Gowdy said on Tuesday that the report documents that the US was slow to send help to the Americans in Benghazi "because of an obsession with hurting the Libyans' feelings".
"His public image is a kind of obsession with him.
One of the reasons that the troika, and in particular the I.M.F., have pushed so hard for massive austerity in Greece — advocating, for instance, that the country run primary surpluses of four per cent of G.D.P. — is because of their obsession with Greece's debt-to-G.D.P. ratio, which is currently around a hundred and eighty per cent.
"And a 13-year-old is dead in the city of Columbus because of our obsession with guns and violence".
The issue of underweight school children is being missed because of an "obsession" with tackling obesity, a group of researchers has claimed.
Afghanistan doesn't have much in the way of civil society, but the Pashtuns have even less than other groups, because of their obsession with the seclusion of their women.
These points were all contested by Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, who said Gove was simply wrong and "cannot see the wood from the trees" because of his obsession with the single issue of leaving the EU.
Meanwhile, the public, the senders and receivers of these communications have become a digital swarm not a mass, or a crowd, or Negri and Hardt's antiquated notion of a "multitude," but a set of isolated individuals incapable of forming a "we," incapable of calling dominant power relations into question, incapable of formulating a future because of an obsession with the present.
I think there are a lot of teenagers that are lost because of the obsession with recognition based on no accomplishment at all.
"They get better and better but the all-round performance of Real Madrid is suffering because of his obsession with just scoring goals.
It is because of our obsession with defining our history in terms of Muslim-Hindu relations that we have not been able to understand the ramifications of colonialism and how it affects our daily lives.
