Krauthammer Is Back To Hyping Benghazi: Email Is Equivalent Of Nixon Tapes (VIDEO)

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Just when Charles Krauthammer thought he was out, they pull him back in.

The columnist and conservative patriarch said last month that it was time for Republicans to abandon their Benghazi crusade. “Politically speaking,” Krauthammer declared, “the administration has won.”

“They ran out the clock,” he said, lamenting that the GOP never set up a select committee to investigate the deadly attack the killed four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

But in a right-wing miracle, an email emerged this week to embolden conservatives in their never-ending quest to prove that the Obama administration engaged in some kind of cover-up of the attack.

The email shows a top Obama aide instructing then-United Nations ambassador Susan Rice to use CIA-fashioned talking points attributing the attack to an anti-Islam video. Now Krauthammer believes Benghazi might be another Watergate, after all.

“[The email is] to me the equivalent of what was discovered with the Nixon tapes,” Krauthammer said Thursday on Fox News.

But he still thinks the GOP blew it.

“The point is that Republicans have done a terrible job in building the case,” he said. “Even today I have to say, the questioning was disjointed, it was not organized. If they had appointed a special committee [a] long time ago the way it was done in Watergate, you would have had answers on this and the country wouldn’t be tired.”

His wish is the GOP’s command. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced Friday that he will set up a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack.

Krauthammer believes this week’s email is a watershed moment, and journalists now wish they had followed the example of Fox News.

“But what I did say was the reason it would not go anywhere is because the lack of interest of the other media,” he said. “And what’s changed now, and we saw it in the briefing room, is I think the other media are somewhat embarrassed by the fact that unlike Fox they allowed themselves to be stoned and spun and rolled for a year-and-a-half and now the memo appears and it’s obvious they missed the story.”

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  1. '“But what I did say was the reason it would not go anywhere is because the lack of interest of the other media,” he said. “And what’s changed now, and we saw it in the briefing room, is I think the other media are somewhat embarrassed by the fact that unlike Fox they allowed themselves to be stoned and spun and rolled for a year-and-a-half and now the memo appears and it’s obvious they missed the story.”

    Why is why they didn’t ask the President a SINGLE question about it at his joint-press converence with Merkel.

  2. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    Oh good grief when the Republicans start investigating all the embassy and consulate attacks and subsequent deaths under Bush I will think this concern about Benghazi seriously. I will consider their concern is something more more than just trying to find anything anything at that will make Obama look bad to someone other than their rabid base

  3. Avatar for meri meri says:

    And remember, kids, this desiccated chump is supposed to be one of the smart, respectable ones.

  4. Nobody outside the bubble cares. Even if it WAS real, it has no legs. That is not going to change.

  5. Avatar for zuch zuch says:

    “Benghazi! 24X7! Hell, it worked so well with Whitewater, let’s do it again!!!”

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