A little more than a year ago, I wrote an article for The Daily Banter titled "13 Benghazis That Occurred On Bush's Watch Without a Peep From Fox News." In it I listed 13 terrorist attacks on U.S. consulates and embassies that happened during the years when President Bush was ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

This might sound strange coming from me, but I actually like it when President Obama agrees to be interviewed by Fox News hosts like Bill O'Reilly. Not only is it good for democracy that the president is asked tough questions by reporters, anchors and hosts who don't share the ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

With the publishing of The New York Timesreport about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi more than a year ago, as well as the ongoing "scandal" surrounding the Obama administration's response, I thought I'd repost the following list of 13 attacks on U.S. embassies and ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

I considered doing a post today that would be titled something like "10 Things That Lasted Longer Than 60 Minutes Apology for Its Benghazi Story," but I figure after last week I should probably keep things straightforward at least for a little while. And here it is, as ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

Shh. Don't tell Ben I was here. If you want to feel really, really uncomfortable for about four-and-a-half minutes, watch Lara Logan on CBS This Morning trying to explain how she and 60 Minutes got their big bombshell story on Benghazi so horrifically wrong. Watch her come ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

"I am just a little man against some big people here." -- Alleged Benghazi eyewitness Dylan Davies, to The Daily Beast, lamenting the skepticism he's received since his interview with 60 Minutes Right. The problem is that you're daring to tell the story the U.S. government ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

I'm going to start making t-shirts that read "Benghazi!" stylized like those silly "Bazinga!" t-shirts that fans of the inexplicably popular show The Big Bang Theory are always wearing. I figure I'll make a fortune off the Fox News crowd. In case you haven't heard, 60 ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

By Robert Parry The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward has popped up on TV recently affirming a key Republican talking point, likening the “scandal” over the Obama administration’s Benghazi talking points to Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, which Woodward helped make famous. But, ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

It turns out there was, in fact, a cover-up surrounding the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. But it's not what you think. Meanwhile, the inquisition continues. Late last week, Republican chairmen from five separate House committees met in private with speaker and ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

One of the most inexcusable problems with the modern press is that it collectively allows politicians and political parties who traffic in bullshit to do so unchecked. The whole idea of the Fourth Estate, the reason it's specifically protected within the Constitution, is that ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

After a week in which the Republicans and Fox News Channel had eagerly anticipated a bombshell from the House Oversight Committee's Benghazi hearings, essentially nothing new was revealed during the proceedings other than some of the whistleblowers were hoppin' mad. But on ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016