Posted on 09/12/2012 6:05:45 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
The New York Times' coverage of the radical Islamist attacks on 9/11 on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the U.S. consulate in Benghazi begins--like the Obama administration--with acknowledging "anger" over an anti-Islamic film, not with the attacks themselves--and criticizes Republican Mitt Romney's statement on Obama's apology.
The Times' headline, "Anger Over a Film Fuels Anti-American Attacks in Libya and Egypt"--Update: buried on page A4!--does not even inform readers that U.S. diplomatic missions were attacked, or the fact that one official in Libya was actually killed.
The article goes on to criticize Mitt Romney for his allegation that "the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."
Because the U.S. embassy's (unauthorized) apology was offered before the attacks, which the embassy later condemned the Times concludes that Romney was "[a]pparently unaware of the timing of the first embassy statement." But that is nonsense, for three reasons--first, because the U.S. State Department had, as of last night, apologized for the film without condemning the Egypt attack; second, because the apologies by the U.S. Embassy continued throughout the day, though they were later sheepishly deleted; and there was no need for the U.S. to apologize at all for a film made by a private individual, least of all on the sacred 9/11 anniversary.
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Here is the 12-minute video trailer that is driving the muslim world and our own libtards (more) insane.
What would Thomas Jefferson DO?
Whoa, Nellie—how about this? I haven’t seen or heard any reference to this. Was it shown on Al Jazeera? The BBC? Looks like the NYTimes may not be the only US media outlet burying the story.
Seems hard to imagine how this could have gone down yesterday afternoon—and still Obama wasn’t informed until today:
“Footage of the body of Christopher Stevens, United States ambassador to Libya, slung over the back of a protester, was reminiscent of the 1993 ‘Black Hawk Down’ incident in Somalia in 1993 when militia fighters lynched American aircrew in the streets of Mogadishu.”
The death of the ambassador?
The new iPhone introduction?
Romney's insensitivity towards Obama?
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