A QUESTION OF SHAME?

 

On October 22, 2015 CNN provided glimpses of the lengthy session before a congressional committee investigating the role of Hillary Clinton in the “terrorist” attack on the United States embassy in Benghazi, resulting in the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others. This program was hosted by Anderson Cooper. He inquired of various guests what their opinions were in regard to her response to questions and in regard to the committee members’ questions and the overall atmosphere at the meeting.

Most of the opinions expressed admiration for Mrs. Clinton’s handling of numerous, often hostile questions, and they appeared to be generally at one that the session lasted too long and verged on brutal at times.

Among the five observers were David Gergen and Carl Bernstein. Mr. Gergen has appeared on major media programs on many occasions over the years. He has invariably been described as “an adviser to six presidents,” even though he was not holding an appointed position in the vast majority of prior administrations. Was he that effective – or was he courier?

When Carl Bernstein was asked for his view, the pudgy, wealthy author and former reporter for The Washington Post during its apex under Katherine Meyer Graham, saw fit to compare the committee focusing on Benghazi as [Joseph] McCarthy-like in its approach to Hillary Clinton.

This observation was seconded by other members of the panel.

What was curious about the Bernstein comparison of the Senate Un-American Activities Committee, chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy, with the House Benghazi Committee, chaired by Congressman Trey Gowdy, was that the fall of the U.S.S.R. allowed Western scholars to investigate many of the previously unavailable documents, which provided overwhelming confirmation that many of the government officials scrutinized by Sen. McCarthy’s committee were in fact Soviet agents. They had infiltrated various government agencies, especially DOD and State. Even the Supreme Court witnessed the infiltration of a Marxist traitor in the person of Justice Felix Frankfurter. Mr. Frankfurter was a mentor of Philip Graham, publisher of The Washington Post and husband of Katherine Meyer Graham, who was the daughter of Eugene Meyer, who bought the newspaper in or about 1930.

The others on Anderson Cooper’s panel, such as David Gergen, seemed to share this Bernstein insight.

Besides the inconvenient fact that Senator Joseph McCarthy was largely correct – and might be excused for his hostility to traitors by all but communist fellow travelers, Bernstein’s comparison suggested a sub rosa element. He may have been implying or signaling that the Benghazi Committee was threatening to become a “Jewish witch-hunt” or a threat to Israel’s security.

Since Jews had become well aware that the vast majority of anti-communist movements were thinly disguised anti-Semitic attacks, they apparently organized a counter-attack on the concept of an “Un-American” activity generally and Senator Joseph McCarthy particularly. I don’t believe there exists evidence proving that Senator McCarthy was anti-Semitic. He has been described as kind-hearted by nature. However, to be anti-communist was the same as being anti-Semitic in the eyes of many - and especially in the eyes of leftist Jews.

I now look for a general counter-attack against “unsophisticated, narrow-minded, xenophobic” Republican partisans. I expect that the Benghazi Committee hearing(s) will be framed as a “witch-hunt” and as “infamous.” I expect that “experts” will begin to suggest that these kinds of hearings will hurt the security of Israel.

Since the strength of the “Tea Party” Republicans is founded upon millions of “Zionist” Christians blindly, ardently expressing undying love for Israel and the Jews – often with the same ardent enthusiasm that the ancestors of many of them expressed for “Southern rights,” the suggestion that the Benghazi Committee would not hurt Hillary – it would hurt Israel – would annihilate any further attacks on Hillary on this issue by Republicans.