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Media Gave 'Pathetic' Benghazi Coverage To Aid Obama
IBD EDITORIALS ^ | Nobember 5, 2012

Posted on 11/05/2012 5:14:07 PM PST by raptor22

Bias: Call it the "October Suppress" as the so-called "mainstream" media provided less coverage to the current president's bungling of and lying about Benghazi than they did to another president's decades-old DUI arrest.

Last Friday, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Judith Miller and Kirsten Powers, a Daily Beast columnist, appeared on Fox News' "Happening Now" program to justifiably bash the mainstream media and its orchestrated suppression of coverage of the terrorist attack in Benghazi.

Neither is a charter member of the "vast right-wing conspiracy," but both roundly condemned the shameful and politically motivated actions of their colleagues. Miller called them "co-conspirators" in a Benghazi cover-up, and Powers said the "mainstream media is pathetic" and "carrying water for the administration."

They are right and just one example is what happened on all the Sunday talk shows on Oct. 28. When the Benghazi attack was brought up by a guest, the moderator quickly changed the subject.

When Newt Gingrich raised Benghazi on ABC's "This Week," host George Stephanopoulos quickly moved on to another topic. Also running interference for Team Obama was NBC's David Gregory who cut off GOP panelist Carly Fiorina while promising to "get to that a little later," which he never did.

On CNN's "State of the Union," Candy Crowley, who aided President Obama in the second presidential debate by wrongly telling Mitt Romney that Obama called Benghazi a terrorist attack from day one, sloughed off attempts by two GOP officials to bring up Benghazi.

Folks like ABC's Rick Klein explain away the Benghazi non-coverage by saying it's because GOP nominee Mitt Romney did not make much of an issue of it, particularly during the presidential debates. If he had spoken out about it, he would have covered it.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; ansaralsharia; benghazi; benghazigate; consulate; ibd; ibdbenghazi; jihad; kirstenpowers; libya; mediabias

1 posted on 11/05/2012 5:14:09 PM PST by raptor22
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To: raptor22

People will not forget this crap, the MSM needs to be run out of town.


2 posted on 11/05/2012 5:18:16 PM PST by AmonAmarth (If Tim Tebow has a thought, is it a Christian Ponder?)
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To: raptor22

“It’s Election Day. Go VOTE the Traitors and Criminals OUT.”




3 posted on 11/05/2012 5:26:00 PM PST by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: raptor22

Could play out as fact... Benghazi was a nail in my opinion and the coffin door was propped open by the media allowing the dying one to escape.... that said we are in a good place against an incumbent. Now we wait.


4 posted on 11/05/2012 5:29:09 PM PST by Republic Rocker
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

Media bias ping


5 posted on 11/05/2012 5:39:59 PM PST by raptor22 (Join me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken)
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

Media bias ping


6 posted on 11/05/2012 5:41:05 PM PST by raptor22 (Join me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken)
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To: raptor22

King Obama is a communists black Muslim. Since the MSM support this corrupt piece of garbage, then they to are communists supporters.


7 posted on 11/05/2012 6:05:35 PM PST by Logical me
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To: raptor22

Election Eve and Drudge is scrubbed of everything Benghazi..


8 posted on 11/05/2012 6:43:09 PM PST by RedhairRedhair (I STILL love my (scab made) Toyota)
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To: raptor22

Does President Romney have to give these people press privileges when they have shown themselves to be propagandists? Why give them legitimacy?


9 posted on 11/05/2012 8:56:32 PM PST by jackal7163 (If you are not willing to achieve victory at any cost, you are doomed to defeat!)
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