But everyone ignored it! I watched some of the Congressional committee hearings on the murder of four American officials in Benghazi last year. I'm afraid I lost my temper - yes, I know, difficult to imagine, but I did! - because Fox News is rubbish! When Sky News reports on some important happening, say, a Parliamentary committee hearing on a 'headline' case, they broadcast the whole thing without interruptions for adverts. Not so with Fox News-interruptus, if I may rename it. I suppose there is some excuse for the adverts in that they pay for the lights and heating, etc, but there is no excuse for giving valuable time to all those bimbettes with fright-white teeth who proceed to tell us all again what we just heard - whilst the live proceedings are going on without us! I used to be in love with Megan Kelly but now she has joined the rather large group of people on TV whose faces I want to punch!
Anyway, I saw just about enough to be well and truly sickened. It was politicians doing what politicians do which is bad enough on the normal day-to-day stuff but this concerned the murders of four public servants aided and abetted by gross governmental inefficiences and sullied beyond shame by a deliberate campaign of outright lying by the White House and the State Department then under 'HillBilly's' control. If the Republican membes of the committee were salivating at the chance to land hard punches on the Obama apparat they at least had virtue on their side as they sought to uncover the cover up. The Democrats, or at least the ones Fox News-interruptus allowed me to see from time to time, were utterly despicable, full of cant and humbug, weeping crocodile tears on behalf the dead men, assuring the so-called 'whistle-blowers' that there would be no retaliation against their careers, before laying into them and more or less accusing them of lying.
If I was an American I would be deeply ashamed. If I was a member of one of the victims' families, I would be in despair. As it is, I'm an Englishman, and I wouldn't trust the Obama apparat or the Democrat party as far as I could piss into a gale! Obama almost succeeds in making Putin look like a straight arrow!
Mister Duff? Of near Somerset?
You've one of my doo-flicker thingies?
Now I'll be turning the keyboard over to my greatest-bestest friend JK.
Er, wait, did I read this correctly?
I'm afraid I lost my temper - yes, I know, difficult to imagine, but I did! - because Fox News is rubbish!
Rupert M.
Uhm ... David?
There's a old sort of fellow who seems to slip into "Aussie" as he's just read D&N his neck veins've started popping out - say's he sent you (at his expense) some 'doo-flicker' something or n'ther. Frankly the fellow kinda skeers me.
You've David, already had total knee and hip replacements ain't you? Oh (what Rupe? - okay okay I always thought he was a pretty good sort but what the heck do I know of British second-hand car traders?)
Uhm David?
I've a really really MAD guy here in Arkansas telling me I'm about to take a trip to Somerset so's he can have "Uri" cut somebody's balls off during his regular swim.
You don't David, know any older sorts of English-persons who do morning swims does you?
Posted by: JK | Friday, 10 May 2013 at 12:54
(Pssst David?
Very very quiet now. Apparently there'll be somebody name of "Vlad" waiting behind some gravemarker to help you somehow or another should you miss a swim.
I told him of course, you'd never mentioned you swamed in the English mornings.
Never never never mentioned you swamed.
I did admit David, you've done some 'breast-stroking' - I sure hope Uri can fly this damn Lear Jet.
Either Uri or Vlad will see you soon. I have to wait at Heathrow apparently.
Posted by: JK | Friday, 10 May 2013 at 13:19
And you'd trust the Republicans?
Off to check out the Libertarians.
Posted by: Louise | Friday, 10 May 2013 at 13:19
JK, I was beginning to wonder where you had got to in recent days. Alas, your 'Arkanese' is getting even harder to follow but just tell Vlad and Uri that whilst I might be a soft target the 'Memsahib' is invincible!
Louise, good to hear from you again. No, I do not trust the Republicans that much - just more than I trust this particular bunch of Democrats. 'Lying liars' is insufficient as a description!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 10 May 2013 at 14:10
Okay David. I'm safe I reckon - my passport was missing something or another.
Now's lemme see - okay again - but this was from sometime ago you understand?
"From Gadhafi to Benghazi is republished with permission of Stratfor."
Posted by: JK | Friday, 10 May 2013 at 18:30
And Lest We Forget this was NOT ALL Sparklefart's doing's
May we allow ourselves a Centotaph at this early stage?
David? You recall both me and our NYC 'e-pal' saying, Hey you Frogs and our Friends [not all of us are endowed with sparkles] if you NATO guys want us to overthrow somebody - why not Brussels?
As was pointed out a month prior:
http://www.nationalreview.com/content/libyas-makeover
(Thanks very much NATO buddies - hopefully next time you'll call on us to invade The Virgin Islands!)
Posted by: JK | Friday, 10 May 2013 at 19:08
David
Do you get CSpan over there? They broadcast all sorts of public hearing without interruption.
And if you miss it they usually have an archive for viewing later.
http://www.c-span.org/Events/House-Hearing-on-US-Consulate-Attack-in-Benghazi/10737437474/
http://eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com/
Hank’s Eclectic Meanderings
Posted by: Hank | Saturday, 11 May 2013 at 01:09
JK, I do wish you would take pity on what passes for my brain and just make your point in plain, simple English. I hope you are not trying to say that somehow the attack on your consulate and its result was somehow the fault of other NATO governments. The fact is that *your* government and *your* military 'cocked-up' big time! Then your government lied, and lied and lied again in order to cover up their inefficiencies, and the so-called 'guardians of the people' in Congress, or at least, the Democrat half of them, joined in by lying some more. Throughout, your MSM (with one honourable exception) remained mute. Yesterday's leader in the NYT, written after the Congressional hearings, was a pile of stinking manure of which they should be ashamed. Finally, yesterday, following ABC's revelations they now seem to have been shamed into action judging by the savaging Jay Carney reeived at his press conference.
C-span?! Oh dear, that sounds like a vey techie techie-thingie and almost certainly above my pay grade, Hank. Even so, I intend to find out about it because I think American politics is going to be very interesting over the next few months and years - especially now that the IRS has admitted targeting Republican supporters.
Posted by: David Duff | Saturday, 11 May 2013 at 08:49