On Wednesday night’s The Kelly File, host Megyn Kelly slammed Obama’s hypocrisy in this week’s decision to publicly release a report on the CIA’s interrogation program. Kelly showed clips of President Obama and White House spokesman Josh Earnest defending Dianne Feinstein’s Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the grounds of transparency. President Obama attempted to explain why the Democrats chose to release this report during an appearance on Univision,
“There is never a perfect time to release a report like this.  But it was important for us, I think, to recognize that part of what sets us apart is when we do something wrong, we acknowledge it.”
Josh Earnest added:
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“It demonstrates a commitment to transparency.  It demonstrates a commitment to accountability, in terms of fessing up for falling short.  One substantial way that we can rebuild that moral authority is to be honest about what happened; to be as transparent as possible about it.”
The Fox News host mocked the president and spokesman:
“When we in America do something wrong, we acknowledge it. We are transparent, accountable. We fess up so we can claim our moral authority, like when the president immediately came clean about his ‘if you like your plan, you can keep your plan’ promise? When he sold us the Obamacare mandate by denying that it was actually a tax, as he went before the Supreme Court to say exactly the opposite? When his spokesman told us the White House did not alter the Benghazi talking points? When James Clapper lied about spying on all Americans? When Eric Holder misled about targeting journalists, like James Rosen?”
Kelly used these examples of inconsistency in transparency and accountability to call out the president on his stance on immigration with more clips from the Univision interview where Jorge Ramos pressed the president about suspending deportation through executive orders.  The president continued to dodge Ramos’ questions on immigration during the remainder of the interview.
Kelly concluded the segment:
“So the transparency that puts U.S. lives on the line is apparently easy to come by in Washington.  But that which paints the president in a potentially bad light appears to be a much harder lift.”
(h/t: Fox News)