"Benghazi, Joe McCarthy and the witch trials: Trey Gowdy’s farcical hearings

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

tap into a deep, dark American current"

Interesting article about the what might be the underlying reasons for the GOP's obsession with Benghazi - it isn't just about Hillary. And it includes a reference to Yog-Sothoth.

What Benghazi promised the paranoid faithful, or still promises – we can’t presume that one embarrassing hearing will bring an end to this charade – was a chance to turn the tide, to strip the scales from the eyes of their benighted and deluded fellow countrymen and reveal the scope of the hideous plot to destroy America. For the conspiratorial right-wing hive mind, Benghazi is the gate and the key to the gate, like H.P. Lovecraft’s ancient and indescribable entity Yog-Sothoth. But as with the One-in-All and All-in-One of the Lovecraftian universe, opening that gate leads only to madness and oblivion: What lies beyond is the “amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity,” otherwise known as the legislative agenda of the House Freedom Caucus.

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/24/benghazi_joe_mccarthy_and_the_witch_trials_trey_gowdys_farcical_hearings_tap_into_a_deep_dark_american_current/

[Gothmog]

1. Howdy Gowdy needs to resign in shame and disgrace

[countryjake]

2. Excellent read...

This article sums up why I question DU's attempt to confine the discussions of the Benghazi "Investigation" Committee to the Primaries Forum. Those rabid inquisitors perceive the left as their ultimate sworn enemy and in their warped twisted little minds, somehow, even Hillary slips into that designation. Theatre directed at the common man who may not even know what country that disastrous affair occurred, where Libya is located or what the overthrow of Gadhafi a year earlier represented in terms of "empire"...why "America" was there at all. Just Benghazi.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

3. ^^ This

The article stumbles slightly at the outset with an obscure Yoko Ono/National Lampoon reference, but goes on to be an incredibly cogent piece on what these hearings are really about.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Isn't Yog-Sothoth still a critical part of Plan-X?

Or is that still a diversion?

[riderinthestorm]

5. K&R!! Outstanding article! nt