The mother of Ambassador Chris Stephens would like the Republicans to stop using the name of her dead son for political gain. Seems fair.

Courtesy of CNN:

The mother of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, who died during the 2012 Benghazi attacks, penned a short letter to the editor of The New York Times asking that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and the GOP stop invoking her son's death. 

"I know for certain that Chris would not have wanted his name or memory used in that connection," Mary Commanday wrote in the letter, which was published Saturday. "I hope that there will be an immediate and permanent stop to this opportunistic and cynical use by the campaign." 

The Benghazi attacks were frequently mentioned in speeches at this week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where speakers used it as a reason presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is unfit for the presidency.

I seriously doubt that the Republicans will stop.

After all they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to find things with which to attack Hillary Clinton, and they only have respect for the dead when bringing up those deaths make THEM looke bad.

Besides they only respect the wishes of mothers whose children died in Benghazi when it furthers their political agenda.

So Hillary Clinton's testimony before the House Benghazi Committee is not yet over. What did we learn, if anything thus far?

Well I for one learned that I can watch cable news, tweet, blog, clean house, and workout all at the same time which makes me wonder why a renaissance man like myself is not dating more?

I also learned that the Republicans had really NOTHING to work with today.

I also learned that Hillary Clinton has absorbed a little of Obama's cool.

"Were you trying to trip me up? That's just adorable."

I was also reminded of this:

Which was backed up in the most blunt manner possible by Rep. Jason Chaffetz back in 2012: 

On Wednesday morning, CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien asked the Utah Republican if he had "voted to cut the funding for embassy security." 

"Absolutely," Chaffetz said. "Look we have to make priorities and choices in this country. We have…15,000 contractors in Iraq. We have more than 6,000 contractors, a private army there, for President Obama, in Baghdad. And we’re talking about can we get two dozen or so people into Libya to help protect our forces. When you’re in tough economic times, you have to make difficult choices. You have to prioritize things.”

Which kind of makes me wonder how these Republicans have the cojones to grill Hillary on why there was not adequate security to protect Ambassador Stephens.

"Look in the mirror assholes!"

"We're so much better than that!!" Elijah Cummings straight preaching fire. #BenghaziCommittee pic.twitter.com/uMksEJDDLY

— Andrew Jerell Jones (@sluggahjells) October 23, 2015

Another thing that I learned today is that while Rep. Elijah Cummings was clearly today's MVP, that Rep. Adam Schiff came in a close second.

Oh, that is like political soft core porn for a Democrat!

I also finally figured out who else Trey Gowdy keeps reminding me of:

Ahh. the House of Slytherin. That explains a lot!

The other thing that I learned is that if I NEVER hear the word "Benghazi" again that will still be too soon.

Fox News contributor uses upcoming Hillary Clinton biopic as excuse to smear her by claiming she lied about Benghazi.

Courtesy of Media Matters: 

Fox & Friends covered the announcement that NBC's entertainment division is planning to air a new mini-series focused on Hillary Clinton's "life as a wife, mother, politician and cabinet member" sometime before 2015. Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich used the segment as an opportunity to smear Clinton, saying: 

PAVLICH: "Although Diane Lane is a fantastic actress, I doubt she can act as well as Hillary Clinton did when she lied about that YouTube video in front of flag-draped caskets of Americans as they came home from being killed in Benghazi. So it's going to be really hard for her to top that performance."

But in her remarks, Clinton mentioned the wave of protests at U.S. embassies in the region, which repeated news reports said were in response to an anti-Islam video that was posted on YouTube. From Clinton's remarks: 

"In the days since the attack, so many Libyans - including the Ambassador from Libya to the United States, who is with us today - have expressed their sorrow and solidarity. One young woman, her head covered and her eyes haunted with sadness, held up a handwritten sign that said "Thugs and killers don't represent Benghazi nor Islam." The President of the Palestinian Authority, who worked closely with Chris when he served in Jerusalem, sent me a letter remembering his energy and integrity, and deploring - and I quote - "an act of ugly terror." Many others from across the Middle East and North Africa have offered similar sentiments."

"This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We've seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with. It is hard for the American people to make sense of that because it is senseless, and it is totally unacceptable."

As we can see Clinton was mentioning the video as being an added problem in various areas within the Middle East, NOT blaming it for the attack in Benghazi.

We knew this was coming, and of course Fox can hardly WAIT to start trotting out the anti-Hillary ammunition that they were unable to use in 2008.

However having THIS blonde bimbo going after a woman of Hillary's stature is especially infuriating as it is obvious that she knows NOTHING about what she is talking about except what the producers pounded into her tiny skull right before she came out and sat in that chair.

If that bimbo were forced to confront Hillary herself, and make those allegations in person, she would be bathed in flop sweat and more than likely fighting the urge not to bolt out of the room or wet her pants.

However it was Steve Doocy who wins the award for unwitting irony after claiming that NBC is "one of the biggest and most biased networks."  Okay Doocy-bag do you even watch your cable "news" shows?

Well if these idiots want to take out Hillary they are going to have to do a much better job then throwing ignorant blonde bimbos at her. And that goes for the chick too.

Another Republican talking point bites the dust. Ambassador Stephens TWICE refused additional security.

Courtesy of McClatchy:  

In the month before attackers stormed U.S. facilities in Benghazi and killed four Americans, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens twice turned down offers of security assistance made by the senior U.S. military official in the region in response to concerns that Stevens had raised in a still secret memorandum, two government officials told McClatchy. 

Why Stevens, who died of smoke inhalation in the first of two attacks that took place late Sept. 11 and early Sept. 12, 2012, would turn down the offers remains unclear. The deteriorating security situation in Benghazi had been the subject of a meeting that embassy officials held Aug. 15, where they concluded they could not defend the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi. The next day, the embassy drafted a cable outlining the dire circumstances and saying it would spell out what it needed in a separate cable. 

“In light of the uncertain security environment, US Mission Benghazi will submit specific requests to US Embassy Tripoli for additional physical security upgrades and staffing needs by separate cover,” said the cable, which was first reported by Fox News. 

Army Gen. Carter Ham, then the head of the U.S. Africa Command, did not wait for the separate cable, however. Instead, after reading the Aug. 16 cable, Ham phoned Stevens and asked if the embassy needed a special security team from the U.S. military. Stevens told Ham it did not, the officials said. 

Weeks later, Stevens traveled to Germany for an already scheduled meeting with Ham at AFRICOM headquarters. During that meeting, Ham again offered additional military assets, and Stevens again said no, the two officials said. 

“He didn’t say why. He just turned it down,” a defense official who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject told McClatchy. 

So the Ambassador had TWO different chances to beef up security and turned hem both down. Certainly does NOT sound like a man who felt that his life was in danger, and whose fears were ignored by Hillary Clinton and the State Department now does it?

Don't you hate it when your big plan to get the President impeached blows up in your face? No really, don't you?