White House: McCarthy Got Caught Telling The Truth About Benghazi Politics

White House press secretary Josh Earnest answers questions about President Barack Obama's announced change in U.S. policy with Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, during the daily briefing at the White House in Washingto... White House press secretary Josh Earnest answers questions about President Barack Obama's announced change in U.S. policy with Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) MORE LESS

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was unsurprised by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) suggestion that the long-running Benghazi investigation intentionally harmed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers.

“Leader McCarthy has committed the classic Washington gaffe,” Earnest said in a Wednesday press briefing, “of saying something that everybody already knows is true.”

McCarthy has been under fire from Democrats and members of his own party for his comments, which he made during a Tuesday night interview on the Fox News show “Hannity.” He described how the Benghazi special committee has helped tear down Clinton’s “unbeatable” position in the presidential race.

“Her numbers are dropping,” McCarthy said. “Because she’s untrustable [sic]. But no would have known any of that had happened had we not fought and made that happen.”

Earnest’s comment riffs on the old line by journalist Michael Kinsley that “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”

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  1. Could Jason Chavetz please show me a chart of how many hearings and taxpayer dollars were wasted on this witch hunt ?

  2. McCarthy is just who we need as Speaker. He’ll spill the beans every time.

    And if you didn’t catch Rachel Maddow’s segment on McCarthy last night, it is worth a watch.

  3. Hillary “untrustable,” Speaker McCarthy? Don’t you think you might be misunderestimating her by casting aspersions on her asparagus?

  4. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    untrustable

    And hand in hand, they just pounded sand,
    And trashed any Hillary swoon,
    Hillary swoon,
    Hillary swoon,
    They trashed any Hillary swoon.

  5. Kevin McCarthy shit in his own mess kit and in every mess kit of the RWNJ coalition. Go, Kevin, go! Keep up the good work!

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