Petraeus: They Didn't Do Enough To Connect The Attacks To Egypt Demonstrations

[hazlnut]

Why Petraeus Didn't Like The Benghazi Talking Points
ABC's Jonathan Karl Won't Mention His Critique: They Didn't Do Enough To Connect The Attacks To Egypt Demonstrations

ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl is helping to promote a dishonest narrative regarding why then-CIA director Gen. David Petraeus expressed disapproval for a set of talking points written in response to the September attacks on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

Karl's reporting on the issue has ignored the central reason Petraeus said that he didn't like the talking points: he thought they didn't do enough to connect the attacks to demonstrations in Cairo that were triggered by an anti-Islam video. Since right-wing media and Republicans in Congress have spent months accusing the Obama administration of politically-motivated lying for stating that there was a link between the attacks and the video, this point is crucial.

According to CBS News, in a September 15 email, Petraeus wrote that "he doesn't like the talking points and he would 'just assume they not use them... This is not what [Rep.] Ruppersberger asked for. We couldn't even mention the Cairo warning. But it's their call.'"

The "Cairo warning" Petraeus mentioned appears to refer to the following sentence that CBS News reported was added to the original talking points but subsequently removed:

Wait, wait... I thought ABC news was part of Sarah Twit Palin's "Lamestream" media????

Oh, shit.... what do we do now, Sarah???

 

[buckeye45_73]

Why Petraeus Didn't Like The Benghazi Talking Points
ABC's Jonathan Karl Won't Mention His Critique: They Didn't Do Enough To Connect The Attacks To Egypt Demonstrations

ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl is helping to promote a dishonest narrative regarding why then-CIA director Gen. David Petraeus expressed disapproval for a set of talking points written in response to the September attacks on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

Karl's reporting on the issue has ignored the central reason Petraeus said that he didn't like the talking points: he thought they didn't do enough to connect the attacks to demonstrations in Cairo that were triggered by an anti-Islam video. Since right-wing media and Republicans in Congress have spent months accusing the Obama administration of politically-motivated lying for stating that there was a link between the attacks and the video, this point is crucial.

According to CBS News, in a September 15 email, Petraeus wrote that "he doesn't like the talking points and he would 'just assume they not use them... This is not what [Rep.] Ruppersberger asked for. We couldn't even mention the Cairo warning. But it's their call.'"

The "Cairo warning" Petraeus mentioned appears to refer to the following sentence that CBS News reported was added to the original talking points but subsequently removed:

Wait, wait... I thought ABC news was part of Sarah Twit Palin's "Lamestream" media????

Oh, shit.... what do we do now, Sarah???

Maybe they thought the video story was just too insulting to their intelligence, they FINALLY decided to report news and not bullshit like binders full of women

 

[hazlnut]

Why Petraeus Didn't Like The Benghazi Talking Points
ABC's Jonathan Karl Won't Mention His Critique: They Didn't Do Enough To Connect The Attacks To Egypt Demonstrations

ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl is helping to promote a dishonest narrative regarding why then-CIA director Gen. David Petraeus expressed disapproval for a set of talking points written in response to the September attacks on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

Karl's reporting on the issue has ignored the central reason Petraeus said that he didn't like the talking points: he thought they didn't do enough to connect the attacks to demonstrations in Cairo that were triggered by an anti-Islam video. Since right-wing media and Republicans in Congress have spent months accusing the Obama administration of politically-motivated lying for stating that there was a link between the attacks and the video, this point is crucial.

According to CBS News, in a September 15 email, Petraeus wrote that "he doesn't like the talking points and he would 'just assume they not use them... This is not what [Rep.] Ruppersberger asked for. We couldn't even mention the Cairo warning. But it's their call.'"

The "Cairo warning" Petraeus mentioned appears to refer to the following sentence that CBS News reported was added to the original talking points but subsequently removed:

Wait, wait... I thought ABC news was part of Sarah Twit Palin's "Lamestream" media????

Oh, shit.... what do we do now, Sarah???

Maybe they thought the video story was just too insulting to their intelligence, they FINALLY decided to report news and not bullshit like binders full of women

 

[hazlnut]

The sheep stayed away from this thread.

Interesting....