Fox on the hunt
by digby
Speaking of Benghazi, I think this shows just how orchestrated this is:
A new book from Jonathan Alter claims that Fox News President Roger Ailes told producers to cut off the microphone used by Fox host Geraldo Rivera as he pushed back against Fox’s politicization of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
Appearing on Fox & Friends the day before the 2012 election, Rivera accused The Five’s Eric Bolling of being “a politician trying to make a political point” with Bolling’s claim that the government did “nothing” in response to the attack.
The New York Times reports that Alter writes in the upcoming book The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies that “Ailes called the control room and told the producers to cut Rivera’s mic.”
Media Matters has the video:
I watched MSNBC with Alex Wagner, Glenn Thrush and Joan Walsh this morning and they all scoffed at the whole thing. But I noticed that it was done with the disclaimer that “the administration obviously did something wrong here, but it’s not what they are saying it is.” And so it begins.
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