Fox News wingnut Ralph Peters visited The O’Reilly Factor last night to discuss an unsubstantiated report that the four State Department officials who resigned in the wake of an investigation into the Benghazi attacks still have jobs. As I noted in a post I did on Crooks and Liars about this, there may well be regulations about how the Department has to go about disciplining and removing employees but Fox, Peters and guest host Greg Gutfeld apparently did the same amount of research into that point as they did into confirming the report. In other words, none.

Without offering any evidence – or being asked for any – Peters “explained:”

The administration does not want somebody to go rogue and tell the truth.

The ever-asinine Gutfeld made an asisine joke: “Yeah, that’s the primary reason why I’ve rarely been fired is because they’re always scared that I may go to the press.”

After that (un)funny, Gutfeld got to Fox’s latest conspiracy theory smear:

Isn’t that what this is about? …They’re waiting for this story to die down. And the media has helped it die down. And they’re just waiting for it to be far enough away that they can breathe. That’s why they’re not getting rid of these employees. Right?

As if Peters would be in any position to know. But as I have previously written, the real point of Fox discussions about Benghazi is not to find out information but to use it against Hillary Clinton – now that the efforts to use it against Obama have failed.

After blaming the media for covering up or not pursuing the story like Watergate (never mind that Fox, the number one news network in ratings has obsessed on it relentlessly), Gutfeld sneered that if only the wealthy 2% were behind Benghazi, “we’d get to the answers right away.”

Of course, we’ve gotten the answers but why should a guy like Gutfeld bother to do any work when he can come up with wise-guy quips instead? Obviously, as the host of two other Fox shows and now guest hosting the top-rated O’Reilly Factor, Fox is fine with that.

Then Gutfeld got to the task that his bosses probably do care about him doing:

I want to talk about Hillary. Hillary’s gonna be back to work next week. What do you see happening?

Peters said:

It does appear that a group of senators, determined to get to the truth are gonna try to hold up Senator Kerry’s confirmation… until Hillary Clinton comes to the Hill to testify under oath… The bottom line for the administration is this: "Wow, we dodged the bullet. Make sure they don’t open fire again." And the administration is just gonna keep stonewalling… That’s the White House equivalent of a gangster taking the Fifth.

As I also wrote in my earlier post: Since most Americans don’t see a scandal in Benghazi, they’re even less likely to see a rationale in blocking a cabinet appointment over the wildly popular Clinton’s delayed testimony in a non-scandal.

Gutfeld, on the other hand, acted as though Peters was speaking sensibly.