Truth hurts
Conservative news outlet Fox News has given up one aspect of its mudslinging against presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Recently, anchor Shepard Smith conveyed the news that the Benghazi hearings were intended as a hoax that would dupe the American public into hating Hillary Clinton. Specifically, Smith declared that after two years, seven million dollars in funding, and eight investigations, no evidence of wrongdoing could be gleaned against Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State.
Widely considered to be the engine for Republican conspiracies and propaganda, Fox’s admittance of nothing wrong should do much to quell the rumors. While countless dollars of tax money were used to fund the government’s investigations into the tragic incident, nothing came out of the reports beyond partisan efforts to dismantle a presidential candidate.
Analysts may claim that another reason for Fox’s admittance of Hillary’s clear conscience might be the channel’s flagging viewership. One polling source claims that Fox’s viewership among Republicans has dropped down from 10th place in 2014 to 50th place in the present day. Yet another reason for the channel’s concession would be the most recent poll figures that posit Trump’s chances of winning Super Tuesday at next to zero percent.