Friday Funnies: Benghazi

Henry Payne | 5.10.2013 7:20 AM

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Fist of Etiquette 12 years ago

Now that's an erection.
1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
  
  what is the other dude about to do? Jump on it? Flee it? Measure it?
  1. Ted S. 12 years ago
    
    The other dude looks more like a concern troll.
    1. Rich 12 years ago
      
      Well, then he should be so labeled.
2. Drax the Destroyer 12 years ago
  
  Well, "good" to know we were thinking the same thing.
3. Ted S. 12 years ago
  
  As opposed to their noses?
  1. Live Free or Diet 12 years ago
    
    I thought Fist meant their noses.
4. Almanian! 12 years ago
  
  Erections have consequences.
5. db 12 years ago
  
  Obama's been advised he needs to respect his opponents more and create a big tent for everyone.
6. Lord Peter Wimsey 12 years ago
  
  If it lasts more than four hours I'd contact a physician.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 12 years ago
    
    Obamacare probably paid for that rug, since he's clearly using it as a contraceptive.
WomSom 12 years ago

lol, you have to admit that is pretty funny dude.

http://www.GotDatAnon.tk
1. WTF 12 years ago
  
  Roll that beautiful bean footage!
  
  http://www.Anonyourmom.tk
  1. Almanian! 12 years ago
    
    That jsut makes a lot of sense when you thikn about it! LOL!
    
    http://www.jessisdead.anon.de/derp
Bee Tagger 12 years ago

MSNBC covering this cartoon:

"Fox News hired Penn Jillette to pull the greatest magic trick a news organization has ever pulled: raising Benghazi from the ashes of a non-story."
1. some guy 12 years ago
  
  Story or not, every moment Congress spends blathering rather than legislating is a small victory.
Ted S. 12 years ago

What difference at this point does it make?
1. Live Free or Diet 12 years ago
  
  There might be spooge on Monica's collar.
Almanian! 12 years ago

So the President is picured with a broom and dustpan as the tools of his trade - because a black man couldn't be anything but a JANITOR, RIGHT PAYNE???!!!!11!

Race fucking ist.

Also, fried chicken.

Happy Friday, Reasonoids

/Suki kind of
1. $park? 12 years ago
  
  Also, fried chicken.
  
  And you've got the balls to call Payne racist?
2. Tulpa (LAOL-VA) 12 years ago
  
  I just heard Michelle Obama on the radio talking about how her mom insisted they have fried chicken for dinner on Mother's Day in addition to health food.
Jerryskids 12 years ago

You should read the AP story - according to the AP the entire story is old news that's already been thoroughly investigated but dredged back up by the GOP in a failed attempt to smear Clinton and distract attention from the various scandals afflicting GOP candidates.

This is the link, but be aware that it was written by Charles Babington, who merits his own tag on Newsbusters for his open shilling for the Dems.
1. DesigNate 12 years ago
  
  My favorite comment:
  
  JAIL-TIME-4-EVERYONE
  05/09/2013 04:33 AM
  
  Republican politicians say "Bengazi" to their base like a normal person says "Wanna cookie?" to their dog.
  
  No matter how many times in a row you don't have the cookie, their mouth always waters.
  
  What a retarded piece of shit that person is.
  1. Stormy Dragon 12 years ago
    
    Even if you think Bengahzi is a legitimate scandal, that seems a perfectly accurate description of how Republican politicians see it. Do you think the party that proposes we start another War in the Middle East on a near weekly basis really cares about a couple of dead Americans?
    1. Tulpa (LAOL-VA) 12 years ago
      
      There's more opposition to Syria intervention in the GOP than among the Dems.
      1. Stormy Dragon 12 years ago
        
        Do you have a source for that? Only polling on the subject with party crosstabs is from December and shows more support for military intervention among Republicans than Democrats or Independents:
        
        http://www.langerresearch.com/.....3Syria.pdf
        
        And more specifically in terms of politicians, I can think of several Republicans who are gung ho for a military response (Lindsey Graham and John McCain).
        
        generic Brand 12 years ago
        
        The very existence of Rand Paul and Mike Lee in the Senate for the GOP and the lack of such for the Democrats is proof.
        
        Stormy Dragon 12 years ago
        
        Yeah, but for every Rand Paul and Mike Lee, there's a John McCain and a Lindsey Graham.
Restoras 12 years ago

NYC schools quietly working to get the scourge of butter out of its cafeterias. Because the schools are so good there is nothing left to improve on.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.1339986
1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
  
  Greenpoint mom Brooke Parker was baffled by the anti-butter crusade. "I don't understand why the mayor is attacking butter. What's he got against butter? It's not that bad for you," she said. "How about making sure kids have gym classes before they ban butter?"
  
  How about making sure they can read, write, and do basic arithmetic?
  1. Live Free or Diet 12 years ago
    
    That's what schools are for? Who knew?
  2. UnCivilServant 12 years ago
    
    I understand why that Mayor is going after the butter - it's Nanny Bloomberg!
    
    Education doesn't matter, because education isn't there "For Deh Childrunz!" But his food crusades...
  3. db 12 years ago
    
    Gym classes are super important because they help weed out those antisocial folks who don't like team sports.
    1. Tulpa (LAOL-VA) 12 years ago
      
      Gym classes are super important because they help weed out those make antisocial folks who don't like out of kids who aren't good at team sports.
  4. Restoras 12 years ago
    
    ifh, those things would ensure an educated, questionning populace, and thats the last thing the douchebags in power want.
    
    Plus, the mayor is utterly powerless when it comes to the purported purpose of the schools - at this point they are simply a very expensive jobs programs for union employees and a babysitting service. Given that Little Tyrant Bloomberg is an insufferable prick, control-freak, and dyed-in-the-wool progressive (in every definition of the early 20th century, and must be seen doing something!, one of the few things he can actually be seen doing is eliminating foodstuffs and indulgences that the proggies don't like.
    1. Bill 12 years ago
      
      Little Tyrant Bloomberg - the mayor has a son named Tyrant? How fitting.
2. Live Free or Diet 12 years ago
  
  Butter has no carbohydrates to trigger insulin. Without insulin, no fat deposition. To fight obesity, cut out the toast, not the butter.
  1. Mensan 12 years ago
    
    This was (maybe not the exact mechanism) more or less common knowledge right up until the USDA started telling everyone that their diets should consist mostly of subsidized grains. Which just happened to coincide with the [scarequotes]"Obesity Epidemic"[/scarequotes] (disclaimer: correlation ? causation).
LTC(ret) John 12 years ago

So Shriek is Charles Babington?
1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
  
  all those who have investigated Shriek's true name are either dead or insane
  1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
    
    Great... so we can only find it in "The Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred's Necronomicon?
    1. ThatSkepticGuy 12 years ago
      
      What difference does it make, under eternal lies
      
      And with strange aeons even donkeys may fly
      1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
        
        +1 Elder Sign
2. Mike M. 12 years ago
  
  No, he's Dave Weigel.
Palin's Buttplug 12 years ago

Unlike the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal, there are no questions of illegal acts, no secret funds, no shredding of documents and no efforts to directly circumvent a law passed by Congress. People may forget that 14 administration officials were indicted and 11 convicted as a result of the arms-for-hostages scandal.

Instead, what we have after eight months of investigation, 11 congressional hearings before five committees, 20 staff briefings and 25,000 pages of documents is exactly what we started with: a tragic situation with lessons to be learned, but not a grand conspiracy. It is sad that Rep. Darrell Issa has decided not to conduct a series of hearings to help solve the problems that out diplomats face every day but rather to engage in a partisan, political witch hunt for a conspiracy and cover-up that doesn't exist.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/.....ts-in-2016
1. Drake 12 years ago
  
  Really? What was the CIA doing there?
  
  There have been allegations of the CIA holding prisoners at the site - and smuggling weapons out of Libya and into Syria.
  
  That all sounds illegal to me.
2. CampingInYourPark 12 years ago
  
  "State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland raised specific objections to this paragraph drafted by the CIA in its earlier versions of the talking points:
  
  'The Agency has produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al-Qa'ida in Benghazi and eastern Libya. These noted that, since April, there have been at least five other attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack against the British Ambassador's convoy. We cannot rule out the individuals has previously surveilled the U.S. facilities, also contributing to the efficacy of the attacks.'
  
  In an email to officials at the White House and the intelligence agencies, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland took issue with including that information because it 'could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either? Concerned ?'
  
  The paragraph was entirely deleted."
  
  http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po.....eferences/
3. CampingInYourPark 12 years ago
  
  "Unlike the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal..."
  
  Look over there! Reagannnnnnnnnnnnnn!
  1. Restoras 12 years ago
    
    Shorter Shriek: It's ok when my team does it.
    1. db 12 years ago
      
      Yes, and also: none of this is bad because it's just the way we should expect Top. Men. to behave because they are so much more informed and have a better grasp on the reality of the situation.
  2. db 12 years ago
    
    Yeah, this is so transparently ridicous.
    1. db 12 years ago
      
      There's a law at work here.
  3. Tulpa (LAOL-VA) 12 years ago
    
    "Syria isn't Iraq!"
    
    Sounds familiar...
4. ThatSkepticGuy 12 years ago
  
  "1980s Iran-Contra scandal"
  
  How's that Arab Spring treatin' ya?
5. Fist of Etiquette 12 years ago
  
  THERE WILL BE NO TAINTING OF FRIDAY FUNNIES WITH POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS.
  1. Bobarian 12 years ago
    
    THERE IS NOTHING BUT TAINT IN THE FRIDAY FUNNIES.
6. DesigNate 12 years ago
  
  Go kill yourself shriek.
  
  They lied to the American public and made speeches about how we need to curtail our Freedom of Speech because it made people have a sad.
Joe M 12 years ago

Shouldn't the label be on what is under the rug, rather than on the rug itself?
1. Joe M 12 years ago
  
  Unless Benghazi is covering up something else! Ah, brilliant as usual, Payne.
  1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
    
    In Soviet DC, Benghazi covers you up!
  2. Rich 12 years ago
    
    It's cover-ups all the way down!
    1. Joe M 12 years ago
      
      Of course, it's just a pile of rugs (labeled, natch) under there.
Zakalwe 12 years ago

I like that Obama's real life desk name plate was able to substitute for a label here, but why is a bucket of paint hanging on the wall behind him?
1. some guy 12 years ago
  
  A bucket of white paint, no less.
  
  Think about it.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 12 years ago
    
    Tom Sawyer reference!
    1. Restoras 12 years ago
      
      Modern day warrior?
ThatSkepticGuy 12 years ago

What the fuck is Chris Christie doing hiding under the oval office carpeting?
1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
  
  You might not want to know...
  
  Has to pay for all the FEMA $ somehow.
  1. Live Free or Diet 12 years ago
    
    Maybe the lap band plays music for the lap dance?
Ted S. 12 years ago

H&R just tried for the umpteenth time to get me to download some file called "push" from cm.g.doubleclick.net. What's up with this shit?
1. Joe M 12 years ago
  
  You have to download it to find out what's in it.
  1. Auric Demonocles 12 years ago
    
    What difference, at this point, does it make?
    1. Joe M 12 years ago
      
      Downloading is a part of life.
      1. Bobarian 12 years ago
        
        It's downloading all the way down
2. Fist of Etiquette 12 years ago
  
  Normally your browser just takes these things without question. You should be happy it's finally fighting back.
3. Rich 12 years ago
  
  And the "Waiting for t.cxt.ms..." -- What's up with *that* shit?
Zakalwe 12 years ago

Say what you will about Payne, he does draw the Oval Office desk better than this guy.
Auric Demonocles 12 years ago

The scored a -6.02 on the readability index, with a required grade level of 14.43. This is why we need more labels to understand what it going on. The alt-text, of course, was ungradeable.
1. Rich 12 years ago
  
  The alt-text, of course, was ungradeable.
  
  You *could* give it an "I".
2. Ted S. 12 years ago
  
  I think it's got a nice beat, and you can dance to it.
CampingInYourPark 12 years ago

"The scored a -6.02 on the readability index, with a required grade level of 14.43."

But what would this sentence without a subject score on the readability index?
1. Auric Demonocles 12 years ago
  
  I got a 71.70 readability, with a grade level of 4.67.
sarcasmic 12 years ago

I want my...
I want my...
I want my Morning Links...
1. Ted S. 12 years ago
  
  But do we want your morning links? :-p
  1. sarcasmic 12 years ago
    
    No one is forcing you to click them.

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