Sarah Sanders: Comparing Niger to Benghazi is 'just a cheap attempt to try to taint this president'

[DonViejo]

DAVID EDWARDS
24 OCT 2017 AT 09:22 ET

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On Tuesday’s edition of Fox & Friends, host Steve Doocy told Sanders that Democrats are “calling this President Trump’s Benghazi.”

“Look, these are not comparable events,” Sanders replied without offering an explanation. “I know the Democrats want to make this a big negative attack piece against this president.”

The press secretary suggested that it was inappropriate to place responsibility on the president for the American deaths in Niger because “this is still an active investigation.”

“But to try to compare the two is simply just a cheap attempt by the Democrats to try to taint this president,” Sanders concluded.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/sarah-sanders-comparing-niger-to-benghazi-is-just-a-cheap-attempt-to-try-to-taint-this-president/

[HopeAgain]

1. We learned the cheap attempts to taint from y'all. nt

[treestar]

13. +1

They dish it out, they better learn to take it.

[Moostache]

2. Every time I see her I think..."Isn't it early for the Halloween witch costume?"

Of course, this week I am thinking "why does she keep wearing that same witch costume make-up every day? Isn't that overkill?"

She is a an abominable facsimile of a human being, which makes her perfect for the Trump administration...

[imanamerican63]

3. Taint Trump?

He has tainted so many others, they are starting looked orange!

[Motley13]

7. he is the real agent orange

[dewsgirl]

4. In the end, I believe this will be worse.

[snooper2]

5. slant eye is showin quite a bit of cleavage. I don't think her daddy would like that

Or, since he is a fundie, maybe he does

[cwydro]

19. What?

“Slant eye”?

[snooper2]

21. Yeah, something going on with her right eye, maybe the perma-scowl is growing?

[cwydro]

22. She has some weird idea of makeup, for sure.

But ugly comes from the inside out. No doubt what we’re seeing here.

[mainstreetonce]

28. I read that she had a "lazy eye"

I would not mock her if it is a disability,but the last thing she should, ,do is wear the witchy eye makeup and fake lashes.

[murielm99]

44. I'm not going to mock her

appearance at all. The men get mocked for their stupid RWNJ behavior and their corruption. We make fun of their looks less often.

I don't like her, but I don't want to judge her by her looks.

[lapfog_1]

29. The fat bags in her eye brows are getting larger and larger

giving her an almost reptilian look

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Well, fuck her for trying to president this taint. nt

[Whiskeytide]

8. Damn it. Your supposed to include ...

... an "unmitigated bullshit" alert if Huckster-Sanders is in your post. Now it's all over my shoes and the dog is into it! What a mess! Come on. Read the TOS!

[JHB]

9. Other way around, HuckaBS...

The constant clamor about Benghazi was a cheap attempt to taint Obama and Clinton.

[StevieM]

70. Absolutely correct. (eom)

[MrsCoffee]

10. As opposed to the millions spent by KGOP to taint Hillary?

Wasn't anything cheap about that was there?

Fuck you you lying piece of filth. We can't make up the shit that this asshole and his administration does. We can only try to find out the facts because you lie about every fucking thing. Every. Thing.

[NightWatcher]

11. Except in this case, there is actual fault with the administration, unlike Benghazi

[MrsCoffee]

15. I don't think you have any information or authority to suggest that folks stop demanding answers

to whatever the fuck they have been trying to cover up. Even if the cover up is just the fact that no one in the administration gives a shit about the soldiers coming home in body bags.

[LanternWaste]

26. Yours is a most creative and convenient allegation.

"The rest of it is just people work an axe (sic) to grind..."

Yours is a most creative and convenient allegation. I'm certain you'll justify the lack of of objective evidence to support your sentiment.

[Hortensis]

43. What's astounding is that Benghazi was no Bengazhi,

but just despicable political haymaking out of a tragedy, and you don't know that? Here's the short version:

While out tending to business in a nation roiling with something like 5000 violent militias, Ambassador Stevens made the fatal mistake of staying long enough in one unfortified location for one of the groups to mount an attack, and he and those with him died as a result.

Now you can put Benghazi away.

[VOX]

45. THANK YOU.

“Benghazi was no Benghazi.”

(Not so) Amazing how it faded into the background after the election. There are still rumblings now and again, but not with the lunatic zeal that was directed at Hillary for years.

[Hortensis]

47. Lol. The lunatic zeal over Benghazi is on a shelf alongside

the lunatic zeal over the need to throw college kids in prison for burning flags. Combustible as ever whenever their leaders need to take one down and put a fire starter to it.

[VOX]

49. Theyre so damned aggressive; and coiled very tightly.

#45 has managed to give a voice to every ultra-far-alt-right lunatic in the land.

They actually have their own country right now (superimposed over our shared, measurable reality). But it’s their show, at the moment, completely. And the 2nd and 3rd acts are some things we really don’t wish to experience.

[Hortensis]

50. Well put. A WaPo writer was just choosing her words delicately,

but she stated firmly that what had been the Republican Party has ceased to exist.

But its voters have not. They still wear the label but have changed to fit whatever it is now and will change further as this continues to play out.

Critically, research reportedly has revealed that most people do not choose their political affiliations to match their principles and goals, as was always assumed. Rather, they join a group they see as "like" them and come to adopt its leader's ideology. And this is certainly being borne out.

Pence and then Ryan are next in line to lead the party, two different types of right-wing extremists, but both allied with similarly extremist anti-government billionaires like the Kochs and their alliance.

Bannon, also in contention and who also is being backed by vast wealth, says he wants to destroy our failed secular liberal democracy and replace it with a form of authoritarian nationalism.

The Christian dominionists ally temporarily with both as a means to power.

Russia has resumed the cold war and invaded via social media and infiltration.

And then there are us. We need some white hats so people'll know who we are.

[kskiska]

63. And yet Trump dragged one of the Benghazi Mothers

(plus three of the women involved in the Clinton debacle) into one of the Presidential Debates. By the way, I haven't a word from the Benghazi mother, Pat Smith, standing up for Sgt. Johnson's widow.

[cwydro]

16. You do not know that.

This thing is stinking to high heaven.

Those men died for what?

[forgotmylogin]

23. Niger should be given no more attention nor money than they've invested in Benghazi.

We know the Republicans were frugal and well-moderated with that investigation, so the Democrats should use that as their model.

[forgotmylogin]

46. I'm in no way saying we should waste resources to the extent they did.

But...I believe the Niger episode potentially did involve mishandling of the situation that put soldiers in danger, and the public should be aware of these, and the administration needs to take responsibility for these mistakes and learn from them and promise they will do better in the future to avoid a similar tragedy.

Essentially, how Hillary responded to Benghazi.

If the Rs can take the Benghazi investigations to such an outrageous extreme, Niger at least deserves valid attention.

[Eliot Rosewater]

36. No, Niger is potentially VASTLY more troublesome if the Chad

connection and the absurd behavour of the administration turn out to be true.

[Kentonio]

53. The adding of Chad to the no travel ban supposedly resulted in them removing their troops in Niger

The question is whether this contributed to the deaths of those 4 soldiers. It's worth investigating, not for political reasons but because if true it was a major fuck up.

[Kentonio]

58. It's not that simple though, is it.

Were troops moved to cover the sudden removal of the Chad forces? Did that impact on response times to the incident where the US troops lost their lives?

Perhaps not, but looking into it isn't a waste of time.

[Kentonio]

60. Well feel free to provide us with some actual evidence to back up what you're saying.

Apologies but 'You're all wrong' isn't generally a particularly winning argument.

[Kentonio]

62. So surely this should be a simple 5 minute job for the pentagon to show then?

So what exactly is the issue with people asking?

[Kentonio]

66. Sorry but I think your own inside knowledge is making you overly dismissive of those who know less

What might seem simple or stupid to you can be a completely new subject for others, and given how often Republicans have thrown the military into horrible situations before, it's hardly ridiculous of us to want to know what happened.

[Kentonio]

73. I'm not dismissive of your insight

I'm fascinating by it, and it makes me want to know more.

[alarimer]

38. Yeah, it's worse.

and while Obama was the one to send troops (they do not belong there), Trump is the one who failed to say anything.

To say nothing of the botched rescue by contractors, not actual military, who would never leave anyone behind.

[alarimer]

41. The difference is this current president's indifference.

His callous disregard for their sacrifice, which was made evident in his interactions with the family.

No other president, Republican or Democrat, has acted the way he has.

Furthermore, the whole Benghazi scandal was made-up bullshit manufactured mainly to discredit Sec. Clinton.

[herding cats]

42. You do know Benghazi wasn't what it was sold as, right?

Just checking, because that's in no way apparent by your words.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

68. The investigation.

About how long will the military's investigation into this incident take, and how will it become available to the public?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

74. Thanks for the good info. All sounds very reasonable.

Not always easy to know about any insurgents (overt or covert) in these villages.

Sounded like someone ratted them out and called in the bad guys.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. I'm sure the serious journalists at Fox and Friends also asked her...

.....why Trump failed to offer any sort of comment on Niger for two weeks, why he felt it necessary to insinuate on Twitter that Myeshia Johnson was a liar, and whether or not we can expect any sort of apology from John Kelly for slandering Representative Wilson from the podium?

Well, Fox and Friends is synonymous with high quality, hard hitting journalism so I'm sure they asked those questions.

[chelsea0011]

20. They are in a complete meltdown.

[bdtrppr6]

24. someone please open the door

the smell of "taint" is overwhelming!

[eShirl]

25. Impossible; the president is 100% taint.

[Docreed2003]

27. Um...newsflash Sarah....your president is a taint...

And this is a waaaaaay bigger fucking deal than Benghazi!! Answer the fucking question: why are American service members actively deployed in Niger??? What is their mission?? And why did they not have the support they needed? Cause no one seems willing to address that 500lb gorilla in the room!!!

[BarbaRosa]

30. How dare you do to us what we do to you. . .

[unblock]

32. Apparently the quibble is about price. They had to spend way more to taint hillary.

[C_U_L8R]

34. Why cant Huckabee see whats clearly in front of her?

Oh.

[WyattKansas]

35. How would one actually attempt to taint a known shit stain?

The most offensive thing is that Sarah and her like actually talk down on everyone like they are a known authority on a subject. Only fools believe long known liars.

[alarimer]

37. He's already tainted, you liar.

He did that himself.

[Initech]

48. Liars going to keep lying.

[LenaBaby61]

51. She's as bad ...

As her lying, miscreant president.

Ugly outside AND inside.

[randr]

52. Hey Sarah---taint my president neither

[appleannie1943]

54. No one needs to taint this pResident. He does a fine job all by himself.

[Vinca]

55. No one has to try to "taint this president." He's doing a great job of it on his own.

The best job. The most tremendous job. A job like you've never seen. Believe me.

[SharonClark]

56. LOL - she's such a bad liar

[Cosmocat]

64. Yes, you vacuous POS, Benghazi was a "cheap attempt"

to taint HRC.

But, hey, IOKIYAAR.

[WinkyDink]

67. "CHEAP"? It was frickin' FREE, Sarah Baby!

[StevieM]

71. It is sickening that the GOP won the first election after Benghazi. It allows them some leeway to

continue pretending that Benghazi was some kind of Democratic scandal.