When the Mad Hatter asks why a raven is like a writing desk, we
recognize that the question is intentionally absurd. What about the
question of why Fox News seems to have given more coverage to the attack
on the Benghazi embassy over 2 years ago than to anything in recent
memory? As it relates to the Republican refusal to allow spending on
embassy security, we might as well find some connection to ravens and
writing desks because the relentless hammering on the importance of the
incident isn't about the administrations "policies" as concerns
terrorism, it's about Hillaryphobia. It's a coverup for their own
negligence and misdeeds and failures. Steve Benin writes that the
Fox aired nearly 1,100 segments over 20 months without any substantive
revelations of any culpability and has yet to reveal any reasons to be
horrified about anyone but the Republicans in Congress.
I read in Media Matters that Foxed and Cloroxed host Elisabeth
Hasselbeck tweeted the demand for the same transparency about Benghazi
and the fake IRS scandal as we demand from the NFL. Why is it so hard
for the rear end of America to see the absurdity of this obsession, the
need to connect everything to Benghazi and the cover-up that never was.
I
could go on about the efficacy of the Big Lie, the oft-told lie, but
it doesn't help. I had reluctantly to 'de-friend' someone I've admired
on Facebook the other day, when he replied furiously to my comment that
there was no scandal there and he'd have to come up with a better reason
for his Obamabashing. It won't be the last time I have to do that, I'm
sure, because it's an article of faith that has to be protected from the heretical truth.
Is there a treatment for our national mental disease? Is everything about Benghazi because nothing is about Benghazi?
Is it all because the people with desperate need to hate him and his
party have such a hard time finding reasons after all these years of
dire and disastrous predictions yet to come true?
Why is Fox like a news network? Like the Mad Hatter's riddle, it isn't a riddle at all.
I'm stupid, and this is a stupid question, but why is anyone still wasting time and energy this?
ReplyDeleteOh, that's right everyone feels the need to feed the beast so to speak.
Everything that's not important is, and everything that is important isn't.
Or something like that.
Think I'll have a beer and pickled egg.
PS: Hasselbeck is a hottie though I must say.
Hardly a stupid question. I think the answer is that there is nothing else on the agenda but the absolute need to defeat Democrats and to make Republicans feel like it's a good idea. When you have no facts, you make them up and when you hate, you gobble up the lies.
DeleteYour post fits nicely with the one I posted over at P.E.
ReplyDeleteTrying to make sense of FAUX NOOZ is like trying to find out why those 3 sisters the dormouse talked about lived at the bottom of a treacle well.
The answer: Because they were well-in.
Oh I think they make plenty of sense, once you realize they're evil.
DeleteThere is a relationship between a raven and a writing desk.
ReplyDeleteEdgar Allan Poe wrote on both of them.
Both contain carbon compounds?
ReplyDeleteWe can reasonably assume that Voltaire ( "This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.") would observe that FoxNews-Fair and Balanced is neither news, nor fair and is certainly unbalanced.
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