“What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
Recall when the nation was in the throes of President Clinton’s impeachment scandal that there was a certain refrain repeated by Democrats, when they would constantly ask, “Can’t we just move forward?”
What beautiful political rhetoric! Clever and simplistic. Who doesn’t want to “move forward?” So hopeful a request! Yes! Yes, everyone! Let’s “move forward!” Progress! What obstructionist dares speak against moving forward?
It was infuriating. It was Bill Clinton pleading with the country not to look back, because there was nothing but trouble and work back there; certainly nothing good for him at least.
The Clinton family spokespersons (aka American media) could turn attention away from that whole “President lying to a federal judge” business and keep the topic on why Republicans refuse to move forward. Why were the Republicans not letting the country go forward? Just brilliant.
Now the First Lady cum Secretary of State is in the midst of the latest Clinton scandal. I blame the Islamo-fascist terrorists who killed Ambassador Stevens and the others, because they were the attackers. However, what should be a headline story is that the Administration, with Hillary Clinton taking the lead, blamed a Los Angeles filmmaker for the attack, when he had nothing at all to do with it.
Blaming the Islamo-fascists is easy because they did it. To blame the filmmaker who didn’t do it took effort. A lie always takes more work than the truth – that’s what a lie detector does – it looks for the mind and body doing the work of building a lie.
Instead of blaming those who have declared America their sworn enemy and have been killing Americans for years, President Obama and Secretary Clinton falsely blamed a Coptic Christian, a group who are not America’s enemy. Blaming anyone but Islamo-fascists for the attacks puts Obama and Clinton in the same company as mentally deficient “truthers” who blame George Bush for the first 9/11 attacks. It’s the same lame allegation, isn’t it? Blame someone here in America for an Islamo-fascist attack against America.
THIS–STORY-SHOULD-BE-HUGE-NEWS.
Unfortunately Hillary Clinton, during her Capitol Hill testimony, gave American media their marching orders on the issue of the Administration falsely blaming a filmmaker for a terrorist attack: She said, “What difference does it make?” which is nothing more than a bastardization of her husband's request, “Can’t we just move forward?” The Clintons will not face their misdeeds and, according to them, neither will you.
This morning, I turned on Good Morning America at 8 am to see how much coverage they would give to the unprecedented news story that the American government, through the Secretary of State, was being questioned about blaming a filmmaker for a terrorist attack, instead of blaming the terrorists.
GMA’s lead story for the second day in a row was: The all-important Beyonce lip-syncing scandal. Following that was the emergence of a new Justin Timberlake video. Then they spoke of a new “wives of plastic surgeons” reality segment. Then they ate strawberries.
After that George Stephanopoulos threw it to the news guy and I was ready to give GMA a break. “Ok” I thought. “So they didn’t lead with hard news. I’m sure Hillary’s testimony is coming next.” But I was wrong. It was the third story.
The lead story was about Leon Panetta lifting the ban on women in combat (great timing to steal the headlines there, Mr. President. I hope it was worth the goal of misdirection when Franny finds herself in a foxhole). The second story was that John Kerry will have “smooth sailing” in his Senate confirmation hearing to become Secretary of State. Yeah!
Then finally, they got to it. They gave it one sentence. Just one. It took 5 seconds (I timed it). The sentence was a defense of Hillary – that she “vehemently” denied misleading the public on the Benghazi attack while testifying on Capitol Hill.
That was it. No background. No context. Nothing to tell Americans watching why she had to make the denial (which is a lie anyway, since she is on video misleading the public about the filmmaker).
On the video of Hillary misleading the public by blaming the filmmaker for the Benghazi deaths, she blames him for all current Middle Eastern unrest. Who knew that the secret to the centuries-old problem of creating peace in the Middle East was to simply appeal to the Islamists' hidden desire to become movie critics?:
In fact, so committed was the Administration to the story that Middle Eastern hostilities had nothing to do with Administration policy, but instead were the fault of an unknown filmmaker that Hillary even promised to arrest him (That he was later arrested on a probation violation for denying his role in the film is surely just a coincidence. Please ignore the timing of Hillary’s promise to arrest him. Nothing to see here. The Clintons ask you to please “move forward” now. After all – what difference does it make?):
It appears the mainstream media, led at 8 AM by America’s most popular news show, got Hillary’s message. So what if the Secretary of State falsely blamed a filmmaker for an Islamist led terrorist attack? “What difference does it make?!” ABC reads you loud and clear, Madame Secretary. They did treat the story of the Secretary of State becoming a “truther” and falsely blaming someone in America for an Islamist-led terrorist attack as if it makes no difference at all.
Because a Clinton says so.
Good grief.
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Apr '12
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
I happened to be in an airport yesterday, and the "what difference does it make" bit was blaring all afternoon and evening from all the news stations. That's the good news; the bad news was that a lot of them seemed to be interpreting this as a strong (in a good sense) response to Republican allegations, not as a pathetic attempt to admit wrongdoing without admitting wrongdoing.
To me it seems like she came as close as a person almost ever does come to forcefully asserting "p and not p" in the same 30-second snippet, but nobody called on me to comment.
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
Thank you! I also enjoyed Nick Gillespie's piece at Reason: 3 Incredibly Outrageous Evasions by Hillary Clinton About Benghazi:
Jan '11
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
The irony is that when you excuse past lies with the argument that you were only going by what you knew at the time, then you don't get any slack when you make confident assurances of what's happening now.
After the Bush Administration didn't find the cache of WMDs they were expecting, nobody trusted any confident assurances from Bush.
After this debacle in Benghazi, why on earth would anyone trust this Administration about events and what they mean? Plainly, their confidence when making assurances is based on their arrogant self-confidence, not because of the quality of evidence. I happened to go back and see Susan Rice's interview on one of the Sunday shows. She wasn't offering the best evidence they had at that moment; she was assuring the American people that Obama had the whole thing under control. Why would anyone trust her now?
Mar '11
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"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow"
Jan '11
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
By the way, take a good look at how this is playing out.
Remember the debates about how to treat terrorism? Whether it was a crime or an act of war?
Obama is treating this attack as a crime, not as an act of war. It's been months, and the best that Obama can say is that the local police have the chief suspect under surveillance. And just him; the rest of the attackers are completely off scot-free.
Criminal justice is hard enough in our own country where police have the authority to compel evidence. Trying to address terrorist acts in a foreign country where our people have no authority, and have to rely on local "authorities" most of whom are sympathetic to the terrorists in the first place ... this should be a textbook case on why we shouldn't respond to terrorist attacks as a crime.
Sep '12
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
The MSM are an organ of the Democrat Party, and perhaps the most effective one at that. Admit it, accept it, and deal with it.
How to deal with it? Treat MSM info-bimbos like Stephanopoulos exactly as Axelrod treats Obama's political opponents. Start with copious oppo research, then blanket Paparazzi stalking (we'll have to pay them - MSM photographers already work for the other side), then exploit the work-product to concoct smears going to character and credibility. Make their lives hell and destroy their reputations and careers.
Sound too harsh? Then grow up: These people are enemies of America as founded, i.e. enemies of individual liberty and God-given rights. So it's either us or them, and it should be them.
Edited on January 24, 2013 at 4:52pmOct '10
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
And still GOP operatives and office-holders will walk over broken glass to appear on network newscasts or get a 'strange new respect' mention from the Times or the Post.
Mar '11
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Gesticulating while asking "what difference does it make" that four Americans died? Setting up two strawmen, one the discredited "video protest" and the other a wholly bizarre "four guys taking a walk" and escaping in the confusion? Accepting responsibility while absolving herself of blame? (Nifty trick, that.)
And to think I always figured Bill to be the sociopathic one.
Sep '10
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
What difference does make? Another 30 or 40 years and Ambassador Stevens would have died anyway. I mean, you vast right-wing conspiracy types just keep making mountains out of mole hills.
May '10
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
Let's start a pool as to when the MSM is going to get around to asking the parents, spouses, other family of these four "what difference does it make" to them.
I got dibs on the "never" square.
Sep '10
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Besides, look at the silver lining: if the rumblings are true, Ambassador Stevens was gay, and gay Americans have the same right to die for their country as heterosexual Americans. Ambassador Steven's death isn't a tragedy: its a victory for equal rights.
Sep '10
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I'd like Mike Murphy to appear on a podcast right now to explain to us how we're supposed to be conciliatory and ignore Rush Limbaugh.
Apr '12
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
It was obvious to any sentient being from the moment of the attack that it was a well-planned attack by jihadists with heavy weapons. On top of that the administration had real-time communications from the sites telling them that there was no protest, and describing the character of the attack.
So, when Hillary is asked "Why didn't you call someone to find out if there was a protest?" she doesn't answer. The true answer would be "I already knew there was no protest, but Barack and I had already decided that we had to put responsibility for this on the video and then stonewall until after the election."
So she evaded the question by claiming it doesn't matter. I would have insisted, "Answer the question." Or maybe responded to her, "I guess that means that at the time you already knew there was no protest, and you and the President decided to continue in this lie up to the present moment."
Nov '10
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
And here I thought their family motto was
Sep '12
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
I expect MoveOn will now morph into WhatsTheDiff.org
Howellis: So she evaded the question by claiming it doesn't matter. I would have insisted, "Answer the question." Or maybe responded to her, "I guess that means that at the time you already knew there was no protest, and you and the President decided to continue in this lie up to the present moment."
Yes, exactly, I don't know why, when questions are obviously dodged, Republicans don't just supply the suspected truth in their followup so the notion gets through to those listening and can be quoted. I thought Rand Paul was brilliant at calmly repeating how Hillary took 'responsibility' for the Benghazi situation and then equated it several times with her being 'culpable.' She did not correct him but I think I detected some steam inside those Martin Scorcese goggles.
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
Pencilvania: I expect MoveOn will now morph into WhatsTheDiff.org
Howellis: So she evaded the question by claiming it doesn't matter. I would have insisted, "Answer the question." Or maybe responded to her, "I guess that means that at the time you already knew there was no protest, and you and the President decided to continue in this lie up to the present moment."
Yes, exactly, I don't know why, when questions are obviously dodged, Republicans don't just supply the suspected truth in their followup so the notion gets through to those listening and can be quoted.
Agreed. A common knock against Congress is that there are too many lawyers. If there are, they aren't litigators. None of the know how to effectively examine a witness to box her in and make her answer or look terrible for refusing.
May '10
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
Six million dead Jews? What difference does it make whether they died in an epidemic or were gassed and cremated as an act of genocide? They're still dead!
You wing-nuts are unhinged. Hillary in 2016. /sarcasm.
Edited on January 24, 2013 at 10:53pmMar '12
Re: “What Difference Does It Make?” to Replace “Can’t We Just Move Forward?” as Favorite Clinton Family Motto
What difference does it make? If gets to the heart of your culpability Ms. Secretary. This was a premeditated and planned attack for which you had adequate intelligence to forsee if you were competent Instead, you lied to the American people to hide both your lack of preparation and to defend the false administration narrative that Al Quaeda is dead.
You, Ms. Secretary, are personally responsible for these deaths and the story of how it happens makes all the difference in that responsibility.
Mar '11
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Mr. De Seno:
Do I detect a note of surprise in your post? Yeah, yeah, I know: so what if I do, what difference does it make?
Nov '12
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I have a little trouble getting that outrageously outraged over this since I have never heard an adequate explanation as to what exactly the ambassador was doing in Benghazi in the first place. He was supposed to stay at his official quarters, wasn't he, rather than run off on a highly sensitive date to a complex he knew was unsecured? I read somewhere that he went to attend the opening of some English school by a local, hardly a diplomatic emergency to put oneself in jeopardy if true. Common sense from our diplomats would be nice, though with the Clinton crowd you should have known by now what you are dealing with. Wasn't the whole question of what "is" meant enough to lower your expectations?