It was quite a day at the Benghazi hearings: sharp contradictions of the Obama administration’s account of events (regarding in particular the YouTube story and the failure to provide both security and relief), as well as clear signs of a coverup. This story is not going away.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post — which as, readers of a certain age will remember, was responsible for some very consequential investigative journalism some years back, but which now stands watch in the Cathedral’s Swiss Guard — had only this to say about the investigation of another Executive Branch, forty years on:
Who's tweeting about Benghazi? Rich, middle-aged men and Chick-fil-A lovers http://t.co/voXoD4lsWY
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 8, 2013
I knew times had changed, and not for the better, but I didn’t know we had fallen quite this far. Gone is even the least pretense of impartiality, or even dignity.
We’ll see who laughs last.
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Are you rich, middle-aged, and enamored of Chick-fil-A? Just checking.
At the least, I’d like to think I’m still middle-aged. I’ve never tried Chick-fil-A.
The comment about Chik-Fil-A really confuses me. I know he is using it (wrongly) to mean homophobe, but is it now assumed that Benghazi is a concern of homophobes?
It’s those damned white males: that racist, xenophobic, bitter, Eurocentric, gun-clinging, privileged, greedy, gay-bashing, retrogressive, black-hearted, corporate-jet-owning, bigoted, fascist cancer on the human race. The Emmanuel Goldsteins of the modern world, the one thing goodthinkful people are actually allowed to hate, and who, if they resist re-education, should save everyone else the trouble of exterminating them by slinking away to die.
Those guys.
Gee – I was under the impression that Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was gay, fairly young, cool, not rich, and one who was implementing Obama’s policy.
But maybe he liked Chick-fil-A.
With critical statistical evaluation skills like this, the WaPo would be just as honest to tweet, given that sex-selective abortion leaves the porportion of live births today as slightly over 50% male; “Who’s being born today? Males.”
@Dom – I think “Chick-fil-A lovers” is code for conservative Christians.