-By Warner Todd Huston
During a discussion of the 2012 terror attacks on our embassy facilities in Benghazi, Libya, left-wing radio host Leslie Marshall engaged in a bout of blaming the victim by saying Ambassador Stevens is essentially responsible for his own murder because it was his idea to be at the Benghazi facilities that terrible day.
During the discussion on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom on Sunday, October 27, Host Martha MacCallum invited The Tea Party News Network’s Scottie Nell Hughes along with liberal radio show host Leslie Marshall to talk about Obama’s failures in Libya that culminated in the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and three American embassy staffers on September 11, 2012.
With a new 60 Minutes report on Benghazi aired on CBS, the discussion on what Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew and when they knew it is again making the rounds. The CBS report shows that Obama and Hillary knew that it was a terror attack even as the attacks were occurring. Despite this Obama and Hillary insisted for weeks afterward that the attacks were a reaction to some little seen anti-Muslim Youtube video.
Not to be outdone in blame shifting, liberal radio host Marshall went even farther than Obama and Hillary in pushing responsibility away from the administration. Marshall says Stevens is at fault for his own death.
Marshall blew off the attacks with a rhetorical wave of her hand saying, “these things happen,” then blamed Stevens for even being there in the first place.
“No matter how much security we have, things like this can happen. Let’s keep in mind, Ambassador Stevens was the one who wanted to be in Benghazi; Ambassador Stevens was the one who wanted to branch out from Tripoli to Benghazi,” she said.
This is usually the sort of blame-the-victim argument that the left rails against. But here is Marshall using it to blame Ambassador Stevens for his own death at the hands of al Qaeda terrorists.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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