreign Policy is nuanced and complex and cannot be reduced to an RNC memo.

— aspirational12 (@aspirational12) March 25, 2014

Obamacare Equals Hurricane Katrina - Because IDIOTS

Health Law Rollout’s Stumbles Draw Parallels to Bush’s Hurricane Response
. . . The disastrous rollout of his health care law not only threatens the rest of his agenda but also raises questions about his competence in the same way that the Bush administration’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina undermined any semblance of Republican efficiency.
~ Michael D. Shear on New York Times

Just like Katrina, when the big problem President Bush had was diminishing the significance of what was happening, saying ‘Hey, way to go, Brownie,’—you had the president yesterday talking about glitches and kinks. This is bigger than glitches and kinks. The one difference was Katrina was a storm, the health care law was Obama’s creation.
. . . Maybe the Iraq War is a better analogy.
~ Conservative pundit Ron Fournier on MSNBC

There are moments in a presidency where everything is different afterward and I believe this is that moment. For us, it was Hurricane Katrina because while public support had been dropping for the war in Iraq, after Katrina, after many members of the public and every member of the Democratic Party viewed us as incompetent and it transcended to everything else we did. You know, you can't look in a crystal ball but I believe this is a moment after which everything will be different for the President. And if you look at the problems he's facing in the world, with Iran and other issues, he's going to miss his credibility very much.
~ Former Bush Communications Adviser Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC's Morning Joe, via Esquire

President's struggle so much in their second term. Everybody remembers what happened to Bush after Katrina. All those questions about his competence took hold. His second term never really recovered. Is President Obama in that kind of a position right now?
~ George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America

Comparing #ObamaCare to Hurricane Katrina is the 9/11 of U.S. media and "journalism". Wrap it up, idiots. It's over. Find another job.

— Path2Enlightenment (@Path2Enlighten) November 15, 2013

#katrina metaphors show just how simplistic some folks in media behaves when they can't explain complicated policy. Really disgusting.

— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) November 15, 2013

George Stephanopoulos comparing the ACA rollout to Katrina is like comparing losing my Wi-Fi signal to 9/11.

— Kiragu Beauttah (@KiraguBCityDad) November 15, 2013

NEWSFLASH: Is Obamacare like Katrina? Is @chucktodd like a journalist? Is @GStephanopoulos a real human being? No. No. Hell to the no.

— Think Gooder (@StillJohnCA) November 16, 2013

America Today: A lot of dry, nicely dressed, white people with six-figure plus incomes comparing Obamacare to Hurricane Katrina.

— Zedd Rebel (@ZeddRebel) November 15, 2013

In comparing #Obamacare to Hurricane Katrina, the @nytimes has jumped the shark. They should lose any and all credibility after such an act.

— Bruce P. Knight (@brucepknight) November 15, 2013

I'm late to the "Obama's Katrina" meme, but here's the New York Times front page after the real Hurricane Katrina: pic.twitter.com/yEYDyQBddm

— Matt Ford (@HemlockMartinis) November 15, 2013

Obamacare has now been compared to Iraq, Katrina, Titanic, Hindenberg. Comparing it to Hitler would almost be sensible at this point.

— Danielle (@DCPlod) October 25, 2013

This story is the New York Times' Katrina: http://t.co/zIyj1KuAsh

— Ian (@iboudreau) November 15, 2013

For every 1 person killed by Hurricane Katrina, approximately 0 were killed by Obamacare website glitches... but they're just as bad.

— Grand Old Parody (@GrandOldParody1) November 16, 2013

Yes @GStephanopoulos, a glitchy website is just like Katrina. **** you. pic.twitter.com/CoAX2P4uAm

— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) November 15, 2013

"When The Levees Broke" in Katrina -- aka not a glitchy ACA website or cancelled junk plan. http://t.co/bc69VRJRSW

— sfpelosi (@sfpelosi) November 15, 2013

Remember all the dead bodies floating in Katrina's waters and lying around at the Superdome? Yep, just like a partially broken website.

— David Pleasant (@dpleasant) November 15, 2013

#pleaserespond RT @kingdomofwench: .@GStephanopoulos WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU THAT YOU THINK COMPARING A WEBSITE TO KATRINA IS REMOTELY OKAY

— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) November 15, 2013

Hasselbeck Hustles Over to Fox

From People

The conservative voice on ABC's The View for the last decade is headed to Fox's daytime talk show Fox & Friends, replacing Gretchen Carlson, who'll be getting her own daytime Fox show in the fall.

Her last day on The View is Wednesday.

"We will miss her and wish her everything good," View co-host and executive producer Barbara Walters said in a statement.

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#ElizabethHasselback headed to #FoxNoise. So everybody raise your hand if you are NOT surprised by this move.

— rodney ellis (@1badnupe) July 10, 2013

Goodbye, Hasselbeck: "Barbara Walters claimed to be near tears... though she evidently wasn't." http://t.co/WGcxkYcawb via @DPD_

— Salon.com (@Salon) July 10, 2013

Elizabeth Hasselbeck will be on a new show "FOX and a Bunch of People Pretending to be Elizabeth Hasselbeck's Friends."

— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) July 10, 2013

Big Fox News shakeup: blonde white lady will be replacing blonde white lady who is moving to other blonde white lady's old time slot.

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 9, 2013

Fox News Changes Name to Blonde TV.

— Mark Campbell (@MrWordsWorth) July 10, 2013

Sickening! MT @NewsBreaker: BLONDE SWAP: The View loses Elisabeth Hasselbeck to Fox; Gretchen Carlson gets own show pic.twitter.com/258rGTZype

— Curtis (@cfreelakers24) July 10, 2013

No Elisabeth Hasselbeck blonde jokes plz. Clearly, not a natural blonde. GOP nitwit jokes remain A-OK. #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/yPdUOmkJdk

— Allen.i.am ® ™ (@StillCrazy808) July 11, 2013

Brian Kilmeade Skewers The View: Elizabeth Hasselbeck Finally ‘On A Show Where They Let Her Talk’ (VIDEO) http://t.co/Mr3hXxX142

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) July 10, 2013

Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "Morning-after pill is like abandoning a baby in the street." Well, that's why FOX News has offered her the big bucks!

— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) July 11, 2013

Elizabeth Hasselbeck will fit in well at Fox & Feints.

— Jim of Pennsyltucky (@jimdigs) July 11, 2013

Elizabeth Hasselbeck: leaves one show I don't watch for another show I don't watch. #maintain

— Vent (@vcthree) July 9, 2013

Fox and friends found someone more moronic than Gretchen Carlson , congrats

— gmo418 (@gmo418) July 11, 2013

Jonathan Karl Issues a Non-Apology Apology Over Fake Benghazi Emails

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From CNN:

Jonathan Karl, chief White House correspondent for ABC News, addressed criticism of his reporting on the Benghazi talking points controversy, saying in a statement to CNN that he regrets the inaccuracy of his report.
“Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it’s become a distraction from the story, which still entirely stands. I should have been clearer about the attribution. We updated our story immediately," he said in the statement to Howard Kurtz, host of CNN's "Reliable Sources."

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In case you missed it, I sincerely regret the error I made describing an email from Ben Rhodes. 1/2
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) May 19, 2013

I should have stated, as I did elsewhere, the reporting was based on a summary provided by a source. I apologize for the mistake. 2/2
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) May 19, 2013

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@jonkarl Referring to what you did as an "error" insults our intelligence, shows lack of regret & thus negates your apology. Just more words
— Nioshii (@Nartist) May 19, 2013

The best practice for reporters getting leaks from the Hill: trust no one until you've vetted their agenda. #whodupedjonkarl
— Joy Reid (@TheReidReport) May 19, 2013

@thereidreport Did someone actually dupe @jonkarl? Or did he choose to tell the story the way he'd get max "scandal" factor? W/out a name...
— Nioshii (@Nartist) May 19, 2013

Yes,not "errors" MT @only4rm: @thereidreport @jonkarl Also Karl wrote he'd "obtained"the emails &they'd been"reviewed by ABC News"-both LIES
— Nioshii (@Nartist) May 19, 2013

I don't think John Karl got played.I think he knew exactly what he was doing.They didn't count on PBO releasing the emails. #complicit
— Tien Le (@tienle47) May 18, 2013

Bold @jonkarl! He "regrets" inaccurate email but says the story "still entirely stands." @abcnews has a problem cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/19/abc…
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) May 19, 2013

Media Observers on ABC's Jonathan Karl Benghazi Talking Points Story: "Sloppy" And "Inaccurate" mm4a.org/12E6STy
— E.A. Madden (@Itsthejobsstupi) May 19, 2013

no real downside for reporting on fake news, abc news editionbit.ly/Z5BT5B the whole thing is a fraud
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 19, 2013

Jon Karl got played. But he refuses to admit it. Every ABC anchor who doesn't ask him about it is complicit, too. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/bengha…
— Jay Rosen(@jayrosen_nyu) May 18, 2013

ABC's Jon Karl: "Yes, I got the emails wrong, but the story still entirely stands. I'm not changing it just because I lied."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 19, 2013

.@jonkarl because if you were deliberately lied to, they're not a proper "source." They used u to transmit false info to whip up "scandal."
— Joy Reid (@TheReidReport) May 19, 2013

@thereidreport @jonkarl He needs a new, more reliable source not a GOP friend.
— Emily Miller Osborne (@EjoWVgirl) May 19, 2013

No, @jonkarl did not "get played"; he wrote the music and hired the band.
— Peter Flom (@peterflom) May 19, 2013

.@jonkarl: "I'm deeply sorry that the 'filet mignon' I fed you last week was actually a shit sandwich. But wasn't it delicious?" #Benghazi
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) May 19, 2013

.@jayrosen_nyu @richpf Seems like @jonkarl gets "played" an awful lot. One of many other examples: bit.ly/11NnYTj
— Jim Naureckas (@JNaureckas) May 18, 2013

.@jonkarl you still haven't taken responsibility for misleading your readers.
— R. Paine (@ArrghPaine) May 19, 2013

.@jonkarl a link to the SPJ code of ethics should you give a shit about such things spj.org/ethicscode.asp #p2 #tcot
— R. Paine (@ArrghPaine) May 19, 2013

I just refuse to believe that Jonathan Karl was a "victim" in the #Benghazi email scandal. He was a PARTICIPANT. @abc
— Jeanne K. (@SnarkAmendment) May 19, 2013

@snarkamendment @abc He most certainly was. Now HE's trying to do the #gop-spin-&-shuffle. He might as well get his due from it; he pd 4 it.
— Edwyne Rouchelle (@2enchantU) May 19, 2013

.@jonkarl Sounds like u just keep digging yourself deeper.Have the juice to tell the truth & give up your source for lies perpetrated @abc
— Stephanie Green (@stefsstuff) May 19, 2013

Does @jonkarl still have "juice" with his lying sources.....
— Sabrina(@Charmed86) May 19, 2013

@thedailyedge @jonkarl @abc Karl can't be trusted again.Belongs on Blaze with Glenn Beck.
— Cynann (@sassycyn64) May 19, 2013

ABC's Jonathan Karl Gets Juiced by Fake Benghazi Leak

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The Benghazi Political Circus
Benghazi Been-There-Done-That

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From Obama Press Conference, April 30, 2013

Jonathan Karl of ABC: Mr. President, you are a hundred days into your second time. On the gun bill, it seems you put everything into it to try to get it passed. Obviously you didn’t. Congress has ignored your efforts to try to get them to undo these sequester cuts. There was even a bill that you threatened to veto that got 92 Democrats in the house voting yes. So my question to you is do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through this Congress?

President Barack Obama: My, if you put it that way, Jon, maybe I should just pack up and go home. Golly.

POTUS pushes back on @jonkarl's Q that he lacks "juice." First with humor, then with some punch.From good cop to bad cop in 2 mins.

— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) April 30, 2013

Jonathan Karl: "Do you still have the juice?" Obama: "rumors of my demise may be a little exaggerated." #whpresser

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 30, 2013

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From Media Matters for America ~ May 14, 2013

. . . CNN is challenging the accuracy of reporting on a supposed email from a White House aide that seemed to suggest an effort to provide political cover for the administration following the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The new revelations regarding the email comes after the allegedly flawed reporting has spread through the media.

The allegedly inaccurate characterizations of the Rhodes email by ABC News and The Weekly Standard were repeated in numerous media outlets, and a Republican research document.

. . . ABC News' alleged misquote of the Rhodes email -- filed by Jonathan Karl -- was cited and repeated in numerous outlets, including USA Today, Politico, The Daily Mail, National Review Online, and Fox News. During Special Report's panel discussion on May 10, contributor Charles Krauthammer cited the email to claim the White House was more interested in "political cover for all the agencies and not about the truth."

CNN host Jake Tapper reported today that a newly obtained email from White House aide Ben Rhodes about Benghazi "differs from how sources inaccurately quoted and paraphrased it in previous accounts to different media organizations." Tapper writes that the email shows that someone provided outlets like ABC News and The Weekly Standard with "inaccurate information" . . .

Oops: ABC's Benghazi 'scoop' was based on fabricated email dailykos.com/story/2013/05/…. GOP conspiracy gets dumber by the day

— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) May 14, 2013

When did @abc and @jonkarl know about the fabricated email and who knew about it? How can one report they viewed something they never saw?

— Mike Chambers (@TheLogical_1) May 14, 2013

WH Claims Republicans ‘Doctored’ or ‘Fabricated’ Benghazi Emails. ABC’s Jonathan Karl Says They Didn’t. pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/05…

— Palmer (@Jonijam) May 15, 2013

@jonkarl So it's the WH's fault because you didn't vet your source thoroughly & ended up publishing WRONG information? #JournalismFAIL #p2

— PragmaticObotsUnite (@PragObots) May 14, 2013

.@abc News lied. Said @jonkarl "obtained" emails, when Karl never obtained crap. #pathetic #failures
— Steve Weinstein (@steveweinstein) May 15, 2013

Pres. Obama's response upon hearing @jonkarl's lies about Benghazi have been exposed. youtube.com/watch?v=Nw2BKm… twitter.com/NerdyWonka/sta…

— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) May 15, 2013

ABC's Jonathan Karl wasn't quoting the Benghazi emails. He was quoting the source who CHARACTERIZED them. Not good. politicususa.com/abc-admits-rea…

— Joan (@LibertyBelleJ) May 15, 2013

A good day, another MSM shill exposed, spectacularly -> @jonkarl <- Not a word he scrawls again will ever be taken seriously. @abcnews @abc
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) May 15, 2013

How did those false #GOP talking points end up in @jonkarl's reporting? @abc should release all internal communications and drafts.
— allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) May 14, 2013

You know what @jonkarl should write about next? The scandal in which @jonkarl printed selectively edited material without verifying it.

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 14, 2013

Breaking: ABC News gets corrected by CNN... now that's embarrassing.

— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) May 15, 2013

Let's be clear: @jonkarl wasn't duped. He was trying to help GOP take down our President. It's criminal. He should be fired. @abc

— LiberalPhenom (@LiberalPhenom) May 14, 2013

The Benghazi Political Circus

source: @Catballou


Previous Post:
Benghazi Been-There-Done-That

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Frankly, had I been in the job at the time, I think my decisions would have been just as theirs were. We don't have a ready force standing by in the Middle East, and so getting somebody there in a timely way would have been very difficult, if not impossible.
(he would not have) approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi under those circumstances.
. . . It's sort of a cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces. The one thing that our forces are noted for is planning and preparation before we send people in harm's way, and there just wasn't time to do that.
~ Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates

We've got a whole bunch of people in the State Department who consistently say, 'You know what, I'm willing to step up, I'm willing to put myself in harm's way because I think that this mission is important in terms of serving the United States and advancing our interests around the globe.' And so we dishonor them when we turn things like this into a political circus.
The whole thing defies logic, and the fact that this keeps getting churned out, frankly has a lot to do with political motivations.
. . . And suddenly, three days ago, this gets spun up as if there's something new to the story. There's no there there.
. . . Who executes some kind of cover up for three days?
~ President Obama


Dead and circuses: Clown-in-chief Obama calls Benghazi talking points a “sideshow"
~ Headline from Michelle Malkin

The entire Obama administration has been an endless series of SIDESHOWS and corrupto-clown car collisions.
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 13, 2013

Dear parents of the fallen in Benghazi: Your sons' deaths are a "sideshow" for this admin: abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics… #benghazi
— Marijo Tinlin (@mnewtontinlin) May 13, 2013

"I don't think it rises to that level" says @senjohnmccain of a call to impeach President Obama over #benghazi
— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) May 13, 2013

IRS scandal will replace #Benghazi soon. Better for fundraising.
— Zach Green (@140elect) May 13, 2013

#Benghazi Cream helps ease the pain from losing landslide election & help you forget #GOP cut embassy security funds. twitter.com/ZonkerPA/statu…
— CurtisK (@ZonkerPA) May 13, 2013

Hillary Clinton’s not a target. President Obama’s not a target. The target is how did we fail three different ways, fail to heed the warnings of an impending attack, fail to respond properly during the attack? At least-- we certainly could have done better and I think everyone knows that. And then failed to get the truth to the American people at a timely fashion.
~ Darrell Issa, R-CA, to David Gregory on Meet the Press, Sunday May 12

More from the Meet the Press Transcript:

GREGORY: And isn’t this Congress’s job to spend the money to beef up security?

REP. ISSA: David, I-- well, first of all, money is spent by the-- the secretary of state and her people. We appropriate the money. I have spent over 12 years both on the Intelligence Committee and on the Foreign Affairs Committee and now on the Oversight Committee. I visited countless embassies and consulates. I’ve seen both behind the scenes on the Intelligence Committee and the overt actions of what we do. And we do a great deal. And we do it well. But in areas of high risk, in areas like North Africa and for that matter, Sub-Saharan Africa, we’re not really prepared for the kind of-- of attacks we’re getting. We haven’t been since the-- the two bombings of our embassies and then the Cole. So can we do better? Yes. Must we do better? Yes.

(snip)

GREGORY: But do you need a select committee on-- on something like this? Something like (Unintelligible) or is your-- your investigation sufficient here?

REP. ISSA: You know, let’s not blow things out of proportion. This is a failure, it needs to be investigated. Our committee can investigate. Now, Ambassador Pickering, his people and he refused to come before our committee that…

AMB. THOMAS PICKERING (Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs/Chair, Accountability Review Board on Benghazi): That is not true.

GREGORY: All right. We’re-- we’re going to get to Ambassador Pickering.

REP. ISSA: We have-- we have it in-- we have it in writing, we have White House correspondence. It may not have been the Ambassador’s decision but it was the White House decision. That has been reversed. We’re inviting him on Monday along with Admiral Mullen to come, to go through, with his papers, a private deposition so we can get the facts in a nonpartisan way.

GREGORY: Right.

REP. ISSA: We’ll have Republicans and Democratic…

GREGORY: Well, all right. Ambassador Pickering, you-- you just jumped in here. You’re willing to appear?

AMB. PICKERING: Of course. I’ve said the day before the hearings, I was willing to appear to come to the very hearings that he disclu-- he excluded me from. The White House told me back that he said…

REP. ISSA: One second. Please-- please don’t tell me I excluded you.

AMB. PICKERING: Well, the-- the majority was-- we were told the majority said I was not welcomed at that hearing. I could come at some other time.

REP. ISSA: Well, as-- as the ambassador just said, the day before the hearing, if the White House said we’d like to have him, there’s a procedure. He could have been the Democratic witness. And we would have allowed him. The Democrats requested no witness. The fact is, we don’t want to have some sort of a stage show. We had fact witnesses. They testified. We have the Ambassador and-- and Admiral Mullen who conducted and oversaw the ARB. We’re inviting them on Monday. We’ll go through, not in front of the public but-- but in a nonpartisan way questions and answers and then obviously…

GREGORY: All right.

REP. ISSA: …a hearing to follow at an appropriate time. I’m delighted to have a long-serving career diplomat willing to come before us. I don’t think it was his decision to say no. But we were told no until just before the hearing

I’ve been watching it for the last four days getting bigger and bigger and even some of our liberal friends are sort of saying this is really bad. Between this (IRA scandal) and Benghazi, Benghazi — had this come out like this before the election, you could have had a different result.
~ Donald Trump

SCANDAL!!!
There will be hell toupee...
-Trump
~ John Q. Public on Politico

The IRS is the greatest scandal this nation has ever faced since Benghazi, which was the greatest scandal this nation had ever faced since Fast and Furious, which was the greatest scandal this nation had ever faced since.....choose your favorite right wing talking point.
~ Leftturn on Politico

Well since Trump has used up his entire vocabulary it must be legit. But seriously isn't this the exact same thing he said about finding evidence in Hawaii about Obama's birth certificate?
~ Billy on Politico

Why did Stevens take the 400-mile trip up to the tiny outpost in Benghazi, KNOWING it could not be defended, KNOWING there had been Al-Qaeda related activity there for months, KNOWING there was unrest in all Muslim countries, knowing he only had a couple mercenaries as a detail? Who decided that?
~ Wellstone on Politico

From the very beginning, Speaker Boehner has said that the American people deserve the truth about Benghazi, and that Congress has a responsibility to provide effective, vigorous and responsible oversight.
~ Ex-RNC Chairman Michael Steele

The truth shouldn't be hidden from the American people behind a White House firewall. Four Americans lost their lives in this terrorist attack. Congress will continue to investigate this issue, using all of the resources at our disposal.
~ House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio

Exclusive:The Benghazi talking points underwent 12 revisions, extensive edits from State. They are all here: abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics…. #GMA
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) May 10, 2013

Demanding @whitehouse release e-mails as reports confirm Obama admin “scrubbing” of #Benghazi talking points j.mp/17RwzDm
— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) May 10, 2013

.@speakerboehner says the White House should release #Benghazi emails: politi.co/11nNYEE
— POLITICO (@politico) May 10, 2013

'Jonathan Karl's Report Gives Fodder To Right-Wing Scandal Mongers' #Benghazi mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/1…
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) May 10, 2013

If Obama is calling the #Benghazi talking points controversy a "sideshow," does that mean he is calling Jonathan Karl a clown
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) May 13, 2013

ABC getting attention for Boehner Staff Saw #Benghazi Emails in March, but @maddow reported that days ago: thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/05/11/vid…
— GottaLaff (@GottaLaff) May 13, 2013

In March, Boehner, according to a senior administration official, was invited to a White House-arranged briefing where the emails and other Benghazi-related material could be privately reviewed. Bohener did not attend; he sent staff, who attended with other House Republicans.
~ Mother Jones

So Congress has had the talking points and how they were changed and by whom for a couple months now, showing the revisions, showing how they happened.
ABC published them today for the public as if they were a smoking gun, and all the Republicans in Congress who already had these things and have had them for months reported to be outraged by what was in them, shocked, , impeach, impeach!
They have had them for two and a half months now, and they never said anything about them before. Just today they decided it was a smoking gun, even though this has been long answered.
~ Rachel Maddow, via The Political Carnival
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Tea Party Girl Hasselbeck Gone from View? ~ Update: Rumor Denied

UPDATE: Barbara Walters Denies Rumor, sort of:

There is a particularly false story getting picked up about Elisabeth's alleged departure, saying that we don't approve of her conservative views. The truth is, we love Elisabeth. I like her personally and she's just a wonderful person. But beyond that we value and appreciate her point of view. It's important to us because Elisabeth helps give this show perspective and balance. ...We have no plans for Elisabeth to leave this show. Having said that to all of you, Bill and I have always said that when one of you makes the choice to leave, that's your choice and we will support your decision. But right now, the only person who cannot leave the show is me.

From US Magazine

According to the source, the show's resident conservative voice is being ousted after market research revealed that she isn't popular with TV audiences.

"The viewers they polled all said she was too extreme and right wing," the insider tells Us. "People did not watch the show because of Elisabeth. So they told her yesterday her contract would not be renewed."

When reached for comment, a rep for the show told Us in a statement: "Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a valued member of The View and has a long term contract."

Hasselbeck, 35, joined the cast of the daytime talk show in November 2003 after guest-hosting the show following Lisa Ling's departure in 2002.

Next week: Elisabeth Hasselbeck HIRED by Fox News!
~ r3t0dd on Mediaite

"Polling showed that viewers were turned off by Hasselbeck’s presence on the show, not tuning into the program because of her"
HAHAHAHAHA...center-right country my ass.
~ Gunsel on Mediaite

Her voice is like scratching a chalkboard.
~ In Awe on Huff Post

I never had a problem with her having conservative political views; what bothered me about Hasselbeck was her cringe worthy style of debating them.
When someone challenges her statements, Hasselbeck becomes shrill, cries, and portrays herself as a victim being bullied and pick on. She seems intent on advancing the negative stereotype of women being too emotional and childlike to be included in serious discourse.
Her sanctimonious, thin-skinned, and humorless response to jokes directed at her makes Hasselbeck unsuited for being in front of a camera. It's best for all involved that she find a different career.
~ ChicagoDMT on Huff Post

Elisabeth Hasselbeck makes the 700 Club look progressive.
~ visionrider on Huff Post

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a strident, pom•pous, ig•norant, overbearing 'bagger. Why she is on anything OTHER than FauxNews is beyond me.
Actually, I'll make a small wager that she indeed ends up on FauxNews. She's perfect for them.
~ Greenchilistew on Huff Post

I wish Hasselbeck good luck.. She's too intelligent for the low-information audience which helped bring an anti-American Kenyan to the white house. Lower case intended. It should now be called the Nation's Out House.
~ tillthen on Washington Times

Silence anyone who disagrees with them..This liberal media are treasonous leeches who attempt to silence the opposing view.....pathetic.
~ tkhk3746 on Washington Times

It's a business. It's about money. If she isn't good for the ratings she's gone. If her views don't appeal to the demographic she is gone. It isn't about fairness, it is about business.
~ Jayar B. on Washington Times

The watchers of the Spew are mostly angry, ugly, left wing women, and fruity men anyway. Elisabeth's too good looking for the mud fence crowd of permissive women.
~ Thomas W. on Breitbart

. . . she will be better off without all those racist socialists
~ Kimberly04 on Breitbart

Hasselbeck, Palin, & Nugent have all been recently fired. Hey, they could form one, really crappy show.#uniteblue examiner.com/article/elisab…

— Dan (@NiemannDan) March 8, 2013

Elisabeth Hasselbeck still had a job on The View? #Ihadntnoticed

— Ashley Cushman (@AshCush) March 11, 2013

Fans of Elisabeth Hasselbeck shouldn't fret. FOX got rid of Palin, so they'll need a new idiot to replace her.

— Brianne (@briannechantal) March 8, 2013

ABC found Elizabeth Hasselbeck's popularity so low she was only qualified to be in Congress or join Nickelback

— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) March 10, 2013

@deadhostess Now Hasselbeck can go back to "Survivor" & hopefully get eaten by a crocodile or crushed to death by an anaconda. #ConserviTurd

— Mr Burlesk (@mrburlesk) March 9, 2013

Best Quotes of Inauguration Day

Obama's Quiet Moment
Here is the moment. It was not on the program. It was not on anybody's schedule. We did not know it was coming. And it was not spoken into any microphone. . . .
"I want to take a look one more time. I'm not going to see this again."
The President looking in one direction, while everyone else looking toward him was moving past him.
That is the moment when you see the man inside the trappings of the office. When you see the way that any of us might feel a little overwhelmed in human terms by the importance of your office. The singular scale of the importance of that particular office. That was a cool moment.
Days like this are special because of what is scripted and preordained about them. The least suspenseful things on days like this are the most important things on days like this. Things that display the ritual of how we peacefully and agreeably move between Presidencies in America. Days of ritual are days of foregone conclusion. They are scripted. Which makes it all the more amazing when there is not a script. Like that moment after his Inaugural Address when we saw the President turn to be as amazed to see that crowd as that crowd was to see their President.
~ Rachel Maddow on MSNBC

I'm honored and grateful that we have a chance to finish what we started. Our work begins today. Let's go. -bo

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 21, 2013

Inspiring to see people streaming to the Capitol on this brisk, sunny Inaugural, as Americans have done for generations.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) January 21, 2013

As if a cold Monday in January wasn’t dreary enough, today has been dubbed ‘Blue Monday’, the most depressing day of the year.`
~ Steve Doocey on Fox and Friends

Fox on Obama's Speech:
Chris Wallace: This was an unyielding, uncompromising espousal of a liberal agenda.
Brit Hume: This is utterly bereft of an outreach to the opposition.
Mark Levin: I think there’s a lot of perverse thinking that goes on in Obama’s mind, radical left-wing thinking. He was indoctrinated with Marx and Alinksy propaganda.

I thought it was an amazing speech, and historically very important. This was really Obama unbound. And I think what's most interesting is that Obama basically is declaring the end of Reaganism
~ Charles Krauthammer on Fox News

Fox News is fun to watch today. It's like an all-day live Adele song.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 21, 2013

Aretha's hat won the #inauguration last time, but Justice Scalia is trying for that distinction today: twitter.com/eddievb/status…

— Eddie VanBogaert (@eddievb) January 21, 2013

Cool cat Harry Reid in on the act, sportin' Lincoln's hat! twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/…

— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) January 21, 2013

Ladies and gentlemen, the late Alex Haley, the author of Roots, lived his life by these six words: "find the good and praise it.” Today we praise the American tradition of transforming, or reaffirming, immense power in the inauguration of the President of the United States. We do this in a peaceful, orderly way. There is no mob. No coup. No insurrection. This is a moment when millions stop and watch. A moment most of us always will remember. It is a moment that is our most conspicuous and enduring symbol of the American democracy. How remarkable that this has survived for so long in such a complex country when so much power is at stake. This freedom to vote for our leaders and the restraint to respect the results.
~ Senator Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, Co-Chair of the Inaugural Committee

"I don't care if you're a Democrat, Republican, a Mugwump or whatever. This is a day when you have to say 'What A Country!'
~ Dan Rather

He went big. He went lofty. He went ambitious. And he went unmistakably liberal.
~ Jonathan Karl on ABC News

I feel like I should pinch myself right now, Wolf. I can't believe I have this vantage point of history in the making.
~ Jim Acosta of CNN while covering the President and First Lady walking down Pennsylvania Avenue parade route

Thanks for all the kind words abt myparade route duty in front of POTUS. Amazing to witness history up close. No matter who's in power.

— Jim Acosta (@jimacostacnn) January 21, 2013

That was really historic. To hear the President of the United States mention the word Stonewall in the same sentence as Selma, in the same sentence as Seneca Falls, certainly for gay and lesbian Americans, that is a stunning statement and a real leap forward for gay and lesbian Americans.
~ Anderson Cooper on CNN

I just want to say, there were moments in this speech, but there was a theme, we the people go back to the Founders, think of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There was an uplifting, beyond rhetoric, there was a theme of our job is not finished until our gay brothers and sisters have equal rights under the law. This was a bigger moment, I think, than a lot of people initially gave it credit for. I just think, with re-election, he is thinking much more broadly and much more inclusively, and I was very moved, just being up there in that frozen crowd, looking out over the masses.
~ Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC

Gigantic. And he connected it all to the patriots of 1776 that we keep widening in our democracy. And he made those places almost like battlefield spots in American history, like Oxford, Mississippi, or Normandy or Iwo Jima. And it's an iconic speech.
. . . I thought it was a marvelous speech and it's brave and it's bold and I think it's going to play well in history.
~ Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley on CNN

Reminds you of another second inaugural: Lincoln’s. So much of Lincoln in that speech, from the Gettysburg address to the second inaugural itself. I thought what was interesting was an attempt to draw a balance – of course, he’s a man of the progressive side – but he tried to draw a balance there between a government ruled by an elite and then a government ruled by a mob both being a problem.
~ Chris Matthews on Obama's Second Inaugural Address

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GOP dinner tonight should begin with crow.
~ Ed Schultz on MSNBC

So folks, I raise my glass to a man who never, never, never operates out of fear. [He] only operates out of confidence. I’m toasting you Chuck. A guy who I plan on working on working with. You can’t get rid of me, man. Remember, I’m still part of the Senate! God bless you, Chuck.
~ Vice President Joe Biden offering Senator Chuck Schumer a surprise toast at the Inaugural Luncheon

Chuck Schumer Photo Bomb During Ceremony

FLOTUS has to sit next to Boehner. That is the definition of marital love and sacrifice. #inaug2013
— Steve Weinstein (@steveweinstein) January 21, 2013

First Lady's Epic Eye Roll

Just danced to "Let's Stay Together" with the love of my life and the President of the United States. I’m so proud of Barack. –mo

— FLOTUS (@FLOTUS) January 22, 2013