Posted on 01/19/2014 7:19:28 PM PST by smoothsailing
January 17, 2014
In all seriousness, if you’re a reporter for any other outlet besides Fox, and you are seeing this, you should either feel obligated to prove her wrong by pointing to all your own investigative work on this story, or just hang your head in shame because you’re just a disgrace to your profession.
“They tried to prevent the truth from coming out and the Administration tried just about everything to discourage Fox from investigating and reporting,” she continued. “All the American people wanted, and all I ever wanted, was just the facts – why did 4 Americans die? What happened?”
“The Obama Administration put out that phony video story — but who could not have been suspicious of the Administration after hearing that?” Van Susteren asked. “Frankly, if they had been candid on day 1, the Benghazi story would have been over in short order. It would not be to the point we are now: with a Senate Bi Partisan Intelligence Committee report with the very painful conclusion that the murders at Benghazi could have been prevented.”
Van Susteren gave examples of how the Administration tried to prevent Fox from telling Americans the truth:
In the early days after Benghazi, the State Department omitted only Fox News Channel from its conference call to all the media when it claimed to be answering questions about Benghazi for the media. Our friends in other media outlets were scandalized that Fox was not included and told us all about it. They were suspicious of State Department forgetting us/Fox and courageous to tip us off. The State Department claimed it was accident and not intentional.
And then shortly thereafter, there was the CIA briefing about Benghazi at the CIA for all the networks – except one: Fox News Channel. The CIA would not let Fox News Channel attend. [...]
And there were many times in the months and years since September 2012 when Obama Administration officials would make comments to suggest that Fox was just doing the Benghazi reporting for political reasons. The Administration was doing what it could to deter and demean the Fox News Channel investigation. They did not want to give us the facts — so their strategy was to attempt to belittle and demean our reporting.
After taking a swipe at the New York Times for issuing an analysis that has since been completely debunked by a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report, Van Susteren wrote of attempts by a friend of hers within the Adminstration to get her to silence Fox’s Jennifer Griffin:
[M]y friend told me that my colleague Jennifer Griffin, who was aggressively reporting on Benghazi, was wrong and that, as a favor to me, my friend in the Administration was telling me so that I could tell Jennifer so that she did not ruin her career. My friend was telling me to tell Jennifer to stop her reporting. Ruin her career?In 20 plus years, I have never received a call to try and shut down a colleague – not that I even could – this was a first.
Knowing Griffin to be one of the best investigative reporters in the business, Van Susteren demanded her friend offer proof that her colleague was wrong. None was forthcoming:
I got no proof. Zero. I smelled a rat. Favor to me? Hardly. My friend was trying to use me. I feel bad that a friend did that to me, tried to use me for a dirty reason. I knew then — and it is now confirmed by BIPARTISAN Senate Intelligence Committee — Jennifer was getting her facts right. I think it is really low for the Administration to stoop this low.
To be sure, the Administration should be ashamed of how it’s behaved since September 11, 2012. But it wouldn’t have been able to behave this way if other news organizations covered this story as aggressively as Fox News did.
Sadly, Obama and Company knew from the start that their accomplices in the media would parrot anything they said, and go along with their contention that this was a “phony scandal” ginned up by the President’s enemies which of course include Fox News.
Since a junior senator from Illinois first threw his hat into the presidential ring in February 2007, we’ve watched America’s media totally abdicate journalism for his benefit.
Benghazi is just another example.
With three more years left of this presidency, it likely won’t be the last.
The leftist media no longer seeks credibility. What they seek, no, what they crave, is relevance. It’s about power, and it’s relevance that matters, not credibility.
The MSM’s value to the movement lies in their ability to help their ideological fellow travelers to maintain failed beliefs.
Imagine having to simultaneously hold the beliefs that capital punishment of criminals is wrong, and that killing a new-born has no moral dimension. It all begins with abortion, but certainly doesn’t end there. The MSM thus serve to fill the psychotropic drug prescription needed for liberals to maintain a belief structure that’s now proved not only to be a failure on many fronts, but borderline psychotic.
We must understand that the process is demand-driven. Liberals who watch the MSM must have constant affirmation that they still occupy the moral high ground, in the face of daily events that tend to refute this as the reality. Liberal consumers of news crave-the MSM delivers the lies needed to maintain psychological equilibrium.
Rx for the masses.
Benghazi can not all be laid out on Hillary's door step. I do not defend her in this but have to include Obama. Where was he during those crucial hours during the attack? Was he stoned out of his mind? That is where my suspicion points.
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I hope Greta is VERY CAREFUL with everything she says or does, that her car is carefully checked for potential “flaws”, that she never jogs, etc., etc.
She has made a big enemy and like others, she will pay for those “transgressions”. I pray for her safety.
what tghe MSM delivers is DISINFOTAINMENT!
the bastard child of communism and news
it was discovered some years ago that in order to enjoy entertainment that one had to SUSPEND ONES DISBELIEF...
it wasnt long after that news reportage went form dry rather matter of fact chronicling of current events to Happy Talk News...and from there... devolved into the sort of rank propaganda we are witnessing today.
no longer willing to examine whats being offered as fact...the mesmerized ENTERTAINED masses..havent the ability to discern fact from fiction.
Amen! And one thing that I really like about her is that I have no clue where her personal politics lie. She's a pro, that's all that matters.
Fricken firing squad..
my loathing for those treasonous bastards knows no bounds
Public broadcaster should no longer have tax exempt status.
They do not pay taxes on their “sponsorships”.
I have a lot of respect for Sharyl Attkisson, in my view she’s a straight shooter. I became aware of her when she started reporting on the corruption of John Murtha, he was not happy with her but she didn’t back off.
Thanks smoothsailing.
Obama Admits Trying to Control Media in New Yorker Profile
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Posted on 1/19/2014 10:19:01 PM by Hojczyk
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3113500/posts
the process is demand-driven. Liberals who watch the MSM must have constant affirmation that they still occupy the moral high ground, in the face of daily events that tend to refute this as the reality. Liberal consumers of news crave-the MSM delivers the lies needed to maintain psychological equilibrium.
Rx for the masses.
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Excellent analysis.
“The Obama Administration put out that phony video story — but who could not have been suspicious of the Administration after hearing that?” Van Susteren asked. “Frankly, if they had been candid on day 1, the Benghazi story would have been over in short order. It would not be to the point we are now: with a Senate Bi Partisan Intelligence Committee report with the very painful conclusion that the murders at Benghazi could have been prevented.”
Liberal consumers of news crave-the MSM delivers the lies needed to maintain psychological equilibrium.
They’re starting to understand how they’re trodding over the golden egg. What a mess when millions of idiots suddenly starkly realize *they* are the problem, after they followed the rules, etc. American economic prosperity worked great for both the private and public sector until it didn’t in Sept. 08 and then with the election of zero.
They will vote RAT because they expect the alligator to eat the producers first, and they are historically correct.
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Thanks for the ping. I really like Greta, who actually attempts to do journalism in the era of infotainment. To me, Benghazi remains the biggest scandal (and shame) of any presidential administration in my lifetime. And I don’t believe the whole truth will ever come out, nor do I believe anyone will ever be held accountable.
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