Posted on 05/27/2013 10:28:39 AM PDT by yoe
The Obama administration won’t answer the CBS News correspondent’s questions because her investigations — into Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Solyndra — often reflect negatively on it. Some colleagues at CBS News, where she has worked for two decades and earned multiple Emmy awards, dismiss her work because they perceive a political agenda. And now, she says, someone may have hacked into her computers.
Attkisson’s one piece of solace may come from finally gaining some like-minded colleagues in the media. For years, Attkisson has been one of the few mainstream reporters pursuing critical stories about the Obama administration. Today, as “scandal season” takes hold in Washington, she has seen her longstanding skepticism of the White House and the Justice Department become the conventional attitude among a formerly deferential Beltway press corps.
[snip] Among conservatives who rarely find champions in the mainstream media, however, Attkisson is widely respected.
“She goes after the stories others won’t go after, and she was right to go after them,” Greta Van Susteren, the Fox News host, told POLITICO.
[snip] “She is actually doing what journalists are supposed to do,” said Laura Ingraham...
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
("there are plenty of grounds for impeachment...") Anyone wanting and approving of this rogue White House should hang their heads in shame for they are harming their country.
CBS is uncomfortable with competent journalism.
They believe the first amendment is antiquated and out of date. Hey there is no more King George.
Too bad the corrupt and far left Senate will protect Obama and Holder at all cost.
The Truth has no Agenda
Wonder who will do in Ms. Attkisson first: Her employer; her colleagues in the media; or the Obama White House and its minions.
Interesting that the Press had no trouble
blaming Bush for Abu Ghraib!
TTIUWP
Stay away from Fort Marcy Park...
Vince
They don’t see it as harming their country. They see it as transforming their country. They have no shame only glee.
Ah, that’s better! :-)
Sharyl has earned multiple Emmy nominations, and has been awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in investigative journalism.
Go Gators.
She’s sort of the Tim Tebow of journalists!
And she’s not afraid to report corruption on either side. Which I am totally fine with.
Expose them ALL!! Be they Democrats, Republicans, Socialists or Communists.. if they’re corrupt, cheese eating surrender monkeys we don’t need them in government.
bttt
FOX needs to hire her and put her on instead of Ted Baxter.
“[Attkisson believes] that public officials and federal officials work for us, and that it’s gotten to the point where they don’t believe that they should be held accountable,” another source said. “That’s not partisan.”
Sharyl Attkisson ..... A Profile In Courage
My job as a journalist is to hold the community organizer in power 'accountable'.
She would probably put up a pretty good fight.
She holds a third degree black belt in taekwondo.
You go girl.
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