You’re welcome, Ellen – btw, it’s great seeing you over at C&L too.

Thanks, d d. Very interesting.

I have no doubt that BOR is mad at Romney for not attacking Obama about Benghazi. After all, he and all the other FOX “news” talking heads have spent a great deal of time and offered up copious amounts of pure speculation on the matter with hopes that Benghazi would be the so-called smoking gun that would bring Obama down just in time for the election. But even Romney’s people know that Romney stepped in it during the last debate and that there is no current proof that can directly be used to blame Obama/Biden for what happened (despite what FOX “news” wants the folks to believe).

But I also think something else is going on here with regards to BOR’s attacks on Schieffer’s performance as moderator. BOR and Schieffer have bad blood that goes back to when BOR was covering the Falklands war for CBS. BOR and a news crew shot video footage of a mob storming the Presidential palace and taking on the Argentine Army. Many were killed and it was video that no other network had. BOR had said, “it was the best news footage he had ever seen” and thought it was going to be his big moment to get the attention of the CBS brass and to gain the respect of his father. But the footage was put into Schieffer’s report from the Falklands (which aired that night on the CBS Evening News) and BOR got zero credit for it. In the end, BOR quit CBS because of it while Schieffer got a promotion.

And I hardly think it’s just mere coincidence that in BOR’s “Those Who Trespass”, he had the hero character, Shannon Michaels, (based on himself?) violently kill off a veteran correspondent character named Ron Costello who stole a Falkland war story from Michaels. That BOR would go after Schieffer’s debate performance – even when everyone else was telling him he was off his rocker for going after Schieffer who did a good job – reveals that perhaps BOR’s attacks were more personal than objective. Sure, BOR was ticked off at Romney but BOR also saw the opportunity to try and malign/ridicule his old enemy, Schieffer, and he couldn’t resist. There’s no doubt that BOR relishes the fact that he can use his FOX “news” position to go after those he believes have done him wrong. As is often the rule with BOR, look for an ulterior motive.

@bemused: Darn. And I was trying my hardest to play “Conservative Troll.”

(Now, I have to go away, hanging my head in shame. I guess it’s not as easy as “Star Trek” made it out in the “Mirror, Mirror” episode. When Kirk and crew got back to the Enterprise and asked how the “Good” Enterprise people were able to tell the Mirror crew from the “real” crew, Spock tells Kirk it was easier for them “as civilized men, to impersonate barbarians than for the barbarians to impersonate civilized men.” I guess playing right-wing stupid is a lot harder than it looks.)

Nice try, Joseph. However much you try, your sentences will always make sense, your words will always be spelled properly and you will never be capable of their degree of hatred and violence. Know what your problem is? Know what your problem is? You have a brain and you use it.

I wonder if Bill might not have heard some rumors about a pink slip with his name on it. Didn’t Glenn Beck go off the rails towards the end?

@Nayef: Sheesh. Don’t you get it yet? Bush is one of “us”—a GOPer. He gets to play by a different set of rules. We know he was born in ‘Murka. His daddy was even Vice-President to the Hallowed One Himself, Ronald Reagan. And, don’t forget who gave him those alleged memos: that hot darkie woman with the funny name that Bush really liked (of course, since Bush was married to that lovely Laura, he only like the darkie as a friend—none of that librul nonsense that he was having the secks with her). Even though she was his friend—and is supposedly a conservative like us—she’s still a darkie and can’t be completely trusted (only exploited as we need, like that idiot West and the even dumber pizza delivery guy—as if we’d have ever let him in the White House). Bush has never said he actually read any such “memos” so there’s no real proof that he ever got them (that darkie woman might have only said she gave him the “memos” to placate her real owners—the libruls who expect all the darkies to be rabble-rousers against their rightful white conservative masters).

Now, this ebil furrin-born Mooslim and his librul supporters all say how much smarter he is and that he’s able to do a whole lot of stuff at the same time, well he should’ve been able to predict what was going to happen in Benghazi (especially since there was all that other terrist stuff happening there for months). Mr Obama’s supporters say that he’s supposed to be a new Messiah but he can’t tell us what’s going to happen even after getting all the facts that he was sent directly by the CIA people in Libya but they expected President Bush to know that Obama bin Laden was going to take down the Twin Towers on 9/11 a whole month ahead of time? Why that’s insane (of course, like the beautiful Ann Coulter reminds us so frequently, libruls are insane).

(Okay, okay, folks, before you start attacking me, all the above was what you could expect from some idiot in the right-wing noise machine and blogosphere in response to Nayef’s comment. And I have to admit, it was NOT hard to do. I don’t watch FoxNoise or any of its blathering idiots—I actually try to avoid watching any of the embedded video links as well—but I guess I’ve been exposed to enough of their paid trolls and other assorted lapdogs at this site and others to know how they “think” and how they’d respond to certain questions and comments. Again—to reiterate—the above post was PURE SATIRE. Not to be taken as any opinion I would genuinely hold. In fact, I thought I was going to need to take some anti-nausea medicine while posting all that crap.)

First, O’Reilly announced that debate moderator Charles Schieffer should have told President Obama, “You screwed up” Benghazi as part of a debate question this week.

I’m sorry — weren’t these the same people who had a SH!TFIT when Candy Crowley corrected Romney at the previous debate?

.

@Lakeview Greg: " . . .just after the attacks there were a few blurbs in the news that said the US does have covert operations going on in that part of the world. Loose lips sink ships and all that. Seriously."

“asswipe Republicans.”

Remember, Greg — ‘twas a Republican Administration that outed a covert CIA agent as political retribution for that agent’s spouses criticism of that administration . . . and it was a Republican Congressman, Rep. Darrell “Maindrian Pace” Issa (R-CA), who recently released a series of documents that detailed Libyans working (undercover) with US intelligence officials.

IOKIYAR.

.

So, the attacks of 9-11-2001 were something which “will never be forgotten” but only 11 years later everyone forgot that those types of questions were not asked of Bush. How come Bush got a pass despite receiving specific memos months in advance?