Discussion: Poll: Almost Three-Quarters Of Americans Agree That Benghazi Panel Is Political

system1 · October 22, 2015, 6:25pm

Discussion for article #242072

rich_in_nj · October 22, 2015, 6:47pm

McCarthyism now has a new meaning.

(Thanks, Kevin)

johnscotus · October 22, 2015, 6:47pm

The Dems need to run with this and start hammering home the reality that the GOP has politicized the deaths of four Americans. Talk it up. Lean on it heavy.
The Conservatives could be in a lot of trouble over this.

captaincommonsense · October 22, 2015, 6:48pm

Awesome. Now we must get these people to Vote Democratic.

mantan · October 22, 2015, 6:48pm

More like 3.8 out of 4…

castor_troy · October 22, 2015, 6:50pm

Watching this stuff, I have a new appreciation for Hillary.

How she doesn’t launch across the table and start stabbing these idiots with her water bottle is beyond me.

castor_troy · October 22, 2015, 6:52pm

Why do they bother with the language filters? When Hillary says, “Congresswoman” or Congressman", she clearly means, “F* you, you stupid lying sack of s*t. How do you put your pants on in the morning without falling over?”

Similarly, when Gowdy says, “with all due respect”, he means nothing about respect.

jinnj · October 22, 2015, 6:53pm

wow … so 1 in 4 believes that this is just simply a dispassionate impartial exploration of the facts … wonder what they are smoking?

dougjpa · October 22, 2015, 6:54pm

Does anybody at TPM actually edit these articles? You don’t even have to check the numbers, the below sentence obviously doesn’t make sense.

Though 54 percent of all respondents said it was important, only 70 percent of Democrats said that they thought it was,

70% said they thought it wasn’t important. 28% said it was.

hora_del_cafe · October 22, 2015, 6:55pm

Nothing about Benghazi makes sense.

irasdad · October 22, 2015, 6:56pm

“[A] whopping 72 percent of Americans think the [Benghazi] panel’s primary purpose is political….”

I had no idea the clinical incidence of Cerebral Hypoxia was as high as 28%.

Shocking…

castor_troy · October 22, 2015, 6:58pm

It makes perfect sense. State Department only was given 1/2 the money it requested from CONGRESS for security. That means that tradeoffs and evaluations need to be made-- remember, we also have compounds in other violent places.

This one is easy. If CONGRESS had appropriated the requested funds, THEN we’d have questions. Because they didn’t, we all know where the blame lies.

squirreltown · October 22, 2015, 7:01pm

If you consider that the lunatic firewall in this country is around 20%, getting 70% on anything is pretty much game over.

spocksblackpants · October 22, 2015, 7:05pm

and 4 out of 4 republicans are a-ok with that.

commenterperson · October 22, 2015, 7:05pm

Those are the same 20% that supported Bush when he didn’t want any inquiry into 9.11.2001

fargo116 · October 22, 2015, 7:07pm

Nearly 3 Out of 4 Americans Say GOP’s Benghazi Panel Is Political

‘Political’?

I didn’t think it was ‘political.’ I thought it was a ‘joke.’

lestatdelc · October 22, 2015, 7:10pm

While the sentence is a bit confusing, the 54% is of all respondents and different than the 70%, which was Democrats (a subset of the 54%).

ncsteve · October 22, 2015, 7:14pm

54% said that her use of her own server was important. That’s not the same thing as, and is not inconsistent with, 78% thinking the Republican Inquisition is political.

ajm · October 22, 2015, 7:15pm

Poll: Nearly 3 Out of 4 Americans Say GOP’s Benghazi Panel Is Political

and a high proportion of the remaining 25% are lying.

castor_troy · October 22, 2015, 7:17pm

100% of the 25% are republican.