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GOP Senator: Hillary Clinton Faked Emotional Outburst At Benghazi Hearing
By Aviva Shen on Jan 23, 2013 at 4:22 pm
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After the hearing, Johnson complained to Buzzfeed that Clinton had planned to become emotional as a way to avoid answering questions:
Im not sure she had rehearsed for that type of question. I think she just decided before she was going to describe emotionally the four dead Americans, the heroes, and use that as her trump card to get out of the questions. It was a good way of getting out of really having to respond to me.
Johnson also gave an interview on Milwaukee radio station WTMJ after the hearing, blasting Clintons theatrics. He speculated that she didnt want to answer questions so she makes a big show of it.
Many Republicans, including former UN envoy John Bolton, accused Clinton of faking a concussion last month to avoid testifying about Benghazi. Clinton was hospitalized for several days after doctors discovered a blood clot induced by her concussion. A full 40 percent of Republicans believed Clintons illness was fabricated.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/23/1487641/gop-senator-hillary-clinton-faked-emotional-outburst-at-benghazi-hearing/
sinkingfeeling
(51,466 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)The "self-made" business man? It's his father-in-law's business! Johnson pulled himself up by his wife's bra straps.
He's a dead man walking. He's up for re-election during the 2016 cycle when we'll have good turnout. For more years of this doorknob and then he'll be a political trivia question.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)and then tries to trash-talk the President on the phony "You didn't build that" meme.
The Magistrate
(95,248 posts)"...pulled himself up by his wife's bra straps."
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)butterflygirl
(44 posts)I'm sure their wives do to.
Response to kpete (Original post)
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TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)kpete
(72,003 posts)peace, kp
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)why the women's vote eludes them.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Well sure....She faked a blood clot in her brain,and the resulting hospitalization...Surely she also faked outrage and annoyance at having to answer stupid questions from a simpleton......
The English language really needs words that more strongly convey "despicable" and "reprehensible",to describe these pukes....
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Still doesn't carry a fraction of the weight I'm looking for,in a word to express the disgust and contempt I feel towards teabaglicons....Maybe added into the mix....
Unspeakably despicable and reprehensible....
Nope.....Still not strong enough.....I don't believe such a word as I seek even exists....
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)I'm looking for a word,in the vein of one used by neanderthals to describe a woman they consider to be uppity... It doesn't rhyme with rich,although it does just have 4 letters....One I wouldn't dare repeat here and which provokes revulsion,when I hear it....
As I say......No such word exists....
tblue37
(65,457 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,355 posts)It sounded too good to be real!
Boy, first ya fake a concussion, then fake a blood clot, now ya lip-synch in front of congress.
BAD Hillary!
sinkingfeeling
(51,466 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)superpatriotman
(6,251 posts)It's real. It's deep. It's now.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...cause he got his head handed to him this morning by the Secretary of State! Damn right she was emotional...she cared about those who were killed and must detest their deaths being used for political theater. In bubbleworld there's nothing Mrs. Clinton could say that would give satisfactory answers to talking points and distortions. The questions from most of these asshats were based on what they heard on hate radio or some stink tank provided to them. This is just red meat for a demoralized base...thinking somehow that they're showing Mrs. Clinton whose the boss. In reality she's showing those watching, once again, how disgusting and embarassing today's rushpublican party has become...
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Wait till they hear about this in the lunch room.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Poiuyt
(18,129 posts)And my blood still boils when I think who he replaced.
Nice website, btw!
JohnnyLib2
(11,212 posts)Mud wrestlin', it draws a crowd.
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)So they probably just assume that all women are faking it...when that's the only reality you know, it's hard to think that anything could be real.
FirstLight
(13,362 posts)best answer yet! you win!
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)That's gonna leave a mark.
Win.
nolabear
(41,988 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)rightsideout
(978 posts)Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)I think you are being generous.
dmr
(28,347 posts)nolabear
(41,988 posts)Face it, Sparky. You were outgunned and outclassed.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Derp Derp
Derp
tblue37
(65,457 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)Don't understand how they can make horrible accusations and then act surprised when their targets don't want to be besties.
sad-cafe
(1,277 posts)their ass handed to them
Response to kpete (Original post)
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libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Thanks Jeff in Milwaukee ... new definition for the political lexicon.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)That doesn't sound like real outrage to me. You, Senator Johnson, are the faker here.
Initech
(100,088 posts)"You faked with me?????"
"Fake! Fake! Fake"