They’ve Lost Fox And Friends: GOP Claims Of Benghazi ‘Cover Up’ Collapses

[Tx4obama]

They’ve Lost Fox And Friends: GOP Claims Of Benghazi ‘Cover Up’ Collapses

Fox News’ morning show, Fox & Friends, is taking a surprisingly skeptical approach to GOP claims that the Obama administration and the entire U.S. government engaged in a massive cover-up of the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya in an effort to re-elect the president and protect him from scrutiny.

On Monday, the trio of hosts invited Rep. Jassen Chaffetz (R-UT) — a regular fixture on cable television and a critic of Obama’s handling of the September 11, 2012 attacks — to discuss the House Republicans’ upcoming hearing with three witnesses who claim that the administration prevented them from speaking out about the incident. “We were certainly misled at every step of the way,” Chaffetz said, arguing that officials manipulated the findings of the Accountability Review Board, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points, and told military officials on the ground not to interfere or protect American interests during the attack.

The hosts then tore into Chaffetz’s theory, wondering if Admirals Thomas Pickering and Mike Mullen, who headed the review, the entire CIA, and Republican-appointed officials could all be “complicit” in such a massive conspiracy: ...

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http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/05/06/1966061/theyve-lost-fox-and-friends-gop-claims-of-benghazi-cover-up-collapses/

[babylonsister]

1. Wow! I'm shocked. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Well, NOW what are they going to do for the next 3 years and 8 Months?

[lpbk2713]

3. "It was Obama's fault that guy's boat was shot up in Boston."

They will piss and moan for a full investigation.

[geek tragedy]

8. Obama being "too white" (e.g. golfing) or being 'too black' (appearing in public) etc etc nt

[Marr]

4. That's not how I saw it at all.

Granted, a sane mind would have uttered those sentences with incredulity. But I don't think they were being sane-- they were just pumping up their silly narrative with more ominous suggestions.

Petraeus was thrown under the bus not so long ago for that affair, so I expect his name was invoked simply to suggest that he was being blackmailed into a whitewash.

[pepperbear]

16. yep. hate to be all "emperor has no clothes." It doesn't matter what it "is" it matters how it's

"perceived," to quote a West Wing episode, and unfortunately Republicans are rubbing their grubby hands together with glee right about now.

Let me be perfectly clear: It doesn't matter what really happened. "Scandal" and "cover up" are all people will want to hear, and to our disadvantage, Republicans are good at stirring this sort of crap up, whether it be true or not. Don't believe me? Ask average Joe how much he knows about the Iraq war and how it really got off the ground in 2002, then tell me how that old chestnut of a "scandal" and cover up" is perceived, especially in the wake of the Bush library opening. I don't know why, but when it's them, they get away with it, and when it's us, we fuck it up and let them get away with it, all because of politics.

mark my words: this WILL affect the president's agenda for a while until people get sick of it, and only then will the less-than-worthless push polls start up with "should congress be worried about this?"....8 weeks and several soundbite-grabbing headlines later.

I am a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, and even I can see this as wishful thinking propaganda rushed out to counteract what is happening in the main stream media. Sorry, guys. I love our president, our country, and all that, but I am a little worried.

If someone has something sensible to say that will ease my fears, please, by all means, share it with me. I am not a troll, but come on! History should tell you that I'm right on this one. And understand this: anyone who is even the least bit nasty to me because of what I am saying here today will only prove my point.

Thanks.

[CincyDem]

5. As usual, the double standard applies as long as all roads lead to "Obama's fault".

One one hand, the repubs try to convince the country that the administration couldn't drop a hammer and hit the floor without screwing it up.

On the other hand, the repubs try to convince the country that the administration has orchestrated a multi-agency, multi-level, multi-national conspiracy to cover something (as yet undefined) up.

Usual chit, just bend the truth to whatever conclusion you want to make. That's the repub way.

[rso]

6. It's Ambassador Pickering

Pickering is a retired Career Ambassador, not an Admiral.

[Skittles]

7. pretty bad when Fox & Fiends can see through your bullshit

[arely staircase]

9. they are like soviet era media

the official party line has shifted; it's mouthpiece shifts positions seamlessly, as if all the other shit had never been said.

[babylonsister]

11. Perfect analogy, and that's scary. nt

[Thinkingabout]

10. Maybe for once FOX is getting ahead of the lies the GOP is trying to convince the rest about.

Maybe FOX is realizing their reports are without merit when listening to the GOP. Time will tel on this, if the GOP really had the goods on Obama and Hillary they would have dumped what they have. This is not the Bush library rewriting history.

[AlbertCat]

13. Maybe FOX is realizing their reports are without merit

Fox is the GOP mouthpiece. What they realized was that this Benghazi crap isn't playing well with the public and simply not working like they want so it's being sidelined. That's my theory anyway....

[Half-Century Man]

12. How bad is your argument

When Brian Kilmybrain can poke large holes in it? How openly biased could it be before Steve Douchy calls you on it. You actually took a subject somewhere so far down Grinchen Carlson had actual moral high ground?

I am truly impressed Rep. Chaffetz, you might be the Michelangelo of fail.

On a side funny, my spellchecker suggested I trade "Kilmybrain"to Lamebrain.........

[Beartracks]

14. Oh, come on. The massive cover-up is fairly obvious.

Republicans are trying to cover up their own lack of actual governance for the last 5 years. Now, all of a sudden, they want to appear as if they are "doing something," even if they have to invent that something.

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[humbled_opinion]

15. I wish it was that simple but...

the way I hear it there will be a special prosecutor assigned starting next week....

[Iliyah]

17. It won't stop, ever,

Benghazi or not, it will be something else. On and on and on. . . . . . . .

[Cha]

18. That's shocking. But, as someone from from facebook on ThinkProgess..

It's not like conservatives suddenly stop when their lies have become debunked. Their ideas are like zombies. They can't be killed.This was no tipping point where we suddenly stop hearing anything conspiratorial about Benghazi. Being wrong doesn't stop the vast RW propaganda machine. If it did, we wouldn't have spent the last four years dealing with Birthers.

thanks Tx