Geraldo Destroys Bolling on Benghazi

You have to remember that the standard response from the wingnut Republicans to an attack of any kind is “turn them into glass.” Send in the fighter jets, the drones, the B-2 stealth bombers! They will pay for their transgressions! Who is “they?” Who are we bombing? Who cares? There is no room for nuance or analysis.

I listened to the podcast last night and you’re right. Benghazi is the Rs’ last chance for any hope at this election. You would not hear a word about this if a Republican were president. If a Democrat stood up after 9/11 and said that President Bush sat there and watched the attack happen, and that he was a liar and murderer and a terrorist sympathizer, their career would be over. But Republicans are allowed to get away with this for some strange reason.

We are really running out of ..”at long last have you no decency” moments in this country are we not?
When a pretend news organization, can hijack a non-issue like this, and blow it up beyond all proportion and common sense, for such nakedly political purposes, they have effectively rendered the first amendment obsolete. They have polluted the marketplace of ideas beyond hope….
As the de facto propaganda arm for the right, Fox News has become the single most corrosive, destructive force against democracy this country has ever faced.
I was going to say “since”…..but I cant think of any historical parallels that have such a negative effect on such a large portion of the country. Maybe slavery, but at least we were able to end slavery. What will end Fox News?
It’s not like they deal in shades of accuracy anymore, they just manufacture bad ideas, repeat them over and over again, and those ideas become reality.
With this Benghazi abomination, they complete the circle of making actual dissent treason, and actual treason acceptable news programming.

Notice how Eric Bolling tries to confuse the issue by shouting that the US had “assets in Tripoli.” As the crow flies, Benghazi is some 400 miles away from Tripoli, so it wouldn’t matter what the US had in the capital. (Also, naval ships and drones? What does he think, that the proper response to any attack is Hellfire missiles?)

And watch Bolling’s face when Geraldo Rivera says that Charles Woods called Barack Obama a murderer and a liar: suddenly, all the anger is gone, he’s calm and even seems to smile a little bit.

Either Eric Bolling’s anger was feigned or he’s a pure sociopath; either way, he’s a loathsome human being. And you know just how far gone a self-described news outlet is when Geraldo Rivera, of all people, is the voice of reason.

–alopecia