Fox's Lou Dobbs and Megyn Kelly attacked President Obama as “Nixonian” and claimed that he revealed his “inner Nixon” over scrutiny that the IRS applied to tea party groups, despite the fact that the president labeled the IRS's actions “outrageous.”

Obama addressed concerns at a press conference Monday over reports that the IRS applied extra scrutiny to tea party groups. He vowed to hold the agency “fully accountable” and called the alleged misdeeds “outrageous.” Pointing to those comments, Kelly asked if Obama's condemnation was forceful enough, while Dobbs compared Obama with President Nixon, stating, “This is an agency with an enemies list. This is Nixonian. This is a president whose inner Nixon is being revealed.”

But Carl Bernstein, one of The Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal, deflated the idea that the IRS targeting was comparable to Watergate in an interview with Politico:

'In the Nixon White House, we heard the president of the United States on tape saying 'Use the IRS to get back on our enemies,' said Bernstein, whose reporting helped lead to Nixon's eventual resignation. 'We know a lot about President Obama, and I think the idea that he would want the IRS used for retribution -- we have no evidence of any such thing.'

Fox has repeatedly tried to compare Obama to Nixon. Recently, the network equated the 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, to the infamous Watergate scandal.