The Rice Diversion

This is my article from today's Front Page Magazine:

The Rice Diversion

By Matthew Vadum

After U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice lied her way through a tense meeting with Republican lawmakers yesterday about her role in the Benghazi scandal, the mainstream media escalated its attacks on those Republicans who continue daring to question the official account of that bloody day in September.

A short time after meeting with Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Rice released a statement indicating that she had incorrectly described the attack at the U.S. consulate in Libya when she appeared on five Sunday TV talk shows days after. At the height of the election season in mid-September she peddled the Obama administration’s fairy tale in which a spontaneous demonstration over an anti-Islam video somehow led to the killing of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Rice said her comments were based on intelligence available at the time. “Neither I nor anyone else in the administration intended to mislead the American people at any stage in the process,” said Rice, who attended the meeting with acting CIA director Michael J. Morell.

Rice contradicted the testimony of former CIA Director David Petraeus who told lawmakers Nov. 16 he never believed the Obama administration’s claim that the attack was a mob action prompted by a video. Petraeus said that he believed all along that Islamic terrorists attacked the diplomatic mission on the 11th anniversary of 9/11.

The senators were not moved by Rice.

“It is clear that the information that she gave the American people was incorrect when she said that it was a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video,” said McCain. Echoed Graham, “Bottom line: I’m more disturbed now than I was before.”

Graham and Ayotte indicated they plan to block Rice’s nomination as secretary of state if President Obama names her to replace Hillary Clinton.

But because the senators won’t cave in to pressure, media figures are smearing them at every opportunity.

McCain, Graham, and Ayotte are engaged in a “Benghazi witch hunt,” according to Martin Bashir, one of MSNBC’s most ardent Obama worshipers.

More nonsense and lies from Salon's Alex Pareene

Believe it or not Rachel Maddow lookalike Alex Pareene of Salon isn't quite as dimwitted as his writing suggests.

He seems to grasp the issues but like Brad Friedman and a gazillion other left-wingers Pareene doesn't give a farthing's cuss about ballot box integrity. The former Wonkette writer (yes, Wonkette, the thinking person's Perez Hilton) demonizes anybody who dares to suggest that people should have to prove who they are when they show up at polling stations to vote.

Pareene vermiculated over to his computer keyboard earlier today to attack the esteemed election law scholar Hans von Spakovsky for daring to suggest there may be improprieties in the special election tomorrow in New York's 9th congressional district.

Pareene mocks von Spakovsky for citing an old example of  voter fraud from 1982 in a paper, as if no voter fraud has occurred since then. Horrors! In fact voter fraud, or as Democrats call it -- "getting out the vote," is a routine occurrence.

As I reported in the Daily Caller, Lessadolla Sowers was convicted earlier this year on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers, a member of the Tunica County, Miss., NAACP Executive Committee, received five-year concurrent prison terms for each of the 10 counts. John Fund's book, Stealing Elections, contains plenty more examples of voter fraud.

And like the rest of the brain-damaged commenters who seem to believe this writer wants to bar the poor from voting, Pareene resorts to lies and distortions to attack my work. He claims I wrote that voter fraud " is a phony threat hyped by Republican operatives in order to whip up support for rules making it more difficult for poor people, minorities, and other traditional Democratic constituencies to vote."

Complete BS but that's what professional voter fraud deniers like Pareene do.




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