VIDEO: Jim Jordan nails Hillary on her YouTube video lie

Hat tip to Allahpundit at Hot Air on this one. I'll sum it up before you watch it, but you need to watch it. The very night of the attack, Hillary e-mailed Chelsea and expressed that what happened in Benghazi was clearly the work of an Al Qaeda-like group. The next day, she said the same thing to the prime minister of Egypt. But for several days after she did that, she was publicly claming that this was nothing more than a protest inspired by a YouTube video about Mohammed. She knew that wasn't true. She had said so in private conversations. But in public, she lied. Of course. Because she's Hillary Clinton. That's what she does.

How classic a Hillary answer is it to claim that all the answers are in her book, but to never really address the evidence Jordan presents? It's fine to say there was a lot of conflicting information, but if that's the case then don't go out in public blaming a YouTube video. Wait until you know what's happening. Also, she very dishonestly conflates her need to talk about the video with her blatant statements blaming the video for the attack at the time. This too: "If you would look at my statement as opposed to what I said to the Egyptian prime minister . . . " Do you realize the implications of this answer? The whole point of this investigation is that uncovered evidence doesn't support the idea that Hillary has consistently told the truth, and the e-mail to the Egyptian prime minister is Exhibit A. How does Hillary respond to that? Look at my statement, not that e-mail I sent! Great. A statement crafted to put her in the best possible light, three years after the fact in the midst of her own presidential campaign, is the only thing the committee should consider. What she said at the time is irrelevant. Rob also caught her earlier trying to essentially blame Christopher Stevens for his own death by reminding everyone that he "volunteered" for the assignments, as if that obviates any responsibility of the U.S. government to provide for his security during the assignment. My God this woman is horrible. I'm sure you've heard a lot today about this or that moment, including something about her saying she could do two things at once and then forgetting to turn on her microphone. All of that is trivia, although it will be used by both sides to either claim Hillary made mincemeat of the Republicans or that Hillary was utterly nailed. None of it really matters. What matters are the facts that were discovered, and the fact remains that Hillary blamed a YouTube video in public when she was saying in private that she knew it was a terrorist attack. The fact that she looks bored or calmly tells the lies doesn't mean they're any less dishonest.

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