A Scandalously Under-Reported Story

Powerful, damning editorial in today's U-T San Diego. This story has been scandalously ignored by major news outlets. Only those who read alternative media or listen to a.m. talk radio have even the slightest inkling that this is a scandal of momentous proportions, made only worse by the media's collusion (there's no other way to say it) to not report on it. It goes without saying that if a Republican were in the White House, we would be saturated with stories, investigations, analysis, commentary, condemnation, calls for impeachment, you name it.

Thank you, U-T San Diego. Don't let up. The election is less than a week away. Questions need to be asked. Obama needs to be held accountable for his administration's actions, inactions, distortions, lies, incompetence, political calculations, or whatever the hell's going on.

"It has now been seven weeks since the terrorist attack. We deserve to know the truth."

Yes we do.

"You Have the Blood of an American Hero on your Hands" (U-T San Diego, Editorial, October 31, 2012).

Obama's Foreign Policy in Disarray...and Yet

We are only now just beginning to hear reporting in the dominant media about the attacks on the embassy in Libya in which a U.S. ambassador was assassinated (assassinated--he didn't die of smoke inhalation, contrary to early reports).

The reporting, however, is timid, tepid, muted, and in some cases, ignored. The story was covered on page A-7 in today's Los Angeles Times, for example, but didn't even make the cut in last night's PBS News Hour. While a few honest journalists are beginning to ask the hard questions--CNN's Wolf Blitzer, for example, and ABC's Jake Tapper, and Fox News (see below)--mostly, the story is being downplayed, at best.

If a Republican administration were at the helm, this story would be covered day in, day out, analyzed, discussed, and dissected in various stages of outrage and condemnation. And rightly so. It is, as some conservatives are suggesting, a scandal of the highest order.

But this is not a Republican administration. This is Barack Obama's administration. What would happen if the mainstream media were to cover this story with at least a modicum of scrutiny? Would voter approval of Obama plummet? Would undecided voters take a second look at Romney? Would (God forbid) the election tilt in Romney's favor?

This must not happen. The American public must not be alarmed. Hence, the whitewash.

With the economy in shambles, the administration's foreign policy a train wreck, and Obama's own credibility in doubt (lying for two weeks about the attacks in Libya and continuing to insist that the attacks were the result of an incendiary YouTube video and not a pre-planned, highly coordinated attack on the anniversary of 9/11), Romney should be way ahead in this race. Yet polls still seem to suggest a stubbornly close race, with some pundits claiming Obama is beginning to pull ahead.

Does anyone doubt that the media are doing everything in their power to protect this president and prevent the American public from knowing the truth?

Please watch this video presentation of the timeline of events of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2012. It's pretty damning.

It's a New Dawn in America!

Stuff you won't read in the Los Angeles Times (or anywhere else):

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn (yes, she whose favorite political philosopher is Mao Tse Tung), on how the Obama campaign used video messages to control the media during the election in order to avoid talking to the press:

“It was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters. Just put that out there and make them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. …So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it and it did not always make us popular with the press. But we, increasingly by the general election, very rarely did we communicate to the press anything that we didn't absolutely control.”
Senior Advisor to Barack Obama David Axelrod telling George Stephanopoulos on ABC that the White House doesn’t consider Fox News to be a real news organization and that ABC and others “ought not to treat them” as if they are a news organization.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel saying on CNN that Fox is not a news organization [because it] has a perspective. …And more importantly is to not have the CNN’s and the others in the world basically be led and following Fox…” 

(Source: Gary Bauer, End of Day report). 

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, callooh callay....