Crowley's False Fact Check Saves President, Derails Debate

[Ragnar]

And now: CNN walks back false “act of terror” fact check | Twitchy

 

[IHBF]

You morons can't produce a complete transcript OR video LOL. Did you ever consider you're being misled ALL THE TIME? I didn't think so lol.

yeah we can....it's on every show.....quit watching porn and pay attention to politics......God your dumb.....when did the president call Benghazi a terrorist act and why talk about a video for 2 weeks......talk about dupe

No, the transcript you fools had from the Rose Garden was edited, and the Crowly "apology" video too.

Obama called it an act of terror 9/12, and a terrorist act when intelligence said THAT, and talked about the video in relation to the 20+ countries when THAT was the case.

You people are bamboozled every day by fast talking, bought off charlatans.

Pot, meet kettle.

 

[Liability]

You morons can't produce a complete transcript OR video LOL. Did you ever consider you're being misled ALL THE TIME? I didn't think so lol.

yeah we can....it's on every show.....quit watching porn and pay attention to politics......God your dumb.....when did the president call Benghazi a terrorist act and why talk about a video for 2 weeks......talk about dupe

No, the transcript you fools had from the Rose Garden was edited, and the Crowly "apology" video too.

Obama called it an act of terror 9/12, and a terrorist act when intelligence said THAT, and talked about the video in relation to the 20+ countries when THAT was the case.

You people are bamboozled every day by fast talking, bought off charlatans.

francoshit:

The TRANSCRIPT was the WHITE HOUSE transcript, you stupid dishonest diseased dildo.

You are bamboozled by life itself, you hapless hump.

 

[Oldstyle]

I've read the entire transcript of Obama's speech given in the Rose Garden the day after Stevens was killed. He never mentions a terrorist attack or terrorists. He does use the word "terror" once. Here is the speech...in it's entirety.

"

Remarks by the President on the Deaths of U.S. Embassy Staff in Libya

Rose Garden

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the interests and values of our nation. Often, they are away from their families. Sometimes, they brave great danger.

Yesterday, four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed. And today, the American people stand united in holding the families of the four Americans in our thoughts and in our prayers.

The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack. We're working with the government of Libya to secure our diplomats. I've also directed my administration to increase our security at diplomatic posts around the world. And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people.

Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.

Already, many Libyans have joined us in doing so, and this attack will not break the bonds between the United States and Libya. Libyan security personnel fought back against the attackers alongside Americans. Libyans helped some of our diplomats find safety, and they carried Ambassador Stevens’s body to the hospital, where we tragically learned that he had died.

It's especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a city that he helped to save. At the height of the Libyan revolution, Chris led our diplomatic post in Benghazi. With characteristic skill, courage, and resolve, he built partnerships with Libyan revolutionaries, and helped them as they planned to build a new Libya. When the Qaddafi regime came to an end, Chris was there to serve as our ambassador to the new Libya, and he worked tirelessly to support this young democracy, and I think both Secretary Clinton and I relied deeply on his knowledge of the situation on the ground there. He was a role model to all who worked with him and to the young diplomats who aspire to walk in his footsteps.

Along with his colleagues, Chris died in a country that is still striving to emerge from the recent experience of war. Today, the loss of these four Americans is fresh, but our memories of them linger on. I have no doubt that their legacy will live on through the work that they did far from our shores and in the hearts of those who love them back home.

Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourned with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.

***No acts of terror*** will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers. These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity. They should give every American great pride in the country that they served, and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.

We grieve with their families, but let us carry on their memory, and let us continue their work of seeking a stronger America and a better world for all of our children.

Thank you. May God bless the memory of those we lost and may God bless the United States of America."

Sorry, Kiddies but making a general statement about "acts of terror" which you then follow up with two weeks of what you KNOW to be false and misleading information describing the attack as the result of a protest over a video on YouTube gone bad is NOT Barack Obama calling it a "terrorist attack".

Candy Crowley is an idiot. But it's expected when every single moderator in these debates is a liberal.

 

[courseofhistory]

Crowley's False Fact Check Saves President, Derails Debate​

by John Nolte16 Oct 2012

[snip]
We're done with the second presidential debate, but it was apparent 45 minutes in that between the questions Crowley chose and her handling of who was allowed to speak and when, that this debate was a total and complete setup to rehabilitate Barack Obama.

If these are truly undecided voters, they're apparently undecided between Obama and the Green Party. Moreover, as I write this, Obama's already enjoyed four more minutes of speaking time than Romney. In a ninety-minute debate, that's a big deal.

The lowest and most dishonest part of Crowley's disgraceful "moderation" was when she actually jumped into the debate to take Obama's side when the issue of Benghazi came up. To cover for his and his administration's lying for almost two weeks about the attack coming as the result of a spontaneous protest over a YouTube video, Obama attempted to use as cover the claim that he had called the attack a "terrorist attack" on that very first day during his Rose Garden statement.

Romney correctly disputed that.

Crowley, quite incorrectly, took Obama's side and the crowd exploded.


Read more: Crowley Saves Obama with False Fact-Check

Here is what Obama said from the transcript of his Rose Garden speech the day after the attack:

Mr. Obama did make reference to the fact that “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation."

...The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack.

...

LINK

 

[Grandma]

So "acts of terror" and "terrorist attacks" are two different things?

Sheesh.

 

[francoHFW]

So the WH put out an edited transcript? What a card! LOL.

 

[francoHFW]

You RW dupes started parsing acts of terror vs terrorist acts and trying to make it another Watergate conspiracy LOL. Idiocy. A confusing affair and tragedy. End of story.

 

[Annie]

I've read the entire transcript of Obama's speech given in the Rose Garden the day after Stevens was killed. He never mentions a terrorist attack or terrorists. He does use the word "terror" once. Here is the speech...in it's entirety.

"

Remarks by the President on the Deaths of U.S. Embassy Staff in Libya

Rose Garden

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the interests and values of our nation. Often, they are away from their families. Sometimes, they brave great danger.

Yesterday, four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed. And today, the American people stand united in holding the families of the four Americans in our thoughts and in our prayers.

The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack. We're working with the government of Libya to secure our diplomats. I've also directed my administration to increase our security at diplomatic posts around the world. And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people.

Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.

Already, many Libyans have joined us in doing so, and this attack will not break the bonds between the United States and Libya. Libyan security personnel fought back against the attackers alongside Americans. Libyans helped some of our diplomats find safety, and they carried Ambassador Stevens’s body to the hospital, where we tragically learned that he had died.

It's especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a city that he helped to save. At the height of the Libyan revolution, Chris led our diplomatic post in Benghazi. With characteristic skill, courage, and resolve, he built partnerships with Libyan revolutionaries, and helped them as they planned to build a new Libya. When the Qaddafi regime came to an end, Chris was there to serve as our ambassador to the new Libya, and he worked tirelessly to support this young democracy, and I think both Secretary Clinton and I relied deeply on his knowledge of the situation on the ground there. He was a role model to all who worked with him and to the young diplomats who aspire to walk in his footsteps.

Along with his colleagues, Chris died in a country that is still striving to emerge from the recent experience of war. Today, the loss of these four Americans is fresh, but our memories of them linger on. I have no doubt that their legacy will live on through the work that they did far from our shores and in the hearts of those who love them back home.

Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourned with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.

***No acts of terror*** will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers. These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity. They should give every American great pride in the country that they served, and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.

We grieve with their families, but let us carry on their memory, and let us continue their work of seeking a stronger America and a better world for all of our children.

Thank you. May God bless the memory of those we lost and may God bless the United States of America."

Sorry, Kiddies but making a general statement about "acts of terror" which you then follow up with two weeks of what you KNOW to be false and misleading information describing the attack as the result of a protest over a video on YouTube gone bad is NOT Barack Obama calling it a "terrorist attack".

Candy Crowley is an idiot. But it's expected when every single moderator in these debates is a liberal.

Just added a bit of emphasis.

 

[Oldstyle]

So "acts of terror" and "terrorist attacks" are two different things?

Sheesh.

Obama never described what happened in Bengazi as a terrorist attack. If you read the following from the Rose Garden speech, it's clear that Obama's already shaping the narrative that this was a result of the YouTube video and not a well organized attack by Al Queda...a narrative that they expanded on throughout the week until they sent Susan Rice out the following Sunday to five different Sunday news programs to declare that it was because of the video and NOT a terrorist attack.

"Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts."

That right there is the beginning of the narrative that this wasn't Al Queda rearing it's ugly head (because how can Obama claim to have decimated that group when they are successfully killing our Ambassador?) but was instead just a bunch of Muslims angry over some nasty old American's YouTube video.

 

[Amelia]

So "acts of terror" and "terrorist attacks" are two different things?

Sheesh.

When he spoke of Benghazi he referred to "efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others", i.e., the film which he and his administration spent so much time trying to pin this on in the following days.

When he mentioned "acts of terror" it was in a general statement following a reference to 9/11/2001.

Obama is Orwellian -- he specializes in double talk which can be interpreted the way he wants to interpret it later regardless of what those who listened to the original understood him to say.

 

[Listening]

So "acts of terror" and "terrorist attacks" are two different things?

Sheesh.

Obama never described what happened in Bengazi as a terrorist attack. If you read the following from the Rose Garden speech, it's clear that Obama's already shaping the narrative that this was a result of the YouTube video and not a well organized attack by Al Queda...a narrative that they expanded on throughout the week until they sent Susan Rice out the following Sunday to five different Sunday news programs to declare that it was because of the video and NOT a terrorist attack.

"Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts."

It is actually a blessing. Romeny is going to open him up in the foreign policy debate. He can call it whatever he wants. His apparatus was out kissing the ass of Muslims (blathering about the film....) long after they knew it was a planned assault.

Then they covered that up because of their piss poor security.

I't's all over for the O.

 

[Bigfoot]

Not to mention Jay Carney's constant spiel. I think Obama feels the walls tumbling down.

 

[Wehrwolfen]

You morons can't produce a complete transcript OR video LOL. Did you ever consider you're being misled ALL THE TIME? I didn't think so lol.

yeah we can....it's on every show.....quit watching porn and pay attention to politics......God your dumb.....when did the president call Benghazi a terrorist act and why talk about a video for 2 weeks......talk about dupe

No, the transcript you fools had from the Rose Garden was edited, and the Crowly "apology" video too.

Obama called it an act of terror 9/12, and a terrorist act when intelligence said THAT, and talked about the video in relation to the 20+ countries when THAT was the case.

You people are bamboozled every day by fast talking, bought off charlatans.

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the interests and values of our nation. Often, they are away from their families. Sometimes, they brave great danger.

Yesterday, four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed. And today, the American people stand united in holding the families of the four Americans in our thoughts and in our prayers.

The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack. We're working with the government of Libya to secure our diplomats. I've also directed my administration to increase our security at diplomatic posts around the world. And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people.

Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.

Already, many Libyans have joined us in doing so, and this attack will not break the bonds between the United States and Libya. Libyan security personnel fought back against the attackers alongside Americans. Libyans helped some of our diplomats find safety, and they carried Ambassador Stevens’s body to the hospital, where we tragically learned that he had died.

It's especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a city that he helped to save. At the height of the Libyan revolution, Chris led our diplomatic post in Benghazi. With characteristic skill, courage, and resolve, he built partnerships with Libyan revolutionaries, and helped them as they planned to build a new Libya. When the Qaddafi regime came to an end, Chris was there to serve as our ambassador to the new Libya, and he worked tirelessly to support this young democracy, and I think both Secretary Clinton and I relied deeply on his knowledge of the situation on the ground there. He was a role model to all who worked with him and to the young diplomats who aspire to walk in his footsteps.

Along with his colleagues, Chris died in a country that is still striving to emerge from the recent experience of war. Today, the loss of these four Americans is fresh, but our memories of them linger on. I have no doubt that their legacy will live on through the work that they did far from our shores and in the hearts of those who love them back home.

Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourned with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers. These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity. They should give every American great pride in the country that they served, and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.

We grieve with their families, but let us carry on their memory, and let us continue their work of seeking a stronger America and a better world for all of our children.

Thank you. May God bless the memory of those we lost and may God bless the United States of America.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press...marks-president-deaths-us-embassy-staff-libya

You will note that nowhere in that statement made by Barack Oblamer did he claim that "Terrorists" were responsible for the assassination of Ambassador Stevens and his colleagues. Perhaps there was another statement he made? Please insert the one Oblamer claims that Terrorists attacked the Benghazi compound. Certainly he speaks of acts of terror but never in the same context..

 

[Darkwind]

Obama's ship is sinking.

He fully expects the Titanic to arrive in port ON TIME!

He expects to be late actually. He'd backing up to have another run at the iceberg....

Unsinkable, he thinks he is.

 

[Oldstyle]

You see...here is the problem that the Obama White House now faces. It's inconceivable that someone in the Administration would take upon themselves to be booked on five Sunday news shows (I highly doubt any individual would have to clout to make that happen without the express backing of the President!) and yet Susan Rice goes on TV a week after Obama's Rose Garden speech and she is STILL trying to get the press and the public to buy into the notion that the entire attack was because of the YouTube video.

Then when it becomes obvious with the looming Congressional hearing that their cover story is about to be blown out of the water by people like the former head of security in Libya, the Obama White House suddenly changes it's story and declares that it WAS a terrorist attack after all and that they are working "diligently" to find out who it was and what happened. I would have LOVED to have seen Susan Rice's face that day as she realized that she had just been sacrificed and would forever more be known as the person Obama trotted out to the Sunday news shows to lie repeatedly.

"In an interview with the Washington Post, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice is doubling down on her appearances on more than five Sunday talk shows days after the 9/11 attack in Benghazi when she blamed the violence on a YouTube video. Rice also said her comments about the video were based on information from the intelligence community, not from political players close to the Obama reelection team.

The administration’s characterization only days after Rice’s TV appearances that the assault in Libya was a terrorist attack has raised questions about why she attributed the incident to a protest that officials now say did not take place. Republicans have pressed for answers on whether she simply went too far in her assessment or was reading from an administration script that was designed to protect President Obama’s record on national security in an election year.

In an interview Monday with The Washington Post, Rice said she relied on daily updates from intelligence agencies in the days before her television appearances and on a set of talking points prepared for senior members of the administration by intelligence officials. She said there was no attempt to pick and choose among possible explanations for the attack.

“Absolutely not,” Rice said. “It was purely a function of what was provided to us” and had been given to Congress the day before.

“Ambassador Rice’s comments were prefaced at every turn with a clear statement that an investigation was underway that would provide the definitive accounting of the events that took place in Benghazi,” said Erin Pelton, spokeswoman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

Rice's comments come just days after State Department officials testified before Congress about the lack of security in Libya leading up to the attack on 9/11. State Department official Charlene Lamb said under oath the attack was watched in real time, putting a dent in Rice's argument and the overall argument put out by the Obama adminstration that "the facts changed.""

This goes under the heading of "hoisted on one's own petard". Gotta love it...

 

[jgarden]

Crowley's False Fact Check Saves President, Derails Debate​

by John Nolte16 Oct 2012

[snip]
We're done with the second presidential debate, but it was apparent 45 minutes in that between the questions Crowley chose and her handling of who was allowed to speak and when, that this debate was a total and complete setup to rehabilitate Barack Obama.

If these are truly undecided voters, they're apparently undecided between Obama and the Green Party. Moreover, as I write this, Obama's already enjoyed four more minutes of speaking time than Romney. In a ninety-minute debate, that's a big deal.

The lowest and most dishonest part of Crowley's disgraceful "moderation" was when she actually jumped into the debate to take Obama's side when the issue of Benghazi came up. To cover for his and his administration's lying for almost two weeks about the attack coming as the result of a spontaneous protest over a YouTube video, Obama attempted to use as cover the claim that he had called the attack a "terrorist attack" on that very first day during his Rose Garden statement.

Romney correctly disputed that.

Crowley, quite incorrectly, took Obama's side and the crowd exploded.


Read more: Crowley Saves Obama with False Fact-Check

Just another one of your "liberal media conspiracy" complaints!

 

[DeciduousHorns]

Alana Goodman at Commentary (Sept. 30) sums up Obama's Oct. 12 Rose Garden speech where he addresses Benghazi for the first time:

Obama said during the speech that “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation” — but at no point was it clear that he was using that term to describe the attack in Benghazi. He’d also spent the previous two paragraphs discussing the 9/11 attacks and the aftermath. “Acts of terror” could have just as easily been a reference to that. Or maybe it wasn’t a direct reference to anything, just a generic, reassuring line he’d added into a speech which did take place, after all, the day after the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Here’s the line with some additional context:


Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourned with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

If Obama wanted to call the Benghazi assault a terrorist attack in that speech, he had plenty of opportunities to do so. Instead, he described it as a “terrible act,” a “brutal” act, “senseless violence,” and called the attackers “killers,” not terrorists. It’s also important to consider the context. For a week after this speech, the White House would not call it a terrorist attack. The official position was that Libya was a spontaneous response to an anti-Islam film, not a premeditated or preplanned act.

Some may wonder why it even matters. Maybe Obama really was referring to Benghazi as an “act of terror” in the speech, and he just failed to make that clear enough — so what?

Actually, this is much more than an issue of semantics. Calling it a terrorist attack would have given Obama powers under the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF) to use military action, including drone warfare, against the perpetrators. If he were serious about “bring[ing] to justice the killers,” which he vowed to do in the speech, then labeling this incident a terrorist attack (if he believed that’s what it was) would have been critical. Instead, we now have the FBI sitting with its hands bound in Tripoli, unable to move forward with a serious investigation.

 

[clevergirl]

Candy Crowley AKA Barrack Obama's LIVE teleprompter. Too bad she can't get her facts checked correctly.

 

[Annie]

On the 25th of September, 2 weeks after the attack on US embassy and the killing of the ambassador and 4 others Obama went to the UN:

Obama to UN: "Crude and Disgusting Video Sparked Outrage" - Katie Pavlich

Obama to UN: "Crude and Disgusting Video Sparked Outrage"

During his address to the United Nations today in New York City, President Obama again blamed violent Islamic riots in the Middle East on a video....six times.

In every country, there are those who find different religious beliefs threatening; in every culture, those who love freedom for themselves must ask how much they are willing to tolerate freedom for others.

That is what we saw play out the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity.

The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.

That "video" has been used as a scapegoat for the Obama administration in an effort to distract away from failed policies in the Middle East and with proponents of violent Jihad. Obama also refused to call the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya a terrorist attack, he didn't say the word terrorism once during his address, directly contradicting White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olson.

Carney:

“It is self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack.”

Clinton:

"What happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack."

Olson:

“They were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our Embassy.”

This isn't the first time Obama refused to use the word "terrorist." Today on The View, when asked specifically if the attack in Libya was terrorism, he said the following:

"There's no doubt that the kind of weapons that were used, the ongoing assault, that it wasn't just a mob action. What's clear is that, around the world, there are still a lot of threats out there," the president said.

"The overwhelming majority of Muslims, they want the same things that families here want. They want opportunity, kids want an education, they want jobs, they want peace. But there are extremist strains that are there."

"There's never an excuse for violence," he said.

"The best way to marginalize that kind of speech [in the anti-Islam movie] is to ignore it. You don't make yourself bigger by putting other people down."