Generally speaking, the silly season is the four to six-month period before a major election when you are deluged by television and radio ads and phone calls from various candidates. It is a time when you have to look behind everything you hear to see who is putting the information out there and if there is any money involved in your hearing it. If you are a low-information voter, you will probably be totally mislead by the process. If you are a high-information voter, you may be slightly wiser, but you will be sick of the entire process by the time the election arrives. Right now we are in the run-up to the November 2014 Congressional elections, but the day after that election, the 2016 presidential election campaign begins. Actually, it has already begun.
Today, John Hinderaker at Power Line posted an article about a New York Times article about Benghazi. The New York Times is already preparing the way for Hillary Clinton to run for President in 2016. It is preparing the way by rewriting the history of Benghazi in a way that scrubs out any lies or mistakes made by the Hillary Clinton State Department and places the blame for the death of Ambassador Stevens anywhere but on Hillary Clinton.
The article at Power Line reports:
The Times, attempting to shore up Hillary Clinton’s 2016 candidacy, tries to show that the attacks on American facilities in Benghazi that took place on September 11, 2012, were not orchestrated by al Qaeda. The paper’s reporter reaches this conclusion, as Paul and Tom show, by simply ignoring most of the relevant facts. Further, the paper tries to resurrect the theory that an obscure YouTube video had something to do with the death of four Americans. Sure, that’s highly plausible: for the first time ever, movie critics were armed with mortars.
The article at Power Line asks three basic questions:
1. Why didn’t Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, respond to any of Ambassador Chris Stevens’ several requests for increased security?
2. Where were Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the night of September 11, 2012, and what orders, if any, did they give?
3. Why haven’t the perpetrators of the murders been found and punished?
I’m not likely to vote for Hillary Clinton for President, but I still would like to see those questions answered before she runs for office.
