Media Matters scored a major political victory last week when 60 Minutes was forced to admit it had relied on a faulty witness in its October 27th coverage of the attack on American interests in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 that left four Americans dead.

That the 60 Minutes piece deserved to be exposed for the shoddy journalism that it was is beyond question. The trouble is with Media Matters’s motive – not to expose the truth of the report, but to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of Americans as to what really occurred on September 11, 2012, and use that ambiguity to ameliorate the reputation of Hillary Clinton.

As TruthRevolt’s founder, Ben Shapiro, wrote at Breitbart:

Media Matters has been spinning full time for Hillary Clinton, attempting to put Benghazi to bed and quash any media coverage or investigations of the events of September 11, 2012. As Bradley Beychok, new Media Matters president, told Slate, debunking the 60 Minutes report was “priority one, priority two, and priority three.” That’s because it could have served as the tip of the spear for actual media coverage. Beychok admitted as much: “This is a good example of when we’re able to deploy any and all resources needed on a subject of importance…This is a topic we saw coming—as it’s been in the conservative media for months and months. So we were ready for this.”

Shapiro rightly points out the basic strategy of Media Matters, which was founded by Clinton ally David Brock:

This is how Media Matters operates: they find one detail of a story, and then blow it wildly out of proportion in order to discredit the entire narrative.

The narrative, in this case, is that the President of the United States and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, were proven inept on September 11, 2012, and grossly deceptive in the days and weeks that followed. To elect their current president, the left ducked, dodged, and even lied about the story – including in the middle of a presidential debate. To elect their next president, Media Matters hopes to discredit anyone who questions what happened that night.

Through its negligence, 60 Minutes handed them the golden goose.