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Top Obama official’s brother is president of CBS News, may drop reporter over Benghazi coverage
Daily Caller ^ | 5/11/2013

Posted on 05/11/2013 5:52:28 AM PDT by autumnraine

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To: csmusaret

Agreed. I think the media is trying to distract by focusing on the CIA-WH communication. The meme is that the WH was just trying to make sure they had credible information, so how on earth did they go from editing CIA points to a youtube video?

That’s not credible or reconcilable. Then the lie continued. Either they’re astonishingly incompetent or there’s an even uglier scandal underneath all this.


101 posted on 05/11/2013 9:05:34 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: autumnraine

“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.”

Not a Hawk for American interests, but for the Muslim Brotherhood and other Jihadis.

IOW, another high level traitor.


102 posted on 05/11/2013 9:30:17 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

We are a news organization, there is no room for truth around here.


103 posted on 05/11/2013 9:34:05 AM PDT by stop_fascism (Free Nakoula)
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To: autumnraine

Unfortunately, most reporters got into journalism to push the left’s agenda, not to report.


104 posted on 05/11/2013 9:36:58 AM PDT by stop_fascism (Free Nakoula)
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To: grumpygresh

I’m still having a tad bit of trouble getting my mind around what that ‘degree’ really means... in the real world. I can’t think of anything.


105 posted on 05/11/2013 9:37:26 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (AR-10s & AR-15s are the Muskets of the 21st Century. Free men need not ask permission.)
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To: null and void

love the graphic......


106 posted on 05/11/2013 10:04:04 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: autumnraine

Nothing to be shocked about it’s the progressive mob in action and that’s only one story what about all the others?.


107 posted on 05/11/2013 10:36:41 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: allendale
Ben may be the Obama toad behind the Benghazi cover up. Brother David is colluding. These brothers are vile and dishonest. They illustrate two current day realities. 1) The Obama administration is incompetent and ruinous. 2) The MSM are not true journalists, but subtle propagandists and a detriment to the American people.

So far as I know, the only things we know for sure about David Rhodes at this point are that he's head of CBS News and he's Ben Rhodes's brother. You could be right about all this, but the all-out condemnation's a little premature.

108 posted on 05/11/2013 11:01:32 AM PDT by x
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To: fuzzylogic

To get at the uglier scandal we have to find out why Ambassador Stevens was not in the relative safety of the embassy in Tripoli on that significant date.


109 posted on 05/11/2013 11:25:02 AM PDT by csmusaret (America is more divided today , not because of the problems we face but because of Obama's solutions)
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To: x; allendale
"...the only things we know for sure about David Rhodes at this point are that he's head of CBS News and he's Ben Rhodes's brother."

David Rhodes is President of CBS News and (extracted from the article):

"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.”"

Ben Rhodes is brother of David Rhodes and (extracted from the article):
"... 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 adviser, Ben Rhodes — brother of CBS News president David Rhodes — was instrumental in changing the talking points in September 2012."

The "only thing WE know for sure?" With Obama supporters ABC and Politico finally jumping ship, next time, speak only for yourself and the most die-hard of the Obama's true believers.
110 posted on 05/11/2013 12:01:26 PM PDT by drpix
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To: x
On 2nd thought I'd revise “

"With Obama supporters ABC and Politico finally jumping ship”

to

“With Obama supporters ABC and Politico finally giving ground to part of the truth of story of Benghazi & its cover-up”

111 posted on 05/11/2013 12:07:24 PM PDT by drpix
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To: drpix
I don't know how much credence to give these rumors that may spring from internal rivalries.

Given everything we know about CBS going back for decades, it's surprising that Atkisson wasn't silenced long before this.

If she's still following the story and getting airtime, whatever the resistance and rumors, it's an unexpected positive sign.

113 posted on 05/11/2013 1:38:03 PM PDT by x
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To: autumnraine

What a coinkadink!

These rats are everywhere. It will be hard to root them all out, but at least we are finding out WHO THEY ARE.

(Thanks, Glenn Beck...you warned us.)


114 posted on 05/12/2013 8:51:55 PM PDT by miserare
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To: upchuck

Really? FOX needs someone like her. Hopefully she replaced Juan Williams.


115 posted on 05/12/2013 8:56:00 PM PDT by miserare
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