Posted on 11/05/2012 6:26:33 PM PST by markomalley
Protestors outside an Obama campaign appearance in Cincinnati, Ohio, yesterday held signs calling the mainstream media “missing in action” when it comes to coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. CBS seems to have made tiny steps away from covering for and toward covering the administration’s controversial handling of the tragedy, just yesterday releasing yet another unaired excerpt from the president’s Sept. 12 interview.
Fox News’ Bret Baier was among the first and only journalists to compile a timeline of the events in Benghazi, and he provides an analysis of the newly released video as well.
see my last tweet for video-but here's my analysis of the just released 60 mins Benghazi question almost 6 weeks later:
politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/11/05/wha…—
Bret Baier (@BretBaier) November 05, 2012
In the video, CBS’s Steve Kroft asks the president directly if he considered the attack in Benghazi terrorism.
Kroft: Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word terrorism in connection with the Libya Attack, do you believe that this was a terrorism attack?
Obama: Well it’s too early to tell exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans. And we are going to be working with the Libyan government to make sure that we bring these folks to justice, one way or the other.
During the second presidential debate, the president insisted that he had called the attack terrorism the morning of Sept. 12 in a Rose Garden appearance — a claim famously backed up by moderator Candy Crowley, yet contradicted by the Kroft interview.
Unreleased clip of Obama's 9/12 interview seems to change things re: insisting he called Libya terrorism immediately. ow.ly/f1HDj—
Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) November 05, 2012
In new 60 Minutes clips released by CBS Obama refuses to call Benghazi attack terrorism when asked directly. politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/11/05/wha…—
Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) November 05, 2012
So, why the slow drip of information from CBS?
To @CBSNews and @60Minutes: Why did you not release complete Obama Benghazi material until now?—
Byron York (@ByronYork) November 05, 2012
And CBS held it, why? RT @stephenfhayes New "60 Minutes" excerpt of Obama interview from 9/12/12 contradicts WH claims. bit.ly/XdxEma—
Jedediah Bila (@JedediahBila) November 05, 2012
I'd like to know what @CrowleyCNN thinks about this: politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/11/05/wha… But I'm not curious enough to actually watch CNN to find out.—
Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) November 05, 2012
CBS releasing tape is equivalent of a Friday news dump, but it will be a subject for years to come and is a damning indictment of the MSM—
Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) November 06, 2012
@hughhewitt MSM is covering Benghazi now just so they can say they covered it; too late to hurt Obama but will save reputation whoever wins—
Mike McNally (@notoserfdom) November 06, 2012
@hughhewitt A scar on them for withholding information that could have changed Election. Almost as bad as a false memo before an Election.—
(@donttreadonme53) November 06, 2012
@60Minutes You have betrayed America's trust. Heinous example of media bias. CBS has biased an Presidential election. Dinosaur media is dead—
Len J Lemmer (@LennyJLem) November 06, 2012
So '60 Minutes' withheld Obama statement re Benghazi until eve of the election. They knew Obama lied during second debate. No liberal bias??—
Geoff Boss (@geoffboss) November 06, 2012
Embarrassing for CBS/60 Minutes withholding #Benghazi info on corrupt Obama admin. Makes Dan Rather look like grade school. #4DeadDiplomats—
Anna Teresa Arnold (@HomerWhite) November 05, 2012
It was bound to come out. CBS can now claim they released the info before the election, that’s the whole point of releasing it now.
Thanks for this thread.
You’ve written a great post. Thank you Mark. I trust Pravda more than I trust these newsmakers. Remember 2008 when the San Fran Chronicle held onto the tape where Obama wanted to bankrupt the coal industry and leaked it two days before the election...probably on a Friday. I dunno what we can do about the socialistmedia but it’s really serious when one trusts foreign news rather than our own.
Everyone email 60 minutes and tell them your done watching, and Boycott the show.
Email CBS:http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml?tag=ftr
Let them know that the suppression of the Obama Benghazi tape was wrong.
Kroft is this administrations Colin Powell. They both new the truth and stood idly by while the lie was spread around the world. Disgusting human beings.
One theory might be that CBS thinks the Benghazi cover up will end up in criminal court or even an impeachment. Original interview video and audio recordings could be subpoenaed. CBS is releasing this material now to avoid being seen as colluding in the cover up.
They missed a significant part of the transcript.
Kroft: Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word terrorism in connection with the Libya Attack, do you believe that this was a terrorism attack?
Obama: Well it’s too early to tell exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans. And we are going to be working with the Libyan government to make sure that we bring these folks to justice, one way or the other.
What they don’t transcribe is that after Kroft says, “Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word terrorism in connection with the Libya Attack...” Odumbo responds “Right.”
Yesterday I was at a shop and heard one of the clerks angrily ask another (they had both been listening to news radio), "How could they have left that embassy unguarded?"
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