The Benghazi Select Committee That Fox Built

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/09/the-benghazi-select-committee-that-fox-built/199248

Fox News has finally succeeded in convincing House Republicans to establish a select committee on Benghazi, a move it has hyped for more than eighteen months. The network has celebrated in classic Fox style: by reviving a host of debunked Benghazi myths and patting itself on the back for its political influence.

On May 2, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that he would call for a vote in the House "to establish a new select committee to investigate the attack, provide the necessary accountability, and ensure justice is finally served." Fox figures were quick to brag about their role in the creation of the select committee and their unrelenting coverage of the 2012 attacks, which most recently included a misguided attempt to turn an innocuous email by Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes into the new "smoking gun" that proved the Obama administration covered up the truth about the attacks in Benghazi.

Boehner announced on May 9 the six GOP lawmakers who will join Republican Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina on the select committee: Reps. Susan Brooks of Indiana, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mike Pompeo of Kansas, Martha Roby of Alabama, Peter Roskam of Illinois and Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia. The Speaker even commemorated the announcement with this tweet:

done with typical right wing stacking of the proverbial deck like ISSA and the panel on women reproduction contraception mysteriously devoid of any women, this too does not remotely hint at potential fail and balanced participants the new guy that replaces ISSA starts off with a big rebuked lie he never campaigned on Benghazi to raise money.

Referring to the scandal surrounding the murders of four American citizens in the Benghazi attacks, Gowdy said this is not the case.

“It is a scandal,” he said. “But it is not a phony scandal.”

Gowdy said these scandals begin to chip away at the public’s trust in their government.

“There is nothing phony about (citizens) not trusting the people they put in positions of leadership,” he said.

 Two weeks later, Gowdy spoke at a campaign event for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) where he, according to the Greenville News, praised Graham on Benghazi (accessed via LexisNexis):

Friday morning at Furman, Gowdy shared the credit on the Benghazi issue with Graham, telling students, “There is no one in Congress who has done more on the issue of Benghazi than your senior senator.”

Gowdy also said [Rep. Jason] Chaffetz [R-UT] has done more than anyone else in the House to hold Obama accountable on Benghazi. Gowdy and Chaffetz attended a private fundraiser for Chaffetz at a Greenville home Thursday night.

i believe we call that "COLD BUSTED" and it should be brought to America's attention everyday he sits as chairman, and a panel of 7 republicans this is scotus all over again stacking the committee to have the majority vote, deception is it's name and obsession is it's game recognize
btw did you see Beohners response when asked by Luke Russert about the impropriety of the committee and the party raising money on the tragedy?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/05/08/226918/boehner-wont-criticize-gop-fundraising.html?sp=/99/104/