‘Ludicrous overreaction’ to Romney Libya remarks ‘not a great moment for the national media’

Following the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, many pundits jumped to criticize Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for labeling the Obama administration’s response to the crisis “disgraceful.”

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said that, although Romney’s remarks were ill-timed, the media’s reaction was the real problem.

“I think what he said was correct but it was clumsy,” Hume said. “And it opened him up to charges that he made a terrible mistake. We had an almost ludicrous overreaction in a lot of the media about it in which what he did became the big story rather than what was happening over there, which was not a great moment for the national media, I’m sad to say. You know, he could have waited, it might have been better if he had.”

Hume said Romney was ultimately proven right when the White House walked back an apologetic statement issued by the U.S. embassy in Egypt just before Stevens’ death. In the statement, the embassy condemned an anti-Islam film that continues to outrage Muslims in the Middle East and voiced concern for the “religious feelings” of Muslims.

“Look, what [Romney] was criticizing there was a statement that we were talking about in the first panel, which is the administration emphasis on this video and attacking it and reiterating that — the Cairo embassy not only said that, but it reiterated it later after these events unfolded,” Hume said. “So they doubled down on it. Eventually the White House walked it back and so on. But the next thing you know the White House is saying the same thing — that it is all about the video. So, my sense is that he was on the mark. He

Everyday we see how the media, which should really have a different name - let’s face it, they no longer even resemble media of the past, so a new name is needed. Perhaps something alongs the lines of the Propagandia? At any rate, they have used their positions, and spent their political capital, in lying to the American people. A few years back, we were all blind to how they operated, but now as the light is shone upon the bottom dwellers, they have managed, in a single generation, to destroy their professional reputations, such that they are now viewed as darkly as the other bottom dwellers of society, namely lawyers and politicians, though most politicians are lawyers.

What we now see is our government, which includes both parties, destroying and looting this country, while keeping us arguing with each other. They and their cronies are looting our treasury. There is no other word for what our modern day politicians are doing, than treason. That the media is complicit in their thefts, and helping them to propagate their social issue wars, is reason enough to call them treasonous as well. Themedia’s covering of the truth and their personal destruction of anyone who dares to shine the light on the corruption that is going on in Washington also idicts their profession as traitors. All of this wonderful “journalism” has been brought to us by the “esteemed” journalism departments of the Ivy league universities, principally led by Columbia University. This government has become destructive of the individual’s rights and freedoms, as well as destroying economic opportunities. The supreme court has said the only legal way to “abolish” our government is through the ballot box, but in reality the game is so fixed and rigged towards incumbents, that it is virtually impossible to have a “clean sweep” and throw out all the incumbents.

The closest we were able to come to throwing out enough of the bums to enact sweeping changes to our government was in 2010, but they have found ways to workaround our elected representatives and continue their brazen thefts of our children’s futures and fortunes. They just came, in the middle of the night for a film-maker who made a film about a politically uncomfortable subject that has cast the Obama administration in a negative light, and there is no protest. Nobody is saying anything, and yet they intend to try this guy on a probation violation about his not being allowed to use the internet, and they have some vague evidence that he supposedly used the internet. Nothing concrete, but that doesn’t matter anymore. The moment we allowed this administration to kill al Queda members, that are in foreign countries, without so much as a trial in absentia, and on the say so of our omnipotent (and at the same time impotent) president, we all lose some of our freedoms and rights. I have seen little print devoted to our continuing loss of freedoms and the group-think that is slowly (and not-so-slowly) being imposed on our society. Where are the decent men in the press who have earned reputations that will allow them to scream from the highest belfries, and not be summarily fired? Surely there are a few decent men left in the press? Freedom lost, in the end, is not easily gotten back, and is usually only given back, after much blood is shed. We must resist at every opportunity the government’s constant intrusions and usurpations of the constitution, all the while claiming it is a living document. I don’t believe all is lost, but the hour is late.

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