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RUSH: Look, folks, we\u2019re gonna get into Benghazi today and we\u2019re gonna turn it upside down and inside out. When I finish you\u2019re not gonna have any questions remaining. Everything is gonna be explained to you, and it\u2019s pretty much gonna confirm our original instincts and suspicions —massive lying at the White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jay Carney is continuing to lie, and he\u2019s not very good at it, which distinguishes him from other White House press secretaries. They\u2019re normally good at lying for liars. He\u2019s not. But it\u2019s gonna confirm most everything we\u2019ve always thought. It\u2019s gonna confirm Sharyl Attkisson. The Regime is really wide open and exposed on this, and the Drive-Bys are starting to pay some attention but they\u2019re still in cover-up mode for the most part. What impact all this is gonna have on low-information voters, who knows. <\/line><\/p>\n

I think the best thing we could do is find a way to link Benghazi to Donald Sterling<\/a>. If we could find a way to link Sterling to everything involving Obama, we might be able to actually make some headway. But I\u2019m gonna tell you. There\u2019s one way I think to know that there was an early plan for a cover-up involving this Benghazi thing. I\u2019m gonna tell you what it all hinges on. It all hinges on Cairo, folks. The Regime put this silly story out that this video caused all this unrest in the Middle East. And if you\u2019ll recall, some Looney Toon in our embassy in Cairo, which is not near Benghazi — well, it\u2019s close on the map, but it\u2019s not Benghazi. Benghazi is Libya. Somebody in our embassy in Cairo in Egypt apologized for something that hadn\u2019t happened yet. Do you remember? <\/p>\n

We sent out an apology for offending people. It was the anniversary of 9\/11 and we knew that there was gonna be some sort of protest, or we suspected. So we sent out an apology in advance of anything happening. The theory, when it was later learned this is what we\u2019d done, the Regime\u2019s explanation for this was (paraphrasing), “Well, we\u2019re trying to limit any protests. We\u2019ll just apologize in advance and hope that will quell the mood.” This whole thing has been a cover-up from the start.<\/p>\n

I mean, even Ron Fournier, who used to be and maybe still is one of the biggest promoters of Obama and the Regime, made it clear on TV today that as far as he\u2019s concerned now everything the Regime has done in the aftermath of Benghazi has been political. It has not had anything to do with foreign policy. And that\u2019s exactly right. <\/p>\n

One way to know that there was an early plan for a cover-up is that Obama never sent in a rescue team. Obama didn\u2019t send in a rescue team. That\u2019s unprecedented. He left people under his command exposed and behind. And in addition to that, Obama never went to the Situation Room. At five o\u2019clock he talks to Hillary and Panetta and says you guys have the ball, and I\u2019m outta here. And he ends up off the grid. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a plan from the beginning to pretend the attack was a protest, not worthy of the president\u2019s time, this silly video. And, by the way, there may be evidence that the whole video story, that whole concoction can be traced back to Hillary. It may well be that that was her idea. That\u2019s unconfirmed as of yet. But, you see, a coordinated attack would contradict Obama\u2019s claim that Al-Qaeda was dead and gone. Remember what Obama was saying at the time, GM is alive and Al-Qaeda\u2019s dead. And they had to protect that. It was their slogan at the convention just weeks earlier.<\/line><\/p>\n

So we\u2019ll get into this with the assistance of my good buddy Andy McCarthy<\/a>. This, of course, is Andy\u2019s bread and butter, is terrorism, foreign policy, Al-Qaeda, jihad, militant Islam. He\u2019s done yeoman\u2019s work here, with my assistance, of course, in trying to piece things together. But before we do, before we get any further into this, I just wanted to set the table there. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hillary Clinton could be the source of the Benghazi video lie. What do we know about Benghazi? Let me tell you what the main point is, and then we\u2019re gonna work backwards from this. The main point is the rioting at the American embassy in Cairo was on 9\/11, the day the Benghazi event occurred. Earlier in the day, the rioting at the American embassy in Cairo was not about an anti-Muslim video. <\/p>\n

For Obama and Jay Carney and the rest of the Regime to pull off this series of lies, that Susan Rice lie that the Benghazi attack, “Oh, it\u2019s a horrible thing, and it was all because of that video…” The only way that works is if they can make people believe that the rioting earlier in the day at the American embassy in Cairo was because of the video. <\/line><\/p>\n

The main point, what I want to try to convince you of here today is that the rioting at the American embassy in Cairo on 9\/11 was not about that anti-Muslim video. The Regime\u2019s blame-the-video story has been a fraudulent explanation for the rioting in Cairo every bit as much as it was a fraudulent explanation for what happened in Benghazi. <\/p>\n

But the Regime says Benghazi happened because of what happened in Cairo, and what happened in Cairo happened because of the video, and it isn\u2019t true, and that is what they are lying about. And we will come back to this point, as I steer you through this intricately woven web of Regime deceit. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Benghazi. Let me get to this. Grab sound bite 26. Just to show you how important this is to their series of lies they\u2019ve been caught telling. Judicial Watch has caught \u2019em<\/a>. Sharyl Attkisson has caught them<\/a>. This is a sorry, sorry episode. This is disgraceful. There was never any real military or foreign policy reaction to what happened in Benghazi.<\/p>\n

It was purely political from the moment it happened \u2019cause everything with these people is. The moment it happened, the only thing they were thinking about at the White House was, “How do we shield Obama? We got the presidential race coming up in November. My gosh, what do we do? How do we protect Obama? How do we keep this from happening and affecting and touching him?” blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a dereliction of duty. It\u2019s sickening. Four Americans are dead, and that didn\u2019t matter. All that mattered was Obama\u2019s political fortunes. This video? It\u2019s never been about this video. I still can\u2019t believe that we\u2019re really talking about it. But we are because that\u2019s all the Regime has, is convincing as many people as possible that this video caused it — a video that nobody saw.<\/p>\n

Well, some people saw it, but not enough to cause whatever unrest happened, and it certainly had nothing to do with what happened in Benghazi. But they\u2019re trying as hard as they can to make people believe that it did because it started in Cairo. Now, they had a press briefing today. Jay Carney was questioned by Ed Henry.<\/p>\n

“Retired Brigadier General Robert Lovell testified under oath today,” and we\u2019ve got these, “that by 3:15 a.m. after the 9\/11 2012 attack, they dismissed the video as a cause for the attack and very quickly identified this as a terrorist attack.” Retired Brigadier General Robert Lovell said under oath that the video had nothing to do with it, Jay.<\/p>\n

“In light of that, why on 9\/14, two-and-a-half days later, was Ben Rhodes,” who\u2019s a White House guy whose brother works at CBS News. Ben Rhodes\u2019 brother is an executive at CBS News. Ben Rhodes\u2019 brother is an executive at CBS News. Sharyl Attkisson is gone. Ed Henry said, “Why … was Ben Rhodes writing an e-mail about the general state of affairs, as you say, highlighting the video and not highlighting terror,” a terrorist attack? <\/p>\n

Jay, it was a terrorist attack. Everybody knows it. <\/p>\n

Why were you still talking about the video?<\/line><\/p>\n

CARNEY: (haltingly) Ed, the e-mail was about protests around the region. If you want to tell me today —<\/p>\n

HENRY: But Benghazi was part of it, right?<\/p>\n

CARNEY: Right.<\/p>\n

HENRY: Okay.<\/p>\n

CARNEY: And I would refer you to the CIA-produced talking points on that that referred at the time to currently available information suggesting that the protests out… There were protests outside the facility in Benghazi inspired, uh, by demonstrations outside of Cairo. What inspired those demonstrations outside of our embassy in Cairo? Do you even remember? There was a lot of tumult in the region that were in reaction to what people felt was an offensive video, and there were demonstrations outside of US facilities because the video was produced in the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So they\u2019re sticking to the video theory. This is just moments ago that this happened. Cairo is the key. I\u2019m telling you, this is just another case of brazen lying. Carney is not good at it, I don\u2019t think. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s bringing this off. I think Carney himself is giving credence problems to this. “What inspired those demonstrations outside of our embassy in Cairo?<\/p>\n

“Do you even remember? There was a lot of tumult in the region that were in reaction to what people felt was an offensive video…” It was not! They were planned protests because it was the anniversary of 9\/11. Nobody had seen this video. And again, this is for down the road, but there are traces back to Hillary as the person who came up with the video story.<\/p>\n

Hillary found out about it, consigned the theory and the strategery, and went to town with it. Let\u2019s listen to the Retired Air Force Brigadier General Lovell. This is this morning on the House Oversight Government Reform Committee hearing on the attack. We have a portion of his remarks here.<\/p>\n

LOVELL: The discussion is not “could” or “could not” of time, space, and capability. The point is we should have tried. As another saying goes, “Always move to the sound of the guns.” We didn\u2019t know how long this would last when we became aware of the distress, nor did we completely understand what we had in front of us, be it a kidnapping, rescue, recovery, protracted hostile engagement or any or all of the above.<\/p>\n