John "Fair" McCain and Lindsey "Balanced" Graham are two of their favorite guests
Call it #Benghazi-palooza:
Fox News, which has led the cover-up charge in conservative media, aired 1,098 evening television segments on Benghazi between the night of the attacks and the formation of the select committee in early May of this year, according to a new study from liberal watchdog Media Matters. [...] For the Media Matters study, researchers examined five Fox News evening and primetime programs -- “The Five,” “Special Report with Bret Baier,” “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren,” “The O’Reilly Factor” and “Hannity” -- and found that they averaged 13 Benghazi segments per week.
And you'll never guess who their favorite guests are—well, unless you saw the picture of John McCain and Lindsey Graham at the top of this post. Graham comes in
at number one, with 27 appearances, roughly once a month since the attacks. McCain is third on the list with 15 appearances, more than both Trey Gowdy, who is currently the House GOP's top Benghazi investigator, and Darell Issa, who used to be.
But far more revealing than the names of who they interview is the party affiliation, because of the 149 Congressional and administration guests that Fox has had on its evening and primetime lineup to discuss Benghazi, just 5 were Democrats. In percentage terms, that's just a hair over three percent—and nearly 97 percent were Republican. That's nearly a 30:1 ratio—or, as Fox would put it, it's Fair & Balanced, since they had both Democrats and Republicans.