Posted on 10/23/2015 9:04:14 PM PDT by 100American
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/23/hillary-helped-by-partisan-media-atmosphere-undermining-benghazi-hearing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29
When the House Benghazi hearings opened yesterday, it seemed like the committee was on trial rather than Hillary Clinton.
Chairman Trey Gowdy kicked things off with a passionate defense of his panel, insisting that the proceedings were purely professional and dismissing suggestions that the investigation is about the former secretary of State. “Let me assure you it is not,” he told Clinton.
Ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings responded by blasting the probe, telling Clinton that the committee was set “loose because you’re running for president” and demanding that the Republicans end the “fishing expedition.”
In short, the media atmosphere surrounding the much-anticipated session had turned poisonous before Hillary opened her mouth—and Republicans largely have themselves to blame.
When Kevin McCarthy shot himself in the foot on Sean Hannity’s show, saying the committee had knocked down Hillary’s poll numbers, he did more than hand her a gift. He changed the public perception, which was further muddied when another GOP congressman made that charge, as did an ex-staffer fired under disputed circumstances.
An ABC/Washington Post poll found 53 percent of those surveyed believe the panel’s purpose is to damage Clinton politically, while 35 percent say it is raising legitimate concerns. At the same time, 57 percent disapprove of her handling of the email mess, while 36 percent approve.
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Elijah Cummings is a disgrace.
Not surprised. The media did it to Joe McCarthy way back when.
I’m fed up with the lying state-controlled “media”. Had they been around in the 1930s, Hitler would have won the war and run the world. Low life, lying bass turds.
Elijah Cummings is a disgrace. <<
LOL... and a millionaire running a Maryland plantation!
If only his voters knew......
hilary is garbage, always has been lying garbage. And if we enjoy electing lying garbage to high office in this land, so be it; won’t be the first time, just the worst time.
I feel like I’m living on a different planet than I was born on. Good is called evil, and evil good. So be it. They have their reward.
I will continue to do what I can to fight back, but we have passed the tipping point in this country, so now the unimaginable is the new normal. So be it. They have their reward (i.e., they seem to have gotten away with it).
hilary is helped? She’s gonna need all the help she can get, and then some. She is a waddling cluster——
I still think a conservative republican will win the next election.
The electorate is fatigued with Obama, Bush, Clinton.
“Hillary helped by partisan media atmosphere undermining Benghazi hearing”
Who the hell would be surprised by this????
Almost unbelievable that such a corrupt and decadant person is even in a position to challenge the Presidency. Shows just how far America has fallen.
Goes without saying. She had backup, something our men in bengahzi didnt have. despicable humans
Can you imagine how much different this would all be going if a (gasp) journalist had been killed?
What would the media do then?
They know and are proud of him... disgusting.
The Truth will come out in time—and the American People will be outraged. My bet—The video story was put together by Obama and his minions—Hillary was forced to tow the line or else. I bet the IRS Scandal was cooked up in the Oval Office as well. I even think people were killed—Obama was running a Murder express in the White House. I hope I am wrong!
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