White House Press Corps’ #Benghazi Fever Breaking?

Since the news broke, last Wednesday, that conservative Judicial Watch had obtained a White House email that #Benghazi cultists insisted was a “smoking gun” in an alleged White House conspiracy to describe the events in Benghazi as accurately as they could, there have been three White House daily briefings.  The email in question (which was at least a real email this time) didn’t actually prove anything at all, but that didn’t stop it from being a hot topic in briefings, at which Benghazi was mentioned a grand total of eighty-five times.

There is some encouraging news in that statistic, though. How many of those Benghazi mentions do you think were from Tuesday’s briefing? If you guessed zero, you win. The topics covered at yesterday’s briefing ranged from the kidnappings in Nigeria, to climate change, to Ukraine, and even to Judge David Barron’s nomination for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. There were zero mentions of Benghazi.

Maybe #Benghazi really did go from The Most Important Topic In The World to complete non-existence in the course of one night, or maybe the Issa Fairy took a night off, or maybe it’s something else. Have a look at the composition of the press corps at these four briefings, and tell me if you notice anything:

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.