Twilight Zone

The media loves the Petraeus scandal only for its voyeuristic qualities.  Yet they exhibit no curiosity about how the scandal ties into the Benghazi massacre.  Only a few minutes with CNN this morning showed me the depths of media insanity; The CNN reporter and anchorette spent their segment discussing Benghazi poking fun at, guess who, Republicans!

The CNN folks think it's hilarious that silly Republicans are imagining bizarre conspiracy theories linking the Petraeus sex scandal and Benghazi.  Of course they show not a hint of curiosity about why President Obama sent out Susan Rice to weave the false narrative about Benghazi happening as a spontaneous demonstration. 

They ignore the facts that can't be disputed about the incident, from the fact everybody in government knew the demonstration story was false before Rice ever appeared on the first Sunday show.  That whenever a reporter (never one from CNN) has the gall to ask Obama a question about Benghazi, his only answer is something like:

The perpetrators will be brought to justice

and

An internal investigation will bring all the facts to light.

No disclosure of how the first will be accomplished, nor who's been assigned to run the investigation.  No explanation of why it takes an internal investigation to find out what Obama already knows, considering he's the one giving the orders.

So Charles Krauthammer said that Petraeus repeated the false line about the spontaneous demonstration back in September because the Obama adminstration already knew about his affair and was threatening to make it public and ruin his career if he didn't toe the company line.  But the day after the election they figured they didn't need that leverage anymore and just went ahead and destroyed him anyway.  Did Charles get that information from somebody who knew, or did he merely draw a conclusion from available information?

Theoretically we'll find out when Petraeus shows up to testify in front of Congress.  What I can't figure out is what he's actually going to tell them.  Its hard to believe Obama would allow him to expose the White House's malfeasance - I sort of think he's assassinate Petraeus first.  So either Petraeus is still somehow compromised and unable to testify to the truth, or he'll simply refuse to answer the questions come Friday.

Because there's no other logical explanation for Benghazi than the President ordered the rescuers to stand down, then was the source or at least approved the false narrative on the cause, then sent Susan Rice out to spin the false story, and has been actively suppressing all attempts to learn the truth ever since.  No way does he let Petraeus tell the truth on Friday.

And the media remains clueless and incurious.