The Benghazi story just exploded.  Watch the following video from CBSnews:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57582929/official-we-knew-benghazi-was-a-terrorist-attack-from-the-get-go/

Bob Schieffer is as main stream as media gets.    The rest of the main stream media will sit up and take notice.  It is a stark reminder of how the news media used to operate.  He started with the following:

Well we start with the story that won’t go away…. today there is new information raising questions about whether there was a cover-up by the State Department to deflect criticism that it had ignored requests for more security for its people in Libya.

Note:  It was Schieffer who used the word cover-up and he brought it up again several times.  It was also Schieffer who said it was to “deflect criticism for ignoring requests for more security”.  The exchange between Schieffer and Issa is remarkable.  Schieffer is the one pressing the issue and Issa is being very careful to provide only documented facts.  Issa didn’t take any cheap shots, even when given the opportunity.  He oozed credibility.  There is an old saying among lawyers. “If you have the facts, pound the facts.  If you don’t have the facts, pound the opponents.  If you can’t do either of the above, just pound.”  Issa was pounding the facts and Schieffer was paying very close attention.

There were more fireworks on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace:

 http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/dem-rep-benghazi-talking-points-it-was-scrubbed-it-was-false-information-theres-no-excuse_720805.html

Stephen Lynch, Democratic congressman from Massachusetts was on and he was doing his best to stick to the Democratic talking points.  That is until Wallace confronted him with the hard cold evidence that the original CIA talking points were deliberately altered.  Lynch’s attitude changed in the blink of an eye.  He simply said that what the administration told us was wrong, that it was deliberately wrong and that there was no excuse for it.  Then he asked Jason Chafee if Democrats could please be part of the investigation. 

Schieffer looked genuinely annoyed that Susan Rice had come on his show and deliberately lied to his face.  The bottom line is that the main stream media was confronted with irrefutable proof that this administration will not only spin things, they will look you right in the eye and lie.  I really think this is a watershed moment.

TDM