{"id":22908,"date":"2014-05-31T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22908"},"modified":"2014-05-31T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T12:50:09","slug":"preparing-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22908","title":{"rendered":"Preparing The Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately we are now living in a country where the presidential campaign is never ending. The latest example of this is the selective release of excerpts from Hillary Clinton&#8217;s forthcoming book \u201cHard Choices\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/05\/hillary-clintons-benghazi-chapter-107240.html?hp=l2\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>. The excerpts deal with the attack on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benghazi\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.1166666667,20.0666666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=32.1166666667,20.0666666667 (Benghazi)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Benghazi<\/a> outpost on September 11, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/31\/fact-check-clintons-benghazi-chapter-has-holes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> posted a fact check of the excerpt by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Catherine Herridge\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catherine_Herridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Catherine Herridge<\/a>, their Chief Intelligence correspondent. Ms. Herridge provides a very logical analysis of Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s narrative.<\/p>\n<p>One excerpt from the book as posted at Politico:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThere were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives,\u201d she writes. \u201cIt is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video. It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions defy not only the evidence but logic as well.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note to Mrs. Clinton&#8211;no one in Benghazi had seen the video.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>An independent review of more than 4,000 social media postings, conducted by a leading <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"social media monitoring\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freshnetworks.com\/social-media-services\/research-and-listening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">social media monitoring<\/a> firm in December 2012, also found the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">YouTube video<\/a> was a non-event in Benghazi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cFrom the data we have, it\u2019s hard for us to reach the conclusion that the consulate attack was motivated by the movie. Nothing in the immediate picture &#8212; surrounding the attack in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Libya\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.8666666667,13.1833333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=32.8666666667,13.1833333333 (Libya)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Libya<\/a> &#8212; suggests that,\u201d Jeff Chapman, chief executive with Agincourt Solutions (now Babel Street), told Fox News.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Chapman said his analysts reviewed postings in Libya, including those from Benghazi, over a three-day period beginning on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"September 11 attacks\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=40.713,-74.0135&amp;spn=0.05,0.05&amp;q=40.713,-74.0135 (September%2011%20attacks)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Sept. 11<\/a>, and saw \u201cno traffic in Benghazi in the immediate lead-up to the attack related to the anti-<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Islam\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Islam<\/a> film.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">Please follow the link to the Fox News article to read the rest of the fact-check. The upcoming release of this book is the first step in clearing the way for Mrs. Clinton to run for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">President<\/a>. The book provides talking points for the Democrats on the investigating committee and will also make the Benghazi scandal old news by the time the election campaign is fully operational.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=27dade0a-f593-4680-b40d-af0e3898b299\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately we are now living in a country where the presidential campaign is never ending. The latest example of this is the selective release of excerpts from Hillary Clinton&#8217;s forthcoming book \u201cHard Choices\u201d by Politico. 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