Kurt Eichenwald Calls out Media for Enableing Benghazi Committee's "Partisan Political Theater"

[Stuart G]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/22/newsweeks-kurt-eichenwald-calls-out-media-for-e/206350

Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald called out the media for promoting the misleading and "deceitful information" released by the House Select Committee on Benghazi in an ongoing effort to hurt Hillary Clinton's poll numbers, as it is becoming "increasingly clear they are enablers of an obscene attempt to undermine the electoral process."

In his October 21 "Benghazi Biopsy," Eichenwald describes the Benghazi Committee as a "taxpayer-funded political research of the opposing party's leading candidate for president." He goes on to criticize the media for parroting the committee's numerous false claims, from misleading characterizations of Susan Rice's supposedly deceptive Sunday morning show talking points, to the persistent "stand down" order myth, to the incorrect assertion that Clinton personally signed off on a cable weakening the security at the U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi.

Eichenwald points out that the media have been routinely duped by the committee's "bogus 'scoops.'" In fact, the media play a crucial role in the committee's partisan efforts to target Clinton. As Eichenwald puts it, "the modern McCarthys of the Benghazi committee cannot perform this political theater on their own -- they depend on reporters to aid in the attempts to use government for the purpose of destroying others with bogus 'scoops' ladled out by members of Congress and their staffs":

"But, as they have time and again, the Republicans on the Benghazi committee released deceitful information for what was undoubtedly part of a campaign--as Kevin McCarthy of the House Republican leadership has admitted--to drive down Clinton's poll numbers".
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Extremely powerful condemnation of Benghazi Committee and the media's role in targeting Hillary Clinton.

[Triana]

1. Posted about that Newsweek piece here. It's pretty damning...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027276253

[young_at_heart]

2. Politicizing tragedy

"This single Benghazi committee has been “investigating” the attack for longer than Congress conducted inquiries into Pearl Harbor, 9/11, Iran-Contra, Watergate and intelligence failures in Iraq."

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Typo: "enablers of an obscene attempt to undermine the electoral proces" ...

"an" should be "another".

Hey, we're all human.