re: #29 freetoken

CBS Face The Nation, hosted by Bob Scheiffer, he of “debate” fame who abandoned any notion of foreign policy in a “foreign policy debate”, guides a group of talking heads in trying to mix BENGHAZI!! with the Petraeus-sex-pentagon thingy:

Israel using Gaza as “warm-up” round for Iran?

Yeah, I thought the title of the online article is misleading too, given the actual subject matter of the clip from FTN.

Anyway, such a clusterfuck of talking head idiocy. These folk have to keep any and every “scandal” going just to justify their outrageous salaries, and you and I are not better for it.

I watched Face the Nation this morning. McCain was on. It took him about 2.5 minutes to go from discussing the Gaza situation to OMG BENGHAZI. To Scheiffer’s credit, he at least pressed in on the Ambassador Rice issue. I used to get irritated when Scheiffer didn’t call some people on the bs they were spouting (eg at least two of the things McCain said he has serious questions about and Americans need to know were already answered in a NY Times article and Petreaus’s hearing on Friday….), but then I started to figure out that he just has certain guests pegged—why confront McCain when he’s obviously got an irrational laser sight on Benghazi? The best you can do is start asking what guiding questions you can when your guest takes a completely unrelated topic—the Gaza situation—and manages to leap and bound over to the Benghazi question in under five minutes. *shakes head ruefully* The real problem here is that someone steeped in old man fear is on the Senate Armed Services Committee and thus on shows like Face the Nation all the time.

The one thing he said that sounded interesting to me was his suggestion that former president Clinton might be a good choice for handling negotiations in the current Hamas-Israel conflict. That has an intriguing sound to me, though I’m not sure whether Clinton would/could have the impact McCain seems to think he could.