Check your facts before spreading ‘evil’ Hillary fiction
A friend recently told me that, because of Benghazi, he could never support Hillary Clinton. Did I know that the ambassador was raped, sexually mutilated and dragged through the streets? That was new to me, so I looked into it.
After Googling “Stevens raped,” the first article seemed to be the source of the rumor. The second article was from Factcheck.org which researched and refuted it convincingly. For the record, Ambassador Chris Stevens died of smoke inhalation. The terrorists never got to him. There is a link to a picture of him with his clothes intact, being carried from the scene by Libyans to a hospital where attempts to save his life failed. All this is in the House Intelligence Committee’s report issued last year. This kind of stuff gets passed along as fact, but is easily discovered for what it is with a little checking.
My question is: why fabricate a story that ramps up the horror of this already horrific death? To gin up anger at the terrorists? I doubt many could name the terrorist leader or his group. No, this is about Hillary and the mythology of evil invented around her. If truth isn’t your ally, what is?
Don Smith, Fresno
This story was originally published September 3, 2015 at 6:48 AM with the headline "Check your facts before spreading ‘evil’ Hillary fiction."