"More Problems for Romney" by Josh Marshall at TPM

[applegrove]

More Problems for Romney

by Josh Marshall at TPM

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/10/more_problems_for_romney.php?ref=fpblg

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Meanwhile, an article published yesterday afternoon in the LA Times suggests that these initial reports remain what US intelligence still believes happened: an attack with relatively little advanced planning, a high degree of disorganization and at least some level of triggering by the riots in Cairo earlier that day.

From the LAT …

The attack was “carried out following a minimum amount of planning,” said a U.S. intelligence official, who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a matter still under investigation. “The attackers exhibited a high degree of disorganization. Some joined the attack in progress, some did not have weapons and others just seemed interested in looting.”

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As I mentioned after the debate last week, Romney totally got hoisted on his own petard by the ridiculous hyperfocus on the word “terror”. But really the whole focus on this word only makes sense in a hyper-ideological mindset in which using the ‘terror’ buzzword signifies you fully understand some global war on Islamofascism which Romney’s advisors are trying to bring back from the middle years of the Bush era.

My global take remains the same: only in the final weeks of a presidential campaign, with one candidate desperate for an America under siege Carteresque tableau to play against, would this ever remotely have been treated like a scandal or cover up. A bunch of reporters basically got played and punk’d.

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[JI7]

1. the reporters didn't get " played and punk'd "

they are doing what they have been for years with their shitty reporting. they are trying to make news rather than report it. they aren't calling out Romney on his lies. they attacked Obama in the first debate and claimed Obama should have done it.

[OldDem2012]

2. Agreed. Those people get paid by the right-wing corporations who own their networks. nt.

[Mr.Bill]

3. There is no journalism on your television. None.

Hasn't been in decades.