The GOP and Lassie
Recently after listening to yet more blatant lies from Fox “News” and Republican Congressmen, my wife asked me, “Why do they do that? Why do they say things that are so easily shown to be false?” Easy question, I told her, “Because it works.” I borrowed Duane Campbell’s words from his letter of May 29 to illustrate the Republican tactic of asking rhetorical questions as a pointless attempt to make a point. In his letter, he asks multiple questions from the GOP playbook on Benghazi, not seeking answers, but merely to sound serious. Benghazi has been thoroughly investigated and the conclusions from multiple investigations over 20 months were that there was no cover-up or conspiracy. To show that Campbell was not looking for answers, in the on-line comments section of the Review’s letters section, answers to Campbell’s questions were thoughtfully and respectfully presented by a writer who goes by “subscriber2”. Campbell’s on-line reply was “I love to engage on issues, and I almost