Determined to get to the bottom of what took place with 60 Minutes’ faulty Benghazi record, Stephen Colbert happened upon a conception that completely match his preconceived notions. All the way through in depth coverage of the story Monday night, the host become definite that the original piece was correct however any individual had compelled CBS News to air the correction. “There’s just one logical reason for what really took place right here,” Colbert said. “Hillary Clinton got to them!”

To help give credibility to his premise, Colbert tracked down an eyewitness to expose how CBS News decided to difficulty its apology Sunday evening. The host’s unique interview with a 60 Minutes intern who would handiest determine himself with the alias “Pancho Denews.” The witness recounted how, as he was returning from choosing up chewing tobacco for Lesley Stahl, he heard “explosions of shouting.”

The rest of the story tested Colbert’s suspicions, as Denews described how Hillary Clinton “and her band of thugs” entered the newsroom, swinging bike chains and dangerous to kill the Benghazi story. And that was once sooner than the former secretary of state “pistol-whipped” Morley Safer.

But the biggest shock of all came when Denews published himself to be, now not actor Sam Waterston as you will have anticipated, however ACN’s Charlie Skinner from the “HBO documentary The Newsroom.” In true Aaron Sorkin-type, Skinner tricked Colbert to “show some extent, that as journalists we’re the gatekeepers of actuality.”

Colbert ended the segment with a Lara Logan-style correction, blaming everybody but himself for the egregious mistake.

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