A handful of protesters turned up at two of President Obama’s campaign rallies yesterday, holding signs with pictures of the four Americans who died on September 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. Other signs demanded the media “cover” the story; that we should feel “shame” for ignoring it; and a few more poster boards accused the administration of a “cover-up.”
Rolling by the protesters on the Obama campaign bus, I didn’t get a chance to talk to the them. They made clear that they were members of a Tea Party chapter who’d joined the coordinated conservative effort to use the attacks in Libya as a partisan blade to carve up the president.

Over the past month, the right’s impressive effort to exploit Benghazi has stretched from the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill — whose Republican majority has employed Wikileak-like tactics in their zeal to blow up Obama, releasing scores of unredacted documents, suddenly unconcerned with revealing sensitive information about what now appears to a large-scale intelligence gathering operation at the U.S. outpost — to Fox News and Glenn Beck’s new digital empire of red meat and ratings.