Dem. Strategist Blasts Conservative Radio Host On Fox: ‘Phony Scandals’ Are ‘Flat-Out, Bold-Faced Lies’
Former Obama campaign staffer Mark Hannah and conservative radio host Lars Larson went at each other on Fox Monday afternoon, with Hannah commending President Barack Obama for deriding the “phony scandals” besetting his administration, and Larson damning those stories as abuses of the Obama administration’s power.
Calling Benghazi “the definition of a phony scandal,” Hannah accused Republican House staffers of “forging documents in order to try to desperately create a scandal where none exist,” and said that “every person that came forward and testified in front of [Darrell] Issa’s committee showed there was no White House involvement whatsoever, so that is in fact a phony scandal.”
“I may have to bow to Mark Hannah’s greater knowledge,” Larson said. “He’d know about phonies and scandals because he worked on the John Edwards campaign.” (“You mean John Kerry,” Hannah corrected him.)
Larson then repeated the common allegations surrounding the Benghazi and IRS scandals, including Obama’s supposed disappearance the night of the attack and the IRS’ chief’s multiple appearances at the White House, while Hannah repeatedly refuted his claims as “circumstantial” or “guilt by association,” eventually calling Larson “a conspiracy theorist.”
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“When Benghazi happened, and there was even an appearance of sort of inappropriate behavior or an appearance of incompetence, we in the media had a real opportunity and were absolutely right to investigate that,” Hannah said. “When the IRS happened…we absolutely had a responsibility to tell your viewers of the possibility of impropriety.”
Hannah added: “There were two accusations that Darrell Issa’s committee made, that these attacks were politically motivated and they only targeted conservatives. Both of those have been shown to be flat-out, bold-faced lies. We in the media have an obligation to tell our viewers that what Darrell Issa and the Republican-led Congressional Oversight Committee was in fact misleading the American people.”
Watch the full exchange below, via Fox News:
