13 Hours

Jacj Cashill writes at American Thinker,

The more naïve members of the Hillary Clinton campaign have long dreaded the release of Michael Bay's factual account of the Benghazi attack, 13 Hours. The more sophisticated members of that campaign were less worried. They were confident their friends in the media would scare off all but the most deluded "tea-baggers."

Yes, the media will try. They are trying. I am not sure, however, that they will succeed. In the age of social media, word of mouth is much more significant a force than it ever was before. And the word of mouth on 13 Hours will be justifiably powerful. The movie is riveting from beginning to end.

In fact, the news media, let alone the entertainment media, have shown no interest in a "conversation" about Benghazi, meaningful or otherwise. They have labored mightily for the last three-plus years to keep Benghazi out of the news. Had Bay explored the lies about an impending genocide that paved the way to our subversion of the Gaddafi regime, or the arms trafficking in which the CIA was engaged after Gaddafi's murder, he would have needed a mini-series.

...One reviewer had a different take altogether. That was Pat Smith. In fact, she walked out of the movie. She could not bear to watch the re-enactment of her son Sean Smith's death. Pat Smith has been trying to have a "meaningful conversation" about the reasons why her son had to die for more than three years. She has not gotten it.

Smith has claimed that Hillary Clinton told her an anti-Muslim video was responsible. Hillary has denied it. "That is just plain old bull!" Smith told Megyn Kelly recently. "I know what she said, and not only did she say it, but Obama said the same thing to me. And Panetta. And Biden. And Susan Rice. I went up to all of them, begging them to tell me what happened. And they all said that it was the video. Every one of them."

The media do not what their readers to know what Smith knows for one very real reason. If they did, and if they saw 13 Hours, and if they had any conscience, they could never bring themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton.

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