Can Anyone Tell Me WTF The Point Of That Libyan Pool Party Video Is?
If you’ve watched any cable news at all this week, you’ve seen a YouTube clip of apparent Libyan militia members diving into a pool from a second floor balcony, probably accompanied by some sort of dire, poignant commentary about the state of the region, and if you paid any attention, wondered why the fuck this was news:
Every time I’ve seen it, the video has been accompanied by a disclaimer from whatever news agency is playing it that the video “can’t be confirmed,” and variations on the theme that the video features Libyan “militia” who have “taken” a U.S. Embassy compound in Tripoli, and are flouting their prize. Kinda like this:
“In a country free falling into chaos, Libyan gunmen celebrate. They’ve just taken an American diplomatic compound, so they take to the swimming pool, a symbolic moment they want the world to see.”
That was on MSNBC last night.
While the militiamen pictured technically did “take” the compound, they didn’t take it from the United States, which abandoned it in July, they took it from some other militia, and according to the Libyan government, the guys in the video are in charge of protecting it. The pool also isn’t at the embassy, but at a residential annex.
Over at CNN, the import of the video is, apparently, that it “reflects the anarchy that currently reigns in Libya’s capital.”
No, it fucking doesn’t. At worst, it reflects…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
16 responses to Can Anyone Tell Me WTF The Point Of That Libyan Pool Party Video Is?
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Republicans_are_Evil September 4th, 2014 at 18:21
We are being fed so much propaganda from the national media. I no longer believe anything I hear on the news on any subject.
Republicans_are_Evil September 4th, 2014 at 18:21
We are being fed so much propaganda from the national media. I no longer believe anything I hear on the news on any subject.
jasperjava September 4th, 2014 at 18:40
BENGHAZI!!!
jasperjava September 4th, 2014 at 18:40
BENGHAZI!!!
Roctuna September 4th, 2014 at 19:16
I bet the water isn’t supposed to be green
Roctuna September 4th, 2014 at 19:16
I bet the water isn’t supposed to be green
uzza September 4th, 2014 at 19:19
It’s pretty simple Tommy. The arms dealers won’t make obscene profits unless they rile up people to support needless war, so they claim this embassy is ours, and show people using it that they say have no right, which stimulates the amygdalas of people who think only with their brainstems so they feel outraged and express it by cheering on the unneccessary wars that bring them their obscene profits, like you do in all your posts pimping war with ISIS.
Bunya September 5th, 2014 at 14:18
Like a thousand times!!!!!!
uzza September 4th, 2014 at 19:19
It’s pretty simple Tommy. The arms dealers won’t make obscene profits unless they rile up people to support needless war, so they claim this embassy is ours, and show people using it that they say have no right, which stimulates the amygdalas of people who think only with their brainstems so they feel outraged and express it by cheering on the unneccessary wars that bring them their obscene profits, like you do in all your posts pimping war with ISIS.
Bunya September 5th, 2014 at 14:18
Like a thousand times!!!!!!
tiredoftea September 4th, 2014 at 20:05
Sure, the point is that the media is lazy. Video that is fact free, easy to look at and made for TV gets lots of page views. News talkers can make appropriate serious/wry/comic/bemused faces as they read the copy. And, we approve because we are waiting for the weather babe or sports jock to come on before our favorite, high ratings talent, dancing, former celebrity, never was a celebrity show comes on to clog our consciousness.
tiredoftea September 4th, 2014 at 20:05
Sure, the point is that the media is lazy. Video that is fact free, easy to look at and made for TV gets lots of page views. News talkers can make appropriate serious/wry/comic/bemused faces as they read the copy. And, we approve because we are waiting for the weather babe or sports jock to come on before our favorite, high ratings talent, dancing, former celebrity, never was a celebrity show comes on to clog our consciousness.
juicyfruityyy September 4th, 2014 at 22:14
No, this really isn’t news. I’ve known people to become paralyzed, from diving into pools. Just saying.
juicyfruityyy September 4th, 2014 at 22:14
No, this really isn’t news. I’ve known people to become paralyzed, from diving into pools. Just saying.
Jeff Allen September 5th, 2014 at 07:17
To show that real men swim fully dressed.
Jeff Allen September 5th, 2014 at 07:17
To show that real men swim fully dressed.