Despite House Republicans’ insistence that the Select Committee on Benghazi is not political after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) recent comments, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said on Thursday that the committee is definitely political.
“If you don’t think the Benghazi thing is political, of course it’s political,” he said on Fox News’ “The Five.” “But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t know what exactly happened, and why the secretary of state was ignorant about the security problems in Benghazi, Libya.”
“But if you think those guys, those Republicans on that panel don’t want to bring down Hillary Clinton, you’re six years old. Because they do. So it is political,” O’Reilly continued.
The Fox host added that just because the committee is political, does not mean that the investigation is important.
“But it is also incumbent upon the most transparent human being that’s ever lived, according to herself, Hillary Clinton … It is incumbent upon her to explain a lot of things that she hasn’t explained. So I don’t mind that it’s political. I just want to get to the bottom of it,” he said.
O’Reilly also suggested that the FBI will have a greater impact on Clinton than the House’s Benghazi committee.
“And here is the bottom of it: Hillary Clinton will not be President of the United States if the FBI comes back and says she broke the law. And they may well. So that’s it. It’s the FBI, it’s not the House Committee on Benghazi. Whatever they say isn’t going to matter to Hillary Clinton. The FBI will matter, and we should have that, I would say, in three or four months,” he said.
Watch O’Reilly’s remarks via Fox News. He starts talking about Benghazi near the seven minute mark.
H/t Media Matters
Well, Bill, of course it’s political? So this isn’t an investigation into the death of four Americans, but a political investigation into a Presidential candidate that you fear with all your being? Isn’t that somewhat wrong?
Look, to the quote above, what happens when the FBI says things weren’t done properly, but were done within the law at the time? Are you and your minions going to demand that any new law be applied retroactively? How is this going to change anything?
And for you and your minions to say it’s ok to politicize this and and insist that we not politicize gun control, mental health issues, shutting down the government, holding multiple votes to repeal and/or defund ACA, holding multiple votes to defund Planned Parenthood and so many other useless actions in this current Congress, goes beyond the pale.
So in other words, the death of 4 Americans was a tool for Republicans to wield against their political enemies…
Bill is totally oblivious to the problem with it being political, like the fact that they are blowing WAY out of proportion.
Hey, after turning the deaths of 3,000+ Americans and other nationals into political fodder, what’s spitting on the graves of four more?
Moral imbecile.