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Right Wing Meltdown: Limbaugh and Hannity Claim Clinton Benghazi Hearing is Staged
Hillary Clinton’s performance at the Benghazi hearing has been so strong that it has triggered a right wing meltdown and claims by Hannity and Limbaugh that the hearing is staged.
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi hearing is staged:
Limbaugh said, “Hi, friends. It was a puke fest. It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen. It was right out of a banana republic. And I’ve seen it all. I mean, in my 62 short years I’ve seen a lot. I’ve never seen groveling, butt kissing, sucking up. I’ve never seen anything like Hillary Clinton’s appearance before a joint congressional committee on that Benghazi guy who went nuts over there in Libya. And I guess everybody’s favorite part, she lost her cool at one point. By the way, she opened up crying, which is part of the script. But our favorite part, she was asked by Senator Johnson why they stuck with the story of the video to explain why the Benghazi guy went nuts.”
On his radio show Sean Hannity pushed the staged hearing meme:
Let me, as well as I know the Clintons and now the Obamas, let me just tell you what is going on behind the scenes here. What you saw in this answer, this anger, this outrage, I can tell you it was not spontaneous. I can you that it was staged. Probably at the direction of the Ragin’ Cajun himself, James Carville or somebody else. This was all pre-planned. They’ve had four months. They knew this was coming, and this was their strategy. What difference does it make? What difference? Does it matter? Of course it matters to the people who want the truth.”
Limbaugh claimed that Republicans were in on the conspiracy too, because this was all part of getting Hillary Clinton elected in 2016. Hannity decided to channel the 1990s and label this a Clinton conspiracy.
The right and their media establishment can’t handle the reality that their hopes of a Benghazi scandal have completely gone up in smoke. After months of telling their audiences that there was a conspiracy and a cover up surrounding Benghazi, Limbaugh and Hannity have to keep the story going. They can’t possibly tell their listeners that there is nothing there.
Congressional Republicans were supposed to “get” Sec. Clinton today. They were going to use her testimony to build the sort of Obama scandal that they have been dreaming of since 2008. Instead the Republicans’ own political theater was turned against them, and Hannity and Limbaugh are left with nothing but empty conspiracy theories.
By not accepting reality, Hannity and Limbaugh are furthering the delusions of the right. There was no conspiracy today. The truth is that Hillary Clinton is a superior leader and politician. The fact that Hillary Clinton was able to bulldoze through some of the so called best and brightest of elected Republicans like they weren’t even there should terrify any conservative leader who is eyeing up 2016. Hannity and Limbaugh’s conspiracies can’t hide the fact that Hillary Clinton looked, sounded, and acted like a person who is prepared to be president.
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37 Responses to Right Wing Meltdown: Limbaugh and Hannity Claim Clinton Benghazi Hearing is Staged
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Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 4:56 pm
You mean it was staged that John McCain would make a giant fool of himself? This several other Republicans would make fools of themselves? I have to ask how much they were paid to do that.
The Republicans took a beat down once again. They just can’t win. And if the Democrats use this correctly they can take the rating of the Republicans down to barely visible. It’s time to fight back against Republicans. The Democrats do not have a spine for the most part, and for the other part are owned by the same people that own the Republicans.
I mean after all, how could we let staged hearings like this go unnoticed? If Sean Hannity and Rush Limpballghazi said it it must be true
wiley
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 11:19 pm
Hillary has a spine. She let some flattering Democrats know that they’ve been part of the problem with getting enough funding for the State Department, too.
Thanks to her experience a Secretary of State, Senator, and First Lady, she is the most qualified candidate for POTUS in my lifetime. She rocks. Republicans aren’t intelligent enough to appreciate how effective she is in a much, much bigger world than the one they live in.
rewinn
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 5:16 pm
Is Rush’s theory that Clinton is SO SMART that she tricked the House GOP into holding hearings?
Well, maybe he’s right. She’s pretty danged smart; I just never expected Rush to say so!
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 5:27 pm
It was the concussion.See they were so concerned the repubs needed to see her in person and then BAM she unleashed her rascally women ways on them and the rest is history.
buckeyewill
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 4:57 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t these dropouts remember this is a NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLAR AND PHI BETA KAPPA????!!!!!!
Victoria Lamb, MSHA
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 6:54 am
I doubt that any of the Republicans (except for Colin Powell) know what a National Merit Scholar is, or what Phi Beta Kappa means.
Brandt Hardin
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 5:42 pm
The situation in Libya has been overly-politicized and the victims and there families being instrumented as a ruse to create doubt in Obama’s leadership and his cabinet. Public access to real facts is being whitewashed by this rhetoric while conservative hands paint the Blackface on our President. Watch them mix and apply the paints to his face in a portrait of Obama being Bamboozed by the Far Right at dregstudiosart.blogspot.c...
Victoria Lamb, MSHA
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 6:55 am
No, thanks.
Michael
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 6:12 pm
Yes, yes, These assbags do not like anything Clinton, they do not like women in general.
Can we please ignore them now? They aren’t worth listening to.
Paying attention to them is a bit like paying attention to the playground bully. Ignore them and they go away.
wiley
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 11:28 pm
Unfortunately they won’t just go away. While taking them to account, I think liberals should spend more time focusing on and giving accounts of the valuable things that the President, his cabinet members, and wonks are getting done against ridiculous pressures.
We all need to learn more about how our government works, how it doesn’t, and what responsible leaders are doing to build governing structures to better deal with our changing world.
The basic structure of our government hasn’t changed in over forty years. When Bush came to office, he was the first recipient of a large and detailed study of our government with recommendations on how to make it more adaptive, called the “Hart-Rudmann report”. Making the State Department much bigger was one of the recommendations, as well as better education in foreign languages, and continuing education for Congress.
It looks to me like the Obama Administration is quietly working on building networks to better delegate authority and to enforce regulations for the common good.
Nefer
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 7:06 pm
Oh Rushballs. Oh Hannity.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton brilliantly and repeatedly smacking down the republican clown caucus isn’t staged. It is not a conspiracy. It is not a plot. It is reality. Get used to it.
Sugapea
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 9:23 pm
That’s it, Nefer!
We’re cracking the Pub ‘Alternate Reality’…for all America to see!
glenn
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 7:25 pm
I have to admit, these dirt bag Democrats can get away with anything today. Drones flying over OUR own country, “Gibson Guitar Co”., “Fast & Furious”, and now Benghazi. Watergate was peanuts compared to Benghazi.
See who has the balls to answer this one. Why did the media cover Watergate none stop for months and months(two guys breaking into Democratic headquarters-big f___king deal. Finally Nixon has to step down under relentless pressure.
Benghazi and Fast & Furious far far worse.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 7:35 pm
Being a moderator you try to be fair,you try not to insult and most of all you read and learn from the posters.But you sir with all do respect stop teabagging limpballs.It gives you a wet brain.Dont get mad I am only here to help.
gsb
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 7:49 pm
glenn:Perhaps you should start to read just a little bit! read about how and what watergate was really all about..
fedded-up
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 8:03 pm
Good gracious…the paranoid delusionals are everywhere today. Think Zyprexa. Think Zoloft. Think change the channel, paranoid boy. Your RW conspiracy lunacy is showing….again.
Benghazi – terrorist attack. People died. It was horrible. If you believe anything else, you’ve been watching/listening to RWNJ conspiracy loons.
Fast & Furious – a stupid plan to try to track down Mexican druglords by selling them guns and tracking them. Planned, initiated under BUSH. Unraveled under Obama. Agreed, stupid plan. If you believe anything else, you’ve been watching/listening to wholly unjustifiably stinking rich RWNJ conspiracy loons who got rich by convincing people like YOU of their stupid idiotic conspiracy plots.
Watergate – another reallllly stupid plan initiated and carried out by people high up in CREEP, i.e., Committee to Re-Elect the President, i.e., Nixon, where it was demonstrably PROVEN that a whole bunch of his staff and the POTUS himself was involved in the whole sorry affair. Which made him a crook. He was forced to resign because over several years, it was PROVEN that he was in it up to his eyeballs and he lied his ass off. Think…hmmm…”Read my lips – there will be NO NEW TAXES.” Or, think, “I did not have sexual intercourse with that woman.” People do not like being lied to. And people reallllly do not like being lied to by the POTUS. But equating demonstrably proven criminal activity with Benghazi is flat ludicrous.
But, hey, don’t let us stop you from your screaming desire to look like a blithering idiot. It’s entertaining…sort of.
1voice1vote
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 7:41 pm
“staged” Republican Reality Show methodically upstaged by SOS Hillary Rodham Clinton. Republican shock jocks haz a sad.
glenn
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 7:49 pm
You can help by simply answering the question I asked about comparing Watergate to Benghazi. You use the word “teabagging” and you’re accusing me of insulting people? And please don’t be condescending towards me; unlike you I am pissed at about 70% of Republicans and probably 99% of Democrats of today (in other words the political power structure status quo in Washington). So I’m sure you and virtually all those who post here are far more partisan than I.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 7:54 pm
OK I will go slow for you.Watergate was the abuse of constitutional power.Benghazi was a breakdown in security.Now if you dont see the difference then I cant help you and you need to be around like minded people who would feed your idiocy.
fedded-up
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 8:07 pm
AND YET, almost every single stinking thing you post or choose to discuss comes straight from the annals of RWNJ conspiracists. How do you expect to be taken seriously or with respect when you speak about these conspiracy theories as if they had any legitimacy whatsoever? There is a basic disconnect there.
glenn
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 8:29 pm
I’ll go even slooower for you. Nice you are concerned about abuse of Constitutional powers. Where do I start with Obama?
1. Illegal appointment of Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Congress was still in session).
2.Bombing Libya without the Congressional approval required by the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
3.President Obama instructing the Justice Department to stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
4.Disregarding Congress, Obama instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and attorneys to exercise “prosecutorial discretion” for illegal immigrants who have attended school in the United States, meaning far fewer such illegal immigrants will be prosecuted and deported.
5. This one I’ll be a bit lenient…After Scott Brown won in Massachusetts thus denying Obama the 60th vote for Obamacare our rascally president used reconciliation to get it passed anyway (despite polling that NEVER favored the damn plan). That one may have been legal but it still lacked integrity on how he shifted gears at the last moment.
Anyway I could go on and on and on but I don’t want to overload your mind; (Tip- you’re not nearly as smart as you think…try being a bit more modest. You may win an argument once in a (great) while.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 8:35 pm
I will go fast for you and then I’m done.You lost.Your ideas lost.The American people said after all your racist treasonous antics said kiss our collective asses.Again YOU LOST.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 10:09 pm
Glenn instead of engaging your points I dismiss you because it gets tiresome trying to undo the damage that has been inflicted on you.So here goes
1.Illegal appointment of Richard Cordray
Fact“The CFPB’s authorizing statute does not limit the president’s ability to exercise his constitutional power to appoint a director during a recess,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said. “The CFPB statute, like other statutes, makes clear that the director is a presidential appointed, Senate-confirmed position, but it does not preclude a recess-appointed director from serving.”
Read more: www.politico.com/news/sto...
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 10:10 pm
Continue
2.Bombing Libya
Fact this does not fall under the war powers act The War Powers Act says that a president has the latitude to commit troops to combat zones, but, within 48 hours of doing so he must formally notify Congress and provide his explanation for doing so.
If Congress does not agree with the troop commitment, the president must remove them from combat within 60 to 90 days.
The President did notify congress of his actions hell the republicans were arguing he wasnt going far enough.
3.I didnt read that DOMA WAS in the Constitution.When you find it please point me to it
4.prosecutorial discretion”Dont you watch Law and Order/Prosecutors do this everyday
5.Why bother
Now do you understand why I ignored you.You have nothing but Reich wing talking points and bad ones I might add
fedded-up
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 7:13 am
“1. Illegal appointment of Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Congress was still in session).”
Illegal, my foot. It’s been done repeatedly for decades. Congress was NOT officially in session at all. They were doing what is euphemistically called “pro forma” sessions, i.e., meeting every 3 days by 2-3 senators specifically to PREVENT any interim appointments. Otherwise known as “faking it.” They didn’t even object to Richard Cordray – he’s a Republican, for crying out loud. No…they objected to the very EXISTENCE of the CFPB (and Elizabeth Warren, one of my personal heroes par excellence) – yet further demonstration of their novel interpretation of government that says that average citizens don’t NEED financial protection (especially not in 2009, huh, Glenn?) and, if they did, the federal govt shouldn’t be doing it. Me? I have another name for it – treasonous two-faced bastardry. But, that’s me. It’s also the reason that no less than 181 appointees were still awaiting confirmation, with an average wait time of 165 days. In a period of extreme crisis. With the economy teetering on the brink. Uh huh.
2.Bombing Libya without the Congressional approval required by the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
Have you taken a single solitary moment of your day to actually look to see WHAT exactly his “obligations” were? He was obligated to “notify” Congress, then had 60-90 days for approval from Congress. Which he did. Funny, I don’t remember any US ground troops at all, and, hmmmmm, I seem to remember a whole lot of talk about the UN taking over “all offensive operations” well within that imaginary window….
Yup, and I also seem to remember a time when another POTUS took the US to war – a pretty damned huge mess, if I recall – based on…uh…. nothing but a huge damn pack of lies. Doesn’t seem like it was so very long ago either….
mjh
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 8:38 pm
Hannity: “Let me, as well as I know the Clintons and now the Obamas . . .”
Which apparently isn’t too well, Sean — or else you wouldn’t whine every year about how you don’t get an invite to the White House Christmas party . ..
.
glenn
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 8:53 pm
Wow, is that the best you could up with? Just remember what happened when you Democrats controlled ALL branches of government for two years…2010 happened. Enjoy it will you can but things will change again (that is if we still have a country left). Hey, no hard feelings; sounds like I got under your skin a bit. Sorry about that ;)
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 8:57 pm
Trust me on this.If you got under my skin you would no longer be here.Like a cat with a mouse I just got tired of playing with you.
Victoria Lamb, MSHA
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 7:30 am
The President didn’t have a working Democratic supermajority at any time during his first two years. When he was sworn in on January 20, 2009, there were 58 Democrats in the Senate. There should have been 59, but Al Franken was still in Minnesota dealing with challenges to his victory there. In May, Senator Byrd of West Virginia became seriously ill and was hospitalized, leaving the Senate with 59 Senators (on paper) but only 58 for the purposes of conducting business. On July 8, 2009, Al Franken was finally sworn in, bringing the total of Senators to 60 (on paper) but 59 for working purposes, as Senator Byrd was still out sick. This was the first time the Democrats had had a filibuster-proof majority since 1958, but the situation was short-lived. Six weeks later on August 25, 2009, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy passed away, leaving only 59 Senate Democrats once again.
On September 25, 2009 Paul Kirk was appointed to fill Kennedy’s vacancy while the special election to fill Kennedy’s Senate seat was going on. In November, 2009, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley,lost Ted Kennedy’s seat to Scott Brown(R). On Christmas Eve, 2009, the Senate voted to move forward with the PPACA by 60 to 39 votes. Democrats had a super majority for roughly six months, including the seven weeks from Franken’s swearing-in on July 8 to Ted Kennedy’s death on August 25, and the four months, nine days between Paul Kirk’s swearing-in on September 25, 2009 and his replacement by Scott Brown on February 4, 2010.
glenn
Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 11:49 pm
Dream on. As far as “trusting you” I will say this…I trust you as much as I trust this president. Take it for what its worth.
mjh
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 4:55 pm
Take it for what its worth.
You mean, the incoherent ramblings of a dyed-in-the-wool Fox/Limpballs devotee?
No problem.
.
Buck
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 1:49 am
Yeh, he’d just change his name and email and be right back on here utilizing his constitutional right; freedom of speech. Anyways, isn’t it great we have these rights? Not quite the Communist nation the Nutz say it is huh? And it won’t be. Not under this president anyway. However, I’m sure the paranoia will linger well after Barack Obama’s face is added to Rushmore (10 years hence) and all the blame for the collapse of a national “conservative” party is pinned on him. Anywhoooo, “fedded-up” inserted more info onto this thread than many folks really get to see. Great job. Nobody seemed to want to address your points too much. I think you scared them.
Nice!
fedded-up
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 7:37 am
Thanks, Buck! But I believe it is useless. “Glenn” is likely beyond rational thought at this point. Blow up the Watergate BS he comes right back with more delusional paranoid psycho-dramas, enumerated, no less. Sigh….
fedded-up
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 7:33 am
3.President Obama instructing the Justice Department to stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
By any reasonable standard, federal sanction of grossly discriminatory practices is wrong. After years of appeals courts review, it was more than obvious to all but impassioned religious zealots and homophobics of all stripes that DOMA was constitutionally bogus and inspired by unbridled bigotry. Personally, I was thrilled that this POTUS had the cajones to admit being wrong and the extreme grace to state it publicly. Though it seems this was lost to you. Poor you.
Of course, he could have just started firing US attorneys for the crime of “wrong thinking.” Hmmm, I seem to recall another POTUS…..
4.Disregarding Congress, Obama instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and attorneys to exercise “prosecutorial discretion” for illegal immigrants who have attended school in the United States, meaning far fewer such illegal immigrants will be prosecuted and deported.
Apparently, you are completely unaware that this POTUS has HUGELY stepped up the rates of deportation for illegal aliens? But then, you’re unaware of just about everything on earth, aren’t you? So, according to you, Obama is the devil because he asked for some “discretion” in the deportation of educated illegals…you know, the ones we are trying to entice to come here… hmmmm, I see another disconnect coming here…
5. This one I’ll be a bit lenient…After Scott Brown won in Massachusetts thus denying Obama the 60th vote for Obamacare our rascally president used reconciliation to get it passed anyway (despite polling that NEVER favored the damn plan). That one may have been legal but it still lacked integrity on how he shifted gears at the last moment.
Good gawd, man, you are unhinged. “Lacked integrity.” The ONLY polls that never favored it were from FOX or more RWNJ lunatics.
Mark
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 8:40 am
Is Limbaugh still relevant?
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 8:45 am
Look in this thread,see samantha and you will have your answer
www.politicususa.com/cont...
D. W. Skinner
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 5:36 pm
I am so grateful I don’t live in the crazy heads of conservative republicans,