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I saw a quip on Twitter the other day, something to the effect that George Zimmerman should change his name to Ben Ghazi and the media would stop talking about him. It made me chuckle in a sardonic sort of way, because it isn’t far from the truth. I wrote a post about the tragedy at the embassy in Benghazi right after it happened and I put a dumb film and its’ even dumber producers on blast, believing the “talking points” issued from the White House. Silly, naive me. You’d think that after all the years I’ve spent, all of those college courses I took learning about politics and politicians I’d know better. So for that, it’s a case of shame on me.
After a few weeks passed and the dust settled and the administration drafted talking points after talking points, what happened in Benghazi became barely…