From Bill O'Reilly, to Andrea Tantaros, to Greg Gutfeld, Fox analyst Ralph Peters and, most tellingly, to Roger Ailes' personal lawyer and alter ego, Peter Johnson, Jr. - the missing Malaysian jet mystery makes everyone think of Benghazi. What a coincidence!
I previously posted about Tantaros just happening to be reminded of Benghazi when she was thinking selflessly about the families of the Malaysian airliner passengers. Bill O'Reilly also worked Benghazi into both his Talking Points Commentary and, later, singled out a viewer email that compared coverage of the two tragedies to kick off his "Mad as Hell" segment.
Now, Media Matters has found three more examples. On March 18, Peters called the missing jet mystery the Malaysians' "Benghazi scandal." On March 19, Gutfeld oh-so-cleverly exploited the tragedy by implicitly criticizing President Obama for not muscling into the investigation and sneering, "To me, letting others run the search out of P.C. tolerance is idiotic. ...America could close this investigation fast - if it wanted to. Well, as long as the plane's not hidden in Benghazi or the IRS building."
Now, it could be that all these Fox News talking heads each arrived independently on the same making-partisan-hay-out-of-an-international-tragedy page. But the reiteration by Johnson. suggests directions from above. As Gabriel Sherman, the biographer of Fox chief Roger Ailes has written, "(I)f you want to know what Roger Ailes really thinks about the news these days, here's a tip: Pay close attention to Peter Johnson Jr., Fox News’ legal analyst. The Columbia-educated lawyer is certainly not as familiar to most viewers as Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity, but inside the network, Johnson has become, in many respects, more influential, thanks to his ties to Ailes."
Today, Johnson complained, "Leading the nightly newscasts in America for the last 11 days, these newscasts don't focus on things like Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and IRS."
Fox News, where any and every story is filtered through a Republican-partisanship lens.
Videos below of Peters, Gutfeld and Johnson via Media Matters.
The Tortus is dumb as a box of rocks. She was hired for her looks to attract the middle-age male viewers. She’s nothing but a stage prop for the Nixon trainee.
50’s reject Gutterman’s only expertise is reading the on-camera teleprompter.
The Barrister’s only claim to fame is being the Trainee’s little lawyer.
We are surprised Billy didn’t blame Benghazi on his failed marriage.
And, as pointed out before- We know what happened at Benghazi. The riots over that stupid movie being shown on TV in Muslim countries created a perfect storm for the people who were already targeting Ambassador Stevens to make an attempt, which was sadly successful. We may never know the exact names of the men in the attacks, but we do know what happened, and why it succeeded.
We also know that Fox News was more concerned about protecting the movie than the truth, until they heard the words “communication breakdown”, and invented the bizarro world conspiracy.
Or the Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Obama’s birth certificate or any other retro-meme that Jabba the Ailes pulls from his corpulent ass at the morning Fux Noise staff meeting.