Rachel Maddow dissected Romney's attack on the US Embassy in Cairo and on the Embassy staff on her show tonight. Naturally, she did a superb job!
After showing Cheney's good friend, Senator Rob Portman lying in interview, Rachel brought reality in.
Mitt Romney put out a statement also attacking the US Embassy in Cairo. There were already reports at that point that at least one American had been killed in Benghazi. He referenced that in his statement, that did not stop him from attacking the other Embassy from waging a political attack at all. It did not give him pause maybe he should wait to find out more about what was happening before he spoke. Not only did he not wait for more information, he did not wait for the attacks to stop before he added his own attack on the staff of the Embassy in Egypt.
Rachel went on to describe what a Romney presidency would look like:
A Mitt Romney presidency in which an American Ambassador is murdered in an American Embassy is attacked and the role of the [Romney] US President in that circumstance would be to rush to the microphones before the attack was even over and launch his same attack on that same US Embassy.
As we all know, the Romney Advisers are the same Advisers that led over 5000 US Troops to their death searching for imaginary WMD when they worked for Bush/Cheney. Those Advisors and a sitting Senator, Rob Portman, have been out all day lying about the attack, lying about the timeline of the attack and lying about the reason behind the attack.
Here is the complete statement issued by US Embassy in Cairo that Mitt Romney is attacking. Remember, this statement was put out prior to any protests and 6 hours before Romney attacked the US Embassy.
U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement
September 11, 2012
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.
Keywords: Free Speech, Religious Freedom (so Romney is totally full of crap)
Other than Romney Advisers, who were Bush/Cheney failed Advisers, trying to gin up more riots in the Mid East, rational people in America are calling BS on Romney and his Advisers.
LA Times headline:
Half-cocked Romney finds Obama apology where there is none.
Factcheck.org writes Romney is wrong and full of shit.
Romney has falsely accused Obama of “apologizing for America” many times before. The line has been a dependable applause-getter with conservative audiences. But we found no basis for this claim in Obama’s previous speeches and remarks. And other fact-checkers came to similar conclusions.
Getting Things Backward
This time Romney has gone beyond putting his own unwarranted spin on the president’s statements. He has just gotten his basic facts in the wrong order.
No apology there
Then, as now, Romney’s claim of Obama “apologies” falls flat.
– Brooks Jackson, Robert Farley and Eugene Kiely
The AP Article:
FACT CHECK: Romney misstates facts on attacks
Washington Post
The fact-checkers seemed a bit fatigued by Mitt Romney’s latest round of allegations that the Obama administration goes around apologizing for America.
PolitiFact weighed in and called Romney's accusations
PANTS ON FIRE
What the apology experts say
To explore whether the statement represented an apology, we sent it to the four experts we interviewed for our previous fact-check on Romney's claim about Obama's apology tour. Here are the comments of the three who responded:
John Murphy, a communications professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who studies presidential rhetoric and political language, said Romney was wrong to label it an apology.
"First, the statement does not use the word ‘apology’ or ‘apologize’ and does not use any synonym for that word. There is no statement here that says, ‘We are sorry.’
"Second, the grammar of the statement condemns the actions of a third party. An apology, to be pedantic, is when the first party says to the second party, ‘I have offended you and I am sorry.’ This statement condemns a third party -- misguided individuals -- that does not officially represent the United States. The term ‘individuals’ dissociates them from the U.S. Therefore, it's impossible to say that this is an apology from the U.S. to anyone.
"Third, the statement does not apologize for the right of free speech; it affirms it. It condemns those who abuse the right of free speech, but it claims that this is a universal right, as is religious toleration. So, the statement does not like what the misguided individuals said and did, but recognizes they have a right to do it."
"It's a condemnation," Murphy said, "not an apology."
Lauren Bloom, an attorney and business consultant who wrote The Art of the Apology, said that Romney is "once again allowing his emotional allergy to apology to interfere with his judgment."
Bloom said that "if there's anything more central to American values than respecting each individual's right to worship as he or she pleases, I'd be hard-pressed to say what it might be. The statement that ‘respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy’ not only is true, but is as clear an expression of one of our most cherished values as I can imagine."
She said the embassy statement is "not an apology -- quite the contrary, it's a confirmation that the American people recognize the right to worship freely and will not accept religious bullying in the name of free speech. To say that someone who deliberately insults others in the name of religion has acted wrongly isn't an apology -- it's simply a recognition that those insults go too far."
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, a professor who studies international human rights and maintains the website Political Apologies and Reparations, a database of documents on apologies, said the statement is "not an apology."
Rather, she said, "it is a condemnation of ‘abuse’ of the universal value of free speech. A condemnation is not an apology. … The Embassy statement also reaffirms two American values: the American value of respect for religious beliefs and the American value of democracy."
We all know Romney is a pathological liar and we all know his Advisors failed America when they worked for Bush/Cheney.
Are Romney Advisers using these events to lie America into another Mid East war and Mitt is too stupid to realize it? Or is Mitt Romney just a dumbass who just happens to be a pathological liar and who clearly cannot be trusted with the nuclear codes?
Below is the clip of Rachel's show. I hope I embedded it correctly.