You may be familiar with the movie ’13 Hours’ by Michael Bay about the Benghazi attack. Many who have seen it have come out saying how powerful it was. Perhaps all the more so because the people who actually were on the ground there and survived were the technical consultants on the film.

One would think therefore that their understanding of what occurred would of course be most important. But apparently not to the Hillary Clinton organ, Media Matters, who apparently have never bothered in their exercise of journalism to actually interview the men who were there.

Their ‘review’ of the movie began with this ‘clever’ little tweet shown above, by the ‘reviewer’, Matthew Gertz, parroting the Clinton line of ‘old news’. Promisingly unbiased not.

Even while acknowledging in the most dismissive way that there might be ‘some truth’ in the account of the men who were there, the actual review accuses the movie and by extension, the men behind it of spreading the ‘myth’ of the ‘stand down order’. Apparently, Media Matters knows better than the heroes who were there what happened. Those men who have told the same story and testified consistently. Unlike Media Matters ‘hero’ Hillary Clinton whose story has more shifting sands than the Gobi Desert.

While the men and the makers of the movie have said at every turn that they are not about politics but about telling the story of what went on over those hours, Media Matters tags them with catering to the ‘right wing’.

Media Matters likewise terms it myth that the administration told everyone it was about the youtube video. Gee, so we all must just suspend our own memories here, and let Media Matters substitute their fiction. In addition to attacking the heroes behind the movie, this of course then takes inherent swipes at the families whose members said that is exactly what Hillary Clinton, and others in the administration, told them. One, Charles Woods, even took contemporaneous notes of the conversation. Hillary told him, “we are going to arrest the filmmaker responsible for the death of your son”. Lo and behold, the filmmaker was indeed arrested shortly thereafter.

Media Matters claims the ‘initial CIA reports’ claimed it was about the video. Of course, this account even conflicts with that of their hero, Hillary. Hillary’s latest version is that initial reports were that it was an attack so that’s what she emailed her daughter and others. But she told a different story to the family within hours. Which is it, guys?

Once again the men on the ground provide the clarity, saying there never was a protest and it was an attack from the get go.

Maybe if Media Matters were about journalism rather than propaganda, they might actually interview the people who were there to learn the truth. But I wouldn’t hold my breath…