Yesterday, as the American consulate in Libya was smoking and the
rioters were returning in Egypt, the President of the United States flew
off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser while his spokesman was telling the
American press corps that yesterday wasn’t really a normal political
day. Had it been George W. Bush, the media would, right now, be
marching on the White House with pitch forks and torches. Remember, on
9/11, as events were unfolding in Washington, the American media was
crying for President Bush to return to Washington. They wanted Daddy at
home in the White House where he could tuck them in bed, damn the
security issues of getting him there.
I get that
Chuck Todd
is a former Democrat hill staffer. I get that the Politico is riddled
with Democrats, some former activists and a former staffer for Debbie
Wasserman Schultz. I get that Michael Scherer from Time magazine is a
left wing reporter for Mother Jones and Salon.com turned respectable,
“objective” journalist. I get that Ben Smith, leading up Buzz Feed, is a
leftwing journalist paraded about as if he is some sort of objective
reporter at a trendy site full of cat photos. What I really get is that
the American media runs with a herd mentality, leans left, and
yesterday collectively fell over their group think as they leaned so far
left to focus on Mitt Romney and not President Obama. Yesterday, the
American media beclowned itself in ways I didn’t really even think was
possible, even knowing how in the tank for Barack Obama they are.
Yesterday,
we learned that there were no Marines protecting our Ambassador to Libya
despite State Department warnings about violence and kidnappings in the
Benghazi. We already knew Al Qaeda was coming on strong there. But we
relied on locals for support
and now we know the locals betrayed us as they have in the past in Afghanistan and Iraq too.
But the media wanted to focus on Mitt Romney.
Night before last, the President condemned Mitt Romney in harsher tones than he condemned the rioters. It took him until sun up yesterday to condemn them.
But the media wanted to focus on Mitt Romney.
Yesterday, the media spent much time condemning the Coptic Christians
for their movie, but we now know the movie had been out for months and
we also know the riots were orchestrated in advance. We also know the
attack on the American consulate in Libya used the riots as cover for
the attack.
But the media wanted to focus on Mitt Romney.
Yesterday, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a man who swore
an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America,
called an American civilian to ask him to stop exercising his first amendment rights.
But the media wanted to focus on Mitt Romney.
We also now know that the President, close to 60% of the time, has
opted for printed intelligence briefings, which this White House thinks
are as useful as an intelligence officer in the room who the President
can probe, prod, challenge, and question.
But the media wanted to focus on Mitt Romney.
And in focusing on Mitt Romney, finally, of all the places, Slate and Dave Weigel finally point out
that Mitt Romney’s gaffe was no gaffe,
it was a consistent view of foreign policy foreign to the ears of the
political press. He, I, and many others really do think Barack Obama is
an apologist. We really do think his speech to Cairo after his
entrance to the White House was part of a world apology tour. And we
sure as hell think his actions in the past year to foster the Arab
Spring were the actions of a naive fool.
But then the media has been playing the naive fool for him.
http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/13/the-american-media-beclowned-themselves-yesterday/
