RustyNails
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Did you even watch the hearing?
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|OT| Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi
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Joe Shlabotnik
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I watched it on and off in the morning, followed the updates all day, and watched the last two hours or so at home.
Antiwhippy
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Seems like an accurate assessment.
Veritigo_X
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How many times did we hear the committee propose their own theories? Roskam even wrote a press release for Clinton. It was ridiculous. Stuff like that doesn't belong in an investigation hearing and most people recognize that. They should at least try to make it look like it's not a total sham.
Yeah, I watched it for 7 hours and nothing even worth discussing happened. Like that poster said, they just dogpiled on her for 11 hours.
Republican: Batshit crazy thing.
Hillary: Obviousky not, but keep on, you guys are only making me looking better and you look dumber.
Republican: Batshit crazy thing ..... Maybe some tears.
For 11 fucking hours.
The only thing we learned is that the Republicans like to dig up bullshit scandals on the Clintons. We've known that since the early 90's.
Veritigo_X
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Just watching Martha Roby's questions is a good summary of the entire 11 hours. Maybe throw in Cummings v Gowdy too and you're good.
RustyNails
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There were lots of things to highlight in my opinion. Dont get me wrong, it's a colossal waste of taxpayer money. But some of the highlights include:
- Rep. Adam Smith's and Adam Schiff's speeches. Really worth listening to.
- Anything involving Rep. Cummings, including his arguments with Gowdy
- "were you alone that night?"
- Hillary shutting up that Slingblade idiot
- Hillary's amazing retort about lawyers to Gowdy
- Poor Hillary breaking into a coughing fit
- Hillary's defense of ARB meetings and Adm. Mullen.
Unfortunately the truth is something you and your party cannot grasp. 3 years of investigations and multiple conclusions which all point to her having done nothing wrong and you still won't accept it as truth. You're the literal definition of ignorant
Interfectum
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Sarcasm?
Veritigo_X
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Sarcasm detector broken? "Hil-lie-ry" was a pretty big giveaway.
lol loved that.
sarcasm is all about tone. We lose that on the internet unless someone using italics or /s or its just too plain crazy. Its plausible for people to actually use Hil-lie-ry as logic, conclusions from evidence is thrown out the window when talking about politics and a few other special subjects,
Ayato Kanzaki
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You should still use the "/s" when being sarcastic about republicans, since it's been pretty hard lately to distinguish sarcasm from reality.
Dude Abides
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Why is it odd to think of Hitchens when shitheels are going after Hillary Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal?
Interfectum
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I've heard people use that in real life and be dead serious. You can never tell.
Veritigo_X
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"Hil-lie-ry" did come from a CSPAN caller during one of the recesses, so I guess that isn't farfetched to believe it was real if you missed that. Not everyone watched the entire thing lol.
PhoenixDark
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Just furthers cements the fact that Hillary will be another democrat president who will be illegitimate in the eyes of republicans and treated as such. She's not going to get a thing done with congress, outside of minor shit. If your base believes she is personally responsible for murdering four Americans and covering it up, how can you work with her on anything? Likewise how the base's wacked out/racist views on Obama make it impossible to work with him on basic things.
We'll get more brinksmanship, more outrage, more subpoenas, etc.
We'll get more brinksmanship, more outrage, more subpoenas, etc.
Interfectum
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Yup. I can hear my family already... "She's not my president, she should be in prison."
Veritigo_X
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Honestly, we'd get that with any democrat president. Even Joe "Republicans are friends" Biden.
wild wild rice
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No democratic president would be treated much differently.
BertramCooper
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The problem is they'd find a way to do this to any Democrat, not just Clinton.
EDIT: Beaten multiple times.
The Democrats could dig up the corpse of Ronald Reagan and nominate it, and that would still happen.
gutter_trash
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Clinton handled this like a warm up pre-season getting ready for the season matches and going all the way to the post season.
It is not the first time that Republicans conduct a witch hunt against a Clinton and it will not be the first time that is backfires in the Republicans' face, again
It is not the first time that Republicans conduct a witch hunt against a Clinton and it will not be the first time that is backfires in the Republicans' face, again
He was literally insane in his support for the Iraq invasion and had some very poor ideas about interventionism.
I thought you said she'd be going to jail.
CharminUltra
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Killary needs to be stopped, you guys.
Mighty Chin
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Every comment section is the same old shit.
She's lying!
Ask them what exactly she's lying about and nothing but crickets.
She's lying!
Ask them what exactly she's lying about and nothing but crickets.
Kevin McCarthy.
Veritigo_X
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wild wild rice
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How are the conservative news outlets treating this story the day after?
No one currently in office. Ben Bernanke spoke out against the current state of the Republican Party.
All I've seen so far (haven't delved too deeply, though) is "Hillary was making faces" and "Hillary was coughing".
Interfectum
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They are searching for stuff but looks like no big "gotchyas" or anything. Plus the hurricane news is keeping it off the top headlines.
wild wild rice
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I knew that coughing would backfire.
Figures. I was going to tune into conservative talk radio for kicks later.
Green Wiggly
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I put the steam on in the background for about 30 minutes yesterday before giving up. One of my conservative coworkers was still listening to it, and I asked him how he wasn't bored with it yet. His response was "We've got another Clinton wriggling on the stand, I live for this!".
Local talk radio guys going on about how "Hillary went home while Benghazi burned" and her laugh about the alone all night question.
My favorite is "so many unanswered questions" "what are they?" *nothing
PlayALLtheGames
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Veritigo_X
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What a short memory.
They were counting on the second and hoping for he first.
Why not both?
It makes me furious. They brought a witness to testify, to give an account of her version of what happened. Instead, what we get is a bunch of Republicans interrupting the witness to give their crackpot theories of what happened. They should not be testifying for the witness! Period! Let her speak, that's what she was there for. Formulate your questions so it can pull out information from the witness don't interrupt and give your own theories. It was them trying to get their own soundbite for Fox News and it was frustrating because these are suppose to be veteran litigators. They should know better.
Brian Griffin
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Sorry dude, I don't think you will get this. There weren't a few awesome moments here and there that can sum the whole thing up, you kinda just had to be in it to feel the farce. The entire thing was was 99% absolutely boring shit but watching that boring shit unfold minute by minute is were the awesomeness lives.
Hearing her respond to some bullshit question you heard her respond to 3 hours prior and not crack is what the highlights were. So yeah, you have to watch a good chunk of it all the way through.
RustyNails
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I'm seeing every news outlet saying Hillary was in full command of facts during the hearing, didn't break a single sweat and remained largely unscathed coming out of the hearing. Dana Bash from CNN suggesting the Republicans are thinking 'imadeahugemistake.gif'. One report said she went stronger coming out than going in, and other said this will have the opposite of GOP wants: the undecided, independents and lean democrats will now come home to Hillary camp.
In other words, lolgop.
In other words, lolgop.
AstroNut325
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GOOD. This GOP is a complete disgrace to the USA and to the world. I hope they crumble and form a better, more sensible party in the future.
Also, I just watched the CSPAN "white caucus" clip on Youtube. Last night I thought it was a fake or some joke caller. But nope... It's real. How are these kinds of people surviving in the modern day world?
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