I listened to National Public Radio's Morning Edition this morning as I do every morning. What a superb news organization! The news stories presented are in depth, thoughtful and thorough. I'm convinced there isn't a finer news organization working today.
However.......
Today and all this week there hasn't been a single story about the most important new event since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. I'm referring, of course, to the 9/11 Anniversary attack on the Consulate in Benghazi, Libya including the rape, torture and murder of our Libyan Ambassador AND the subsequent bizarre cover-up of events by a White House in the middle of an Election Year Crisis.
This is a news worthy story. In fact there isn't a single story that even approaches this in terms of importance. Yet there is no coverage. No one on NPR is asking the important questions. No one is asking any questions.
This isn't a news blackout. The New York Post ran the story on their front page. There have been stories on CBS and ABC News. And FOX NEWS has it properly positioned as the single most important story of this decade.
FOX NEWS ratings are going through the roof. The public recognizes the importance of this story. When the story is completely ignored by MSNBC and only minimally covered by CNN, the audience goes where they must to learn the facts.
Of course FOX NEWS is presenting this story with a distinctly Republican spin. That makes the FAILURE of NPR and other major news organizations even more disturbing. The public needs an objective, dispassionate and in depth look at the facts and the White House Spin. NPR could do that. But someone, somewhere high up in their news organization is blockading the story. WHY?
The cheerleader news groups (MSNBC and FOX) do their loyal viewers no good by eliminating news unfavorable to their candidates. Better they should face the bad news head on and over it properly. But the other news outlets who claim to be unbiased really betray us all by covering up a story that they will eventually be forced to cover. All they do is lose credibility by being late to the scene.
Slowly buy surely the actual facts in the Islamic radical assault on our Consulate in Benghazi, Libya are coming to light.
We now know that Ambassador Stevens asked for increased security many times before the attack. We know the State Department turned him down in a dismissive and arrogant manner. It appears no one at the State Department will pay the price for this gross error in judgment.
We now know that drones overhead witnessed the attack and that officials in the CIA, the State Department and even President Obama himself knew this was a terrorist attack.
We now know that there was no protest of demonstration preceding or during the assault on the Consulate.
And today we know that President Obama was fully aware that the radical group Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks. The White House had emails from this al Qaeda allied group within two hours of the attack.
What we will never know is why President Obama lied continuously and consistently for two solid weeks about the attack. We will never know why he forced Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary to lie, when Carney knew the truth.
We will never know why the President ordered Susan Rice, the United Nations Secretary to outright lie on four Sunday Morning News Interviews, destroying her credibility forever.
We will never know why in the world Vice President Biden told such an involved fictional account of the information known to the administration, even recounting totally false dates, during the Vice Presidential Debate. Biden knew from day one. Why did he destroy any chance he might have had of becoming President?
Certainly the administration will never explain these lies and the bizarre and unnecessary cover-up of the facts. It's a mini-Watergate with no logical explanation.
We can only guess that the President was trying to place the blame elsewhere, on an obscure video maker, to avoid any direct blame that would harm his re-election chances. It just all seems so odd.
If President Obama wins re-election the Main Stream Media will then investigate and ask these same questions. If he loses it will fall upon a disgruntled staffer to reveal the truth. But either way, Mr. PResident, the truth will come out.
