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Krauthammer on Libya Cover-Up: Obama Adminstration Thought Media Wouldn’t ‘Look Into It’

Oct. 15, 2012 11:49pm Jason Howerton

Appearing on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” on Monday, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said the Obama administration thought it could cover up its security failures in Benghazi because officials didn’t expect the U.S. media to investigate the White House’s story.

Following up on a point made by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Krauthammer said the reason the White House tried to cover up the details of the Libya attack is because it did not match the false narrative about how successful Obama’s foreign policy has been.

“It contradicted their story: bin Laden dead, GM alive, and all that spiking of the football in Charlotte,” he said. “But there was another factor here. How could they have thought they would get away with it? They already knew by Sunday, in other words when Susan Rice went on the air, they knew right away it was a terror attack and they had real-time following of the events in Benghazi, real-time access to what was happening on the night it happened at the State Department in Washington. So they knew there was no riot, there wasn’t a mob, there wasn’t a demonstration.”

“Why did they think they could get away with that?” Krauthammer asked again, this time setting his sights on the media.

“They thought that the media would not work on it. And look at the way [the media] handled it. They went after Romney’s statement on Cairo for three days — ambassador killed for the first time in 30 years and that was the whole media analysis for three days.”

Krauthammer went on to say that the Obama administration thought the they could “ride this out” until after the election.

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leasecommander
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 6:38am
Yep, there was a cover up and that is what bothers me, the raid happened, we can address the causes of that, but the cover up was done as part of this administration and it was done for POLITICAL REASONS, that is what makes me the maddest, and of course the media and the democratic talking heads are trying to jumble the issue with all the budget cuts etc. Let’s talk about the cover up and nothing else, at least for now.

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- HKS
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 6:50am
  It would appear that Obama was mostly right, most of the media is still covering it up.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 7:25am
  At least when Nixon broke into the Watergate hotel, to steal papers from the Democrats, no one died. And he got impeached for it. I think the whole administration should be tried for treason. And I STILL want to know what Ambassador Stevens knew about Obama that got him sacrificed.
  
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 7:39am
  What media ? We have no media……………………..we are now the media, PERIOD .
  
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- skypilot77
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 8:47am
  Lori –
  
  Nixon did not do the actual break-in into the Watergate. And President Nixon was not impeached.
  
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- floridareader
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 9:45am
  And now there is a HUGE story out there. It says that more than a cover up the attack was stage by Obama.
  http://www.westernjournalism.com/october-surprise-gone-horribly-wrong/
  
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- BruceDeitrickPrice
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 8:45pm
  Krauthammer suggests a beautiful irony. The media’s relentless bias and obscene coddling warped the Administration’s judgment. Coddled in the past, why shouldn’t they be coddled in the future?
  
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Amherst Patriot
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 6:34am
According to military analyst Col. David Hunt, intelligence groups in the White House situation room, the State Department, the CIA, European and African Command Centers and others would have been listening and watching this attack in REAL TIME. He estimates over 100 people listened and watched.

They allowed six hours to elapse and did nothing to help our people in Benghazi.

Please listen to this report in its entirety and then call your Senators and Representatives and demand answers as to why our government stood by and did nothing while at least four of our countrymen, including a US AMBASSADOR where brutally tortured and murdered.

http://audio.wrko.com/a/64657882/col-hunt-on-the-newest-libyan-revelations.h
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- qdllc
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 7:07am
  Go to any rally where Obama or Biden show up.
  
  A small army of armed men ready to ventilate you at the slightest sign of possible violence.
  
  But a US Marine is ordered to stand there, effectively disarmed, while savages raid the embassy and start murdering people he’s sworn to defend.
  
  Talk about having your priorities backwards.
  
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Impenitent
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 5:19am
if obama wins the useful idiots have proven their usefulness… until they are reporting on the next civil war…

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voting-for-romney
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 4:21am
I find that analysis hard to fathom, since putting an open homosexual, without personal security forces, in the middle of an area that tortures people with such personal beliefs, suggests that this administration would think no one would suggest that they provoked this attack, so they could then order a retaliatory strike in order to gain public support for an other wise dismal political performance over the last four years?

Or is this simply a case of preventable tragedy from a severe case of negligence, spending more time on election campaigns instead of focusing on important duties of the executive branch? You don’t have security “professionals” working in the State Department, with this kind of tragedy occurring, without either suggesting a severe case of negligence of not learning anything from the Jimmy Carter administration, or worse, that they actually wanted the attack to occur?

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- Gary_K
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 5:21am
  I have read on other news and info sites that there are some people who believe that this was a hit, just another bath house buddy going down.
  
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- whohasanear
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 6:28am
  Obama’s entire presidency has been a severe case of negligence!
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 7:28am
  No, they didn’t do it for retaliation. They did it because Stevens knew something. Maybe he was about to “out” Obama, maybe he just knew about Obama’s lifestyle, maybe he knew something else, but he was sacrificed. There is no other explanation. If they wanted to use it as an excuse for retaliation, there would not have been a cover up. They would have pounced on it immediately. Obama would have come out with a statement immediately, instead of letting Romney come out with his first. Romney came out with a condemning statement BECAUSE the President didn’t. Romney forced the issue, but not for political gain, for the reason that it was an attack on American soil.
  
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Goldi-lox
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 4:16am
Some very worrisome possibilities discussed at:

http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/10/15/white-house-insider-obamas-benghazi-lie-valerie-jarretts-west-wing-meltdown/

Sigh…

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Margyt
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 3:23am
When are we going to get around to real investigative reporting? Old news that it was terrorism. Old news that it was not about a shoddy video. Old news that the liars lied to us. Now, it is time for the truth and the media will have to bring it to us. The liars can’t. It isn’t in them.

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anothercomment
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:35am
Well, OB, SURPRISE!! Fox has covered it every day since it occurred. I’ve read everything I can about it. And the information is painfully thin. And NOW you managed to get Hillary to take the blame, throwing her under the bus, because you were too busy with a fundraiser. You are a piece…of work. This will be your parting ‘gift’ to the American people, and we will remember you for it!

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 3:10am
  The “chosen people” controlled Marxist Media wouldn’t have investigated it at all and would have instead covered it up had it not been for “alternative” news outlets like FoxNews, TheBlaze, DrudgeReport, or InfoWars.com
  
  We sheeple don’t have to be fed propaganda from the “chosen people” Marxists anymore.
  
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- JoeBtfsplk
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 3:15am
  “The Waking Giant” explains;
  
  Now deceased Ambassador Stevens was a marxist schill, working at the command of hillary and obama to help overthrow the governments in the middle east and install their muslim brotherhood-al queda terrorist pals over there. I do not mourn his death ONE BIT. Let the islamics slit the throats of each and every one of the marxists as soon as they’re finished using them to further their jihad. And yes, that includes anyone supporting obama. Let the islamics slit their throats. Ambassador Stevens was raped, tortured and slaughtered by the very islamic terrorists HE WAS HELPING. Just goes to show that muslims have no allegiance to ANYONE but their allah. The obama/clinton regime are aiding and abetting those islamic terrorist beasts, committing treason on a daily basis. Whatever happened to our treason laws? The ONLY deaths I mourn after this terrorist attack are the SEAL’s who were tasked with protecting those evil beasts. They were simply “following orders”, and look where it got them. Throw the marxists, socialists, communists, liberals, progressives and the rest of the schills for this horrid regime to their islamic pals and see how long they keep their snouts and hooves intact. The world would be a better place, indeed.
  
  The murderers and islamic terrorists are less to be feared than the treasonists and traitors. At least with islam and jihad, we KNOW exactly where they stand and just how far they’ll go to serve their mess
  
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- JoeBtfsplk
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 3:27am
  My bad! The last word should read ‘messiah’ – but HEY! It’s just about the same!?!?
  
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Miami
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:24am
This is what a real reporter looks like, I wonder if the media is taking notes

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pwatkins
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:08am
The people must demand answers on Libya and fast and furious. Watergate was nothing comapared to this.The Monica Lewinsky scandal got more attention by the media than this did and it was much less harmful to the US. It would be nice to see our elected officials wake up and do their jobs without falling under pressure by the evil politicians around them.

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- subic
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:24am
  Why the cover? Maybe Obama staged this thinking he could be a hero before the election. Instead the proposed hostages were murdered.
  
  http://www.westernjournalism.com/october-surprise-gone-horribly-wrong/
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 9:36am
  SUBIC! The sad part is, it’s not hard to make the case that it was all planned, including the cover up! The policies of, and obvious lack of protection afforded to our people made the odds of an attack such as this, put into the category of, “highly probable”! I think they actually believed they could get away with blaming this on that stupid video, and that we would buy into it. Well, we didn’t! But a good deal of radical Islam did, and now our people around the world are in much greater danger than even they were before!
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:05am
Charles is right, as usual. Most in the MSM will never look into this, as covering for the boy-king is priorty-one, but some in the media are waking up from the four-year-long nap. They started looking into it and two plus to didn’t equal three like Owebama said it did. Congress needs to quickly subpoena Clinton, Rice, and Owebama, even though he will ignore it. Get to the truth, that the requests for security and the warnings of an attack were ignored. The blood of four innocent people are on these people’s hands. Two of them are already murderers, in which the murders were either never looked in to sufficiently, or were dismissed politically. The question remains, what was the motive? Did Stevens know too much?
I am wondering if they will even let the subject come up in the debates they have left? Bet not.

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nzkiwi
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:03am
“Why did they think they could get away with that?”

Because they are, at the base level, conceited and arrogant.

It is my contention, with considerable evidence to support it (that we are all aware of), that the Obama administration attempted to use this tragedy to assist in limiting freedom of speech as it pertains to Islam. As Mr Emanuel callously remarked “Never let a crisis go to waste”.

Further, I think that people generally are unaware of the extent that Mr Obama supports Islamists over his own people and troops. This debacle threatens to shine a spotlight on that, so that is another reason to try and cover it up.

I think that, like the Watergate affair, there will be knowledgeable Americans who can no longer stomach this appalling business and the truth will steadily leak out.

I certainly hope so, anyway.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 7:34am
  Not only for the limiting of free speech in this nation, and to advance protection of Islam, the Islamist agenda and such as Obama clearly favors; there has to be more going on. Watergate is kindling in comparison to this fiasco and the subsequent coverup.
  
  Hillary’s taking of the blame is a cop-out to try and save the god-king of theirs, Obama, from blame and responsibility.
  
  When I look at this from the Islamist view, the 9/11 assaults and protests are a message to Obama; a challenge and a test, which he failed across the board. In addition, I wonder if they demanded not only the Blind Shiek, but the rest of the Gitmo detainees as well, and when Obama hesitated, they struck hard.
  
  Look at it from the fanatics of Islam viewpoint (the extremists) and then determine ends, ways, and means. What is their ultimate goal or aims? How ot achieve them and with what resources?
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 9:27am
  I may have missed a news cycle so forgive me. What about the Americans who survived? What do they have to say? Have any of you heard anything about them?
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:03pm
  This may help, Dismayed. I don’t know if you’ve seen it already…
  
  http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/10/what-happened-in-benghazi.php
  
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njrazd
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:52am
Obama was so concerned with that faux video…then how is he going to explain the I Killed Osama movie coming out just before the election? If he thinks a short You Tube clip was enough to cause such mayhem, what does he think they will do with this full-length movie?

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Zod Cranards
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:47am
test

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Joel Knows
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:45am
This administration has cover-ups for the cover-ups, it looks to me like peeling back the layers of an onion. When you get to the most inner layer of an onion there is nothing there, no substance, no heart. !

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BSimmons451
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:43am
Here are 95 examples of Barack Obama’s lying, lawbreaking, corruption, and cronyism http://tinyurl.com/95examples

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BRAVEATHEART
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:40am
The fundraiser in Nevada right after the news breaks about the deaths in Libya is appalling. It doesn’t matter if the administration really believed the video caused all this. It just seems like a strange move.

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kalli
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:35am
This coverup has been said to be bigger than watergate and needs to be moved on quickly. Clinton was thrown under the bus and is taking responsibility. The fact is both she and bho were out touting the video and riots causing these killings. And then the liar-in-chief doubled down and took his lies to the UN and touted this crap some more. And, remember how bho, on his own, without Congressional approval served up our military resources to assist the overthrow of Qaddafi!. If “fast and furious” or the murder of 4 Americans is not enough to prosecute this evil thug, we are already living under a dictatorship. He is unfit to be in the Oval Office and needs to be prosecuted to the fullest for his crimes and failure to uphold the oath of office.

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mharry860
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:27am
I have a Disturbed Tour video, they have a song that says “Everybody in the left wing rock, everybody in the right wing rock”. They talked to a fan and she sang the phrase but changed rock to rats, I’m starting to believe it. There are only a handful of Demoncrats I can stand and only twice that with Republicants.
The only way our current ticket could be better though, would be to involve Rand Paul, Ron Paul and Allen West, I wish I could could do more. Romney/Ryan have to be elected it’s the only chance this Country has at survival.

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drs1969
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:20am
They (lamestream media) put him in office. He’s their creation, puppet.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 8:42am
  Correct.
  
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blackstone22
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:16am
the administration is still trying to shut down questions and discussions. Suddenly the father of Ambassador Stevens appears in the media fray condemning what he calls the politicizing of his son’s tragic murder. This father has suffered a devastating loss. but shutting down appropriate inquiry shields the very people that are responsible for the lack of adequate security that caused his son’s death. It certainly works to the administration’s advantage to paint legitimate questions addressing the sheer incompetence and subsequent lies and coverup as a partisan attack led by Republicans and in particular Romney.

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- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:48am
  As much as the Obama administration would like for attention about the Libyan debacle to fade away, it IS a political issue. In spite of Hillary taking responsibility, the buck ultimately stops in the Oval Office, and Obama skipping the daily intelligence briefings reflects badly on his performance as POTUS. Nixon was forced from office for attempting to cover up a second rate burglary (of which he had no prior knowledge) in order to protect guilty members of his staff. Obama is guilty of attempting to cover up the pervasive incompetence of his administration that resulted in four deaths.
  
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TJexcite
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:10am
No matter what Team O does they know it will work as everyone in the room they are in, says it will. No matter how dumb it is and how counter intuitive it is. They really still think the attacks on Bain, taxes and shot from the hip in the attacks would have been the winning stagey and are at a loss to say what is next. Just waiting for Romney to gaff even after 20 years of public life dig up and found nothing.

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smokeysmoke
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:06am
the media did not look into it… O got away with saying that a mob was angry about an anti islam video “that we had nothing to do with”… i love krauthammer but the media was doing their best to protect him… THEY RIDCULED ROMNEY FOR A WEEK FOR SPEAKING TOO SOON… but did not look into the O admin???

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stevetherealist
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:06am
charles…seriously…I think your losing it. In the wake of gotcha journalism, what, even semi intellegent person, would think this would not be a highly scutinized in the media. In your efforts to deminish this administration your totally wrecking your any credibility you may have had.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:30am
  In Paul Ryan’s “budget” he has $200-$300 MILLION in CUTS for embassy security.
  What a hypocrite!
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:34am
  Fast and Furious………. I rest my case
  
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- NorCalBlazer
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:25am
  Now we have trolls commenting on troll posts. Methinks the BO support troops are getting desperate as the wheels are starting to come off. We must be hitting close to home.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:57am
  @NORCALBLAZER
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:25am
  Now we have trolls commenting on troll posts.
  _____________________________________
  
  This site’s traffic and number of users has grown tremendously over the
  past year. Unfortunately resident troll population exploded too. At times
  the site is nearly unusable because of the troll population now
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:02am
  Steve, you and Charles are both out of your minds if you think the mainstream media have been doing their jobs as the watchdogs of Liberty.
  
  The mainstream media are indoctrinated liberal shills. They grill and persecute any and all who might challenge the narrative of this administration and democrats in general. Meanwhile, they lob softballs at democrats when they are in the “hot seat” and lap up whatever lies they are told by the left without any follow-up whatsoever.
  
  This is an observable fact, and if you deny it you are either not paying attention or you are intentionally obfuscating the truth because you are complicit in perpetuating the deceit.
  
  After reviewing a few of your comments, I’m gonna go with the complicit liar thing.
  
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- Miami
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:31am
  Verceofreason
  
  You mean like the Volts and charging stations to be installed in the Embassies?
  
  Hypocrisy? From a liberal you must be kidding….
  
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- whohasanear
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 6:48am
  The FACT that the media kept repeating the video lie for several weeks after it was debunked- I am still hearing it- proves that the media not only would but DID help in the cover-up. You are naive or dishonest in your critique of Krauthammer’s assessment. The reason many in the media were/are going along with the cover-up is because many OLD MEDIA journalists put their liberal politics before all else, and at this critical election time, they want to help reelect Obama more than anything else.
  
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- skypilot77
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 9:04am
  Let’s for a moment consider that the Ryan budget does have 200-300 million in cuts.
  
  First, that is a weird number as budgets usually have a real number not a span of 100 million.
  
  But as I said, Let’s take it as a real number. As with any budget in Washington, is that 200-300 million in real cuts, or 200-300 million of cuts from the scheduled rate of increase of the budget? The former would be a real cut. The later would still be a budget increase just at a slower rate.
  
  Also, this supposed cut: Over how many years? 10? That would be nothing
  
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- BrutalTruth
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:37am
  So, Verce,
  Your point is the lack of security for the Ambassador was because of lack of budget? That’s novel. Oh, wait, you really mean that reducing the embassy security budget will cause more of this?
  
  Do you have any idea what the current total budget is for this? Do you have any idea about the current security capability is within that budget? Do you have any idea how incredibly ignorant you appear?
  
  Reality doesn’t match with your delusions. That’s why you can’t keep a rational and coherent thought process.
  
  Just sayin
  
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listeninginVT
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:00am
He is a very smart man.

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neverending
Posted on October 15, 2012 at 11:55pm
They thought they could get away with it because these rats do get away with everything – the dirtier the better. No low is too low for them.

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