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Fox News is disgusting for her to downplay Fox News, and I think the American people knew Fox News. She did nothing about Fox News at the time, and this tragedy was entirely preventable, except her State Department was inept in protecting Americans in Benghazi, i ’m sure she ca n’t even look in the mirror and face the fact that, on her watch, they lost four Americans, and it’s disgusting she ca n’t live up to it, even today. – Jason Chaffetz	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They tried to downplay it, that wasn't good enough for me. – Cory Synan	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
If we continue to downplay the threat, we do so at our own peril. – Patrick Dunleavy	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The Obama administration has tended to downplay, to belittle, the ideological importance of the problem, you can't explain away the terrorism problem as a matter of economic and political frustration. – Douglas Feith	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The claims about men's greater interest in sex... are laughable, a contemporary teenager could explain to the author how and why men make greater claims about their sexual interests and experiences and women downplay theirs. – Sarah Green	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If anyone touches a hair on a black person, it's international news, whereas the most horrific crimes imaginable are inflicted on whites all the time, and I think the media kind of wants to downplay that. – Bradley Griffin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
My mistake was perhaps to downplay a bit at the beginning of the show. – Fabrice Bregier	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They will continue to downplay his role and play up the role of his older brother, trying to create the impression that his older brother was the puppeteer and he was the puppet, i don't think they have any hope of prevailing in the guilt phase, but their strategy will continue to be to gain some credibility with the jury by conceding what they had to concede and hoping to try to humanize the kid a little bit so that will carry over into the second phase of the trial. – Christopher Dearborn	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Last week's carefully managed rollout was designed to downplay the plans of a massive intrusion in the Internet economy ... . I have now read the 332-page plan. It is worse than I had imagined. – Ajit Pai	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Fox News is disgusting for her to downplay Fox News, and I think the American people knew Fox News. She did nothing about Fox News at the time, and this tragedy was entirely preventable, except her State Department was inept in protecting Americans in Benghazi, i ’m sure she ca n’t even look in the mirror and face the fact that, on her watch, they lost four Americans, and it’s disgusting she ca n’t live up to it, even today.

– Jason Chaffetz

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They tried to downplay it, that wasn't good enough for me.

– Cory Synan

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If we continue to downplay the threat, we do so at our own peril.

– Patrick Dunleavy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The Obama administration has tended to downplay, to belittle, the ideological importance of the problem, you can't explain away the terrorism problem as a matter of economic and political frustration.

– Douglas Feith

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The claims about men's greater interest in sex... are laughable, a contemporary teenager could explain to the author how and why men make greater claims about their sexual interests and experiences and women downplay theirs.

– Sarah Green

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If anyone touches a hair on a black person, it's international news, whereas the most horrific crimes imaginable are inflicted on whites all the time, and I think the media kind of wants to downplay that.

– Bradley Griffin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My mistake was perhaps to downplay a bit at the beginning of the show.

– Fabrice Bregier

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They will continue to downplay his role and play up the role of his older brother, trying to create the impression that his older brother was the puppeteer and he was the puppet, i don't think they have any hope of prevailing in the guilt phase, but their strategy will continue to be to gain some credibility with the jury by conceding what they had to concede and hoping to try to humanize the kid a little bit so that will carry over into the second phase of the trial.

– Christopher Dearborn

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Last week's carefully managed rollout was designed to downplay the plans of a massive intrusion in the Internet economy ... . I have now read the 332-page plan. It is worse than I had imagined.

– Ajit Pai

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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