Poor Darrell Issa. He probably thought this was going to be his day. Wall-to-wall coverage of his hearing with the Benghazi whistle-blowers on cable news. The lead story on the national news broadcasts. Fox News was probably looking forward to putting things into the worst possible light for the Obama administration, with live coverage of the hearings and then "analysis" on their opinion shows (The Five, O'Reilly, Hannity). The public would be so outraged and there would be so much damage to the administration that both Obama and Biden would have to resign to avoid impeachment, and Hillary Clinton would be permanently damaged for 2016.
Too bad for them that very few people will remember what was said in the hearing today as the other news of the day will suck all the oxygen out of the media coverage. It began on Monday with the rescue of the three women who had been kidnapped in Cleveland. More lurid details were bound to come out (like reports of a naked woman seen in the backyard) which would interest the public more than the Congressional testimony. Then, this morning, right in the middle of the hearings, two of the victims went home. CNN and MSNBC went with live coverage of that, and even Fox broke away to cover the return of Gina Dejesus. And after that, it was announced that there was a verdict in the Jody Arias case. That as opposed to Benghazi was the lead story on both Shepard Smith's and Neil Cavuto's programs. As I write this, none of the Fox opinion shows have aired, so I don't know where they're going to go. But I think Sean Hannity is going to have difficulty getting traction on Benghazi on a day like today.
You can argue about the priorities of the viewing public favoring the sensational over the more substantive news. But that's a discussion for another time. The net result is that the Benghazi hearing is going to be the third story on the national news at best and is unlikely to sway anybody one way or the other. Poor Darrell Issa and Fox News. . . not!
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Edit: Aw shucks, Batman. Thanks for the rec list everybody!