Susan Rice made her first appearance on a Sunday news show since she lied about a ‘Youtube’ video causing the Benghazi terrorist attack that killed four Americans. Rice’s appearance was of course on a safe network for her and Obama, NBC. Benghazi was mentioned in a round-about way. Even with the Benghazi mention, the word terrorist was never used. Instead, Gregory asked Rice what her biggest regret was. Hint: it wasn’t lying about the youtube video being the cause of the terrorist attack. The bad news for Susan Rice and the lapdog media was that neither Rice, nor Obama could blame an ‘anti-Islam’ video for the carnage in Kiev.
For the first time since her infamous 2012 interview, National Security Advisor Susan Rice appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday February 23 to discuss a variety of foreign policy issues, most noticeably Benghazi.
Throughout the interview, which focused primarily on the recent violent protests in Ukraine, host David Gregory provided Rice with a variety of softball questions on Benghazi, and allowed her to push White House talking points without any significant pushback.
During the exchange on Benghazi, the word terrorism was not mentioned once, and Gregory seemed more concerned with allowing Rice to fix her disastrous appearance in 2012 than to hold her or the Obama Administration accountable for the terrorist attack in Benghazi. Gregory began by asking Ms. Rice, “As you look back at your involvement in all of that, do you have any regrets?”
Gregory then allowed Ms. Rice to spew White House talking points:
What I said to you that morning and what I did every day since was to share the best information that we had at the time. The information I provided, which I explained to you was what we had at the moment. It could change.
Instead of challenging Ms. Rice’s assertions, Gregory claimed that the whole issue surrounding Benghazi was merely a political controversy before lamenting that maybe “it cost you the Secretary of State job?” There was no mention of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s handling of the attack, and rather than play any clips of the numerous Republicans who have questioned the White House story on Benghazi, Gregory instead promoted President Obama’s talking points during the 2012 election when he said that: