I can safely predict that Michael Bay's new movie about Benghazi will receive more free advertising from Fox News than any other movie has ever received in the history of movies.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi opens in theaters January 15. Based on a 2014 book written by journalist Mitchell Zuckoff and five former CIA contractors who defended the diplomatic post and nearby CIA annex during the 2012 assault, the film aims to provide a dramatic eyewitness portrayal of the attacks and the heroism displayed that night.
Well, that and explosions. Can't have a Michael Bay film without explosions.
Based on the 20 minutes Kelly spent on the film during her broadcast last night [...]
All right, that's about enough of that. We can expect great things from the network that believes George W. Bush kept our country safe but this one particular attack on one particular American installation was, no doubt, a conspiracy by the American government to something something something. Were any of the other attacks also conspiracies by the American government to something something something? No. No they were not, because George W. Bush "kept our country safe."
Maybe the movie will be good. Maybe it will be bad. Maybe it will stick closely to events; maybe it will invent some things for the sake of a better narrative, by which we mean more explosions. Don't know. Don't care. It's a movie.
But oh, to be a Fox News talking head, pinning all the little talking head hopes and dreams on whether hyper-analyzing fictitious scenes from a Michael Bay movie will do what seven Benghazi! investigations, Darrell Issa, Trey Gowdy and every last conservative email chain to take flight on the intertubes could not do; reveal a conspiracy that nobody can quite elucidate but which conservatives are certain is out there, somewhere.