The Gadfly disowned the New York Times years ago when they and their atrociously negligent reporting cheer led, along with the Washington Post, the majority of the mainstream media and some spineless Democrats, Bush and Cheney's Great Iraq Adventure. The Times has since apologized for their journalistic malfeasance (tell it to the 4000+ dead American soldiers and half a million dead Iraqis) and apparently all is lovely with the world again - or some such horseshit.
Anyhow, believe it or not, the NYT, not unlike the proverbial broken clock, does sometimes get shit right on occasion, and in the instance of the Republican's creepy obsession with their wholly owned and manufactured "scandals" of Benghazi and the IRS probes, the editors at the NYT nail it on the proverbial fucking head:
Center Ring at the Republican Circus
The hottest competition in Washington this week is among House Republicans vying for a seat on the Benghazi kangaroo court, also known as the Select House Committee to Inflate a Tragedy Into a Scandal. Half the House has asked to “serve” on the committee, which is understandable since it’s the perfect opportunity to avoid any real work while waving frantically to right-wing voters stomping their feet in the grandstand.
They won’t pass a serious jobs bill, or raise the minimum wage, or reform immigration, but House Republicans think they can earn their pay for the rest of the year by exposing nonexistent malfeasance on the part of the Obama administration. On Thursday, they voted to create a committee to spend “such sums as may be necessary” to conduct an investigation of the 2012 attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The day before, they voted to hold in contempt Lois Lerner, the former Internal Revenue Service official whom they would love to blame for the administration’s crackdown on conservative groups, if only they could prove there was a crackdown, which they can’t, because there wasn’t.
Both actions stem from the same impulse: a need to rouse the most fervent anti-Obama wing of the party and keep it angry enough to deliver its donations and votes to Republicans in the November elections. For a while it seemed as if the Affordable Care Act would perform that role, but Republicans ran into a problem when the country began to realize that it was not destroying American civilization but in fact helping millions of people.
Party leaders needed something more reliable, so they went back and revived two dormant scandals from last year, the embers of which were faithfully tended by Republican adjuncts on Fox News and talk radio. Their hope is to show that the administration is corrupt and untrustworthy, and if Hillary Rodham Clinton also gets roughed up in the process, so much the better.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/opinion/center-ring-at-the-republican-circus.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0
...... Tepid applause from The Gadfly's gallery.
The Gadfly supposes that he should be somewhat grateful that the New York Times is finally, and publicly acknowledging the dirty little (not so secret) secret that us dirty fucking hippie bloggers out here in Blogistan have been raging about for years -- namely that the modern day incarnation of the GTeaOP is not, in the least sense, interested in participating in the hard work of governing the country and working on behalf of safeguarding ALL American's best interests. They have fully embraced the afflictive concept of party, ideology & tribe first, country second. Their hatred for the commie, Muslim, Kenyan, terrorist appeasing negro in the White House is their entire party platform in sum total. The failure and personal destruction of President Obama is all they care about and it is the lifeblood of their ideology in it's present form.
The other not-so-secret secret that the New York Times belatedly appears to have belatedly discovered is that Fox "News" is not a news organization. It play pretends that it is, but it isn't. Fox "News" is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch and his fellow oligarchs in the investor class and in all practicality, functions as nothing more than a high-powered marketing (propaganda) firm masquerading as a "news" organization while shilling 24x7 on behalf of the conservative movement and the Tea Party. And if the New York Times has finally accepted the reality of that reality, then perhaps there is hope yet for the salvation of the mainstream media in this country yet.
Nonetheless, the question at this point is, what else, other than a single op-ed piece, is the New York Times prepared to do to inform Americans of the insidious disease that right-wing conservatism is, and the damage that it is willfully inflicting on this country and it's citizenry with their zealous scandal mongering? Meanwhile, a myriad of issues that are impacting the daily lives of millions of Americans and small business owners go unacknowledged because the Tea Party, who let's face it, truly are the face of the Republican party these days, would much prefer to spend their time and the taxpayer's money chasing their own tail around in dizzyingly dumb circles in pursuit of the precious -- the golden Obama scandal -- which in the reality-based world that they obviously do not inhabit, is nothing more than a crayola crayon created masterpiece culled from the vacuous depths of their own fevered imaginations.
If the New York Times truly wishes to atone for it's role in the Iraq war catastrophe, then making it a mission to tell the American people the truth about the conservative's and the oligarch's agenda for America's future is the first step in the right direction toward that penance. As such, they have gotten off on the right foot with this op-ed exposing the arrogant fraudulence and the inanity of the Benghazi/IRS flim-flammery of the right.
Keep it up NYT - your celestial redemption depends on it.
----TFG
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