It’s hard to imagine how a Republican Congressman could not be partisan enough for Fox News but that’s exactly what happened this morning on Fox News when Rep. Patrick Meehan was careful about his accusations over Benghazi.
Host Gregg Jarrett didn’t just repeatedly try to push Meehan into saying there had been a cover up, Jarett outright badgered the guy, as if he was being too soft on the Obama administration. And it wasn't just about a cover up, but in not pursuing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama aggressively enough.
As Media Matters pointed out:
During his interview of Meehan, Jarrett continued his trend of pushing a number of debunked falsehoods about Benghazi, including falsely claiming that President Obama was sleeping the night of the attacks and that no rescue effort was sent to Benghazi. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has stated that Obama was “well-informed” during the attack, and a photo of Obama meeting in the Oval Office with his National Security advisors the night of the attacks has been available on the White House Flickr page since October 2012. Furthermore, as experts have repeatedly made clear, help was sent to Benghazi, and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has called out those who claimed more could have been done to rescue those in Benghazi for having a “cartoonish impression of the military.”
Jarrett’s desperate attempt to get Rep. Meehan to use the label is not the first time Fox News has suggested there is a Benghazi “cover up,” and continues the network’s repeated creation and promotion of lies, smears, and conspiracies related to the attacks.
By the way, this happened on a show called America’s News HQ which, presumably, is part of what Fox considers its “objective news” lineup.
Video below via Media Matters.