Discussion: House Intel Chairman: Benghazi Report Critics 'Didn't Read Report'

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Now Mr. Rogers has a sense of how it feels to be outside the RWNJ Bubble™. The air is cleaner, purer, and doesn’t make you quite so stupid.

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I never thought I’d be saying this, but “Three cheers for Mike Rogers!”

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In particular Rogers pushed back on comments by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who said the report was “crap.” That, Rogers joked, “is a technical word meaning a bipartisan, well founded, well sourced report.”

So, Congressman, when Darth Cheney calls the Senate report on torture, “crap,” he “is using a technical word meaning a bipartisan, well founded, well sourced report”? Thanks for the clarification!

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MikeRogers speaks with truthiness…

wonder if the election results had anything to do with it?

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If Republicans read more they might understand science, math, history, ethics, etc., etc.

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Surely you jest.

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Even if the ‘critics’ had read the report

would they have been able to comprehended it?

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“They haven’t said I don’t like the findings, or the findings are inaccurate, or the findings are wrong — they said ‘I don’t like the findings.’ Well there’s a difference,” Rogers said.

I sometimes wonder what Daniel smokes when he writes these little blurbs.

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“Read,” schmead! That’s why Congressmen have staff. Rogers’ task was to tar and feather the Prez and Hillary, objectively, fairly, and organically, with the GOP proprietary arguments intact. He just didn’t read the memo.

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Well, it is a quote.

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Why would they want to?

Anyone who works for White Folkx News or who relies on it for their daily intake of truthiness has a converse incentive.

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Why do you blame Daniel when it is a quote? Perhaps you should blame Rogers.

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I put no piece of information in a finding if we couldn’t corroborate the information. So one piece of testimony is not corroboration. I had to have other corroboration in order to do it.

This from a Republican? WTF?

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Because it’s a quotation taken from a gab session after an event, not from a transcript or a video recording. People are often misquoted and putting something in quotation marks doesn’t make it automatically correct. A decent journalist checks his quotations from an interview with his source before publication. If Rogers agreed that’s what he said, then Rogers is the idiot and not Daniel. But since there is no other source for the quotation, there is no way of verifying that that is what Rogers said and I suspect the middleman rather than the source.

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Auto-cannibalism. The center can not hold.

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Which means it can’t be wrong?

misquote
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

  1. to quote incorrectly.
    noun
  2. a quotation that is incorrect.

If it didn’t happen, there wouldn’t be a word for it.

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First mistake, Rep Rogers assumes his colleagues can read.

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Well, he can kiss a job at Fox News after retirement goodbye.

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I am giving Congressman Rogers some well-deserved support for his position on this. Now, if he can cure the prion disease currently infecting the rest of his caucus (with apologies to Mr. Pierce for stealing one of his lines), we might get somewhere in our national legislature. I fear, however, that Rogers is an outlier.

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