{"id":21479,"date":"2014-11-24T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21479"},"modified":"2014-11-24T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:11:53","slug":"the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21479","title":{"rendered":"The Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2014\/11\/benghazighazi.html'>Benghazi was a lot like Whitewater<\/a>, in that it never even made any sense. The Clintons are being accused of corruption so nefarious that they lost money on a land deal? What?<\/p>\n<p>Of course Whitewater led to son of Whitewater, and third cousin 7 times removed from Whitewater, etc. Maybe that ultimately was the goal of the Benghazi Show. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The points of Benghazi!!!!&trade; include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Rally The Base. Keep the rubes riled and donating.\n<li>Work The Refs. Keep the press distracted by the allegations so they won't be able to talk about anything the Dems might want to talk about.\n<li>Where There's Smoke There's FUD. Create Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt because as long as there are 'questions' and 'controversy' and someone says 'scandal' near 'Obama', a non-trivial number of people will assume there must be something to the allegations. That helps depress squishy Dem-leaning voters.\n<li>Digging In The Dirt. Having cover to launch a few Congressional investigations that could maybe turn up something real was a nice benefit, too. Never know where you might find another Lewinski. And they sound ominous even if they don't.\n<\/ol>\n<p>And since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2014\/11\/benghazi\">press doesn't care<\/a> about things that end with a whimper, the FUD will linger forever. 30 years from now, people will still believe all the GOP's lies and distortions.<\/p>\n<p>The Dems might consider getting into this game sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benghazi was a lot like Whitewater, in that it never even made any sense. The Clintons are being accused of corruption so nefarious that they lost money on a land deal? What? Of course Whitewater led to son of Whitewater, and third cousin 7 times removed from Whitewater, etc. Maybe that ultimately was the goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21484,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479\/revisions\/21484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}