HOW IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA COVERING FRIDAY’S MAJOR LIBYA NEWS? WE CHECKED, AND IT MIGHT DEPRESS YOU

I understand and agree with much of what you say. It annoys me no end to hear “gate” put on the end of every scandal. There are very few similarities, other than malfeasance, between Watergate and subsequent wrongdoing. Every case must stand on its own.

Yes, the Benghazi mess has been a major story from day one.

My point is that other news organizations are not going to use FOX as their source. They have to find independent verification, if they do this story right. That can take time.

As of last night, Senators are calling for release of the video and audio of the attack. That, in my opinion, is a good enough news peg to hang expanded coverage on.

We shall see. This is a completely different world from 1972. No internet, no cable, few computers then. Now, new media and lots of ways to squeal anonymously.

Which is probably how Jennifer Griffin got her scoop yesterday. Someone is talking, maybe someone high up, and they picked FOX to hear it.

Hoping it’s the start of an implosion.

“They are probably hoping that it is forgotten in a day or so.”

They as high on their own importance and power as their leader. They are now firmly on the turf of “making news” as opposed to “reporting”.

Fox should’ve been covering this from day one. The dad finally got hold of someone with a radio broadcast, or they wesely got a hold of him.

Fox can no longer ignore this.

It was going to come out sooner or later and they all wanted it out not before the election.

Not sure how our contry will fare who have to have the newsmedia tell them that the killing of the ambassador is a big story. It will certainly go down in history as such.

The administration’s coverup is not as big a story as the part about our not doing anything about our embassy consulate coming under attack. Woods acted appropriately. Where are we?

The ambassador was killed. They cannot control the importance of that story. It’s historical (unlike plumbers breaking into a hotel).

They are controlled as much as they like to keep pretending they control their viewers.

They know to follow their leader. They can follow onto oblivion. THey have chosen not to report an historical event.

Yes. It is a huge story.

The following is a rant:

The ambassador was killed and our administration offered no appropriate response.

The perpetrators know it. THAT’S huge.

Most Americans are not aware of the value and position of our ambassadors and thus have no awareness of the hugeness of this story.

They should know if they want the priveledge of voting.

Fox, who should’ve been all over this - all over the parents- from day one, and they know it, get no credit.

The dad was presented to them like a baby in a basket on the doorstep by a local radio host.

It is so embarassing to teach high school. The kids who are learning about their country want to know why this is being ignored by everyone and they are becoming aware of the silliness of those in charge of our contry and of those reporting (not reporting) it.

And they are aware that sillies are in charge of their future. They know they’re not going to college if Obama gets back in and now they’re watching this.

They know and so do our enemies.

Yes. It is a huge story.

The following is a rant:

The ambassador was killed and our administration offered no appropriate response.

The perpetrators know it. THAT’S huge.

Most Americans are not aware of the value and position of our ambassadors and thus have no awareness of the hugeness of this story.

They should know if they want the priveledge of voting.

Fox, who should’ve been all over this - all over the parents- from day one, and they know it, get no credit.

The dad was presented to them like a baby in a basket on the doorstep by a local radio host.

And they are aware that sillies are in charge of their future. They know they’re not going to college if Obama gets back in and now they’re watching this.

They know and so do our enemies.

“My point is that other news organizations are not going to use FOX as their source. They have to find independent verification, if they do this story right. That can take time.”

Allow me to report more, with simple use of common sense and basic knowledge of civics, than any of the media has done for five weeks since the attack on our consulate.

Our administration did not react appropriately to our
ambassador being killed in country by locals. That is news and that is the story. It doesn’t take more verification than what we knew from day one.

The guys who killed him have not been waiting for verification that what they did is huge. They know they killed, at our embassy, the equivalant of a four star general. He is the representative of the American people and the acting POTUS in that country. These guys know that and they know we don’t care to realize that, as long as our newsmedia doesn’t give us an order to care.

Tyrone Woods acted appropriately. He ignored orders to stand down and reacted as he would have in a communications breakdown during an attack.

There would be no sane reason for POTUS, or those acting as him, to give an order to stand down from protecting the consulate (America in Libya). The attackers know this.

He was acting outside of the chain of command, as there was no backup sent, which points to the idea that POTUS (whoever was acting as the president) ordered everyone to stand down.

I can assume POTUS would be in charge of real time reaction to an attack on our consulate, and that assumption is tons more than anything the news has done. And I can verify it by reviewing the simplest of non classified operating manual in any local military installation or asking any local lieutenant colonel willing to expose the simplest non classified regulation. I’ve done that.

The verification is that there is no evidence that backup was sent and used appropriately, and all behavior from POTUS and his minions since has proven that.

The Arab world is aware of all of this. I can verify that with my own common sense.

Romney has to stay out of this.

I am so sick of people from Pat Buchanan to Laura Ingraham disappointing us with ranting about his not bringing this up during the debate.

It is not, as Charles Krauthammer brought up the other day, and Bill O’R. is finally getting on board with this, as Graldo was pointing to Romney yesterday.

Romney can bring it up but he cannot do the job of every journalist who has been sitting on this from day one.

They all know this is a huge story (expletive)my high schoolers know it.

Any parent who tries to politicize it is out. It is WAAY bigger than politics. Our pointing to the inappropriateness of POTUS’ behavior is not politics, it is our constitutional duty.

This story is bigger than, and is not, the story of the election. It will go on long after the election and long after Watergate. It will probably put to rest the use of the suffix “gate” at long last.

Romney gets torched with flammable liqid enhancer every time he goes near this and just flamed for not going near it.

The administration needs a scapegoat right now as if it is grabbing at someone to pull into the quicksand.

Obie is going down with this whatever the election results turn out to be.

You will not see Bill Clinton now for a few weeks.

Romney needs to stay away.

GRRR I need to review:

It is not, as Charles Krauthammer brought up the other day, and Bill O’R. is finally getting on board with this, as Geraldo was pointing to Romney yesterday, not Romney’s job to be a journalist.

In fact, BOR is just now starting to ask why did Schieffer not bring it up.

This is the way this story is going to come out. Romney will be put is as scapegoat no matter what and by people who think they are working for the truth.

But this has absolutely nothing to do with Romney.

You’ll never hear Romney’s name from the dad of T. Woods.

I love your idea and hope it will catch on nationwide. It would be all the bells that sounded liberation at the end of WWI and WWII. It is truly majestic and much more adherent to constitutional principles than going after their licenses..I think the moment that Fox calls the race for RR, I will use my iPod and portable speakers outside to play a selection of those to be found at this link:

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A163856011%2Ck%3AChurch%20bell

Let’s all do it!

..Perhaps those smarter than I will eventually come up with better approaches to dealing with the MSM.

You are mistaken. CNN has covered the story since the beginning. CNN was the first American news outlet to carry news that State Department Diplomatic cables as early as 72 hours before the Benghazi attack were warning of a deteriorating security situation; that was on the day after the attack. The British Press got it first, but CNN was one of the few American networks that did.

CNN also scooped FNC several days after the attack by publishing details from the Ambassador's diary, which they had obtained. The diary supported the earlier story that our Ambassador was frantically trying to get more security.

You may not like CNN, but they have actually been on this on. http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=benghazi&x=0&y=0&primaryType=mixed&sortBy=relevance&intl=false#&sortBy=date You'll find page after page there, going back to day 1.

True, they kept it alive, if you think it’s good enough, fine.

It is woefully inadequate. Lars Larsen scooped CNN on getting the real story out and that waas last week

Who is Lars Larsen you might ask?

That one should have to ask is the answer.

A very low audience radio host scooped CNN talking to the parents.

Cindy Sheehan was all over CNN every day.

There. I just wasted 5 minutes.

I do not.

The Brits scooping our agencies the details of our ambassador being killed?

Nope.

Inadequate.

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