Posted on 09/20/2012 12:29:50 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Talk about the conservative critique–and I think it’s a fair critique, the conservative critique: that all you guys in the media were talking about Mitt Romney, you should have talked about the warnings with the embassy, etc., etc. And yes perhaps we should have. But you know who didn’t allow us to do that?
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Mitt Romney.
SCARBOROUGH: Mitt Romney. If Mitt Romney had kept his mouth shut, if he had not acted like a rank amateur, if he had not embarrassed himself–and by the way internally the campaign understands they screwed up, he’s moved on, they know that. So no conservative can say “oh, the mainstream media, blah, blah.” They know how badly they screwed up, and they were having the fight internally before he even went out and did it. But Romney got in the way of the media looking at the president, going, wha-, wha-, what happened here? How did this happen? Now, those questions are going to be asked in the coming weeks. But they weren’t asked in the first 24 hours because Romney was holding this horrific, irresponsible, press conference.
If only Mitt Romney were to drop out of the election, there is no doubt in my mind that the media would finally do its job of asking why Obama’s disastrous undeclared war and bad security decisions empowered Islamists to run wild across the Middle East and murder Americans. That is if they don’t get distracted by some Republicans somewhere criticizing Obama, which will force them to immediately debut coverage demanding that the Republican be immediately arrested and sent to a Hope Gulag (TM) for rehabilitation.
Mostly this is just embarrassing. We are witnessing the last gasps of anything resembling journalism and its replacement by bellowing hacks who can always be counted on to scream the Party Line at viewers after a long lunch.
The media can’t do its job in Libya for three very simple reasons.
1. It no longer has any idea how to do its job
2. It can’t question Obama
3. It can’t risk a scenario where their questions help Romney become president
Scarborough and Brzezinski have as much as admitted that they will not do their jobs because it might benefit Romney. Would they do their jobs if we went to a One Party State? Nope.
What is astounding is the sheer childishness of what passes for media dialogue now. No one takes responsibility for anything now. Instead Scarborough bellows that he can’t do his job of questioning Obama because Romney somehow got in the way.
Remember back in ‘04 when the media refused to cover and criticize Bush’s Iraq War policy and it effects on the Middle East, because they were too busy attacking John Kerry for his denunciations of it?
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Me neither.
MSM are traitors, every damn one of them.
Journalism must be a zero-sum game .... only so many questions to ask, and Romney got in the way.
The MSM really went nuts after Al Gore challenged the results of the 2000 election in the courts. The MSM hasn't been the same ever since.
-PJ
Well, of course they aren’t going to take responsibility for their failures. Their President doesn’t do so - why should they?
Shut your pie hole Joe, your idiocy is showing.
If you can’t blame Bush, I guess you have to blame Romney.</msm>
Obama would have been able to fix the economy, protect our foreign citizens, and reduce the deficit if Romney wouldn’t have run against him.
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