Is Brit Hume Ignorant?

[Kobie]

Kinda like the people that harshly criticize Bush for things they happily give a pass to Obama on ???

What were you saying about hypocrisy ??

Feel free to criticize that when you see it.

 

[CRUE CAB]

Come on, we all know Obama was geared up and jumping out of the choppa to go kill Bin Laden. Hahahahahaha
Doubt he could carry the gear.

 

[LowDown]

I just tuned into Special Report on Fox and Brit Hume said we still don't know where the president was on the night of the Benghazi attack. President Obama was in the Oval Office and I doubt they were keeping it a secret.

No, he wasn't in the Oval Office for the whole period of the attack. He left it at about 5:00 pm after he handed the situation off to Panetta. Most likely he went to the White House family quarters where he spent the rest of the night. He made 2 phone calls from there, one at 7:00 and one at 10:00 pm.

But neither he nor his staff will confirm this.

It goes to how engaged he was as the stituation unfolded. It appears that as the attack progressed he was catching some Zs.

I don't think there's anything wrong with this. It's just bad optics.

We now know where Obama was during Benghazi attack - National Conservative | Examiner.com

 

[pbrauer]

No, he wasn't in the Oval Office for the whole period of the attack. He left it at about 5:00 pm after he handed the situation off to Panetta. Most likely he went to the White House family quarters where he spent the rest of the night. He made 2 phone calls from there, one at 7:00 and one at 10:00 pm.

But neither he nor his staff will confirm this.

It goes to how engaged he was as the stituation unfolded. It appears that as the attack progressed he was catching some Zs.

I don't think there's anything wrong with this. It's just bad optics.

We now know where Obama was during Benghazi attack - National Conservative | Examiner.com

That picture was taken at 7:26 according to the EXIF data, even the following conservative site confirms this: Benghazigate: Research Help Request – White House 9-11-12 Photo During Benghazi 7 Hour Seige…. ? | The Last Refuge

 

[Kobie]

Come on, we all know Obama was geared up and jumping out of the choppa to go kill Bin Laden. Hahahahahaha
Doubt he could carry the gear.

I find it funny that the same people who somehow find it to be a valid criticism of Obama that he didn't PERSONALLY SHOOT BIN LADEN IN THE FACE are quite often the same people who give Ronald Reagan credit for singlehandedly winning the Cold War.

 

[nota bene]

I just tuned into Special Report on Fox and Brit Hume said we still don't know where the president was on the night of the Benghazi attack. President Obama was in the Oval Office and I doubt they were keeping it a secret.

No, Hume is not ignorant, and he's also not stupid. He's a fine political analyst, and I've watched him since his ABC days.

 

[Kobie]

No, Hume is not ignorant, and he's also not stupid. He's a fine political analyst, and I've watched him since his ABC days.

Then why does he continue to propagate the lie that "we don't know where Obama was on 9/11/12"?

 

[pbrauer]

No, Hume is not ignorant, and he's also not stupid. He's a fine political analyst, and I've watched him since his ABC days.

I didn't say he was stupid, I said he was ignorant that he didn't know where the president was that night.

 

[shrubnose]

I find it funny that the same people who somehow find it to be a valid criticism of Obama that he didn't PERSONALLY SHOOT BIN LADEN IN THE FACE

are quite often the same people who give Ronald Reagan credit for singlehandedly winning the Cold War.[

/QUOTE]




When, in fact, he slept through most of the Cold War, eh?

 

[LowDown]

That picture was taken at 7:26 according to the EXIF data, even the following conservative site confirms this: Benghazigate: Research Help Request – White House 9-11-12 Photo During Benghazi 7 Hour Seige…. ? | The Last Refuge

How did he make a phone call from the family quarters at 7:00 if he was in the Oval Office? Who controls EXIF data?

The Bengazi attack started at 3:45 pm local Washington DC time and continued until about 1:00 am the next day, the end of the second attack. Showing us a picture of the Oval Office taken at 7:00 pm or whatever does not answer the question of where the President was during that period. The best evidence says that he handed the situation off to Panetta, and then he couldn't be bothered. He joined his family that evening in the family quarters and then went to bed.

I really don't give a damn where he was; the embassey was better off with him not in the situation room anyway. It's his supporters, who want to protect this image they have of him being at the helm during a crisis, who are trying to obfuscate and confuse people.

Obama didn't give a damn. We already know that's the way he is -- President Spock, his defenders call him.

 

[Sababa]

Special Report on Fox News, is the only hard news program that reports all the news, not just what fits a certain political agenda.

I don't expect you to believe that, because there isn't one liberal blog that agrees... But it's the truth.

not even close to true.

 

[KLATTU]

Then why does he continue to propagate the lie that "we don't know where Obama was on 9/11/12"?

We don't. He has not accounted for that night. That one picture means nothing.

Given the lies that HAVE been told about Benghazi,and Obamaa's rock solid history of serially lying, I'm pretty sure we'll never find out what he was doing that night.

 

[tres borrachos]

No, Hume is not ignorant, and he's also not stupid. He's a fine political analyst, and I've watched him since his ABC days.

Agree. Hume is one of the best journalists in DC today. He criticzes both sides when appropriate, and he's very smart - and what I like best about him is that he's very calm and doesn't get all hysterical and personal.

 

[Grim17]

not even close to true.

lol... It's true all right, and it drives people like you crazy.

 

[Grim17]

Agree. Hume is one of the best journalists in DC today. He criticzes both sides when appropriate, and he's very smart - and what I like best about him is that he's very calm and doesn't get all hysterical and personal.

He is also a fantastic presidential debate moderator.

 

[Sababa]

lol... It's true all right, and it drives people like you crazy.

nope it doesn't....in fact your continued lying about shows your instability.

 

[Grim17]

nope it doesn't....in fact your continued lying about shows your instability.

I base my assertions on both watching the show, as well as through various studies over the years...

Where do your assertions come from again?

 

[Sababa]

I base my assertions on both watching the show, as well as through various studies over the years...

Where do your assertions come from again?

please post one of the studies.....

 

[pbrauer]

How did he make a phone call from the family quarters at 7:00 if he was in the Oval Office? Who controls EXIF data?

The Bengazi attack started at 3:45 pm local Washington DC time and continued until about 1:00 am the next day, the end of the second attack. Showing us a picture of the Oval Office taken at 7:00 pm or whatever does not answer the question of where the President was during that period. The best evidence says that he handed the situation off to Panetta, and then he couldn't be bothered. He joined his family that evening in the family quarters and then went to bed.

I really don't give a damn where he was; the embassey was better off with him not in the situation room anyway. It's his supporters, who want to protect this image they have of him being at the helm during a crisis, who are trying to obfuscate and confuse people.

Obama didn't give a damn. We already know that's the way he is -- President Spock, his defenders call him.

What an absolutely pathetic thing to say about the president. It's you guys who use the dead bodies for political purposes. Pathetic.

Edit add:

Gen. Martin Dempsy: "The President Instructed Us To Use All Available Assets To Respond To The Attacks To Ensure The Safety Of U.S. Personnel In Libya." During the October 10, 2013 House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation hearing, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsy explained that President Obama "instructed us to use all available assets to respond to the attacks to ensure the safety of U.S. personnel" after being briefed "soon after" the attacks (emphasis added):

GEN. DEMPSY: Soon after I received the initial reports of the Benghazi attack, I discussed the situation with the Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, and with President Obama in a meeting that we had already scheduled that day on another topic.
The President instructed us to use all available assets to respond to the attacks to ensure the safety of U.S. personnel in Libya and to protect U.S. personnel and interests throughout the region. Because threat streams increased in a number of locations simultaneously) we postured our forces to respond regionally as well as specifically to the events in Libya. In response to events in Benghazi, we deployed a Marine Fleet Antiterrorism Security team, or FASJ team as you probably know it. Prepared a second FAS platoon to deploy and moved the special operations force that was training in Croatia to a staging base in Italy. We also deployed a special operations force from the continental United States to an intermediate staging base in southern Europe. [House Of Representatives Hearing Subcommittee On Oversight Investigations, 10/10/13, accessed 1/14/14]
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[tres borrachos]

not even close to true.

Special Report isn't a hard news program? Nonsense. With the exception of the last 20 minutes when there is a panel of people from both sides, it most certainly is a news program, NOT an opinion show.

 

[tres borrachos]

What an absolutely pathetic thing to say about the president. It's you guys who use the dead bodies for political purposes. Pathetic.

"You guys"? How about all of the people on the left who've used the 9/11 victims for the last 13+ years for political attacks against Bush?

 

[pbrauer]

"You guys"? How about all of the people on the left who've used the 9/11 victims for the last 13+ years for political attacks against Bush?

What 9/11 victims are you talking about?

 

[tres borrachos]

What 9/11 victims are you talking about?

The 3000 people who died on 9/11. Did you miss that attack? You know, the one the hard left blames on Bush, chants "happened on Bush's watch", and so on.

 

[pbrauer]

The 3000 people who died on 9/11. Did you miss that attack? You know, the one the hard left blames on Bush, chants "happened on Bush's watch", and so on.

OF course I didn't miss it. However, I don't know anyone blaming him for the attack. The criticism of Bush that I know of was for the war in Iraq.

 

[Grim17]

please post one of the studies.....

You first... what is the basis of your assertion?