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American Prestige

Introducing Fiasco: Benghazi — The Dictator

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Here’s a preview from a podcast you might enjoy, Fiasco: Slow Burn co-creator Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the reality of America’s most pivotal historical events, bringing life to the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. In his new season, Leon looks at the 2012 Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead—and the ensuing political storm, which raised questions about America’s role in the world, established a playbook to weaponize attention in the social media age, and ultimately changed the course of U.S. history. Find Fiasco: Benghazi wherever you get podcasts and binge the entire season with a Pushkin plus subscription – sign up on the Fiasco Apple Podcasts show page or at pushkin.fm/plus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Prestige Heads, it's Derek. Today, we're changing things up a little bit and bringing

0:04.3

you a preview of another podcast we think you'll like. From Leon Nafak, co-creator of Slow Burn and

0:10.1

5'4, comes Fiasco. As listeners of American Prestige, we know you're looking for both a thorough

0:15.9

analysis on news from around the world and the historical context that got us to this point. On fiasco, Leon

0:22.4

transports listeners into the reality of America's most pivotal historical events, bringing life

0:27.6

to the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. He's dug into

0:33.2

political firestorms like Iran, Contra, and Bush v. Gore, and now on the new season of fiasco,

0:39.4

Leon looks at the 2012 Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead and the ensuing political

0:45.0

storm, which raised questions about America's role in the world, established a playbook to weaponize

0:49.9

attention in the social media age, and ultimately changed the course of U.S. history.

0:54.8

In this episode, Leon looks at how a prison massacre under Libya's longtime leader,

0:59.5

Moramar Gaddafi, set the stage for the attack. Here's the preview. We hope you like it.

1:04.6

And if you do, find Fiasco, Benghazi, wherever you get podcasts. And if you can't wait to hear

1:09.9

more, you can binge the entire season

1:11.8

with a Pushkin Plus subscription.

1:14.0

Sign up on the Fiasco Apple Podcasts show page

1:17.1

or at pushkin.fm slash plus.

1:20.3

Thanks for listening

1:21.3

and keep on rocking in the free world.

1:30.7

Pushkin. Pushkin.

1:35.1

On the night of September 11, 2012, four Americans were killed in Benghazi, a city in Libya

1:48.6

on the Mediterranean Sea.

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