Just because it was a lie doesn’t mean it wasn’t true
by digby
CBS News confirmed on Monday that Logan and producer Max McClellan were asked to take a leave of absence after an internal review of her reporting found major flaws. Logan had been forced to apologize and issue a partial retraction when reports from other media outlets showed that her source, security contractor Dylan Davies, was not at the U.S. mission in Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2011 terrorist attack as he had claimed.
On Wednesday morning, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade asked Huckabee to respond to the news that Logan had been effectively suspended indefinitely from 60 Minutes.
“Very shocked,” Huckabee said. “And I think that the fact is that we’re missing the big story here. We still don’t know what happened in Benghazi. Our government lied to us, they covered it up.”
“Lara Logan is certainly a hero journalist to at least attempt to get the story out,” he added.
She is a hero journalist who has been in the path of great danger over the years, true. But in her “attempt to get the story out” as she wanted to tell it, she reported a hoax. Maybe if she hadn’t jumped to conclusions about what happened in Benghazi from the beginning (as the whole right wing has done) she wouldn’t have been so eager to believe her source’s absurd story — which anyone with half a brain could see was right out of a cheap novel or video game.
But this does illustrate how Fox News looks at the facts. They just don’t matter. Which is not “advocacy journalism.” It’s propaganda.
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