…become ludicrous.

Oh, I think they passed ludicrous weeks ago. As the video at the link asks, what did the president know, and when did he know it? And no one was killed in Watergate.

What the administration did:

The administration stripped our diplomats of effective security, kept stripping their security in spite of our diplomats’ pleas and warnings, watched helplessly as they died, isolated, thousands of miles from home, then proceeded to lie loudly and shamelessly before the smoke had even cleared from the burning consulate. Words fail as I think of the fear and panic of our public servants’ last moments — effectively abandoned by the country they loved and served.

If the rest of the MSM can’t investigate this story — and hold public officials accountable for their grotesque and obvious failures — then they truly are beyond redemption.

Fortunately, it looks like they finally are. At least Jake Tapper is, and I think that the media is going to have to throw Obama under the bus, as it becomes more and more clear that he can’t hope to win. Particularly after Romney brings this up in the last two, and especially final, debates.

…from Lara Logan:

“There is this narrative coming out of Washington for the last two years,” Logan said. It is driven in part by “Taliban apologists,” who claim “they are just the poor moderate, gentler, kinder Taliban,” she added sarcastically. “It’s such nonsense!”

Logan stepped way out of the “objective,” journalistic role. The audience was riveted as she told of plowing through reams of documents, and interviewing John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan; Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and a Taliban commander trained by al-Qaida. The Taliban and al-Qaida are teaming up and recruiting new terrorists to do us deadly harm, she reports.

She made a passionate case that our government is downplaying the strength of our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as a rationale of getting us out of the longest war. We have been lulled into believing that the perils are in the past: “You’re not listening to what the people who are fighting you say about this fight. In your arrogance, you think you write the script.”

There’s an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. Guess that a brutal gang rape can have the same effect.

But hey, it’s not the Muslims’ fault they’re so misogynistic and rapey and stuff. It’s just the way they were raised. We have to have sympathy for them.

Seriously, this should be serious debate fodder for Romney, in both debates, but particularly the final one.

“Apologize to the Jews.”

Don’t hold your breath, Professor. Tutu is another sign of the degeneracy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Panetta: “We may have lost track of some Syrian chemical weapons.”

Here’s what I don’t get. I’ve seen all these stories over the past few months about “Syria’s chemical weapons,” in which they are discussed as though it’s the most natural thing in the world that Syria would have chemical weapons. No one ever seems to ask how they acquired them. Frank Salvato was asking the same question in July.

Chris Stevens is dead, Al Qaeda is alive.

[Update a few minutes later]

Surprise! The Nobel Peace Prize winner has not earned his award.

[Update a while later]

Dispatches from the war that nobody wants:

As everybody knows, there is no such thing as a global war on terror anymore. Instead we live in a harmonious world of interfaith comity with only the occasional criminal act that is quickly and competently handled by law enforcement officials. As a result we can cut our defense budgets and get on with the real business of life, which is to say watching TV, going to the mall and voting to re-elect the strategic geniuses whose wise decisions and firm but thoughtful leadership gave us this tranquil world order.

As we celebrate this new age of peace, understanding and joy, here are a few stories that might matter if we didn’t have such a wise and level-headed government in Washington that was bent on soothing and quieting what might otherwise be an aroused and worried public opinion.

Unfortunately, it’s not true that nobody wants it. The enemy does. They know that you can’t win if you don’t fight.

Worse than Watergate. Actually, Bill Clinton’s felonies were, too. But nothing can ever be worse than Watergate to the press when a Democrat is involved.