Today is its own brand of GOP crazy over Benghazi, but today is happening because yesterday, serious Rs and conservatives decided to take the GOP seriously about Benghazi. Over at Slate yesterday John Dickerson, who is both the editor of the website and the political news director for CBS, wrote the ubiquitous Benghazi piece. Every few months the GOP gets another batch of Emails, selectively leaks information from Issa’s hearings, or simply fabricates another insane version of events. Then, a writer like Dickerson who should be smarter than this, writes a piece talking about how there are so many questions surrounding the White House reaction to Benghazi.
Spoiler alert – there aren’t.
The problem for people like Dickerson, who take this “what did the White House do wrong,” approach about Benghazi, before clearing the White House, sort of, is that it is always predicated on a first principle. That principle, if wrong, makes almost all of their conclusions and suppositions wrong. Frankly, it usually is wrong so I generally stop reading. However, Dickerson is a serious guy, and he’s a serious political thinker, so I did him the curtsey of reading his piece. He made the same first principle mistake almost all conservative writers make about Benghazi – he writes as though the GOP is A) rational, B) acting with integrity, or C) Interested in the truth. The GOP is not rational. The GOP is not acting with integrity – nor have they been since Benghazi happen. The GOP is not interested in the truth. That simple list of facts invalidates the entire examination of Benghazi. It doesn’t just politicize it, though Mr. Romney did that hours after the event happened. It totally destroys the GOP/Conservative ability examine Benghazi. Everything they say about Benghazi is flawed, is wrong, is partisan and is delusional.
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