Fox Panel Imagines Hillary Assassination to Make Point About Benghazi; Chaos Ensues
The real headline of this article should have been “A Frustrated Juan Williams Mutters ‘Oh My God’ as Fox Panel Imagines Hillary Assassination to Make Point About, Yup… Benghazi,” but character limits are a real thing, people.
Fox’s Cashin’ In panel Saturday morning was contentious — to say the least — with Williams squaring off with host Eric Bolling and co-panelists Jonathan Hoenig, Michelle Fields, and Wayne Rogers.
There was a lot going on in this bonkers segment, so let’s break down the highlights:
1. Williams accuses his co-panelists of “trying to make something out of nothing” with the recent string of Benghazi emails. After a little shouting with Fields, Williams suggested the GOP obsession with Benghazi is an attempt to go after Hillary Clinton in the event she runs for president.
2. Bolling saw Williams’ Clinton theory and raised it: “Maybe this all does have to do with Hillary running for president, and maybe 20 months ago they anticipated that and they started covering up then.”
3. Hoenig agreed, adding that there is a strand of “anti-Americanism” in the Obama administration’s “lies” about Benghazi. The pundit then declared that “the difference between Clinton’s lies and Obama’s lies is that, at least with Clinton, you got the picture that he cared about America, that he was pro-American, that he cared about Americans.”
Here’s a helpful GIF to demonstrate Juan Williams going from mild amusement to deep concern, muttering “Oh my God” as Hoenig spoke:
4. Former M*A*S*H star turned successful investor Wayne Rogers took the cake for this segment by coming up with a particularly negative scenario.
“Imagine that Hillary Clinton runs for president, and gets assassinated in the process,” he said. “And somebody shows up, a congressman, and says, ‘Well, what difference does it make anyway?'” Rogers quipped. “I mean, the New York Times would have that on the front page!”
“They would have a field day,” Bolling concurred.
“That is such a distortion. Nobody — I don’t care if you’re a Republican or Democrat — ever said it didn’t make any difference,” Williams interjected. “And Hillary Clinton didn’t say that. Hillary Clinton said, ‘What about the cause?’ People were going on and on about was it a group of terrorists, was it a group of people who were attacking the embassy?”
“She said, ‘What difference does it make anyway?'” Roger shouted with a finger wag.
“[They] were trying to go after the perpetrators, we were looking for real terrorists,” Williams concluded. “Not about public relations or not a political attack on her.”
And then the segment ended.
Enjoy below, via Fox:
[h/t Crooks and Liars]
[Image via screengrab]
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