{"id":14512,"date":"2012-09-20T18:29:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:29:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-20T18:29:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:29:20","slug":"hemmer_hammers_obama_spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/20\/hemmer_hammers_obama_spokesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemmer Hammers Obama Spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is pretty good. Bill Hemmer this morning on Fox News Channel, title of the show, America\u2019s Newsroom. He had the Obama campaign press secretary on, a guy named Ben LaBolt, and Hemmer hammered the guy. All this guy wants to talk about is Romney, and Hemmer hammers the guy on Libya<\/a>. Question: “The administration is now confirming that the deaths of four Americans last week in Benghazi came as a result of a terror attack on September 11th. It was not a spontaneous protest, as the consulate has previously suggested. How damaging is this to your campaign when it comes to perceptions of foreign policy and keeping Americans safe?”<\/p>\n

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LABOLT: In terms of the situation in Libya, I\u2019d refer you to the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center\u2019s testimony yesterday. They\u2019re conducting an investigation right now to find out who perpetrated this violence and to bring them to justice. Listen, Governor Romney weighed in before he had a full set of facts about a developing situation. We\u2019re not going to do that. The president isn\u2019t somebody who shoots first and aims later.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa. Do you see how this works? See, I pointed it out with Stephanie Cutter<\/a>. (paraphrasing) “Look, you guys are really blowing it in the Middle East. I mean, you got a situation here keeping Americans safe. You may not be able to keep Americans safe, blaming it on this video and so forth.” Look at Mitt Romney. Look at Mitt Romney. Romney weighed in. You know, the problem is, Romney said the same thing Obama said, only said it first. Romney ripped that statement that came out of the Cairo embassy. Well, so did the regime later. Obama and the boys walked back that statement, that pre-apology. The difference is, Romney looked presidential. We can\u2019t have that. <\/p>\n

Romney got nothing wrong in what he said, and the problem for these guys is that Mitt Romney did look like the president. That\u2019s why they\u2019ve gotta cut it down, and that\u2019s why they\u2019ve gotta stop it. But Hemmer does what all journalists used to do. He doesn\u2019t let him get away with this. Hemmer said, “The president has addressed the American people officially on one occasion in the Rose Garden. Will he address this again and clear up a story that changes by the hour?” What he\u2019s saying is, look, you guys and the president are saying that the video\u2019s responsible. We now know that that wasn\u2019t the case at all. Will the president have another meeting or appearance and straighten this out?<\/p>\n

LABOLT: A career national security official shared with the American people the information that we have about this situation.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: I understand that, but you know —<\/p>\n

LABOLT: At this time we\u2019re not going to engage in speculation —<\/p>\n

HEMMER: Understood. But everybody watching this —<\/p>\n

LABOLT: — like Governor Romney tends to do.<\/p>\n