Right Wing Continues To Spread Lies About Embassy Attack
on September 15, 2012 at 10:05 am
Conservatives are truly some of the most gullible imbeciles on the planet. Even more so than the rioting Muslims who were convinced by fundamentalist manipulators that the United States was involved with, and approved of, the piece of junk film they’re rioting over. At least they have an excuse: they haven’t been exposed to the kind of media saturation we have and don’t have the widespread access to information necessary to suss out the truth. American conservatives can easily check the facts but it’s so much easier to believe whatever reinforces their prejudices. Especially if it makes Obama look bad, then you can tell them literally anything and they’ll believe you.
Case in point:
Early Thursday morning, conservative military bloggers began to float reports that the US ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, did not permit US Marine security guards to carry live ammunition. Within hours, this “no ammo” rumor in response to the embassy attack in Cairo lit up right-wing social media, with the allegation unquestioningly blamed on the White House. Conservative thought-leaders and pundits led the charge.
A single website, Nightwatch, made it up (unsourced, obviously) and spread it around. Right wing bloggers made sure it got out into the open and it is now a “fact” as far as the right is concerned. I have zero doubt it will get mentioned as a “rumor” on Fox and Friends and a few teabagger Congresspeople will mention it when they think no one is paying attention.
I wonder if angry American conservatives understand just how much in common they have with the angry Muslim conservatives they despise? How easily they are fooled and used by those who do not have their best interest in mind. I suppose they wouldn’t believe it anyway unless they heard it on Twitter first.
Reminds me of the track off “Snakes and Arrows” by Good RUSH called “The Way the Wind Blows.” There’s a line in it- “From the Middle East, to the Middle West/It’s a world of superstition” that says so much about current events. It basically talks about how similar the people in middle America and the Middle East are narrow-minded, xenophobic and angry at each other.
My favorite musical geopolitical essay is The Kingston Trio’s “Merry Minuet”-”They’re rioting in Africa. . “
That was actually Tom Leher, author if the classic song ‘poisoning pigeons in the park.’
Meth monkey tried that one on me at the FEMA help center.
I told her that was because the Embassy contracted out security, and the Marines were just ceremonial.
Slowed her down…
I wonder if they are seeing visions of 1983 Beirut? ” Russell says the sentries’ rifles, as ordered, were unloaded.” This was under Reagan’s watch, I wonder who decided that they should have unloaded weapons? And if policy changed after this? Very interesting article on it…. http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2008-10-15-beirut-barracks_N.htm
“The situation changed, but the Marines’ orders — not to appear “warlike” — did not.
As interpreted by the Marine commanders, the mission precluded fortifications at their compound at Beirut International Airport that might suggest the Marines weren’t peacekeepers — such as a perimeter fence that would stop anything bigger than a car.
Similarly, sentries directly facing the airport were ordered to carry their ammunition on their belts — not in their rifles — to avoid an accidental shooting.”
-One last poignant piece from this article-
“John Chipura, who luckily stopped to chat en route to the barracks, left the Marines and, like his father and brother, became a New York City fireman.
He was scheduled to get married in October 2001. But on Sept. 11, he was last seen running up into the south tower of the burning World Trade Center.”
God is an iron.