We fully expect Sen. Barbara Boxer to beclown herself whenever possible — it’s her job, and she’s dedicated. She did her best to run interference for President Obama on the Senate floor this week by claiming that the GOP was responsible for the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, because they’d cut the budget that would have gone to properly secure the U.S. consulate there. The Washington Post gave that claim three Pinocchios, but that hasn’t kept US News Opinion managing editor Robert Schlesinger from tossing that dud grenade, or any other one within reach.
Which is the most damaging scandal? http://t.co/qMibIoXzNf @jimgeraghty has the answer.
— Melissa Mackenzie (@MelissaTweets) May 18, 2013
@MelissaTweets @jimgeraghty Ooooh, I know — is it the one where the GOP expresses outrage about talking points that they edited?
— Robert Schlesinger ? (@rschles) May 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/Nickarama1/status/335554301806120960
@rschles No, the scandal ur thinking of is when 4 Americans died bc POTUS was AWOL & went to Vegas the next day @MelissaTweets @jimgeraghty
— DCD (@DCDude1776) May 18, 2013
Schlesinger has his own fact-checker ready, and it’s not even US News, but the New York Times. Take that! But wait … that article is about the IRS scandal. It’s tough to keep all these “fake” scandals straight.
"Republican charges range from the clearly questionable to the seemingly specious…" http://t.co/tua9MyFghz
— Robert Schlesinger ? (@rschles) May 18, 2013
@MelissaTweets The fact is that the real #Benghazi scandal is about slashed security funding not talking points http://t.co/GTVV1AYTRd
— Robert Schlesinger ? (@rschles) May 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/Nickarama1/status/335555009938849792
@Nickarama1 @MelissaTweets Problem is Im not sure whether they're the actual talking points or the ones the GOP edited and fed the media.
— Robert Schlesinger ? (@rschles) May 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/Nickarama1/status/335555577138798592
@Nickarama1 @MelissaTweets GOP leaked doctored emails to the press bc there was no real scandal there.
— Robert Schlesinger ? (@rschles) May 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/Nickarama1/status/335565805720850433
https://twitter.com/Nickarama1/status/335565950864740352
https://twitter.com/Nickarama1/status/335566072264667136
https://twitter.com/Nickarama1/status/335566212010487808
the security fund wasn't slashed – it has actually increased the past few years You should know that @rschles @MelissaTweets
— ComfyPaws™ (@ComfyPaws) May 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/Melvin_Udall_/status/335559909628313600
He should know that, but not even the president knows what’s going on in his own administration until he reads it in the newspaper.
.@rschles You know what? I used to read US News & World Report before your news magazine became a week-late-news hackfest.
— Melissa Mackenzie (@MelissaTweets) May 18, 2013
@MelissaTweets Well I seem to have struck a nerve.
— Robert Schlesinger ? (@rschles) May 18, 2013
@rschles Unlike you, I actually watched the testimony of the State Department dummies expressly stating funding had NOTHING to do with it.
— Melissa Mackenzie (@MelissaTweets) May 18, 2013
@MelissaTweets @rschles My 3 yr old niece knows this and how the TP's were changed but this bozo doesn't? About right.
— J Craig (@JCraigKY) May 18, 2013
@MelissaTweets @conservJ @rschles the scandal is the talking points changed b4 the election, 2 stand down orders given, and ……
— ?? Momma Mandy ?? (@mandylhoward) May 18, 2013
@mandylhoward @MelissaTweets @conservJ That a sprawling bureaucracy produced watered down talking points is neither a surprise nor a scandal
— Robert Schlesinger ? (@rschles) May 18, 2013
Sprawling bureaucracy? Not even David Axelrod could get away with that excuse.
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