In a stunning exercise in false equivalence, Fox News accused CBS News of maintaining a disciplinary double standard after it suspended correspondent Lara Logan for her botched 60 Minutes Benghazi report but continues to employ an analyst that Fox erroneously suggested was part of a Benghazi talking points conspiracy to provide political cover to President Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.On April 2, according to ABC News, former CIA deputy director, Michael Morell testified again before the House Intelligence Committee regarding the 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
Fox used the trumped up allegation to call for Morell's suspension from his position as an analyst for CBS, citing suspended CBS correspondent Lara Logan's botched and retracted 60 Minutes Benghazi report as a comparison. Fox co-host Steve Doocy accused CBS of maintaining a "crazy double standard" for disciplining Logan but not Morell:
DOOCY: Also what's interesting is Mike Morell also works for CBS. He's a consultant. Lara Logan, as you will recall, was fired or suspended from 60 Minutes for simply interviewing somebody who told a story that was not accurate. [...] Mike Morell is a consultant an analyst on CBS and it looks like he lied to congress. It looks like CBS has got a crazy double standard.
how much hypocrisy can one network exhibit or how many right wingers does it take to mislead a story, actually one the others just back them up in case you went to get a sandwich when the first one lied.
their entire network is built around hyperbole, and misinformation regardless to whether it has been debunked let's say hmmmm 51 times.
i guess you can say those things when there is no discipline other than get the talking point right regardless to accuracy.
Doocy's attempt to equate a Fox conspiracy theory about Morell's actions and motivations with Logan's now-infamous breaches of ethics and journalistic standards is staggering, as the two circumstances bear no resemblance.The allegations against Morrell have been repeatedly debunked, while Logan's 60 Minutesreport on Benghazi that featured questionable source, Dylan Davies, whose credibility has since crumbled, led to an internal investigation resulting in the retraction of the report, an apology from Logan, and the subsequent leave of absence of Logan and her producer, Max McClellan.
this is standard operating procedure blame everything on something they think they've connected Pres. to, after all for them all roads lead to Benghazi, what we need to do is catch one who recently started the water carrying and has them how it connects, get ready for that proverbial deer in the headlights moment.
