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Getting off the campaign bus

Maybe, just maybe, the media don’t like to be taken for complete fools. They are partisan to the farthest extent possible, but there comes a time when their integrity becomes so obviously on the line that there is nothing left for them to do but to try to look responsible and honest. The persistent lies by Obama over the attack on the Consulate in Benghazi and the death of the American ambassador are now rightly an issue that only the deeply morally impaired will be able to support the president on. Following the debate, this may be the final death blow for media complicity in a failing election campaign. The media may be – may be – about to get off the Obama campaign bus.

Written by Steve Kates

October 11th, 2012 at 10:19 am

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11 Responses to 'Getting off the campaign bus'

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I’m salivating over that foreign policy debate.

Spinning this in a live debate will really prove how nimble of mind and thought the Sun King really is.

Token

11 Oct 12 at 10:21 am
This is so reminiscent of the last days of Jimmy Carter. Obama’s Libya is Carter’s Iran. He’s also up against an energised Republican candidate who is ready for the fight.

Now if we end up with a repeat of the glorious 1980′s then I’m a happy guy.

tbh

11 Oct 12 at 10:28 am
The persistent lies by Obama over the attack on the Consulate in Benghazi and the death of the American ambassador are now rightly an issue that only the deeply morally impaired will be able to support the president on.

I’m reminded how vociferous Gillard was in condemning the youtube video in the name of protecting Islam by sacrificing free speech here. I remember how apologetic she was towards the Islamists.

Gab

11 Oct 12 at 10:29 am
Jake Tapper Grills Carney On Libya: ‘Didn’t President Obama Shoot First And Aim Later?’

Much of today’s White House press briefing featured Jay Carney being grilled by a number of reporters on the administration’s muddled response to the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last month that led to the death of four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador. ABC’s Jake Tapper asked Carney how President Obama could have fairly criticized Mitt Romney for jumping the gun before seeing the evidence when, as he said, the Obama administration was engaging in the same tactic.

JamesK

11 Oct 12 at 10:43 am
Bret Baier’s updated extensive timeline of the Benghazi attack on 9/11 and the administration response

Special Report released an updated version of it’s extensive timeline of the events that led up to the Benghazi attack as well as the administration’s response to it.

JamesK

11 Oct 12 at 10:58 am
This is a great article which I believe captures discontent in the US with Obama:

Obama Not Interested in Being Commander-In-Chief

In terms of serving out his role as commander-in-chief, President Bush set the standard high. And President Obama has entirely failed to meet it. Gateway Pundit today reported that,

For the past several years – since at least 2009 – and possibly throughout his term, Barack Obama has sent the same form letter to the parents of all fallen soldiers, Marines and Navy SEALs.

Thank goodness our nation has divided the roles as the shrill screachy harpy who went out of her way to dodge national security briefings when deputy PM would be doing untold damage in such a role.

Token

11 Oct 12 at 11:30 am
It’s usually advisable to alight from the bus when it is stationary. As this one is heading for a cliff at top speed, I guess they have no choice but to jump for their lives. Suddenly they see a future without bambi in charge. A future where they still have to make a living until the next wave of hopenchange.

Keith

11 Oct 12 at 11:37 am
The MSM is still providing active disinformation propaganda for Obama on Libya, as I’ve noted on the open thread. This means that the backlash on this issue will become an explosive backlash the nearer we get to November 6. If the MSM had done the right thing by its readers instead of suckholing its political favorite, it may have been able to save his bacon. Now, I’d say that is a remote chance.

Tom

11 Oct 12 at 12:42 pm
Obama’s Libya is Carter’s Iran.

Yes, but Obama’s Fast and Furious is also Carter’s Iran. Obama has two explosive, devastating issues to face. His task is to keep a lid on them both for another four weeks.

dd

11 Oct 12 at 2:28 pm
His task is to keep a lid on them both for another four weeks.

Why? So he can be haunted by them for the next four years? He’s deluded if he thinks they’ll go away upon his re-election. Libya alone is enough to bury him, and that story is getting out in a big way.

When people who formerly engaged in ideological fellatio are kicking you in the arse and telling you to get your act together, you’re on a downhill slide. I’m reminded of the chapter-heading verse in Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah that is as appropriate for the relationship between the media and Obama as it was for the novel’s hero and his shadowy opponents:

Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

perturbed

11 Oct 12 at 9:56 pm
Pathetic performance from Jay Carney in response to the first stirrings of unrest in the press corps.

Wait until some brave scribe actually asks for the results of the post-mortems on the bodies of the ambassador and his colleagues. Those results will never be released, even to the families. Draw your own conclusions about an arab mob and a period of 12 hours.

mareeS

11 Oct 12 at 10:35 pm

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