The media and political firestorms around Benghazi have sparked a counter-reaction, typically among liberals who doubt the merits of the Benghazi allegations. This is often expressed with ironic use of the Twitter hashtag #Benghazi, and was crystallized in Clinton’s January 2013 testimony at a Congressional hearing, in which she barely attempted to contain her exasperation with Republican questions.
Why do liberals make fun of “#Benghazi” all the time?
The hashtag was crystallized in Hillary Clinton’s January 2013 testimony at a Congressional hearing.
Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July 16. You can purchase it here.
Progressives often see the Benghazi controversies as driven by a sort of Obama Derangement Syndrome, wherein conservatives invent scandals that only make sense inside their own closed information feedback loop.
So they mock #Benghazi. A lot.
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— max read (@max_read) October 23, 2013
Why didn’t Zach Galifianakis ask Obama about #Benghazi?#MainstreamMedia
— John Aziz (@azizonomics) March 11, 2014
One persistent liberal meme grew out of a particularly amusing tweet that turned Benghazi into a conspiratorial acrostic.
Hence, when you see weird acrostics spelling out Benghazi on progressive Twitter, like this one:
Now you know why.
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