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Benghazi Index
Posted on 05/11/2013 5:52:28 AM PDT by autumnraine
The brother of a top Obama administration official is also the president of CBS News, and the network may be days away from dropping one of its top investigative reporters for covering the administration’s scandals too aggressively.
CBS News executives have reportedly expressed frustration with their own reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, who has steadily covered the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack in Libya since late last year.
“Network sources” told Politico Wednesday that CBS executives feel Attkisson’s Benghazi coverage is bordering on advocacy, and Attkisson “can’t get some of her stories on the air.”
Attkisson, who is in talks to leave the network before her contract expires, has been attempting to figure out who changed the Benghazi talking points for more than five months.
“We still don’t know who changed talking points but have had at least 4 diff explanations so far,” Attkisson tweeted on November 27, 2012.
But on Friday, ABC News reported that the Benghazi talking points went through 12 revisions before they were used on the public. The White House was intimately involved in that process, ABC reported, and the talking points were scrubbed free of their original references to a terror attack.
That reporting revealed that President Obama’s deputy national security advisor, Ben Rhodes — brother of CBS News president David Rhodes — was instrumental in changing the talking points in September 2012.
ABC’s reporting revealed that Ben Rhodes, who has a masters in fiction from NYU, called a meeting to discuss the talking points at the White House on September 15, 2012.
“We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation,” Rhodes wrote to his colleagues in the Obama administration. “We thus will work through the talking points tomorrow morning at the Deputies Committee meeting.”
Ben Rhodes, a 35-year old New York City native and former Giuliani staffer who has worked for Obama since the president’s tenure in the U.S. Senate, has established himself as a hawkish force on the Obama foreign policy team, advocating for military intervention in Libya during the president’s first term and reportedly advocating for intervention in Syria, as well.
But despite his hawkish views, Rhodes identifies himself first and foremost as a strategist and mouthpiece for the president’s agenda.
“My main job, which has always been my job, is to be the person who represents the president’s view on these issues,” Rhodes said in March.
David Rhodes has been the president of CBS News since February 2011.
Neither the White House nor CBS News responded to requests for comment for this report.
“...masters in fiction from NYU...”
Explains a lot. A req’d ‘degree’ for many pols these days, apparently.
Shocked? Come on, it’s not a scandal if they don’t report it!/S
“...Bordering on advocacy...?”
Ah, liberal (and very smelly) libs once again demonstrating their stupidity.
” Ben Rhodes, who has a masters in fiction from NYU..”
Sounds like a perfect resume for working in the Obama administration.
The White Hut “OWNS” ABC through Stephanopoulos,
CBS through this,
and NBC by way of no taxes for decades.
The US Media is a shadow of what it was during Watergate.
Now it is COMPLICIT with the Corrupt and Enemies of the USA.
That hillary scrubbing the blood (Fight the Smears!) .gif is one of the hardest-hitting ever made.
What are the chances if that happen that there will Nixonian comments being bantered around by the other news outlets. It is outrageous to even contemplate that a reporter would be fired for printing the truth. At one time that was their job. If this actually happens and the remaining outlets do nothing, there is no doubt media outlets have been converted into propaganda organizations got the democrat party.
what a lovely detail that is
Attkisson actually dared to expose the media lies regarding Benghazi.
Good for her. She has more cajones than half the dickless bastids who call themselves journalists.
But of course - she must be silenced.
Sharyl Attkisson could have a future in conservative news outlets. All she needs to do is to spill the beans about how CBS works.
But she would need heavy security.
I mean, holy crap....MSNBC is essentially a PR firm for clients such as Barack 0bama, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi among others. And Shasyl Attkinson gets CBS's special attention?
Is this satire?
:: Ben Rhodes, who has a masters in ^fiction^ from NYU ::
The irony! It burns!
Hey, you shocked yet?
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:: Sharyl Attkisson could have a future in conservative news outlets. ::
Dude, let me know when you find one.
Book her, Fox.
Great post. She was also the biggest (only?) voice outside of Fox, blogs, “new media”, etc. to have any substantive coverage of the Fast and Furious scandal as well.
I hope CBS wises up, but if they don’t and fire her with whatever imagined or trumped-up “charges” they can manage (”editorial standards”, e.g.), the reaction of the rest of Old Media will tell all.
My only hope is that at some point, the reporters start letting their own egos and why they got into journalism will allow them to fight the higher ups that the politicos have put in place.
Of course, I have been hoping that the Republicans in Congress would let their own egos get tired of being trumped by the President.
Pretty ballsy of Ms. Attkisson to reveal through her reporting the involvement of her boss’s boss’s (I presume) brother and his boss.
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