Posted on 10/18/2012 8:06:31 AM PDT by DFG
On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Jan Crawford devoted a full story to President Obama's deceptive claim that he called the Benghazi attack an "act of terror" early on, as she recounted the administration's initial reluctance to call it a terrorist attack. The CBS correspondent also implicated debate moderator and CNN anchor Candy Crowley in bolstering Obama's distortion.
After showing a clip of Obama and Romney clashing over whether Obama had used the words "act of terror" early on, Crawford showed a clip of what the President said the day after the Benghazi attack, but then exposed Obama's revisionism:
But with that statement, Mr. Obama didn't directly say the Libya attack qualified as one of those acts of terror. Earlier in his remarks, he seemed to suggest the attacks instead were triggered by an anti-Muslim video.
After another clip of Obama, she continued:
Top administration officials, including U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, delivered that message over the next five days. On Face the Nation, Rice suggested the Benghazi incident might have been triggered by demonstrations in Cairo over the film.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Good job Jan Crawford. Been nice knowing you.
This was on CBS evening News?
And - we still don’t know why a State Dept official tweeted from the attack that they were sorry for the video that caused the riot....
... when there was no video nor was there a riot.
What prompted such a false claim?
What’s amazing, is that is not a case where someone has been accusing Obama of saying something behind some closed meeting. This is something that was debated daily for two weeks solid!
Day One
Obama: It’s the Film
All Conservatives Everywhere: No! It’s Terrorism!
Day 7
Obama: It was the Film
Conservatives: No you idiot! It was terrorism!
Day 13:
Obama It was the Film
Conservatives: You lying marxist piece of trash! It’s obvious it was terrorism!
Debate:
Obama: I said since the beginning it was terrorism.
Crowley: Yup, this sheet of paper right here says he’s right!
they’re wanting everyone to forget something we’ve been arguing with them about less than a month ago!
WOW, you know your in trouble as a lib/dem when cbs is on your A$$
“Good job Jan Crawford. Been nice knowing you.”
Yep
And I keep wondering how they even knew about this video’s existence to use it as the scapegoat. The whole thing sounds fishy to me. I keep thinking Nobama wanted this to happen, but that doesn’t seem rational—I can’t figure out how it could possibly serve his needs.
Go to the CBS site and read the comments. This is San Francisco remember. Obama is toast, totally burnt toast. I read a lot of the comments; none were in defense of Obama. I think this was the straw.
Obama pissed on our legs for two weeks, saying it was raining.
Hope so, but won’t be counting any chickens before they hatch.
"0bama, 0bama, we're a billion Osamas!"
Not exactly an anti-video chant. More of a Pro-Al-Qaeda chant, doncha think?
Changing tagline.
“Good job Jan Crawford. Been nice knowing you.”
Jan doesn’t say snot without Editors and others higher ups give her the go ahead. So this is REALLY big other than nobody saw it being CBS. But it might make a mighty fine Swing State TV commercial.
Even yesterday, there was a thread that indicated the WH/Admin/St Dept were still looking into the idea the video might have had something to do with the riots/attacks.
The Admin still needs that narrative, because that is the only narrative they have. Otherwise, the entire Admin is shown to be incompetent.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.