RICKS: I think that Benghazi, generally, was hyped by this network especially. And now that the campaign is over, I think [McCain's] backing off a little bit…Suddenly, after only a minute and a half, the segment was over. Now you’d have to ask Ricks how long his segment was supposed to go, but usually things like this, if you’re the sole guest, would go a good 4 minutes. Not one minute 30.
FAUX HOST: When you have four people dead, including the first US ambassador in more than thirty years, how do you call that hype?
RICKS: How many security contractors died in Iraq, do you know?
FAUX HOST: I don’t.
RICKS: No, nobody does, because nobody cared. We know that several hundred died, but there was never an official count done of security contractors dead in Iraq. So when I see this focus on what was essentially a small firefight, I think number one: I’ve covered a lot of firefights, it’s impossible to figure out what happens in them sometimes. And second, I think that the emphasis on Benghazi has been extremely political, partly because Fox was operating as a wing of the Republican party.
FAUX HOST: All right. Tom Ricks, thanks very much for joining us today.
Here’s the clip – more from me after:
Might have been nice for Faux News and the repugican cabal to have cared as much about the 6,610 US service men and women who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially the 4,474 who died in Iraq because a Republican president, and all of his propaganda organs on TV and the radio and in the Congress, lied.
Here are only 10% of the American men and women who died in these two repugican wars. It’s amazing that Faux News, and the repugican cabal, suddenly figured out that Americans were dying in the Middle East and environs.
10% of the US war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan, source Wash Post
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