Even CNN is openly mocking White House claims that the emails 'were not about Benghazi'

There's a whole slew of reasons why Jay Carney's "the emails are not about Benghzi" shtick is completely bogus, and you can read a few of them here. Anyone with even an ounce of common sense can see through Carney's blatant lie. Fortunately for the President, much of his base doesn't fit that description. The problem is that, while the faithful sheep might refuse to recognize the truth, the press has been left with no other option. Allow us to direct your attention to CNN's John King, who is openly mocking Jay Carney's disastrous press conference:

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"I don't know how.... Y'know, and I don't have two hands. I don't know how you can say this is not about Benghazi. If you look at the timeline of events... I can't understand why the White House did this. Because if you released it with all the other Ben Rhodes, when he wrote this document, was following a previous email that came over from the CIA saying here are the talking points. They could release this. People could say it was wrong, people could say it was misleading, and be done with it a year ago. Now people are saying, why are you hiding this?"

Poor John King. He's halfway there! He can bring himself to recognize that Carney's explanation is laughably false, but he works for CNN, so he just can't make the cognitive leap required to admit the motive. To answer Mr. King's question, they originally came up with the YouTube story to protect the President as he was heading into the 2012 election. When it became obvious that the narrative wasn't holding, they had to change course and hide the fact that the White House was responsible for the lie in the first place. Since they'd been lying all along, they had to keep lying when they released the emails last year. As Charles Krauthammer said Tuesday, it's a classic "cover-up of a cover-up." Sadly, that's something the left only cares about when the President has an "R" after his name.