Before I begin, a few links for you to peruse.
Go ahead and read those. Don't worry I will wait till you get back before I continue. (Plays Solitaire on phone while waiting, singing badly off key while doing so.) Oh, you're back! Okay, on with the rant.
Now of course, the big "news" is that the GOP Dweebs probably altered the White House Emails. Dims are leaping on this as proof that the GOP was trying to make the POTUS and WH look bad with the responses to the Benghazi attack. A very entertaining free for all has erupted over it and it shows no signs of letting up anytime soon.
I find this amusing for one simple reason and it is the same reason that I find GOP uproar over Obama not labeling the Benghazi attacks a "Terrorist Attack" instead blandly mentioning "Acts of Terror" when speaking after the attacks. It is all about semantics! People all over the country are arguing over the words and not the meanings just like they did with the above instance.
I have read three different sources and studied the emails. Of the ones that I have seen and the ones that have been released, Yes it does look like the GOP altered the wording of the emails. Some claim that this is because initially the emails were actually read to them over the phone, or the emails were read and transcribed because copies weren't allowed to be made. Of course, others claim that it is an effort to paint the WH and Prez in a bad light.
No matter what the reasons (although if it the latter, it is a pretty crappy effort.), the alterations do not in any way change the meaning or even the context of the emails. Yes, the wording is different in some ways, but the wording doesn't change the meaning. In a literary sense, it is like saying, "A bright red fox leaped over the wooden fence" instead of saying, "A fox jumped over the crude wooden construct. It's crimson fur glinted in the sunlight." The wording is different, but the meaning is the same. So until more obvious nefarious intent becomes clear in the altered emails, I am afraid it doesn't do much for the Dim cause.
On to the second link and this is the one that really grinds my gears. Benghazi was a horrible event and should be mourned and investigated. However, the massive GOP uproar is kind of shocking. If you check out the list (And there are other websites too) you will see that there have been much worse attacks on American Embassies/Consulates over the years. What you will find mysteriously absent during attacks that killed hundreds, is GOP uproar. No screams of coverups and no finger pointing can been seen and believe me I checked. Crickets make more noise than the outrage over these attacks.
So why the outrage now? Why the vitriol aimed at the POTUS and the WH? Why the cries for investigations over incompetence now when none were heard so many times in the past? Easy, this is just the latest attempts by opponents to cast shame and disgrace on the President. The Opposition smells blood and like any predator is swooping in to get their bites out.
I am not saying that the WH didn't mess up. I am not saying the WH didn't try to cover it up. I don't have enough information (Actual facts, not the crap fed to us by the News Outlets) to decide that yet. Given the way pollyticks works, we may never have enough actual facts. All I am saying is that the outrage and anger being professed by the GOP and their cronies is amazingly selective.
By all means, let us get to the truth. Let us find out exactly what happened and did not happen. We need to find out who was responsible and punish them. But get rid of the rhetoric. Get rid of the empty arguments over semantics. Stop the name calling and finger pointing and find out the truth.
End of rant.
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