As we predicted, Libya monopolized the airwaves yesterday.
Most of the chatter had to do with whether Crowley was proper injecting herself into the debate as an arbiter of fact … and whether she had the facts right.
With regards to the latter point, it was widely reported that Pres. Obama approached the town hall questioner and fessed up that he hadn’t called it a terrorist attack.
According to the Washington Post:
“After the debate, the president came over and spent about two minutes with me privately,” says 61-year-old Kelly Ladka.
According to Ladka, Obama gave him ”more information about why he delayed calling the attack a terorist attack.”
For background, Obama did apparently lump Benghazi into a reference to “acts of terror” in a Sept. 12 Rose Garden address. However, he spent about two weeks holding off on using the full “terrorist” designation.
The rationale for the delay, Obama explained to Ladka, was to make sure that the “intelligence he was acting on was real intelligence and not disinformation,” recalls Ladka.
Mr. Ladka popped up on most cable networks yesterday repeating the story.
One anchor pumped Mr. Ladka re: who he was going to vote for.
Ladka described the anxiety he faced as an undecided voter – he wasn’t sure – and, he knew it was an important election.
Then it dawned on me … the dude lives in New York.
His vote doesn’t matter one iota since Obama will landslide New York.
Which raises another question: why the heck was the town hall of undecided voters held in New York, instead of Ohio or another swing state?
Maybe it’s more evidence that the questioners were mere props for the event.
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