We often marvel at progressives' preternatural ability to deny, warp, and bend reality to support whatever inane narrative they're pushing. They're masters of willful ignorance and the examples are boundless, but - just when you think you've heard it all - someone pipes up and leaves you utterly gob smacked.
According to the Daily Beast's left-wing political columnist (and longtime Hillary Clinton sycophant) Eleanor Clift, "Ambassador Stevens was not 'murdered.' He died of smoke inhalation in the safe room in that CIA installation."
Yep, she really said that. Smoke Inhalation. Of course, she neglects to mention that Stevens was inhaling all that smoke because a bunch of Islamic militants set the building on fire. That's a bit like throwing someone off the Empire State Building and claiming they weren't "murdered" - instead, they died as a result of injuries sustained in a sudden, unforeseen, collision with pavement.
If that wasn't bad enough, she's still trying to blame the YouTube video as the catalyst for ...I don't know what. The smoke I guess. She also thinks that everyone should leave Hillary Clinton alone in favor of pointing the finger of blame at David Petraeus. In other words; progs like Clift are willing to do or say anything, no matter how ridiculous, in order to protect the presumtive 2016 Democrat nominee.
She made her comments on Friday's edition of The McLaughlin Group where she's somehow managed to remain a regular for years.
The video and transcript appear below. Watch as she puts the word “murdered” in finger-quotes. Like most libs, she’s nothing if not respectful. The depths to which these people will sink are simply astounding.
ELEANOR CLIFT: I would like to point out Ambassador Stevens was not murdered. He died of smoke inhalation in the safe room in that CIA installation.
SUSAN FERRECHIO: I don't think that's a fact, Eleanor.
CLIFT: I think that is a fact.
FERRECHIO: I've heard a drastically different story from people who are also in the know about that. So, I don't think it is --
PAT BUCHANAN: It was a terrorist attack, Eleanor. He was murdered in a terrorist attack.
CLIFT: It was an opportunistic terrorist attack that grew out of that video.
BUCHANAN: The video had nothing to do with it.
