“We came, we saw, he died!” laughed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in October of 2011.  And why not?  For Hillary, Libya had been a resounding success, an important résumé-enhancer for the future first female president of the United States.  That he died a horrific death at the hands of the animals in the street was of little consequence.

But fate is fickle.  Just a few months later, on September 11, 2012, an attack was underway against our embassy personnel in Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi.  Our ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was captured and died a horrific death at the hands of the animals in the street.

Our Libyan “friends,” who were supposed to be grateful recipients of American liberation, had just turned and attacked us.  The Libyan adventure had just turned into a political career-destroyer.  All hopes for the presidency were rapidly fading.  One can only imagine the panic in the Clinton camp. 

Something was needed to deflect the blame for the fiasco in Benghazi, and it was needed fast.  Then, the perfect vehicle presented itself: an anti-Muslim video.  We don’t know if the video was a known fallback position or if by chance it appeared miraculously just before the Benghazi attack occured. 

For any lie to succeed, it must be believable.  The world was well aware that those “crazy Muslims” would riot at the drop of a Mohammed cartoon.  Who wouldn’t believe that the “crazy Muslims” would riot over an anti-Muslim video?

So Hillary and the administration trotted out the lie that a video caused the Benghazi attack. In the most somber tones, Hillary chastised us, lecturing us how wrong it was to “denigrate the religious beliefs of others.”  In reality, Hillary and the administration were using the “crazy Muslims” to protect their political derrieres.  As long as they had “plausible deniability,” which is what the “crazy Muslim” meme gave them, their political careers could be saved.

A neat trick, acting outraged over something that never happened, all the while using the “crazy Muslim” story to protect your political future.  The icing on the cake was when all the media fell into line and repeated the lie, from the New York Times to CNN to all the major news outlets, both foreign and domestic.  The “crazy Muslim” lie was the story the public came to believe…and she almost got away with it.