Why are the right-wingers still beating this dead horse?

[Archae]

I think it's obvious.
They have nothing.
The Teabaggers are proven to be really good at accusations, slogans, innuendos and smears.

But they couldn't govern their way out of a wet paper bag.

Meanwhile the GOP-controlled house and the Senate GOP is more interested in crass, petty politics than actually *GASP* doing something.

The ConWeb is pouncing on a story seemingly designed to make the Obama administration look bad over the Benghazi attack:

A May 12 Newsmax article by Cathy Burke repeats how "Beltway lawyer Joe diGenova" said in a radio interview that "400 surface-to-air missiles were 'diverted to Libya' during the attack and fell into 'the hands of some very ugly people.'"

An Aug. 13 CNSNews.com article by Susan Jones echoed diGenova claim that "the real scandal in Benghazi is the theft of 400 surface-to-air missiles" that could be "used to shoot down an airplane or blow up one of our embassies."

Both Newsmax and CNS merely repeated diGenova's claims uncritically. Newsmax followed upwith an Aug. 13 article by Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter that allowed former congressman Allen West to opine on the subject.

But there are good reasons to question diGenova's story. First, he and his wife, Victoria Toensing, are partisan Republican activists. Second, diGenova himself admitted during the radio interview he had no evidence to back up his claim and some of the evidence isn't "verifiable."

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=2321961

[hobbit709]

1. I'd say it's more like NONE of the evidence is "verifiable"

[leveymg]

6. But, it would be interesting to know exactly WHAT was in the 14 warehouses next to the CIA Annex

[sharp_stick]

2. They've been convinced

that there is a massive conspiracy followed by an even more massive cover up and when that happens they'll keep beating the dead horse until there really isn't anything left.

These are the same assholes that just couldn't stop talking about the fake birth certificate. Every new "revelation" of course without any evidence is just more proof that it's the biggest damned thing that's ever happened in this country.

It's simply confirmation bias taken to an extreme. The only people still listening to this shit are the people that really really want to believe it and won't listen to anything else.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Because, BENGHAZI!!!

Idiots.

[JHB]

4. Because tenderizing equine carcasses is what they're best at?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. If you keep beating a dead horse,

after awhile it starts to stink. And this one is getting awfully ripe, not to mention that it was pounded into hamburger months ago.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. Because the horse is a member of Equidae family

and so is this.



Republicans will beat on it for eternity.

[Initech]

8. Short answer: they got nuthin'.

[rdharma]

9. Why do they keep beating the dead horse? 'Cause the "Skeeters" believe it!

The "400 SA missiles stolen" is their newest meme. Pathetic. But you have to understand the low information morons in their target audience.......

https://soundcloud.com/mike-in-raleigh/please-help-skeeter

[EC]

10. Okay, let's say 400 missiles were stolen...

have any of them been used? Why not? If I were a terrorists and had 400 surface to air missiles, I think I would have been shotting down planes and stuff by now. Don't the people that listen to this crap and fall for it think?

[pipi_k]

11. I dunno...why does

anybody beat a dead horse?

Just last week, a bunch of DUers continued the yearly tradition of beating a horse that's been dead now for 68 years.