Dick Morris was back (again) on Fox last night. And just in time to help divert attention away from the growing Chris Christie “Bridgegate” scandal and trump up Hillary Clinton’s “enemies list” as a bigger scandal. Just pay no attention to Morris’ disgraceful and discredited record or his long-standing grudge against Hillary Clinton. Fox News certainly didn’t mention it.

In case you missed it – i.e. you haven’t been watching Fox News – an excerpt from a forthcoming book reports that in 2008 Hillary Clinton’s campaign aides made a list of people who had endorsed her, who had backed then-candidate Barack Obama and who had remained neutral. Media Matters points out:

But the (authors) also note that the list’s creation was “standard operating procedure for any high-end political organization” and “a necessity of modern political warfare.” In the penultimate paragraph, they write:

It would be political malpractice for the Clintons not to keep track of their friends and enemies. Politicians do that everywhere. The difference is the Clintons, because of their popularity and the positions they’ve held, retain more power to reward and punish than anyone else in modern politics. And while their aides have long and detailed memories, the sheer volume of the political figures they interact with makes a cheat sheet indispensable.

In other words, every politician has such a list, but the Clintons’ list is longer and more detailed because they’ve dealt with more people over lengthy careers in politics at its highest level.

But for Dick Morris and Sean Hannity, the list “proves” that Clinton is at least as corrupt as, and probably more corrupt than Chris Christie!

Morris, disingenuously introduced as a “former Clinton advisor,” declared, “There is a Nixonian trend to Hillary Clinton.” Morris then embarked upon two reminiscences about that streak. Even Hannity seemed dubious as he asked no questions about the Hillary machinations Morris had supposedly just revealed.

But maybe that’s just because Hannity had bigger 2016-potential fish to fry. He said:

The media reaction to Chris Christie: Alright, now, he did something pretty dynamic and he boxed himself in. I mean, he went out there, took questions for two hours, fired the people responsible. And he left no wiggle room for himself. You compare the media reaction to this but she’s got an enemies list.

Of course, Morris got with the program and brought up more Hillary dirt, i.e. the Gates memoir that claims Hillary opposed the surge in Iraq for political reasons. You may recall that Hannity and his Fox News colleagues have previously accused the media of harping on Christie's "Bridgegate" scandal in order to distract from the (non) scandal of Gates' revelations. Morris said:

Here you have a potential candidate for president saying that she allowed her political ambitions to get in the way of how she felt and voted and spoke about a measure to protect 100,000 service men in combat in Iraq.

Hannity continued by prodding Morris to dredge up more Clinton dirt as "proof" that she's worse than Christie:

We know there’s a built-in double standard. Alright, standard operation procedure in the mainstream media. I get it. What are her biggest obstacles? She appears to be the anointed nominee, even at this early date, for the Democratic Party.

“The nice things about the Clintons is that the scandals keep updating themselves,” Morris sneered gleefully. He said that Clinton is vulnerable on the left and that a “left-wing challenger” such as Elizabeth Warren “could derail her” the way Obama did in 2008.

Not good enough for Hannity. He asked, “Why do I keep hearing whispers, nobody will really say it out loud, …that she had health issues that were far more severe than what was publicly revealed?”

Uncharacteristically, Morris didn’t know and didn’t want to speculate. Instead, he said Clinton’s “close connections with Wall Street” could really hurt her with the left.

As for Hillary’s 2016 candidacy? “If she’s breathing, she’s running,” Morris said.  “If there’s a pulse, there’s a candidacy.” And, pretending he still has some connection to the Clintons, Morris said that Bill Clinton feels, “If she wins, it will be like a vindication of his impeachment.”

Finally, Hannity closed with the subject that is obviously really on his mind; “Is Christie going to get out of the pickle he’s in?”

Unfortunately, for Fox’s 2016 outlook, Morris did not sound especially optimistic. “Christie’s not home free,” he said. “Lots of questions there. …I think he’s in trouble.”

But then, in a final note, Morris reverted back to dragging Clinton into it. “It’s so interesting the two front runners both have got problems right now,” he added.