Fox's Geraldo Rivera Slams Network's Disingenuous Coverage Of Benghazi, Clinton Emails

Rivera: Fox “Promulgated To The World The False Notion That The Obama Administration Had The Military Capacity To Save Those People” In Benghazi

From the February 12 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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STEVE DOOCY (HOST): First of all, why didn't PBS ask the questions about Hillary's email or any of that stuff? And why doesn't Bernie go after her on that?

JEANINE PIRRO: Bernie is already locked in because he said, 'no, we don't care about your emails. I don't give a damn,' excuse me, that's what he said --

DOOCY: People can evolve.

PIRRO: -- about the emails, okay. Yesterday, a subpoena -- the subpoena that was on the Clinton Foundation by the State Department was released. And of all days, a federal judge says you've got to have all of those emails by February 29th or whatever it is. Nobody talks about it. 

DOOCY: How do they not ask about that? 

GERALDO RIVERA: It is the most overrated scandal we have ever covered. The emails. There is no crime there. There is absolutely no crime there. You get your --

DOOCY: Geraldo, setting up the server was a crime.

RIVERA: -- hopes up on this e-mail scandalette -- 

BRIAN KILMEADE (HOST): No one's hope.

RIVERA: -- and by getting your hopes up that they'll be an indictment, you lose sight of the real issue. 

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RIVERA: My bottom line is this. By putting all of political capital in the email investigation, the risk is simple. The email investigation will go nowhere. There will be no indictments and then people who have spent so much time, invested so much energy and so much vitriol in the email scandal will then say, 'oh, I guess we were wrong. I guess we were wrong.'

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PIRRO: She has an obligation in the interest of transparency to release all of the emails that she deleted, 30,000 of them. She has an obligation to release the transcripts. If she wants to say, 'I'm not -- oh, I don't owe anything to Wall Street' -- 

RIVERA: You know what, Judge?

PIRRO: Let me finish this sentence, Geraldo. 'I don't owe anything to Wall Street?' Well then tell  us what you told them. Tell us why they paid you. 

RIVERA: I want to release -- I want to finish my statement. My statement is this. This administration was slandered by the coverage of the Benghazi event. We -- 

PIRRO: No. Four Americans were killed.

RIVERA: We promulgated to the world the false notion that the Obama administration had the military capacity to save those people. 

PIRRO: Oh, really? We didn't have planes in Sigonella?  

RIVERA: We promulgated that, broadcasts day after day, day after day, we have never apologized for that. 

PIRRO: We couldn't get planes for 13 hours? Apologized? 

RIVERA: We have never -- apologized for slandering good people that you may politically disagree with by saying they could have saved people --

PIRRO: They could have.

RIVERA:  -- We basically accused them of murdering our own people. 

PIRRO: There was a stand down in Tripoli. 

RIVERA: Stand down baloney. We still have not apologized for it, still are not apologizing for it. Concentrate on the real issues.

Previously:

A Comprehensive Guide To Myths And Facts About Hillary Clinton, Benghazi, And Those Emails

Three Years Of The Benghazi Hoax In Five Minutes

Emails Are To Clinton What Benghazi Was To Obama: The Source Of Endless Fox News Fantasies