Can somebody please explain the Right Wing/Faux News obsession with Libya

[BraKez2]

These guys will not get off this talking point...yet they still cant say what the "cover up" was, Monday before the debate Tweety walked around talking to the crowd and one brought this up, Tweety ask whats the "cover up"...the guy was just like uh mm ahhh (but Faux News said)...then Tweety said read a paper..

...next time I hear a righty talking about this my response is... "Please Proceed Governor"

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. They've got nothing else. - eom

[stopbush]

2. They're confusing Libya with labia?

[JustAnotherGen]

8. +1

[Maximumnegro]

3. Rove tactic: Turn strength into weakness

Foreign policy is an Obama strength. Weaken it and at the same time get it to dovetail with his 'foreigness' to peel away more white votes. Pure Rove.

[mikeysnot]

16. bingo.

Attack their strengths, project your weakness.

[Lucinda]

4. They were hoping it would be big enough to sink Obama a la the Iranian hostage crisis.

It isn't - but they keep trying to spin it.

[madrchsod]

5. they`ll beat the beat that dead horse till election day

[gateley]

6. Good job, Tweety!

[hrmjustin]

7. It means they hate him so much that they make s^&t up.

[ffr]

9. Desperation

Their base feeds off fear and hate. They fear everything and they hate Obama and the Democrats. Anything Faux can do to strip away our voters or energize their voters will be done at all cost.

Basically, they're the 5 y.o. with a lot of money, but not a lot of common sense.

[moobu2]

10. All of the above but

one thing I know for sure is Republicans care about the deaths of the Americans and their families only to the extent that they might use them for political gain. If they were sure they could'nt get anywhere with this line of attack, they would drop this like a hot potato.

[mzteaze]

11. For the Same Reason

....they keep giving T'baggers space to say stupid stuff like Obama needs to come clean about his birth place and birth certificate. They appeal to the low information people who won't read or research any further then what they claim. Plus, if they repeat a lie enough - they will have folks believing it to be real.

A bit further, consider the tactic the GOP uses...say something patently false then "retract it". Have you ever paid attention to on-air retractions? How often do those types of retractions happen? Even in the "old-fashioned" newspaper, retractions are hard to find....so the lie is heard around the world (so to speak) while the retraction is hidden and gets no fanfare.

[LiberalLoner]

12. They are DESPERATE to paint President Obama as another President Carter (in terms of the Iran crisis

My father watches Faux News exclusively (you can't tell him it's all lies - he doesn't care, they are lies that he likes to hear.) This whole administration, Faux News has been pounding and pounding about how awful President Jimmy Carter was. (I loved President Carter, but I'm sure most people here do.)

Anyway, the meme has been for four years, off and on so viewers wouldn't grow tired of it, "President Carter was the worst President ever."

I know this sounds like tinfoil hat territory, but I think the film that inflammed some Muslims and the terrorist strike in Libya were all part and parcel of making President Obama look like President Carter (and thus win the election.)

I think the right wingers in power are powerful enough to pull off an operation like this and I think they are evil enough to plan for it and do it. And I think they planned this from the time President Obama was sworn in.

That was their big plan to get him out of office. That and the other dirty tricks.

They aren't abandoning this plan because this, like voter supression, is all they've got.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. I will even provide you with a picture.....

[MatthewStLouis]

14. Rmoney is weak on foreign policy. So they hype conspiracy theories about Libya...

Trying to make political hay for Rmoney out of the straws they are grasping at.

[TexasCPA]

15. Energize their base

but they only need to say that Obama is black to energize their base though.

[Zen Democrat]

17. Easy. They are Republicans first and Americans way down the list.

[KansDem]

18. Here you go! From the "CIA Factbook"

Crude oil - proved reserves:
47.1 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 10

The process of lifting US unilateral sanctions began in the spring of 2004; all sanctions were removed by June 2006, helping Libya attract greater foreign direct investment, especially in the energy sector. Libyan oil and gas licensing rounds drew high international interest, but new rounds are unlikely until Libya establishes a more permanent government. The National Oil Corporation (NOC) set a goal of nearly doubling oil production to 3 million bbl/day by 2012, but the goal is unlikely to be met by the target date. Libya faces a long road ahead in liberalizing its primarily socialist economy, but the revolution probably increases the opportunity for entrepreneurial activity and the evolution of a more market-based economy.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ly.html

[reflection]

19. Most of those schmucks couldn't even find Libya on a map

if you told them the latitude and longitude.

[leveymg]

20. They're too stupid and lazy to see past the limited, modified hangout part of the thing.

There's actually a major foreign policy crisis and potential terrorism catastrophe behind the the Libya 9/11 events, but those turkeys don't have the guts to go there. F-ck 'em.

[animalcrackers]

21. Colbert had a great take on it 2 days ago

I would highly recommend it - would link if i could find the video