Greta Van Susteren took to her blog to defend Fox News after Jon Stewart’s scorching takedown of her employer’s obsession with Benghazi. How? By trying to make Democrats look bad.
In case you missed it, the point of Stewart’s blistering commentary Monday night (videos below) was how Fox gave a pass to the far bigger Bush administration lies and misdeeds about the Iraq war, where far more Americans died than in Benghazi, while it now screeches about the tragedy and the supposed lies of the Obama administration.
Instead of offering any real rebuttal to Stewart’s point (most likely because she can’t), Van Susteren tried making Stewart and Democrats look bad. She wrote yesterday:
Besides the obvious — that almost all the Democrats in Congress voted for the war in Iraq and other media reporting – is my simple note to Stewart: 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
Note to Van Susteren: Besides the obvious: that it’s Fox’s reporting on Benghazi – put in context of its reporting on Iraq – that was Stewart’s point, not the tragedy of the Iraq war itself, 2 wrongs don’t make a right, indeed.
So either Van Susteren didn’t get what Stewart was saying or she was deliberately trying to change the subject to distract from the embarrassing truth Stewart highlighted.
Regardless, the post did more to underscore Stewart’s point than to refute it.
H/T Mediaite.
Fox loves it when they make anyone who doesn’t share their agenda angry, but to laugh at them cuts them deeply. Comedy is the best weapon.
This is classic Fox distortion and misinformation. They assume the public will remember some Democrats, including a bunch of high-profile ones, voted for it and assume Dear Greta , being a "journalist’ and all, would have the figures right.
Man, I hate these people.
Then on Nov. 4th, 2008, it suddenly became “This smug bastard better keep his nose clean, because we’re not protecting him, like everyone else will!” So which change played more of a role in that? The letter next to his name, or the colour of the skin?
Unfortunately, it doesn’t make a difference to Greta as to how lame her response is as long as it gets the necessary attention. I predict it was quite deliberate. Will Stewart respond?? That’s what she is after!!
And, speaking of wrong, Karen J is spot on to point out that Greta is incorrect to say that “almost all Dems” voted for the war. She must not know how to do the google. Or maybe she’s using BOR’s, ahem, “fact checkers” to try and prop up her bogus response to Stewart. Bwaaah!
