Bill O’Reilly donned his Media Police Chief hat last night and spent several minutes going over a chart showing how much other news outlets covered Benghazi, down to the second. After his review, he trotted out Media Police Deputy Bernard Goldberg to help adjudge the usual suspects guilty. But Goldberg wasn’t quite the Fox News lackey one might have expected. In the middle of his “liberal media” complaints, he fingered Mike Huckabee for saying that Benghazi would prevent President Obama from completing his second term. “This is wishful thinking masquerading as political analysis,” Goldberg charged. Even though he hinted that he shared the same wishful thinking.

I don’t know why a single other news network falls for Fox’s harangues designed to browbeat them into coughing up the same coverage as Fox. It's such a paper-thin cover up of Fox's own political agenda that I can't understand how anyone with any journalistic smarts could miss it. I mean, what product worth its name brand attacks its competitors for not being more like itself? But I digress.

Goldberg said he understands that Fox cares about Benghazi but average Americans don't. “(B)y and large, Benghazi comes in third (after the Jodi Arias verdict and the Cleveland, Ohio kidnappings) because there are millions and millions and millions of Americans who are like babies who like to follow shiny objects.” If Goldberg really thinks Fox would cover Benghazi if the network didn’t see a political gain in it, then he ought to explain why there has been so little coverage of the Texas fertilizer plant explosion and avoidance of regulation, for example? Or Fox’s ridiculously respectful coverage of Donald Trump’s birther accusations – and its continued presentation of the discredited Trump as a credible pundit?

Instead, Goldberg went off on Mike Huckabee, albeit in context of bashing American media consumers:

On (Huckabee’s) radio show, he said recently that Barack Obama would not survive Benghazi, that he wouldn’t be able to serve out his second term because of Benghazi. This is wishful thinking masquerading as political analysis. Barack Obama is going nowhere because by and large the American people don’t care about Benghazi. It’s not interesting, it’s not sexy, doesn’t involve a woman who committed murder, doesn’t involve any of the things that millions of Americans care about. I’m totally depressed over this whole thing.

Was Huckabee's comment all that different from Bill O'Reilly's suggestion that President Obama may bomb Syria to distract from Benghazi? Or Sean Hannity's ridiculous attempt to use "Sestak-gate" to bring down Obama in his first term? I don't think so.

And how about the fact that despite Fox’s endless, breathless coverage, there’s still no there there? Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, Chairman of the committee that seems determined to spend as much time as possible making impeachment-sized mountains out of Benghazi molehills, told Greta Van Susteren that his big takeaway from the “whistleblowers” hearing this week was, “This was a terrorist attack.”