NBC's Spin on the Benghazi Hearings

"Move along, Folks. Nothing to see here."


At least Fox News isn't the only news outlet reporting on yesterday's House hearings on Benghazi. Late last night, I watched most of Greg Hicks' emotional account of events last September 11 recounted without notes. I watched in disgust as Elijah Cummings (D-MD), while being polite, still insisted on defending the indefensible conduct of the administration and State Department before, during and after September 11, 2012.

Here is how NBC is treating the reportage. Note the crafty wording as they send the message of  how the Republicans are using this to political advantage.

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/08/18125433-diplomats-criticize-benghazi-response-in-gop-led-probe?lite

"Hicks joined two other witnesses in a hearing driven primarily by Republicans, who have zealously pursued the Benghazi incident based on suspicions that President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been caught flat-footed by the attack, or worse, orchestrated a cover-up about the attack to benefit the president’s re-election bid."

"At no point did Hicks or his fellow witnesses – Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism, and Eric Nordstrom, diplomatic security officer and former regional security officer in Libya – accuse the president or Clinton of having halted forces that might have assisted besieged diplomats in Benghazi. Democrats repeatedly pointed to testimony suggesting that reinforcements would have not have arrived in time, anyway."

"But Republicans seized on several morsels of information, in particular Hicks’s incredulity toward the administration’s initial explanation, voiced by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, that the attack was the spontaneous outgrowth of protests related to an anti-Islamic video."

“I am not questioning the motives of our witnesses,” said Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the committee, at the outset of the hearings. “I am questioning the motives of those who want to use their statements for political purposes.”

"His admonition didn’t stop many Republicans from plowing ahead with their questions."

"But while many Republicans appeared eager to keep Benghazi alive as a political issue, not all Republicans seemed as concerned about the issue, or the Obama administration’s forthcoming."

“I’ve been able to read all the cables, I’ve seen all the films. I feel like I know what happened in Benghazi; I’m fairly satisfied,” said Sen. Bob Corker, Tenn., the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on MSNBC. “I’m fairly satisfied.”

You see, Folks; it is all one big Republican witch hunt. These whistle blowers are just disgruntled  liars trying to stop Her Nibs (Hillary Clinton) from becoming our next president, a prize which is rightfully Hers.