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" (Optional Musical Accompaniment To This Post) Anyone who thought #E-MailWhateverYouCallIt was going to fade away by the weekend can sit in at my poker table any time. And that goes double for anyone who thought our elite political media had learned anything from the shameful way it was used by various ratfking poolroom hustlers in the years 1991-2000. By now we should know that something is not true, or important, just because it &amp;quot;feeds the narrative&amp;quot; you&amp;#039;ve constructed in your heads. But, no. Tiger Beat On The Potomac has a piece today about nervous Democratic nerdlings in Iowa and New Hampshire -- And why, oh Lord, do we give these caucusing Caucasians pride of place in the process by which we pick a president? This will not be the first time I ask this question between now and November of 2016. Be advised. -- who are elbowing each other for a place in the lifeboat. (Ed Kilgore smells the sweet smell of hayshaker profiteering emanating from their deep concern for the party, and he is not wrong.) Greta Van Susteren trumpets a scooplet from Fox intelligence reporter Catherine Herridge about something or other State Department regulations. Herridge, it should be noted, is one of the more prominent Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI! obsessives even by the standard of Rupert&amp;#039;s Old Propaganda Shoppe. This, ultimately, is what this whole week of retro folderol has been about. The Republicans have not been able to monetize the death of Chris Stevens and four others into ratfking riches. The actual event has been a political dry hole, over and over again. Now, though, with the estimable help of the elite political media, they can use the conjuring word magically to expand what seems to be a violation of some archival regulations of which nobody&amp;#039;s ever heard into one of those pliable metals out of which the counterfeit coin of the ratfking realm can look just like legal tender. (Proof of that? The gnomes in Larry Klayman&amp;#039;s old shop already are busy, busy.) That, we can safely say, already has been accomplished. Oddly, at the same time that Dems In Disarray is being taken around the track one more time, other stories are popping up about how many of the possible alternatives already are outside the camp. Matt Bai is a nice feller, but this column is fking absurd. Senator Professor Warren &amp;quot;sounds like a Jacobin&amp;quot;? And, in fact, I have listened to Bernie Sanders and I never heard anything that Hubert Humphrey couldn&amp;#039;t have said in 1968. It&amp;#039;s OK if Bai wants to carry water for Joe Biden, but there&amp;#039;s no reason to do what he&amp;#039;s done to our old pal, Clio, Muse of History, also known by her Marvel superhero name, The Proclaimer (!) It almost seems as though the &amp;quot;narrative&amp;quot; people want is Anybody But Hillary, but with Hillary&amp;#039;s basic politics. It&amp;#039;s almost as though Gene McCarthy was right about political reporters and birds on a wire. This is all about getting some kind of scandal out of &amp;quot;Benghazi&amp;quot; just as the discovery of Monica Lewinsky was about getting some kind of scandal out of &amp;quot;Whitewater.&amp;quot; The actual events don&amp;#039;t matter. Only the spells you can cast with the words do. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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