Ken Berwitz
Unexpectedly, I have a little bit of time to put up one of the key segments of last night\’s Democrat debate.
Here is a transcript of Jorge Ramos\’s question about Benghazi and Hillary Clinton\’s “answer” – complete with an indication of how the audience reacted.
JORGE RAMOS: I want to continue with the issue of trust. Secretary Clinton, on the night of the attacks in Benghazi, you are sent an e-mail to your daughter Chelsea saying that an al-Qaeda-like group was responsible for the killing of the Americans. [AUDIENCE BOOS] However some of the families claim you lied to them Here\’s Patricia Smith, the mother of the information officer Sean Smith. Listen.PATRICA SMITH [on the Fox News Channel, 10/23/15]: Hillary and Obama and Panetta and Biden and Susan Rice all told me it was a video when they knew it was not the video and they said that they would call me and let me know what the outcome was.RAMOS: Secretary Clinton, did you lie to them?HILLARY CLINTON: You know, look, I feel a great deal of sympathy for the families of the four brave Americans that we lost at Benghazi, and I certainly can\’t even imagine the grief that she has for losing her son, but she\’s wrong. She\’s absolutely wrong. I and everybody in the administration, all the people she named, the President, the Vice President, Susan Rice, we were scrambling to get information that was changing literally by the hour and when we had information, we made it public but then sometimes we had to go back and say we have new information that contradicts it, so I testified for 11 hours. Anybody who watched that and listened to it knows that I answered every question that I was asked and when it was over, the Republicans had to admit they didn\’t learn anything. Why? Because there had already been one independent investigation, there had been seven or eight congressional investigations, mostly led by Republicans who all reached the same conclusions, that there were lessons to learned and this is not the first time we lost Americans in a terrorist attack. We lost 3,000 people on 9/11. We lost Americans serving in embassies in Tanzania and Kenya when my husband was President. We lost 250 Americans when Ronald Reagan was President in Beirut and at no other time were those tragedies politicized. Instead, people said let\’s learn the lesson and save lives and that\’s when I did. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Does that “answer” satisfy you? Do you think for a second that it satisfies Patricia Smith?
Crocodile tears for the victims and their families. Then a well rehearsed soliloquy featuring every talking point she and her campaign operatives could come up with. And, of course, the highly partisan Democrat audience lapped it up like a cat lapping up milk.
Your job, should you decide to take it, is to lap this up just as eagerly as the partisan Democrats in that audience did.
You are supposed to believe that every question was answered in Hillary Clinton\’s 11 hours of testimony, with no lies told.
You are supposed to believe that Patricia Smith did not hear what she heard with her own ears.
You are supposed to believe that the Benghazi massacre and the way then-Secretary of State Clinton handled it afterwards, has relevance to other incidents, with completely different circumstances, in other years.
You are supposed to…… well, you get the idea, don\’t you?
Please, God, do not give me a choice of donald trump or Hillary Clinton this November.
I am not a religious man, but you can consider that a fervent prayer.
