Fox-TV ends Benghazi interview after guest calls them "wing of the GOP"

11/26/2012 4:01pm by John Aravosis
 
Author Tom Ricks was just on Fox to talk about Benghazi. According to Politico, Ricks “writes a blog for Foreign Policy magazine and is a best-selling author of books such as ‘Fiasco’ and ‘The Generals’.”


Fox apparently didn’t like what Ricks had to say.

RICKS: I think that Benghazi, generally, was hyped by this network especially. And now that the campaign is over, I think [McCain's] backing off a little bit…

FOX HOST: When you have four people dead, including the first US ambassador in more than thirty years, how do you call that hype?

RICKS: How many security contractors died in Iraq, do you know?

FOX HOST: I don’t.

RICKS: No, nobody does, because nobody cared. We know that several hundred died, but there was never an official count done of security contractors dead in Iraq. So when I see this focus on what was essentially a small firefight, I think number one: I’ve covered a lot of firefights, it’s impossible to figure out what happens in them sometimes. And second, I think that the emphasis on Benghazi has been extremely political, partly because Fox was operating as a wing of the Republican party.

FOX HOST: All right. Tom Ricks, thanks very much for joining us today.

Suddenly, after only a minute and a half, the segment was over.  Now you’d have to ask Ricks how long his segment was supposed to go, but usually things like this, if you’re the sole guest, would go a good 4 minutes. Not one minute 30.
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