As you’d imagine, Fox News is covering the Boston bombings tonight instead of their usual food fights. But their Republican agenda was not completely left behind. With White House reporter Ed Henry on The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Bill O’Reilly announced, “I am gonna have to inject some politics in here, Ed.” Not surprisingly, he had a willing partner in Henry. And O’Reilly signaled very clearly that he is going to bang the Benghazi drum loudly.

O’Reilly said, “There’s pressure on President Obama and I don’t even know whether he knows it because of the fiasco in Libya, which we still don’t know – nobody’s been held accountable for it. That can’t happen in Boston!”

Translation: Fox, or at least O’Reilly, is going to use Benghazi to make a big attack on President Obama in the very near future.

Henry agreed. “Absolutely… That was a terror attack on his watch, this is now another terror attack on his watch.”

Henry took the opportunity to make the useless point that President Obama “did not call it terror” when he spoke of the bombings.  Henry then slyly worked in a swipe by saying the following: “They (the White House) know they’re gonna face criticism that he’s not calling it terror when meanwhile, Dianne Feinstein and others – in his own party – are out there on the record tonight, saying it was terror.”

O’Reilly swatted that aside, saying, “That didn’t bother me” and that “the understated presentation” was appropriate. But O’Reilly had his own beef with Obama’s semantics. “I think he made a mistake by calling it a tragedy. I didn’t like that. …This isn’t a tragedy, this is an act of war,” he said.

But when O’Reilly said Obama “has to keep a cool head,” Henry used that as an opening to raise a completely unrelated incident, the BP Oil spill, to bring some more unflattering attention to the president. Referring to President Obama having spoken on the Today show of “kicking people’s butts” over the spill, Henry added gratuitously, “because he realized at that moment that he was losing the public in terms of not showing that he cared.” Right, because that’s just so analogous to the aftermath of a bombing. Finally agreeing with O’Reilly that Obama wants to be “the coolest guy in the room,” Henry said, “Sometimes that works, other times it might not.”

Later, O’Reilly brought up Libya again, this time explicitly saying he was “laying the groundwork” for the “reportage” for the rest of the week. O’Reilly said it would be “fascinating” to see how, on the one hand, the FBI will be tight-lipped about the investigation while the public will “demand quick answers.” O’Reilly added, “So the president, again referencing Libya, is between a rock and a hard place here.”

Henry saw his cue and took it. “He is, because in terms of the Libya investigation, months and months have passed without the U.S. being able to crack that case.” He unnecessarily mentioned that it took the FBI “days, maybe weeks” to get to Libya - as if that were at all comparable to their presence in Boston. Especially since the FBI is already in Boston and taking the lead in the investigation.

Henry concluded by promising that he would push hard against the White House tomorrow during the press briefing despite the sensitivity of the matter.

Note: As I wrote in an earlier post, it was only a matter of time until Fox found a way to use this incident against President Obama. However, I may have seemed insensitive in my wording. So I apologize for having offended anyone and I have decided to remove the post. Sadly, however, I was right in my overall conclusion.