Benghazi Hearing Final Score: Gowdy 0, Clinton Won

[Ford]

After months of buildup, and eleven hours of testimony, the consensus seems to be that Hillary won this latest round convincingly.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/257844-clinton-largely-unscathed-by-gop-benghazi-hearing

Hillary Clinton emerged largely unscathed from a marathon day of testimony to the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday.

The appearance was seen as a crucial moment for the former secretary of State, and the Republican panel lobbed dozens of questions at her about her “home-brew” email setup, longtime associate Sidney Blumenthal, and Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi.

But none of the attacks throughout the course of the long day seemed to stick.
...
If anything, the only serious damage seemed to have been done to GOP leaders of the panel, who were repeatedly put on defense by harsh barbs from committee’s Democrats.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/22/hillary-clinton-triumphed-at-the-benghazi-committee-by-not-losing-her-cool/?postshare=3851445562343088

The newslessness of the hearing was a triumph for Clinton. There was no negative sound bite from her. No acknowledgement of error. No moment of real weakness or confusion about the events that unfolded on Sept. 11, 2012. The hearing was, in a word, boring. And that's exactly what Clinton wanted.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-22/hillary-clinton-keeps-her-cool-as-benghazi-hearings-devolve-into-political-theater

This time, Hillary Clinton kept her cool.

The Democratic presidential front-runner maintained a somber, reflective tone Thursday in the face of hours of hostile questioning from Republicans during her long-awaited testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Members of the panel began by squabbling over whether it is a legitimate inquiry into the deaths of four Americans at diplomatic facilities while Clinton was secretary of state, or, at Representative Elijah Cummings contended, an "abusive" effort to submarine her campaign.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/22/9600322/hillary-clinton-benghazi-hearing

Republicans will kick themselves for dragging Hillary Clinton before the House Benghazi committee Thursday.

It was a defining moment for Clinton's presidential aspirations. She handled the GOP’s questions with aplomb and without the patina of partisanship that has characterized the committee since its conception.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-2016-debate-biden-benghazi-best-week-213285

When they originally scheduled Thursday’s hearing, House Republicans had hoped to turn the Benghazi investigation into a Soviet show trial, knocking Clinton further down after a summer that’s seen her consistently playing defense. But by the time she actually sat down on Capitol Hill Thursday, Clinton didn’t have to make any real effort to paint the Benghazi inquiry as partisan. In all-too-honest statements, Republicans from House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy on down had already done that for her—and it was left largely to the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, to attack the motives of the Republican Chairman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, while Clinton pleaded for statesmanship and a bipartisan approach to diplomacy in a dangerous world.

If I were a Democrat on this committee and someone desperate to get Hillary elected President (and I'm neither) I'd be saying "you know...guys...we, ah...really didn't get enough testimony out of the former Secretary. I vote for another hearing where we can really hold her feet to the fire."

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Sounds like we need a hearing into the Benghazi hearing. While they're at it, they should call Clinton in to ask her about Benghazi. Then ask her about her emails and what they have to say about Benghazi.

 

[Artemus]

I do believe that today she demonstrated that she is going to be an excellent president.

 

[Arctish]

I do believe that today she demonstrated that she is going to be an excellent president.

I agree.

 

[tupac chopra]

I do believe that today she demonstrated that she is going to be an excellent president.

The world does not need another warmonger in the Whitehouse

 

[Ford]

I do believe that today she demonstrated that she is going to be an excellent president.

The world does not need another warmonger in the Whitehouse

Well fortunately Vladimir Putin isn't eligible to run for President of the United States.

 

[untermensche]

Hillary is not an idiot.

The more they go after her about this the better she will get.

They have nothing but an unfortunate incident.

Their desperation to exploit it is sickening.

 

[bleubird]

Hillary is not an idiot.

The more they go after her about this the better she will get.

They have nothing but an unfortunate incident.

Their desperation to exploit it is sickening.

Seen in the clowns.
They will be here soon!

 

[Thomas II]

Hillary is not an idiot.

The more they go after her about this the better she will get.

They have nothing but an unfortunate incident.

Their desperation to exploit it is sickening.

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[laughing dog]

Hillary is not an idiot.

The more they go after her about this the better she will get.

They have nothing but an unfortunate incident.

Their desperation to exploit it is sickening.

These clowns are performing for their base and their paymasters. Nothing else.

 

[SimpleDon]

Clinton should pitch in and donate money to offset the costs of the hearings, she gained that much from them.

 

[maxparrish]

MSM Wins - Tells pubic who won the first debate and who won investigative committee hearing!

So far, it is MSM 2, Reality 0. After its recent declaration of Hillary as the winner of the Democratic Debate, the MSM has followed up with a second victory declaring a witness, also Hillary, as winner of a Committee Hearing. When MSM was asked by their fellow reporters "How did you do it?", MSM replied the it owes it all to a gift from God, and a special ability to construct reality to its liking.

MSM sat down with reporters today and provided the most detailed explanation yet of its recent string of amazing wins. "We know that reality is a social construction because that reality was already socially constructed by us sometime ago. So what we then did", added MSM, "is to socially construct all events as 'horse races' and decide who the winner must be".

Although some critics have noted that many other non-MSM observers have scored the debates and hearing differently, MSM brushed off those differences as irrelevant. "I don't think the critics really get it...we have socially constructed another reality that says they are irrelevant to our scoring. We win because we say so".

"It's only a matter of time before advance to the point that we will be announcing the winners before the event - we are getting that good" concluded MSM. When asked by reporters when we might see that, MSM gave a slight smile and hinted "Well, there is going to be a second Democratic debate...so who knows?"

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Hillary is not an idiot.

The more they go after her about this the better she will get.

They have nothing but an unfortunate incident.

Their desperation to exploit it is sickening.

These clowns are performing for their base and their paymasters. Nothing else.

And they failed. If anything, they just propped up Clinton as looking like a Statesman, easily going the distance against the people that want to destroy her. Clinton most likely just won the election with that hearing.

 

[laughing dog]

These clowns are performing for their base and their paymasters. Nothing else.

And they failed. If anything, they just propped up Clinton as looking like a Statesman, easily going the distance against the people that want to destroy her. Clinton most likely just won the election with that hearing.

No, they did not fail in the eyes of their targeted audience. Just look at maxie's response above yours. These asswipes are not targeting the undecided or democrats - they are playing to their base of tea parties, John Birchers, misogynists, right wing conservatives and the generally bat shit insane.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

And they failed. If anything, they just propped up Clinton as looking like a Statesman, easily going the distance against the people that want to destroy her. Clinton most likely just won the election with that hearing.

No, they did not fail in the eyes of their targeted audience.

The target isn't Max. It is the middle crowd. The crowd they convinced that the ACA was evil and gave them an absurd landslide victory in the 2010 midterms. They failed in making an argument to those people that Clinton failed the nation.

Just look at maxie's response above yours. These asswipes are not targeting the undecided or democrats - they are playing to their base of tea parties, John Birchers, misogynists, right wing conservatives and the generally bat shit insane.

This is about 2016, and they failed to accomplish what they did with the ACA.

 

[laughing dog]

No, they did not fail in the eyes of their targeted audience.

The target isn't Max. It is the middle crowd. The crowd they convinced that the ACA was evil and gave them an absurd landslide victory in the 2010 midterms. They failed in making an argument to those people that Clinton failed the nation.

Just look at maxie's response above yours. These asswipes are not targeting the undecided or democrats - they are playing to their base of tea parties, John Birchers, misogynists, right wing conservatives and the generally bat shit insane.

This is about 2016, and they failed to accomplish what they did with the ACA.

I disagree. They may have been targeting the middle crowd when they started "Benghazi gate" but that has failed to gain any traction for months. This persistence is about keeping the conservative loonisphere placated and keeping the flow of cash going from the extremely well-heeled loonies. At this point, they are more worried about keeping their seats and the cash.

 

[Horatio Parker]

Instead of nailing her to the wall, they gave her an opportunity to appear presidential.

Too funny.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The target isn't Max. It is the middle crowd. The crowd they convinced that the ACA was evil and gave them an absurd landslide victory in the 2010 midterms. They failed in making an argument to those people that Clinton failed the nation.

Just look at maxie's response above yours. These asswipes are not targeting the undecided or democrats - they are playing to their base of tea parties, John Birchers, misogynists, right wing conservatives and the generally bat shit insane.

This is about 2016, and they failed to accomplish what they did with the ACA.

I disagree. They may have been targeting the middle crowd when they started "Benghazi gate" but that has failed to gain any traction for months. This persistence is about keeping the conservative loonisphere placated and keeping the flow of cash going from the extremely well-heeled loonies. At this point, they are more worried about keeping their seats and the cash.

If that is the case, they need to keep Trump and Carson being the ticket in '16.

 

[ZiprHead]

MSM replied the it owes it all to a gift from God,

Sounds like the gift from God was the Benghazi committee being given to Hillary. It made her look even more presidential and the Republican committee members look even more partisan and dishonest in their motivations.

 

[ideologyhunter]

My favorite moment: some Republican she-terrier going on about Hillary driving home the night the Benghazi news was coming in. 'Who was with you, at home?' 'No one.' 'You were alone all night?' Hillary burst out laughing -- because it WAS funny, in the intense reading her questioner gave her. And then the woman couldn't salvage her dignity and most of all couldn't acknowledge how silly she'd sounded. 'I don't see anything funny about this!' The audience & Hillary did.