Krauthammer Tells 'Liberal Pals' on PBS '...

NewsBusters.org ^ | September 29, 2012 | Noel Sheppard

[Kaslin]

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer gave quite a scolding Friday to his fellow panelists on PBS's Inside Washington.

During a discussion about the murder of our ambassador in Libya, Krauthammer said, "I just want to respond to my liberal pals over here. I can’t believe you guys are covering for the administration on the Susan Rice thing when they themselves said five days later it was obviously a terror attack" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Krauthammer Scolds 'Liberal Pals' on PBS: 'I Can’t Believe You're Covering for the Administration' on Libya

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I just want to respond to my liberal pals over here. I can’t believe you guys are covering for the administration on the Susan Rice thing when they themselves said five days later it was obviously a terror attack. Obviously, everybody could see it. So why for a week did the administration pretend that it was a demonstration?

NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: Well, it wouldn’t be a very good plan if they were pretending and then saying something different later.

KRAUTHAMMER: It’s a good plan because the longer you draw it out, the less that the media and the country will care about it. It’s an issue, you seize of the issue right away, and it’s worked. Who talks about it other than…

GORDON PETERSON, HOST: Well, we’re talking about it.

KRAUTHAMMER: The third PBS segment of the show. Come on, give me a break.

PETERSON: Now you’re insulting your audience, the people who are still with us.

KRAUTHAMMER: No, these are the nine people in America who really care about stuff. What about all the others?

Well, I guess that makes me one of the nine people in America who really care about stuff.

As for Krauthammer, he was 100 percent correct.

If President Obama were Republican, the media would be going nuts over what happened in Libya earlier this month, so much so that it would be having a significantly negative impact on his reelection chances.

But because these folks are all in on getting this man another four years, their reporting on this matter has been atrocious.

Sadly, that's been par for the course for America's corrupt press since Obama first threw his name into the presidential ring in February 2007.

For the record, besides Totenberg, the other "liberal pals" on the panel were PBS's Mark Shields and Politico's Evan Thomas.

[getarope]

Thomas got confirmed, though!

[grandpa jones]

" The program is edited to remove the commercial holes, and add the “PBS” segment to bring it closer to the half-hour."

So, the comment about "9 viewers" was probably closer to truth than a lot of readers might think.... good catch

[douginthearmy]

Krauthammer is intellectually honest, sometimes to the chagrin of conservatives. If it were a republican administration, Krauthammer would, without a doubt, criticize the administration. Hopefully this incident helps crystalize his understanding that we are not dealing with honest Americans who have a simple difference of opinion on political matters, but devout ideological socialists with an ends justifies the means code of conduct.

[SubMareener]

Thanks to that awful RINO Orin Hatch! ;-)

[kempster]

I was just remembering back to the Clinton years and how aggressive they got after he was reelected.

[Starboard]

When K. is referring to the PBS segment, he means that only the viewers watching the program on a public station will be able to see that content.
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It will be hard to ever take Republicans seriously until they muster the political courage to defund PBS and put an end to the taxpayer subsidizing of liberal programming and biased propaganda. PBS is downright hostile to all things conservative but they cleverly camoflage it by promoting the educational and minded cultural value of their programming.

[bert]

PBS is on state owned channels.

Any governor that wants to can just order PBS off state TV

The governors have the control if they could be persuaded to use it.

(except perhaps for Pacifica)

[matginzac]

Yep...
She is/was married to some senator after being one of those Capitol hill “workers”...
Thinks it gives her gravitas as a journOlist...
A political hack from the word go....

[quilterdebbie]

Yes! And she was married to a Senator (now gone), so she didn’t have to dig too far for her stories...

[MayflowerMadam]

Well, I can’t believe that Krauthammer can’t believe the media is covering for the Administration. They ALWAYS do that. Why would this be any different? I’d be surprised if they didn’t participate in the cover-up.

[CyberAnt]

Yes, I remember how they treated Bush after the 1st 9/11. They were horrible to him because he didn’t jump up and frighten the children just to INFORM THEM. When in reality, all their cell phones were ringing so they already knew.

I just can’t stand the left .. I call them the “Arrogantly Ignorant”.

[Ann Archy]

People like Laura Ingrahm, Krauthammer, Kristol, Stephen Hayes, etal....do NOTHING BUT CRIZTICIZE ROMNEY!! STFU!!!

I am so damn SICK of hearing how Romney is doing a BAD JOB I could SCREAM!!!!! Laura Ingraham and Kristol are the WORST!!!!!!!!

[Brad from Tennessee]

Before and just after the 2008 elections Obama was floating the idea of a newspaper bailout. This would be a public-private partnership to preserve big city newspapers. Congress shot down the idea in 2009 even though it was controlled by Democrats. Obama did hire dozens of liberal news media people for administration jobs.

Things are so desperate in print media now—layoffs, pay cuts and bankruptcies—the typical newspaper reporter, editor or columnist could be bought pretty cheaply. Ninety percent of them are already ethically corrupt. Taking a payoff wouldn't make a lot of difference.