Friday, May 09, 2014

The rightwing is this desperate?

Benghazi Cover Up T-Shirt (click here)

I didn't know there was an entire economy supported by political dogma. At least not this deranged. Wow. And, of course, this is out of respect of the four dead Americans and their families.

5/8/2014 12:25:00 PM
Cokie & Steven V. Roberts

Search the word "Benghazi," (click here) and up pops a paid link to a website that advertises: "Benghazi -- T-shirts, Sweatshirts, Mugs and More."

Click on the link and 401 items are offered for sale. They include a yellow backpack with red letters, reading, "Benghazi. Obama Slept Families Wept." A decal features former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and a bloody hand over the slogan, "Remember Benghazi." A steal at $4.29.

Our favorite: a powder-blue toddler outfit featuring an American flag and the always popular motto "Remember Benghazi." Except "remember" is misspelled -- no second "m."

This website is just one small example of the "Benghazi-Industrial Complex," a term coined by Michael Hirsh in Politico Magazine. For conservatives, Benghazi is big business: a full-fledged enterprise to exploit the tragic deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, in that Libyan city in September 2012....


Guts, Guns and Glory (click here)

Amazing. Nothing like keeping September 11th alive.

I have this idea that some day while we commemorate 911 as if Pearl Harbor, it will fade into the background noise like Pearl Harbor does. 

The video and the attacks were to commemorate September 11th, too. When do people stop dying for September 11, 2001? Tell me that. When do Americans stop paying the price for bin Laden's anger?