The Corner: Who gets a Walter Cronkite Award, for excellence in journalism, after 3 days of work?

"His first television show has only been on the air for three days, but Ronan Farrow is already winning awards for his journalistic work. Reach the World, a global education group, will honor the 26-year-old Farrow with its annual Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism."

"Prior to the debut of his show, Ronan Farrow Daily, on Monday, Farrow worked as an adviser to the State Department and with UNICEF, among other humanitarian efforts; he’s contributed to various publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic."

NRO.

"Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll."

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David Kirkpatrick, author of NYT Benghazi piece claiming no Al Qaeda involvement

If by Al Qaeda you mean the organization started by Bin Laden. No, the attack on the Benghazi consulate was carried out by locals. They are all well known around those parts. Their histories known. Nothing worthwhile to see here.

Nothing except the spectacle of a grown man fellating Hillary Clinton in public. It is unsightly and unbecoming a professional journalist. The effort falls far short of what is already known. Journalistic curiosity fails to cover why the Ambassador was ordered to that specific compound on that specific day and why the consulate was insufficiently protected. The answers to that still are wanting,  and further, no curiosity at all concerning the whereabouts of the most significant person in government, apparently, and we all know why. David Kirkkpatrick's own immobilizing patronizing racism.

But none of that matters. The report is already counterattacked all over the place, and the distraction has already served its dual purpose of another cyclical temporary squirrel for Obama, and simultaneously terrain preparation for Hillary Clinton. Look at this guy. This is my little sister, haunting me, haunting me again, her irrational ways so obvious. Say whatever you wish, it will not compute properly, she is occupied preparing the next attack.

Let's speak our own language and short circuit the prepared discussion as Ted Cruz does earlier, ask why this is coming up now after being roundly dismissed as irrelevant for so long even though we already know why, the answer does not matter, and while David Kirkpatrick or whoever formulates their answer if they care to, we'll be formulating the next line of damaging questions, observations, remarks no matter the response. That is how we talk nowadays, mutual understanding is not the aim.

Who cares if it was Al Qaeda, or offshoot, or rival, or nothing related at all,that is not the point. Hillary Clinton's own incompetency is the point, that is the reason why Hillary Clinton has over her a big fat spray painted X and this prime coat attempt is not going to stop the bleed through.