On Monday, the Washington Times reported that liberal journalist Eleanor Cliff has drawn a very fine line through the language commonly used to describe the demise of Ambassador Chris Stevens at the hands of the Benghazi attackers in September of 2011, saying this to her fellow McLaughlin Group panelists:

“I’d like to point out that Ambassador Stevens was not ‘murdered’, but died of smoke inhalation in a CIA safe room.”

Kudos to Ms. Cliff for setting the record straight.  And in that same vein, it seems long overdue to bust a few other myths, such as:

• The passengers on board the airliner that died over Lockerbie, Scotland, were not murdered, they actually died of an unfortunate fall.  A very long fall.
• The occupants of the Twin Towers on the morning of September 11, 2001 were not murdered, they actually died from having something heavy dropped on them.
• The passengers on United Airlines Flight 73 that crashed into a meadow near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, also on September 11, 2001, were not murdered, they actually died from rapid deceleration.
• The 191 people who died in the March, 2004 Madrid Train Bombings were not murdered, they actually perished as a result of a massive train derailment.
• In November of 1997, the 68 foreigners who were massacred near the pyramids in Luxor, Egypt at the hands of the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya islamist terrorist group were not murdered, they actually died of tourism.
• The seventeen USS Cole sailors who were killed in the Yemeni port of Aden in October of 2000 were not murdered, they actually died as a result of a leaky boat.
• The passengers on the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 airliner, if current reports are to be believed, were not murdered, they actually died from drowning in the Indian Ocean.

Oh, and by the way, Ms. Cliff also cleared up the misconceptions about the impetus for the Benghazi terrorist.  It was all due to an internet video.