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.
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