Fox News Treats Benghazi Select Committee Like The NFL Draft

Auburn Quarterback Cam Newton, right, holds up a jersey with NFL commission Roger Goodell after he was selected as the No. 1 overall pick by the Carolina Panthers in the first round of the NFL football draft at Radio... Auburn Quarterback Cam Newton, right, holds up a jersey with NFL commission Roger Goodell after he was selected as the No. 1 overall pick by the Carolina Panthers in the first round of the NFL football draft at Radio City Music Hall Thursday, April 28, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin) MORE LESS

If you aren’t a football fan, you probably don’t understand the strange appeal of the NFL Draft. And if you aren’t a loyal Fox News viewer, you probably don’t understand the conservative obsession with Benghazi.

Parallels abound, as Fox’s Chad Pergram demonstrated Thursday.

“It’s hard to imagine Heisman trophy-winning quarterback Johnny Manziel having much in common with second-term Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C,” Pergram wrote in his column’s priceless opening line.

From there, Pergram set out to explain the similarities between a team drafting Manziel and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) tapping Gowdy to lead the House’s select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack.

Are you ready for some football metaphors?

The prosecutorial Gowdy, Pergram wrote, has potential to create “[h]ighlight reels worthy of NFL Films” during the committee’s hearings, but his selection “created an immediate quarterback controversy on Capitol Hill” similar to the one that consumed the San Francisco 49ers two years ago.

According to Pergram, the speaker (“coach Boehner”) essentially “benched” House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA).

And you thought Bill O’Reilly talking about Benghazi before the Super Bowl was bad.

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  1. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    eye roll is the only reaction I have to this bit Foxfoolery

  2. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    Liked for creativity in getting to your 20 word min.

  3. Dems must boycott this purely partisan right-wing thuggery.

  4. But what about Benghazi?!

    BENGHAZI!

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