{"id":19441,"date":"2014-07-08T10:34:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19441"},"modified":"2014-07-08T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T18:00:33","slug":"congress-allocates-more-money-to-phony-benghazi-investigations-than-to-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19441","title":{"rendered":"Congress Allocates More Money To Phony Benghazi Investigations Than To Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago GOP House Speaker John Boehner announced that he would concede to pressure from Fox News and the Tea Party by creating the House Select Committee On Politicizing Benghazi. He then packed the committee on the Republican side with rabidly partisan attack dogs, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=13645\" target=\"_blank\">alpha dog Trey Gowdy<\/a> of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Humor\/gowdy-doody.jpg\" alt=\"Gowdy Doody\" width=\"550\" height=\"707\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13920\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Shameless self-promotion&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00A8PD694?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creativeASIN=B00A8PD694&#038;linkCode=xm2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20\" target=\"_blank\">Get Fox Nation vs. Reality. Available now at Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since that announcement there has been nothing of note to report. There are no scheduled hearings and no estimated timeline for the investigation. Count on it to drag out long enough for Republicans to exploit it during the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2014\/07\/07\/benghazi-committee-33-million-republicans\/12301935\/\" target=\"_blank\">bit of news<\/a> that has just emerged is that the Speakers office has allocated $3.3 million to the committee for the current year. So after spending untold millions by four other partisan committees who, despite making wild predictions about White House malfeasance and cover ups, never found anything to support their manufactured accusations, they are now proposing to up the ante with no indication that the result will be any different.<\/p>\n<p>To put the budgeting in perspective, the House Veterans Affairs Committee will only be receiving $3 million this year, even though they have more than twice as many members and a legitimate scandal to investigate with legitimate victims who continue to suffer. The Benghazi Circus will spend more in its first year than the Intelligence Committee which deals with numerous international matters that have far-reaching impact on national security.<\/p>\n<p>The financial priority that is demonstrated by these budget choices is evidence that the Republican House is more obsessed with phony scandals and political sabotage than with actually solving real problems for the American people. The tragic events in Benghazi have always been merely a crude weapon for the rightist politicians and pundits who are fixated on destroying all things Obama. And the new committee is just another means of achieving political goals that they couldn&#8217;t achieve at the ballot box. This was illustrated with certainty when back in May of 2013, Fox News aired a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=13697\" target=\"_blank\">tribute to their chief<\/a>, CEO Roger Ailes, for his efforts as <em>&#8220;The Driving Force&#8221;<\/em> in <em>&#8220;Keeping Benghazi Alive.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-ailes-benghazi-2.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Ailes Benghazi\" width=\"550\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13705\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was one of the most brazen admissions of the abandonment of journalistic ethics ever broadcast. The arrogance they display with on-air graphics confessing that they <em>&#8220;made terror attack a story&#8221;<\/em> in response to a <em>&#8220;push&#8221;<\/em> by their CEO, is unprecedented. Credible news organizations do not permit executives to interfere with editorial decisions. But the operative word there is <em>&#8220;credible,&#8221;<\/em> which has never applied to Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago GOP House Speaker John Boehner announced that he would concede to pressure from Fox News and the Tea Party by creating the House Select Committee On Politicizing Benghazi. He then packed the committee on the Republican side with rabidly partisan attack dogs, led by alpha dog Trey Gowdy of South Carolina. Shameless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Congress Allocates More Money To Phony Benghazi Investigations Than To Veterans","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[1091,33,143,1088],"class_list":["post-19441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-benghazi","tag-fox-news","tag-roger-ailes","tag-trey-gowdy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/gowdy-doody.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-53z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29971,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29971","url_meta":{"origin":19441,"position":0},"title":"How Fox News Proved That Hillary Clinton Won The Benghazi Games","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/23\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The long awaited battle between Hillary Clinton and the Republican's Committee to Politicize Benghazi is now in the history books. 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