Megyn Kelly used a familiar Fox News tactic to politicize the Boston Marathon bombing – and pretend otherwise: she accused Democrats of doing the politicizing and then played the victim. And Fox News' "objective" Chris Stirewalt was a willing helpmate. Maybe it slipped by their Fox faithful but astute observers should take note of the charade.

I’m sure it was just a coincidence that Kelly burnished her “I’m not playing politics” credentials as she choked up in the previous segment over the death of a child in the tragedy. And then, with hammy regret, she moved on to say, “In the meantime, unfortunately, (she sighed dramatically) at least one Democratic Congressman is raising new questions about – well, politics. And whether the sequester …is making the investigation more difficult in Boston. And then the House Minority Whip, Steny Hoyer, followed up by saying the bombings are, quote, proof that those automatic spending changes negatively impacted the intelligence community.”

Proof that Kelly was doing nothing more than playing politics herself? First of all, she didn’t bother to investigate whether Hoyer’s charges were accurate but leapt immediately to playing the sensitive victim of other people's politics. Despite the fact that at least two colleagues at Fox News had already politicized the bombings. Secondly, rather than just leaving it there, she and Stirewalt spent the rest of the segment bashing Democrats.

Ignoring the substance of the allegations, Kelly asked Stirewalt to confirm what Hoyer said. Stirewalt explained that last week, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that the sequestration cuts were hampering national security and intelligence gathering and were dangerous. But both Stirewalt and Kelly showed a curious lack of interest in exactly what Clapper had been referring to and, more importantly, whether he had been correct in his assessment.

Instead, Stirewalt added, “Then this morning, Xavier Becerra (which Stirewalt mispronounced as “Zavier”), Democrat, spoke and said, ‘Look, in Boston, they’re having all of these problems because of the sequestration…’”

Kelly continued, her voice rising with her trademark indignation. “I mean, I don’t know – maybe that is the case, maybe they can prove that to us in the days to come, Chris. I don’t know but is today the day for that… Is this any time to be pointing the fingers on something like that?”

In other words, Kelly – whose 1-3 PM ET program is supposed to be part of Fox’s “objective news” hours – couldn’t be bothered to find out whether it was true or not because she was too busy dwelling on what was bugging her about the Democratic Congressmen.

Stirewalt took it a step further. “Imagine, if you will, if today John Boehner or Eric Cantor on the Republican side had come out and said, ‘You have to wonder whether President Obama’s policies in Syria or Iraq or the Middle East haven’t left us more vulnerable to this.’”  Then, in a comment I’m sure he thought proved his non-partisanship, Stirewalt talked about how cool and Commander-in-Chief-like President Obama had been – right before taking a completely gratuitous swipe at Democrats of his own: “Unfortunately, what you see here is that Congress is currently obsessed with spending and Democrats are currently obsessed with the idea these automatic reductions to automatic increases in federal outlays and could not apparently resist linking the two.” But Stirewalt wasn’t done. He said that if Clapper was right, it was President Obama’s fault for signing the sequester bill in the first place. “He had the wherewithal as Commander-in-Chief not to do this. So if there are fingers being pointed here, eventually, they start pointing up the other way on Pennsylvania Avenue to the president.”

Do you think Kelly objected to that politicization? Of course not!

Apparently Kelly forgot that little lecture she gave to African Americans about taking personal responsibility and not blaming others. Because on Fox News, Democrats and/or liberals are always to blame for something.