By Bernie
Quigley
For The Hill
on 11/29/12
Those too
young to have been there might have caught the clip on YouTube. The final scene
in the Monty Python classic, Holy Grail, where the mad peasants are being dragged
away by the hair by London bobbies. They take advantage of the moment to shout
at the TV cameras, “Look! The violence inherent in the system!” It was classic strategy
of the trained apparatchik of the day to use the moment to politicize a greater
purpose. In time things improved. Watergate maybe cleared the air and people
for awhile began to talk straight again. But this is what we are seeing again
with Susan Rice on Capitol Hill.
The use of
violence at Bengasi was instantaneously utilized for a greater and broader political
(propaganda) objective. The troubling thing here is that what they keep calling
the “talking points” connecting the violent acts to the greater (propaganda)
purpose were passed along by an American diplomat and United States Ambassador
to the United Nations to five TV stations and to other media. As they are
saying, they appear to have originated elsewhere; the state department, the
CIA, perhaps the Obama administration. But troubling is maybe the wrong word:
Horrifying is potentially the right word. Because the propagandized press
“spinning” the violence was of course what was fully intended by the purveyors
of the violence which we know now was related to Al Qaeda.
The
bewilderment of northern New England’s rock solid senators, Kelly Ayotte and Susan
Collins, coming forth from hearings to give America its first briefings had a
haunting quality; a remembrance of things past. Those old enough might recall
Watergate. We have seen that bewilderment before with the folkloric North
Carolina venerable Senator Sam Ervin and his trusty Tennessee colleague Howard
Baker, both honorable to a core, making the case then at Watergate that
something was not quite right. Same here. And Americans need to know what.
These hearings should be expanded and televised until we get to the bottom of
it.
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