Posted on 11/21/2012 11:22:24 AM PST by mojito
....In the Benghazi story, we have four dead Americans. A lack of security that borders on criminal negligence. No apparent effort was made to save the lives of Messrs. Woods and Doherty, despite their pleas. The Obama administration, including the president, gave false and misleading accounts of what happened despite mounting evidence to the contrary. And the person who was wrongly accused of inciting the attacks by making a crude YouTube video is now in prison. Yet the press has, for the most part, treated this story with ambivalence and reluctance. A reliable barometer of the views of the elite media is Tom Friedman of the New York Times, who said on Meet the Press on Sunday, To me, Libya is not a scandal, its a tragedy.
Heres the thing, though. If the exact same incidents had occurred in the exact same order, and if it had happened during the watch of a conservative president, it would be a treated as a scandal. An epic one, in fact. The coverage, starting on September 12 and starting with Mr. Friedmans newspaper, would have been nonstop, ferociously negative, and the pressure put on the president and his administration would have been crushing. Jon Stewart, the moral conscience of an increasing number of journalists, wouldnt have let this story die.
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
The media accuses Republicans of outrage over nothing. They are deliberately and intentionally covering up for their boss. They helped get him elected, and they will not allow any normal person to criticize him.
Finally some serious comment on Benghazi.
Ping.
The Benghazi incident is a microcosm of everything that’s gone wrong with our country.
An incompetent communist regime.
A news media that, acting as the ministry of propaganda for the regime, covers up the incompetence and associated dangers.
An ignorant public that just doesn’t care or give a damn.
Excellent analysis. so sad yet true
and the sadder thing is nothing will change.
thanks for posting
even if it did depress me
Americans died, Obama lied, the press yawned.
It may be injurious to their profession, but its proving lethal to the republic.
These people are a cancer.
Scooter Libby was a scandal. Turned out to be a Democrat scandal. No one n the media even uttered an oops. No Democrat congressmen were brought before committees to be held accountable for lying. Nothing, nada, zippo...
Why do we dissect these things in such cerebral fashion? The media IS the democrat party and it is corrupt. Duh. I’ve watched documentaries going back to Roosevelt, in which reporters say they had to pretend to be impartial, but they were “all for” the democrat. For God’s sake half of them went from democrat administrations to being “reporters”.
Wake up America.
Obama lied. The media lied for him. AMERICA died.
OKay.
Will read.
Folks, go back to the MILLIONS killed in Indochina while the press cheered, our allies abandoned, conquered, murdered and enslaved. You still waiting for hearings on that? They don’t care. They are leftist democrats.
The cease fire in the Middle East was just held up 24 hours so Hilary could get there from her vacations to take credit.. you’re dealing with evil vicious corrupt scum, the media/democrats, they are as one.
For comparison the following story received more negative press for the politician than has Benghazi for Obama. You will know this story in one word, and you will know that it absolutely ruined the political aspirations of the well established republican involved.
Did you guess it even without the one word hint?
The hint:
Potatoe
Sometimes it is hard to decide what thread is best so I will link my last post this here. It fits under “The Media’s Benghazi Complicity”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2961477/posts?page=54#54
Short version (from WaPo 10/19/2012)
US Intelligence:
1. Monitored the live television viewing of the “Benghazi Attackers” (they were watching the Cairo protestors)
2. Monitored the conversations of the “Benghazi Attackers” after they watched the Cairo protestors, but before they assaulted to consulate.
3. Apparently no follow up question such as when did we stop watching the “Benghazi Attackers” and why did no one warn those at the consulate.
Fact One:
1) Only the POTUS can authorize a CBA (cross border authority) command for a rescue mission in a foreign nation.
Plus Fact Two:
2) No rescue mission was attempted.
Equals Fact Three:
3) 0bama turned his back on 41 State Dept. and CIA employees refusing to issue a CBA command and went to bed so he could go to Las Vegas the next day.
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bump your #17 - spot on
bump your #17 - spot on
bump your #17 - spot on
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