Fox News’ Ed Henry: Some of Our Commentators Have Covered Benghazi ‘More Than It Needed to Be Covered’
This Nov. 30, 2012 publicity photo provided by FOX News Channel shows Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry reporting outside of the White House in Washington, D.C. Henry, 41, is preparing for four more years on the beat and would like to cover the Obama administration from beginning to end. He came to Fox in 2011 from CNN, for whom he had worked in Washington since 2004. (Credit: AP)
NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Ed Henry’s assignment covering the White House would be a challenge for any journalist, no matter his employer.
Yet Henry works at Fox News Channel, home base for viewers who longed for President Barack Obama’s defeat. More than anyone, he understands how the natural adversarial role of reporting on the highest level of government has become complicated in recent years by the rise in partisan media and online critics who parse every word reporters and anchors say.
“It definitely puts pressure on all of us,” Henry said, “and if you step out and ask tough questions, you’re somehow seen as a partisan now – even if it’s a substantive question and even if it’s a fair question.”
Henry, 41, is preparing for four more years on the beat and would like to cover the Obama administration from beginning to end. He came to Fox in 2011 from CNN, for whom he had worked in Washington since 2004 (his wife, Shirley Hung, is a CNN producer). Prior to getting into television, the Queens, N.Y., native worked in print at Roll Call.
He said he brings to his coverage the desire to hold public officials of each party accountable for their actions, and no ideological point of view.
Benghazi has proven an interesting case study. Henry rejects the notion that he works off Fox marching orders in discussing the issue, but said, “I wouldn’t lie to you. I see that we’re covering Benghazi a lot, and I think that should be something that we’re asking about.”
He said other news outlets have under-covered the story, since four Americans were killed and there’s still some mystery about what the administration knew and when they knew about the attack.
“We’ve had the proper emphasis,” he said. “But I would not be so deluded to say that some of our shows, some of our commentators, have covered it more than it needed to be covered.”
Fox has never denied that prime-time stars like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity are opinionated. Daytime hours and programs hosted by Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are set aside for news, although it’s naive to suggest there’s no point of view.
Three recent episodes illustrate the point. Fox aired 27 minutes of Obama speaking during four days just before the election – compared to 168 minutes of Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America noted. Author Thomas Rick’s interview on Fox last week was abruptly cut short when he accused the network of “operating as a wing of the Republican Party” with its coverage of the September terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Fox News chief Roger Ailes encouraged David Petreaus to run for president, although Ailes said he was joking.
For a reporter like Henry, Fox “frames the work, you can’t escape that,” said Frank Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief and professor at George Washington University. The setting adds another layer of scrutiny.
“It’s very difficult when you work for an organization where the opinion page is on the front page,” said Sesno, who hired Henry as a paid fellow at George Washington last year.
Henry has had two tense moments with Obama at news conferences. At one, Henry asked Obama why it had taken the president several days to express anger about bonuses given to AIG insurance executives. Obama responded that “it took us a couple of days because I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak.”
When Henry asked Obama to respond to a Romney comment that “if you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president,” Obama said that, “I didn’t know you were the spokesman for Mitt Romney.”
The first incident happened while Henry worked at CNN, the second when he was at Fox.
Arguably, for an interview subject, the first question would be more objectionable: it infers that Obama has been slow to move on an issue. The second was simply asking for a response to a critic’s statement, something reporters do every day.
Henry and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney have gone back-and-forth in some briefings, with Carney once suggesting that “you’re creating a thing here for Fox.” But they appear to have a solid working relationship. Henry said the White House has never retaliated against him for any of his work, or because of anger at his network.
“Like every other professional journalist who covers the White House, we don’t like every word that Ed has said on camera, but we work with him every day to provide the access and information that he needs to communicate to a sizable audience what’s happening at the White House,” said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
Henry is keenly aware of the “noise machine,” bloggers like Media Matters who quickly pounce on work they consider objectionable. He suggested that MSNBC host Chuck Todd, who also works for NBC News, doesn’t get the same level of critical attention paid to his work even though MSNBC is clearly slanted left.
As a young reporter, Henry said he looked up to former White House correspondents like Sam Donaldson, famed for shouting questions at President Ronald Reagan. “Now if you shout a question at Obama, you’re somehow seen as a bad guy,” he said. “I think some people have been cowed.”
Donaldson, now 78, recalled angry letters he had gotten from Republicans about his coverage of the Reagan administration. When he covered President Bill Clinton’s second term from ABC and asked tough questions, Republicans wrote to compliment him on his maturity, he said.
He had his boss’ support and didn’t have to look over his shoulder at blogs, said Donaldson, who considers Henry “one of the best” on the beat now.
“It’s not that they are all afraid and cringe, because they don’t,” Donaldson said. “But it’s so much tougher to do it in every way.”
His advice on dealing with the critics: “You just have to try to ignore them.”
Henry said he tries.
For all of the attention that Henry’s work gets from people with strong political points of view, Sesno said it would probably have been more difficult for him if Romney had won the election.
His theory is that most Fox viewers don’t mind if Henry is tough on Obama. Showing such toughness on someone that many of his viewers are sympathetic toward would be a lot harder.
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Comments (163)
Exidor
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:33pmSounds like someone at the White House got to Fox News.
Atheists, Muslims, MSM, Universities, Unions
The fundamental transformation of the US has started….
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Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:49pmStarted? Hon, it’s nearly half over.
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:05pmAnd this is how murdering traitors get away with it. Zero accountability. Anyone is the service should be on notice, don’t expect aid from this government if you end up in a bad situation that they send you into. Special OPs, CIA and the rest; you are on your own.
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redfish52
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:27pmI agree with Ed…this has horse has been beat to death..same story line “every day”. Either do some real investigative research and find the truth (because the current administration will never admit wrong doing) or just drop it. And yes before everyone jumps on me I know four Americans are dead but FOX (and I watch FOX primarily) needs to fish or cut bait….
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rs9
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:29pmWhy is our side such pu###es? do you think the libs have commented on Bush more than needed? or the 2000 elections or anything else on trepublican side. Thats how you get more than 50% of the country to believe that the economy is still Bushes fault four later, by never shutting up about it.
F###ing cowards
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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:30pmHey Exidor,
I know you’re a good guy so take this corporate structure lesson in the good spirit in which it is being offered.
Fox news is a subsidiary of News Coporation, a multinational media conglomerate that is 12% owned by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian.
Second to Murdoch in equity holding percentage of News Corporation is Saudi Prince bin Talal. The good Prince has been known to brag about how big his (equity interest) is. He will call Murdoch if he sees a headline that he doesn’t like and he usually expects Murdoch to get it changed within 30 minutes. Normally, the headline will involve something like “Muslim terrorists” did this or that. Please don’t believe me, google all this stuff for yourself.
Bottom line, why did Glenn Beck leave Fox to do his internet thing? He may never admit to it, but this Saudi interference in Fox was a big part of it. It’s amazing to me that Fox has allowed as much coverage of Benghazi as they have; but, with Obama running guns to Syria to help oust the regime backed by Saudi’s arch foe, Iran, I guess King Abdullah figures “What the hell, I have the US president in my pocket, who gives a crap about a story on Fox that nobody is paying any attention to!”
I never thought in all my born days that I would be witness to high treason commited by the President of the United States while 310 million people watched with their collective fingers up their butts; but that’s what’s happening!.
“Remember Benghazi”
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JRook
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:32pmSounds like an individual at Fox News who finally decided to choose ethics and integrity over money. Well done Sir.
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Fubared
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:06pmRookie
WHo actually cares what you give a rip about? Really?
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RabidPatriot
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:29pmWhen the government is caught lying to the American people and the lie is part of a cover-up in an event where people died, it needs to be covered. The government, at the highest levels, is running a successful cover-up. How is it possible to cover this event too much? Other media outlets are committing journalistic malpractice. Fox is biased, but it’s not wrong on this story.
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Secret Squirrel
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:01pmWhat’s a few dead Americans when the muslim brotherhood need our help?
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pamela kay
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:19amFOX needs to remember who their viewers are. I watch the Blaze network on Dish and love it. The republicans and FOX needs to realize that we now have 49% behind us and those 49% will no longer support neither FOX or Republicans if they weaken now.
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tifosa
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 7:34amPresident Barack Obama has a 57% approval rating now (AP-GFK.) aaaaaahhhhhh :)
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Crazyotto
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:41amI agree the Saudi connection is too much to stand for. Fox News ain’t even Fox News anymore. Benghazi should never be forgotten. My God it has been over 30 years since we lost an Ambassador on the ground. It happened because our President is a coward. He let 3 others die that night as well. Obama needs to pay some price. If nothing else keep Reminding this D*&k-head that there are those of us out here that will never let him forget what a coward he is.
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ellietoo
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:31pmBenghazi has been dropped by everyone, including Fox. Ever since before the election it has disappeared from all public conversation. Our Republican representatives who were all fired up before the election have gone silent.
The Obama administration has ripped the government apart and has run this country like a dictatorship yet there is silence from both sides. We are being marched into a global government with both parties and the media in lock step. The apathetic public just goes along with whatever the propaganda machine tells them. They are too ignorant and self involved to care.
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Chet Hempstead
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:05pmThere’s no point in trying to make a story out of Benghazi now that the election is over. Trying to trump up some kind of phony scandal out of this sad incident was never anything but a sleazy stunt to try to swing the election. It didn’t work, so that’s the end of it.
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YourVoiceMatters
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:31pmChet gee 4 lives to you is just colateral damage nothing to see here just move along! That is indeed sad For the first time in my life i am ashamed of my country!
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Fubared
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:21pmChetty is just your average run of the mill lefty, not even JZS/encinomom variety. It only hurts Chetty when someone attached to their sofa loses a bennie for merely drawing air. Then the gloves come off. Useless, trivial, bottom feeder. Thats our Chetty.
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Chet Hempstead
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:09pmYourVoiceMatters
Collateral damage means people who are killed accidentally. The four people who died were deliberately murdered by the enemy, so that’s who I blame. If you hate President Obama so much that you would rather blame him, that’s your business. Don’t expect the rest of the country to think that way.
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GeorgieJo
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 7:55amCHET HONEY?
Why did the ambassador in PARIS FRANCE have MORE SECURITY than Chris Stevens in Benghazzi??
ASK Hillary Clinton.She ran like a horse the minute she greeted the 4 caskets returning to US.
FOUR DEAD in BENGHAZZI
and Oblamo walks away clean. What a joke you guys voted for.
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Chet Hempstead
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:10pmGeorgieJo
Because embassies always get more security than consulates. Paris is the capitol of France, so that’s where the embassy is. Tripoli is the capitol of Libya, so Benghazi is just a consulate.
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U-R-Busted
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:22pmJournalist? Journalist? This guy is nothing more than a lib in moderate clothing at best. FOX has really been going down the tubes the last couple of years. Very disappointing as there are millions and millions of people that simply want honest and unbiased news, no matter where it may lead.
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:31pmI quit fox years ago…..when they hired Juan Williams, along with Morono Rivera…..
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majasdad
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:14am@DETROIT PAPERBOY
Oh, so now your source of news is even more warped and one-sided. Well goody for you.
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Deliverance_from_the_left_now
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:21pmWe’ll see him at his new job next week on MSNBC…he’ll be the prime time spot, they’ll looooooove him!
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neverending
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:21pmAnother reason sick of Fox – he found the kool aid.
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hauschild
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:20pm“Fox News’ Ed Henry: Some of Our Commentators Have Covered Benghazi ‘More Than It Needed to Be Covered’”
And, so begins the transformation of FOX News.
Is this dude delusional??? Just because it is an unpopular story that more than half of Americans (bottom feeding ones, at that) want swept under the rug, this justifies not covering the story any longer or calling for his contemporaries to help him delude others into labeling this a non-story???
I want to meet the person that can tell me with an absolutely straight face (and, must be sober) that America’s best days are ahead of her.
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Rosemary Woodhouse
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:19pmI never type in caps, but this is infuriating, so forgive me, in advance.
NOTE TO FOX NEWS: CONSERVATIVES GOT THE MESSAGE. YOU HAVE ARAB CONTROLLERS/EQUITY HOLDERS AND ARE NOT A TRUE CONSERVATIVE OUTLET. BEWARE: A REAL CONSERVATIVE NETWORK IS COMING WHICH WILL RENDER YOU IRRELEVANT.
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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:38pmRosemary Woodhouse rocks!
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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:39pmHope you are female…
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Marine25
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:47pmMore conservative than FOX?…..Al-jazeera?
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CWPrequired
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:17pmHe just lost every ounce of respect i had for him given the news about the gun running this mornng.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:30pmAmen.
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KangarooJack
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:15pmBenghazi has NOT BEEN ADDRESSED! NOR ANSWERED!!! Just because YOU, Mr. Henry, see it as old news…doesn’t mean I see it as old news. I see it as an example of this Administration’s Power to influence the Media into “what” is reported and what is not. Thanks for the ‘Heads-Up’ on your credentials though. I’ll keep them in mind.
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Letuspray
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:01pmObama must be held accountable for starting the Middle East unrest, for the murder of our personnel in Benghazi,and for usurping our Constitution. Skip over the foul adjectives and read this. http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2012/12/analgate-new-york-times-now-proves-lame.html This is exactly what has happened there with Obama at the helm.
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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:25pmHey Letuspray,
As much as I hate to bring this up, Obama didn’t instigate the Arab Spring. A Texan by the name of George W. Bush did with his Alliance of Youth Movement (AYM).
I encourage you to google everything you can about this initiative by the Bush State Department in late 2008, December to be exact. The idea was to teach international unions, dissident student groups and malcontents of every stripe how to use modern social media to bring down Middle Eastern dictators.
Worked pretty well, didn’t it?
“Remember Benghazi”
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crazyrightwingmom
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:56pmHey John: Every time this is brought up it is proven to be false. That was a totally different operation!
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Blindtimes
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:54pmYour Right
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SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:14pmAs I have always said,you can not trust anyone with 2 first names……secondly,maybe there wouldn’t have had to be so much coverage if lapdogs like Mr Henry would have demanded the President answer the only quesyion we all really want to know……Where were you Mr President during the hours of the attack in Benghazi and what did you order to be done during that time…..get off your ass Ed and demand that question be answered and we all will shut up.
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CanadaRocks
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:17pmAbraham lincoln? 2 names and untrustworthy?
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drs1969
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:22pm2 first names usually implies Jewish heritage. I don’t know about Henry, but his wife is a CNN producer, that’s all you need to know.
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Deliverance_from_the_left_now
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:35pmHey Canadarocks…yes he was untrustworthy…he raised an army to invade and kill his fellow Americans. And it looks like it’s happening all over again and from the same turd of a state that’s labeled “Land of Lincoln” (Illinois)…states rights being repressed and the selling out of America all over again. The Southerners had every right to secede and they did it peacefully and Lincoln invaded them to maintain power over them. Slavery was on its way out the door and even memoirs from Lee and other Confederates noted that they had every intention on freeing the slaves after the war…they understood the industrial revolution was coming…they didn’t want their rights trampled on…just like it’s being done again today!!! I’m all for states seceding and I will stay in my home land of Dixie!!!
I wish I was back in the land of cotton
OL’ TIMES THERE ARE NOT FORGOTTEN!!!
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SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:42pmMaybe I shouldn’t have started out by making a joke….the morons seems to be concentraing on that part and ingoring the important part.
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:08pmAbe was a tyrant, the only good thing he did was free the slaves, that shouldn’t let him off the hook for the evil he committed.
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GroverCleveland
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:09pmHey, DELIVERANCE_FROM_THE_LEFT_NOW: Slavery, in 1861, was not “on its way out the door.” Thanks to green seed short-staple cotton, and the growth of the slave market in what we might politely call “domestic sales,” it had become, as we say today, too big to fail. Lee and “other confederates,” contrary to what you claim, had no intention of emancipating slaves. As property they were too valuable, and as a potential threat they were too dangerous. The southern states did not secede peacefully–they attacked Fort Sumter when the federal government made clear its intention to resupply it. There were times when prominent southerners did talk of slavery gradually coming to an end on its own–but these kinds of ideas were popular in the eighteenth century, before the astonishing profitability of slavery really became a reality in the south. The Civil War was NOT fought over some vague theoretical notion of “States Rights.” It was fought because southern planters and politicians understood Lincoln’s election to be a threat to their disgusting way of life. They sounded the first calls for disunion, they fired the first shots, and they fought on insanely, to the the horror of their own people, even after the war was plainly lost. Given all that, where is the parallel between 1861 and today, between Lincoln and Obama, between “libs” of today and Republicans of yesterday? Your idiotic claims make no sense.
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GroverCleveland
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:17pmAnd what is more, DELIVERANCE, by 1861 the industrial revolution was well under way–it was a fact of life not just in the U.S. but all over the world. To say that the likes of Lee and Jeff Davis “saw it coming” is to portray them as simply stupid. The power of steam, the telegraph, fossil oil–all these things were already hard realities well before these southern bumkins declared war on their own nation.
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TROONORTH
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:23pmThank you GROVERCLEAVLAND. Some small % of Southerners will never get over the fact that the war of cessation is over and they lost.
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starman70
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:14pmWRONG!!! Benghazi hasn’t been covered enough. 4 Americans are dead and the American people have a right to know why. The people have a right to know what exactly was going on there. The people have the right to know what precipitated the attack. Phe people have the right to be informed of all the shennigans associated with Benghazi.
The LAMESTREAM, DRIVE-BY, LIBERAL, LEFTIST media won’t do it for fear of indicting their worshipful idol as being part and parcel in the operation.
Good work FOX. Keep on digging, sooner or later you will hit paydirt.
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SimpleTruths
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:31pm4 soldiers killed in Benghazi and you’re all bothered and demand to know why?
4,486 soldiers killed in Iraq doesn’t bother you?
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:58pmOh God, this trolls back.
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:10pmthe soldiers in Iraq were not denied assistance when under attack. They were not sacrificed to cover up arms trading.
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barber2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:02pmWAR and SQUID: Amen. You are both correct. Simple is doing the old Hate the American military/ General Be-Tray-us routine. Obama and all of the Chicago radicals love the ” simples” who post their baloney here.
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Bob
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:10pmEd Henry has drunk the Cool Aid. Fox needs to fire this turncoat and move on. Do you people understand what keeps people like Fox, NBC, CBS, MSNBC in business? Boycott those companies that advertise on the networks. Hit them where they will feel it instantly without firing a shot, stop your buying of the products they advertise, shut down the income source guess who bite’s the dust. Come on, get some gut’s, its long past the time to take a stand.
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barber2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:59pmBOB: shutting down Fox / Murdoch is one of the Chicago radicals goals for Obama II . Trashing Fox is as dysfunctional as not voting for Romney. Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot ! The Chicago Radicals / aka the current Democrat party thanks you ! Now move along, comrade, Big Brother has other business to attend to. Gun control is next .
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doomytram
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:09pmWhat about Benghazi? Why is nobody talking about Benghazi? Our Obozo intentionally ordered lies, misinformation, disinformation, deception, and false statements about terrorism.
Bozo Shmozo! Forget plausible deniablility! Obozo is a hack treasonous pinko pig! Speaking of, some of Obozo’s minions have dropped a dime on Fox news now. Fox news is almost as in the tank as ABC now. The Chicago Mafia is coming after all Talk Radio and watering it all down or shutting down. Fox news is going squishy, limp, and impotent. So, anytime an Obamunist like Encinom tells you you watch too much Fox news, then just tell em that they watch too much Fox News.. I don’t get my news from Obozo the CIA and Soros.
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searcher619
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:08pm“His theory is that most Fox viewers don’t mind if Henry is tough on Obama. Showing such toughness on someone that many of his viewers are sympathetic toward would be a lot harder.”
He’s an idiot. If he finds it hard to put the tough questions to anyone regardless of their political leaning then he has no business calling himself a journalist.
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oldguy49
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:15pmslowly all the conservative stations will go away for one reason or another and all that will be left……………pravda
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cclevel
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:07pmFunny, they never said that about Watergate. I wonder, do these reporters EVER think about the victims who simply want to know what happened or is this simply about them?
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paulwbrown
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:07pmI think the really important issue made in the article is that Obama has “cowed” most of the so-called journalist who cover him, that is assuming that they were actually trying to get the truth from Obama or Carney. For those few who might really want to challenge Obama and his administration, they have the fearful race card at ready to be used against the journalists or Obama’s obvious anger he displays when challenged.
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YourVoiceMatters
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:05pmSounds like fox is caving too….i hardly am watching them anymore! The day you think you are spending too much time on the travesty of Benghazi you need to resign from the human race! FOUR people are dead that served this country and we have never left our persons behind ever before this and you think you spent too much time on the story!….Until you get to the bottom of the story you should cover it til hell freezes over! I personally think you should resign you are no reporter you are an appeaser! I will never watch this jerk ever!
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searcher619
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:10pmI stopped watching them not too long after Glenn left and started his own network. I prefer their coverage of the news.
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Nerzhul
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:04pmRemember we shall.
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TROLLMONGER
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:04pmIts called far right baised reporting. FOX is the right wing equivelant of MSNBC.
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doomytram
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:15pmNOT. It’s the Squishy Dancing with the stars and Kim Kardashian network you Obozo! LOL..
You trolls don’t know where we get our news now Bozo.
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drs1969
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:20pmHardly, MS fired Buchanan for his views. Fox keeps bringing lefties on, which makes most of their shows unwatchable. Fox is Leftie-Lite.
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strawberry411a
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:35pmThat’s the stuff: back down wimpishly.
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barber2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:53pmI love reading the Invasion of the Trolls: smearing Republicans and Fox news posed as ” conservatives.” What a bunch of malarkey. Typical Chicago radical smoke and mirrors. The Guy Fawkes routine in comments to the Blaze.
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Red Meat
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:04pmMany so-called conservatives have been brain washed by FOX news. Many of them appear to be right here on the Blaze. Sad.
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Fubared
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:15pmAppearances can be deceiving.
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barber2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:34pmFU: Strange. I see in Troll comments to the Blaze more “liberals” who have been brainwashed by the Chicago radicals and their Lefty Lap Dog Media. Guess beauty is just in the eyes of the Eric Holder.
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Fubared
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:23pmOk. I’m chuckling. See it every day too-
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eaglesview
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:03pmBenghazi should be on each show, every hour.
We seem to have just rolled past 4 Americans being murdered, and the Liar in Chief doing nothing to help them, and lying his ass off about the video.
Turn the heat back on.
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doomytram
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:13pmthe world wants to watch more Obozo campaigning and eating a chili dog. NOT
Ronald McDonald Holder has his claws into Murdoch’s craw. Obozo will have current tv Maddcow and Richard Simmons taking over Rush Limbaugh if we let him.
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crazyrightwingmom
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:01pmExactly! We should not let up on anything….that is the progressive method. Drip drip until we get tired and we just fade away. Nothing ever gets settled!
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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:03pmWho cares what the commenters say?
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banjarmon
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:02pmBenghazi, 9-11, 12/07, Just a few of the DAYS IN INFAMY That WE should NEVER FORGET!!!!
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HumbleMan
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:15amYes. Remember Pearl Harbor.
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MDECKER
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:02pmLet me ask the questions. I’m not concerned about being called names.
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Fubared
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:16pmHe should have been new age and taken his wife’s last name. Ed Hung, reporting from the east lawn.
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toiletclogga
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:01pmWhat? A white house cover-up of gun running which backfires on the US, and results in 4 dead Americans is not news worthy? Well, back to reporting on the royal couples baby, or the pardoning of the White House turkey!
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CWPrequired
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:16pmYou nailed it…nothing here…move along.
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barber2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:27pmTOILET: Yes. And what is the status of the origin of the ” Stand Down” order ?? I thought that was one of the earliest and most damning parts of this episode. Who gave that order and why ?
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Lloyd Drako
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:07pmThe “stand down” order was not an order to stand down. It was an order to the CIA team at the Benghazi annex to wait for “friendly” Libyan militia reinforcements before going to the consulate. It is likely to have come from either the CIA or the embassy in Tripoli. In the event, the CIA team waited about 20 minutes, then decided to go to the consulate anyway. I suppose you think Obama was back in Washington, watching the consulate burn in real time, gleefully rubbing his hands together and chanting verses from the Koran?
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barber2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:49pmLLOYD: Gee, I have no idea what Obama was doing OTHER than campaigning and planning his Las Vegas visit the next day. ( We only had the 24/7 photo ops of the Obama killed Osama meeting where they watched that operation going down. Milked that sucker for ages ) Guess no one much cared about Benghazi since they already had that phony video cover story ready for the press . And no one wanted to publicize that 9/11 anniversary demonstrations in the ME since that conflicted with the ” the world now loves Obama and America ” malarkey the CAMPAIGNING Democrats were pushing. Yeah. ” al Qaeda was on the run ” was the Obama parroted routine ! Running right for the ambassador with their “rebel” friends. Say, do you work in the White House ?? Your words read like one of the teleprompter / parroted recordings ! Polly wants a …..
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Lloyd Drako
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:40pmThere is no comparison between the killing of Osama and the Benghazi attacks.The former had been planned for weeks. The latter, even though there had been warnings, developed in the course of maybe half an hour.
Yes, the spin put on the Benghazi was probably at least in part politically motivated. So what? So was the endless harping on them by right-wing media which, thankfully, has quieted down now that it’s obvious that mistakes were made, but no crimes committed, and there is no longer any political advantage to be milked out of it.
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