I have to disagree a little bit.
The Benghazi, IRS, NSA, etc are legitimate scandals that make Watergate look like a school boy prank .
The focus on "extreme weather" such as tornadoes in "Tornado Alley, (on this date in 1950 40 tornadoes hit Michigan, killing 129 mostly in Flint ), the annual flood of the Mississippi Basin, and the beginning of fire season in Ca. these are the smoke screens they use to fill the news, and distract the sheeple .