Like we all knew they would, congressional Republicans who questioned Hillary earlier this week completely blew it, as did the fawning media. But according to the Twitter-nets, both President Obama and outgoing Secretary of State Clinton will sit down this afternoon for a joint interview with Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” that will air Sunday night. So maybe we’ll finally get all the answers. Maybe Kroft will finally pin them down.
Because, you know, maybe I’ve been all wrong about the media. Maybe the media’s complete unwillingness to do anything other than protect Obama from his weeks-long cover up and political fall-out over the incompetence that resulted in the death of four Americans in Libya was all a ploy, a way to lull him into complacency so that both he and Hillary would appear together on “60 Minutes,” and a fully prepared Steve Kroft could …. pounce.
Are you rubbing your hands together in anticipation?
Yeah, that’s it; that’s what’s going to happen. Kroft’s going to grab his colleague Sharyl Attkisson’s long list of unanswered questions and finally get to the bottom of a scandal with a body count:
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What is your response to the President stating that on Sept. 12, he called 911 a terrorist attack, in light of his CBS interview…
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
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…on that date in which he answered that it was too early to know whether it was a terrorist attack?
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
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The Administration has stated there were no resources outside Libya that could arrive in Benghazi/N. Africa within 8 hrs on Sept. 11, 2012.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
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. Why wouldn’t there be and who would have made that decision to leave the area so open on the anniversary of 9/11?
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
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The Administration is reported to have asked that the anti-Islamist YouTube video initially blamed in Benghazi be removed from YouTube…
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
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. Is this accurate? If so, what was Mrs. Clinton’s understanding at the time of what would be the grounds for arrest?..
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
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Oh, but wait; this is the same Steve Kroft and “60 Minutes” that withheld interview footage of Obama where the president contradicted his weeks-long lie-the same Steve Kroft and “60 Minutes” that chose to release that video just a few days before the election as though it somehow proved Obama had been honest about Libya all along (how that worked is detailed here).
But-but-but maybe Kroft will look to redeem himself and pin Hillary down for lying under oath this week when she claimed, “I did not say . . . that it was about the video for Libya.” Or maybe Kroft will explain that it does “make a difference” when the White House lies to the American people.
And maybe…
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Listen, we all know what’s going to happen Sunday night: Kroft’s going to put the cherry on top of Hillary’s awesomely awesome awesomosity as Secretary of State and nudge her this much closer to keeping the 2016 White House out of the hands of those freaskyscaryrapelovingracist Republican wingnut freaks.
Would it be too much to ask that Kroft release the full, unedited interview this time?
Probably.
Hack.
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