{"id":12748,"date":"2014-05-12T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T07:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12748"},"modified":"2014-05-12T00:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T07:02:22","slug":"rachel-on-witch-hunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/rachel-on-witch-hunts\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel on Witch Hunts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans get very strange, when it comes to witches.  They seem to think that devil is hard at work through broomstick riding crones.  They are so over the top on the subject that the only thing anyone will ever remember about the candidacy of Christine O\u2019Dingbat was her claim not to be one.  Rachel Maddow had some fun with the Great Benghazi Witch Hunt, before getting serious.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0511Odingbat\"Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) said the following on the House floor yesterday, \u201c[Democrats] would blame our insistence upon getting the truth as a political \u2018witch hunt.\u2019 Well, Mr. Speaker, that must mean that there\u2019s a witch somewhere.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has a bit of fun with the inanity that is otherwise known as Pete Sessions. Critics have charged the announced Select Committee on Benghazi will amount to nothing more than a partisan ‘ witch hunt’. With some background on the Salem witch hunts from the 17th century, before going back even further with a sketch from Monty Python’s "Holy Grail" where villagers accuse a woman of witchcraft. Sessions isn’t just some rank-and-file knucklehead either, but was once the chairman of the NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee)\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n

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