Rachel Maddow and Jimmy Fallon: Benghazi

Rachel Maddow was the first guest on Wednesday's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Maddow was on the show to hawk her book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.

Before talking about that, Fallon and Maddow discussed "the issues people are talking about" -- Mark Sanford, gay marriage, the NRA and gun control.

Then, Maddow talked about Benghazi. She tore into Hillary Clinton and Obama for lying for weeks to the American people, permitting the concoction of a story about a video that was supposedly responsible for a protest that got a bit too ugly. Maddow said that this scandal and the cover-up was far worse than Watergate because Americans were left to die as terrorists carried out this coordinated attack. There would be no military response so close to the 2012 election. There could be no admission that Islamists or al Qaeda had succeeded in a 9/11 anniversary attack on our country. That would be ballot box poison. She expressed her disgust for the Obama administration and suggested this could bring down Obama's presidency.

Of course, none of what I wrote in the previous paragraph happened.

Maddow and Fallon said nothing about Benghazi. NOTHING. It was the day of the hearings and not one word about the 9/11/12 terrorist attack that killed four Americans was uttered.

Maddow, MSNBC, and NBC News cannot be taken seriously.

After the chit-chat segment, Maddow gave another demonstration of her skills as a mixologist.

NBC is a bizarre parallel universe.