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kpete

(71,998 posts)
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 10:56 AM Nov 2014

Benghazi & What Fair & Balanced Would Look Like - by BooMan

I am but a lowly blogger, bereft of my parents' basement since they traded suburban bliss for the retirement home. My jammies are torn and frayed and I'm running dangerously low on Cheetos. Who am I, then, to take on the laborious task of countering the six trillion hours of media coverage that aired on the "Benghazi Scandal" with an equal and countervailing amount of coverage on the now established fact that it was ALL bullshit from the start? This is clearly not my job.

It won't be anyone's job, of course. But it should be. Any media outlet that lent credence to this "debate" ought to spend the next three-plus years publishing articles and airing pieces on the extent to which this was all a cynical and spiteful lie from the beginning. They should keep doing these pieces no matter how much it outrages and annoys their audiences. They should do it long after it has any potential to edify the public. They should beat it like a dead horse until people do parodies of the media for beating dead horses, and then should keep doing it for several years after that.

Every day should be Susan Rice Vindication Day. We should wake every morning to mockery of Darrell Issa and go to sleep each night to ridicule of Mitt Romney. This should go on until all decent people have long ago given up and stopped begging for it to stop.

And, sometime in late 2017, we will have reached Fair & Balanced coverage of the tragedy in Benghazi.

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