Fox News Quiet After Congressional Report Finds No Benghazi Scandal

[kpete]

Fox News Quiet After Congressional Report Finds No Benghazi Scandal
New House Intel Report Reportedly Finds No Intentional Wrongdoing By The Obama Administration



Fox News has gone silent on Benghazi amid reports that the House Intelligence Committee concluded that there was no intentional wrongdoing in the Obama administration's response to the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on August 1 that the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee voted to declassify findings from its investigation into the 2012 attacks on U.S diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, and "concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack," according to committee member Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA).

The intelligence community "did not have specific tactical warning of an attack before it happened," the process used to create administration talking points was "flawed" but "reflected the conflicting intelligence assessments in the days immediately following the crisis, and "there was no 'stand-down order' given to American personnel," Ranking Member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-CA) said in a statement laying out the committee's findings.

It's a clinical, point-by-point refutation of the Benghazi hoax Fox has pushed for nearly 2 years.

MORE:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08/05/fox-news-quiet-after-congressional-report-finds/200318

[gordianot]

1. Imagine the shock if Fox News ever displayed journalistic integrity

[cstanleytech]

9. I'll probably end up hitting a 600 million powerball jackpot before that happens. nt

[Fred Sanders]

2. Of course they went into turtle mode, takes time to work up some more propaganda stink and spin.

[Garthem]

7. Hey, why bring poor Mitch McConnell into this?

[brewens]

3. I think it was David Brock that was going on Billdo O'Reilly's show the day the 9/11 commision

report came out. Billdo's staff had written up some straight foreward accurate copy for him on the findings. Mainly that the Bush administration had dropped the ball, should have seen the attack coming and were incompetant or could have prevented it.

Billdo, doing his pre-show run through got to that part and stopped part way through, yelling something like, "what is this, I can't read THAT!" Of course he couldn't. They were not only in complete denial about how things really went down, they were saiying over and over how wonderful the administration was doing keeping us "safe".

Brock overheard the whole thing and his account of that is up on Media Matters somewhere.

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. What happened to "we report - you decide"

rhetorical question of course

[tclambert]

5. They decided . . . not to report.

[roscoeroscoe]

6. fox news website, no coverage

no surprise there. I guess they need a new slogan.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. They're probably having Benghazi withdrawls

waking up shaking and sweating in the middle of the night whispering "Benghaziiiiii".

[KansDem]

10. Up next: "Congressional Committee Scandal!"

"Some people say..."

Gotta get your pout on!

[Turbineguy]

11. Quiet?

They are just hard at work manufacturing another fake scandal.

[Moostache]

12. Somehow I just couldn't shake the image of Nick Nolte as Tom Wingo..

The iconic scene to end the film version of "Prince of Tides"...

Any Random Tea-Bagger (or Jason Douchebag in a pinch): [narrating] At the end of every day I drive through the city of Washington and I cross the bridge that will take me to Virginia. I feel the words building inside me, I can't stop them, or tell you why I say them, but as I reach the top of the bridge these words come to me in a whisper. I say these words as a prayer, as regret, as praise, I say: Benghazi, Benghazi.

[nxylas]

13. Wait until the next bit of good news for Obama

Than it will be back to Benghazi as usual. It's more of a Pavlovian response than anything at this point. I doubt any Fox Noise viewer even remembers what the word Benghazi refers to, they just know that when they hear it, they feel compelled to start barking.

[Cha]

14. fox "news" IssaRatFuckers

[Major Hogwash]

15. Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!

The Macarena had a short shelf life, too.

[IkeRepublican]

16. Fox News Quiet - Yeah, and I'm your Irish grandfather

They've always got a few at the ready and waiting in the can when ever one of their circle jerks runs out of vaseline.

Bergdahl, ebola and immigrants has taken up the slack very easily.

[cilla4progress]

17. Another huge waste of money

and time.

[RiverNoord]

18. HEADLINE: Bipartisan Congressional Committee finds <no> serious negligence

by Obama administration and Clinton State Department during <not even remotely> extensive hearings on Benghazi. <Completely unconnected wingnut> Groups organizing rallies to demand Obama impeachment. <Administration very busy dealing with numerous global crises of major importance, so that there is> No comment by Obama Administration.