Covering for Obama

So a walk-through of the media and this morning and they’re doing their darndest to keep Libya off of the front page. Washington Post’s only mention of the President is a puff piece about how he walks a tight wire on race (what else). But nothing on Libya. The Washington Times, however, has finally picked up on the story, reporting that John McCain has shook the cobwebs from his brain and started talking about Libya;

“For literally days and days they told the American people something that had no basis in fact whatsoever. And that is the president of the United States,” the Arizona Republican said in an interview on CBS‘ “Face the Nation.” Mr. Obama “said that he immediately ordered action to be taken no action was taken over seven hours. Now we find out the secretary of defense decided not to take any action.”

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“Somebody the other day said to me, ‘This is as bad as Watergate.’ Well, nobody died in Watergate,” Mr. McCain said. “This is either a massive coverup or incompetence that is not acceptable to the American people.”

In the editorial pages, Joseph Curl picks up the Watergate analogy;

The main lesson from Watergate (after the no-brainer that you should never hire a guy named “Tricky Dick”) was this: The Cover-Up Is Worse Than The Crime. For some reason, Professor Obama seems not to know this crucial lesson. Or he’s just arrogant enough to say, “Well, that doesn’t apply to someone as brilliant as moi.”

Make no mistake, though: There is a massive cover-up under way in the White House. Nothing else can explain the endless contradictions over the attack that left the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans dead. The White House has already had to rewrite the entire narrative once, holding a late night conference call with reporters just before a House hearing two weeks ago in which State Department officials told a whole new tale: There was no “spontaneous” protest over some anti-Islam video posted on YouTube. Instead, there were dozens of heavily armed terrorists who poured over a 9-foot-high fence covered with barbed wire to attack America on 9/11.

Yeah, the cover up has been going on since the irrational and implausible story that the attack occurred because of a spontaneous demonstration over a poorly executed movie – a movie the was produced more poorly than the attack on the consulate. Who brings a mortar tube to an impromptu demonstration?

At Blackfive, Deebow doesn’t like the idea that Obama is blaming the military for his won paralysis in reacting to the attack in time so save four Americans.

A link to the Washington Examiner sent to us by Ex-PH2 asks why Romney isn’t talking about Benghazi. For the record, I asked the campaign that question last night and I’m still waiting for an answer.

As far as the media goes, a young sergeant in Afghanistan wrote to tell us that the TV in their messhall is tuned to BBC and al Jazeera, English because they can’t trust the US media to tell them the truth anymore.

Category: 2012 election, Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Media, Military issues