A Quick Aside

I don't watch either O'Reilly or Hannity because both men have a general tendency to be Johnny One Note, harping on their side of any issue and obliterating anyone with a different opinion. However, I've watched network news and been concerned about the overwhelmingly positive media coverage of President Obama's lavish campaigning activities, from posh Hollywood parties to the ladies of The View and onto the couches of the late night's biggest names. Never has any serving President enjoyed such overt media fawning as the current President, who uses the media as his own personal PR office.

I decided this evening to see what's up with the radicals, and I must say that I'm impressed with the stories I haven't seen/heard anywhere else, including the attack on the embassy at Benghazi and who knew what, when, and why. Basically, the key American government players were in the White House SitRoom, watching in real time the attacks on American citizens at the embassy in Benghazi, and emails sent within the first two hours of the attacks made it clear that this was a planned terrorist attack and included a call for help that was never sent to them. There were those who escaped to other parts of the embassy compound and continued to fight for their lives while awaiting the help they called for, but which never came. This includes two Navy Seals who lost their lives seven hours after the initial attack, a very big window of opportunity for fellow Seals to arrive and effect escape.

Anyone who wants to know what it is like to be afraid for one's life as an American citizen in a foreign country should see Argo, a deja vu flash-forward from 1979 and a similar incident to what happened this month at the American Embassy in Benghazi. Had not one man, an "ex-fil" specialist played by Ben Afflect, been committed to saving those American lives, they, too, would have died in service to their country. The film is very well done and more than timely in its message.

I also listened more carefully to DL Hughley, a comedian and guest of Bill O'Reilly, who took great pains to clarify racism for me and other viewers. If a white candidate indicates that the President of the United States may not be telling the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, that is dispicable and racist -- the white man calling out the black man. However, if the first African American President of the United States repeatedly tells his white opponent that he is not telling the truth and is, in fact, a liar, that's just good politics reflective of the office the A-A opponent holds. Language is no longer universal, but bound in meaning and intent by the color of the skin of the user?

My mind was thinking about geese, gander, and sauces in this land of the free, home of the brave.