{"id":7254,"date":"2015-07-19T02:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T02:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/26\/rep-chaka-fattah-gops-attack-on-president-over-benghazi-harmful-to-troop-morale\/"},"modified":"2015-07-19T02:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T02:47:20","slug":"rep-fattah-gops-attack-on-president-over-benghazi-harmful-totroops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/7254","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Fattah: GOP’s ‘attack’ on president over Benghazi harmful to&nbsp;troops"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/chakafattah\/status\/261965060740636672\n<p>OK, it’s time to let&nbsp;Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the maker of that anti-Muslim video no one actually saw, out of jail &mdash; a Pennsylvania Congressman has found the guilty party in the whole Benghazigate mess: Republicans and Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Obama’s deputy campaign manager <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/11\/appalling-disgrace-stephanie-cutter-says-benghazi-only-an-issue-because-of-romney-and-ryan\/\">Stephanie Cutter let us know two weeks ago<\/a> that “the entire reason [Benghazi] has become the political topic it is, is because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.” Her boss told a Denver TV reporter essentially the same thing just today, saying that details will have to wait because “<a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/26\/more-denials-obama-dodges-benghazi-security-request-question-on-denver-tv\/\">the election has nothing to do with four brave Americans getting killed<\/a> and us wanting to find out exactly what happened.”<\/p>\n<p>Today Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) also pointed the finger at Republicans (and Fox News) for politicizing the tragedy. Not only are Republicans hurting the president and his re-election chances; they’re also hurting troop morale by demanding the truth from the Commander in Chief.<\/p>\n<p>Fattah’s original tweet on the subject was deleted for some reason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/26\/rep-chaka-fattah-gops-attack-on-president-over-benghazi-harmful-to-troop-morale\/screen-shot-2012-10-26-at-7-35-30-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95215\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95215\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-10-26 at 7.35.30 PM\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thisistwitchy.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/screen-shot-2012-10-26-at-7-35-30-pm.png?w=430&#038;h=99\" height=\"99\" width=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New reports suggest that <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/26\/unbelievable-cia-officers-requested-help-during-benghazi-attacks-told-to-stand-down\/\">multiple requests for military assistance were denied<\/a> as the Benghazi attack was taking place, and twice today the president has dodged questions, saying that more than a month later, “we are finding out exactly what happened.” We’d suggest the president’s ignorance or incompetence on this issue is a much more serious threat to the morale of the troops (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/26\/father-of-slain-seal-tyrone-woods-i-do-not-appreciate-lies\/\">and their families<\/a>) than Fox’s “attacks.”<\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/26\/rep-chaka-fattah-gops-attack-on-president-over-benghazi-harmful-to-troop-morale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/26\/rep-chaka-fattah-gops-attack-on-president-over-benghazi-harmful-to-troop-morale\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/chakafattah\/status\/261965060740636672 OK, it’s time to let&nbsp;Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the maker of that anti-Muslim video no one actually saw, out of jail &mdash; a Pennsylvania Congressman has found the guilty party in the whole Benghazigate mess: Republicans and Fox News. Obama’s deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter let us know two weeks ago that “the entire reason &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/7254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rep. Fattah: GOP’s ‘attack’ on president over Benghazi harmful to&nbsp;troops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/14371912545689-screen-shot-2012-10-26-at-7-35-30-pm.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}