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Associated Press Headline Casts Official House Hearing On Benghazi as 'GOP Hearing'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 05/08/2013 10:05:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

The Associated Press could not very well ignore today's hearing at which whistleblowers are testifying as to the events surrounding the Benghazi attack and the Obama administration's failed response thereto. So AP did the next best thing from its liberal perspective: it downplayed the hearing's significance, casting it as a purely partisan event in its headline as a "GOP hearing."

That is not mere MSM spin: it is blatant journalistic malpractice. This is not some unofficial hearing held under Republican auspices. It is an entirely official hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Yes, there has in recent times been an unofficial House "hearing" held by a political party for partisan purposes. That would be the "hearing" held by Democrats in February, featuring Sandra Fluke.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: associatedpress; benghaziattack; househearing; msm

1 posted on 05/08/2013 10:05:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

AP busted trying to downplay official whistleblower hearing on Benghazi as mere “GOP hearing.” Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 05/08/2013 10:06:29 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Preserving the ignorance of the Obama electorate being the prime directive of the AP, no surprise here.


3 posted on 05/08/2013 10:09:49 AM PDT by Amagi (Obama is never so animated as when he is assaulting the Constitution.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

But when the House DemonRats led by SanFranGranNan held a mock hearing for Sandra F-F-Fluke, it was given full weight of LSMLSD Surrealism. Sanity has left the room.

But, “what difference does it make”?

Gunner


4 posted on 05/08/2013 10:18:23 AM PDT by weps4ret (Republicans are suffering from Testicular Atrophy!!!)
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To: Amagi

Biggest news out of the hearing so far is that the STATE DEPARTMENT the day After the Attack INFORMS the Libya President and then follows up with an email to personel in libya that the Terrorists that attacked Bengazi are Al Anshari.

5 Days later Susan Rice Lies on multiple Sunday Shows that is was spontanious demostration from a Video AND the President and Sec. of State Hitlary continue the lie for days.

Don’t forget Hitlary’s declaration to the victims families of getting the Video Producer...


5 posted on 05/08/2013 10:18:58 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Standard, corrupt MSM procedure. When Republicans control both the House and Senate the MSM always refers to it as the “Republican-controlled Congress” instead of just “Congress”. Watch that happen again after next November. However, when Democrats contolled both chambers, it was simply “Congress”, not the Democrat controlled Congress.

They do it even now. The Republican controlled House... and the Senate.


6 posted on 05/08/2013 10:19:52 AM PDT by Obadiah (High speed, low drag.)
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7 posted on 05/08/2013 10:20:39 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

ASS press.

LLS


8 posted on 05/08/2013 10:24:01 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

until advertisers start fealing the heat, the MSM has a free hand.


9 posted on 05/08/2013 10:27:37 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
This is why NOTHING comes from these hearings : faced with the choice of throwing Obama under the bus and thereby admitting they have been wrong for 6 years and even helped Obama lie for the past eight month versus throwing Hillary Clinton under the bus and destroy her for 2016 the media will DO NOTHING. THEY WILL IGNORE THE HEARINGS until we stop talking about Benghazi which because Congressional GOPers are cowards won't be long. Sorry but nothing will come from this - wish I'm wrong but it is what it is.
10 posted on 05/08/2013 10:36:14 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I honestly believe that this is a make or break moment in the history of the United States.

The republic can survive a biased media. However, while the media showed new levels of bias during the Clinton and Bush administrations, when the Obama regime “took over,” they morphed into just another arm of the democrat national committee, effectively becoming the “Ministry of Propaganda.”

The US might even survive this, as long as it doesn’t go on too long.

Forget the media malfeasance in all the Obama scandals... The media ignores the piles of Mexicans murdered by the drug cartels, using guns supplied by the Obama regime. Ignore the federal agents murdered with weapons supplied to the drug cartels by the Obama regime. However, when the press refuses to investigate the murder of an Ambassador appointed by the very regime it serves, it has morphed into something new and exceptionally dangerous.

If the media buries this, we’ll know that they’ve become Obama’s “Praetorian Guard.” While we know they’ll go to the mat to defend him, at least for now, they could also begin to force him to play by their rules, should he wish to continue to be President.

I honestly believe that if the media just drops this, that signals the end of the United States of America, and it will be “every man for himself.”

Mark


11 posted on 05/08/2013 11:07:37 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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