For those who have wondered how such a well respected news program as 60 Minutes could have fallen for the Benghazi conspiracy theories, I think we may now have an answer.

Courtesy of Brad Blog:  

The President of CBS News is David Rhodes. He was hired in February 2011. He was formerly the Vice President of News at Fox "News". 

Again, the current President of CBS News was formerly the VP of News at Fox "News". 

According to his bio posted at CBS: "Rhodes began his career as a Production Assistant at the newly-launched Fox News Channel in 1996, where he later became Vice President of News. At the network he managed coverage of three presidential elections, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, hurricanes including Katrina, and was the channel's Assignment Manager on the news desk the morning of September 11, 2001." 

That means, as The Nation's Greg Mitchell pointed out at the height of the recent CBS News/60 Minutes Benghazi report controversy (before CBS was finally forced to retract the entire fake story), that Rhodes "was the guy who worked hand-in-glove on the biased, often propagandistic, Fox 'coverage' of the run-up to the Iraq war, the 2000/2004/2008 elections, the Plame affair, the worst years in Iraq, and all other things Bush and Cheney, and so on." 

Again, the guy who cut his teeth in the news business, beginning as a Production Assistant and working his way up to become VP at Fox "News", is now the President of CBS News.

Well now, I guess that puts everything into perspective now doesn't it?

Not only did 60 Minutes drink the Kool-aid on the Benghazi story, they have continued to carry the Right Wing water in more thinly veiled attacks against President Obama, including a clearly biased and fact free report on the President's policies on clean energy that aired Sunday night.

You know, and this may be somewhat off topic (But then again not so much), but part of the Seven Mountains Dominionist mandate (The same group behind Sarah Palin's rise to power.) is to infiltrate the secular media and start to change the focus from within to start reflecting Biblical points of view and more Christian friendly political opinions.

I'm not saying definitively that this is a product of that program, but it would not be too far off base to imagine that the Right Wing may have adopted that model as their blueprint for inserting their own sleeper cells into once trustworthy bastions of journalism.

I believe this adequately sums up the relationship that President Obama can expect to have with the Republicans in the months to come.

H/T to Brad Blog.

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For those of you who may not be completely familiar with what this lying little shit did, and how Fox News pumped him up and covered for his lies it might be educational to take a look at some of the BradBlog's amazing work on this story here (In this report O'Keefe's employer, Andrew Breitbart, tries to minimize the importance of the fact that O'Keefe did NOT dress like a pimp during his ACORN investigation is to his allegations against them) and here (In which ACORN demands a retraction from the New York Times for running with this story before getting all of the facts.)

A guest editorial over at BradBlog by Frank Shaeffer may calm the fears of those who have lost confidence in President Obama.

Obama's steady supporters will be proven right. Obama's critics will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged at best and shriveled hate mongers at worst...

Not since the days of the rise of fascism in Europe, the Second World War and the Depression has any president faced more adversity. Not since the Civil War has any President led a more bitterly divided country. Not since the introduction of racial integration has any President faced a more consistently short-sighted and willfully ignorant opposition - from both the Right and Left.

Here is what Obama faced when he took office-- none of which was his fault:

• An ideologically divided country to the point that America was really two countries
  
• Two wars; one that was mishandled from the start, the other that was unnecessary and immoral
  
• The worst economic crisis since the depression
  
• America's standing in the world at the lowest point in history
  
• A country that had been misled into accepting the use of torture of prisoners of war
  
• A health care system in free fall
  
• An educational system in free fall
  
• A global environmental crisis of history-altering proportions (about which the Bush administration and the Republicans had done nothing)
  
• An impasse between culture warriors from the Right and Left
  
• A huge financial deficit inherited from the terminally irresponsible Bush administration…

To read the rest of Schaeffer's thought provoking editorial just click the title. It may not put all of your worries to rest, but it certainly puts thing back into perspective.