The importance of the big picture regarding Benghazi

Media Matters is having a field day with the lie that security contractor Dylan Davies told CBS News and which that organization went with on its 60 Minutes program.

Ben Shapiro at Breitbart explains that this kind of thing is MM's stock in trade:

Media Matters has been spinning full time for Hillary Clinton, attempting to put Benghazi to bed and quash any media coverage or investigations of the events of September 11, 2012. As Bradley Beychok, new Media Matters president, told Slate, debunking the 60 Minutes report was “priority one, priority two, and priority three.” That’s because it could have served as the tip of the spear for actual media coverage. Beychok admitted as much: “This is a good example of when we’re able to deploy any and all resources needed on a subject of importance…This is a topic we saw coming—as it’s been in the conservative media for months and months. So we were ready for this.”

This is how Media Matters operates: they find one detail of a story, and then blow it wildly out of proportion in order to discredit the entire narrative. It’s an effective tactic. Slate’s Dave Weigel rightly noted, “Media Matters’ win has to be seen as an early sign of Democratic plotting for 2016…. That’s what Media Matters was built for.” Clinton, Weigel notes, was one of the founding forces behind Media Matters.

CBS News blew it. And CBS News’ big error gave Media Matters and their allies in the leftist media just the excuse they were looking for to tar anyone who wants to know what truly happened in the lead-up, events, and follow-up to Benghazi.

It will be a shame if this episode turns out to save the H-Word Creature's bacon.  One thing to consider, though, is that a world infested with West-hating jihadists, more water of some sort will be coming over the bridge before 2016.