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Welcome to the party, NYT.
You’re late, but whatever.
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Wow. The NYT has some serious problems with its reporting on the Clintons, particularly HRC, so for them to be saying this is kindof a BFD.
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Good that the NY Times is saying this, since it is past time to quit using the death of those who died in Benghazi as a political tool. It is not only dishonorable to the family of those who died in Benghazi, but is becoming an embarrassment to the whole republican party. Republicans themselves should be appalled and calling for the committee to quit.
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About time. The NYT should look at a couple of its own journalists who peddle this piffle in “Mourning Joke” assisted by another professional Clinton hater - Ron Foooonier. If there is a case to be made on the use of a private email account: make it. But do a serious job. All this leaking and peeing to reporters who happily act as water carriers has gone on for too long. The Benghazi Committee’s Republican members under Issa and Gowdy are an bunch of assholes. Good for McCarthy to expose this crap, accidental or not!! Let Clinton be judged on the merits of her campaign and policy offerings. I will look at Sanders, too and make up my mind. Sorry, Joe your pals are turning you into Biden Soap Opera. Piss or get off the pot.!
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What a turn around for the Times. Most of the smears and lies they have reported concerning Hillary have been leaked to them by members/staff for that committee.
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How ever did this announcement get past Maureen Dowd?
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No, DON’T shut it down.
Give Hillary a chance to clear her name, once again, and then leave this circus tent in place as a lasting reminder of the pathetic, desperate state of the Republican party.
(And yes, I’m supporting Biden, but I’ll defend Hillary any day against this horseshit.)
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No shut down until Mrs. C. gets a chance to chat with the lost boys…
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It’s important that this be remembered specifically as a Trey Gowdy failure!
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An op-ed columnist such as Maureen Dowd means they write from a perspective often opposite from the editorial board. Much like David Brooks, their input was most likely not sought. To add, the NYT political news reporting on HRC has been part of a separate entity of the newspaper from its editorial board.
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They had to go back home to change out of their “I Hate Clinton” t shirt & dress more appropriately.
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If they were capable of feeling embarrassment they would not be Republicans.
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I’ve tried to point this out on a few occasions, the difference between the reporting side and the editorial side, when folks here get their panties in a twist about what they deem to be slanted HRC coverage. The editorial board ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS takes positions that any Democrat and liberal would be proud to agree with, from gun control to prison reform to political reform to the joke that is the Benghazi committee…
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It needs to be shut down because of the cost of maintaining it. We know that it’s cost $4.5 million since it was formed in May 2014, and it’s the route back bencher Gowdy is taking to make his bones. It’s my hope that when Clinton appears on October 22 she will tell the committee it’s clear what their purpose is and she won’t be enabling them any longer.
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Except that their political news reporting on Hillary Clinton has been biased, consistently faulty, and atrocious. The NYT deserves the condemnation its gotten on the news side of their reporting on Hillary. If a newspaper doesn’t do accurate news reporting, the editorial board is really just a cover for their bad reporting. I would have much preferred for their editorial board to go after their own political reporters on Hillary, thereby killing two birds with one stone, from which the Trey Gowdy committee has been able to quote from directly.
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Democrats should summon a NATO officer to talk about their one fatality enforcing the UN resolution over Libya. It was a British airman killed in a traffic accident in Italy. Combined with the four who died in two Benghazi attacks, that’s a total of five. It’s an important contrast with the 6700+ killed and 127000 + wounded in Iraq, and a valuable lesson in the cost of going it alone, Bush style, instead of building and maintaining a true coalition.
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The NYT is not monolithic. It does not speak with a single voice. It has truly great writers and mediocre ones and hacks.
So no, not terrifically surprising.
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I can think of many reasons to shut down this committee, but $4.5M wouldn’t by new tires for an F-22.
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