October 26, 2012 5:50 am - author: James Delingpole

Benghazi and Obama: the media is trying to shore up this desperate administration

Here’s one thing we can be sure of about the Benghazi affair: almost everything we’ve been told since by the mainstream media is a lie, invariably one designed to shore up the creaky and desperate Obama administration.

Consider how quickly the story was spun by Obama’s amen corner in the liberal MSM. It should, according to any objective news sense, have been a shocking tale of how a woefully unprotected ambassador was murdered in cold blood by Al Qaeda affiliates. Instead, it almost immediately became – of all things – an excuse to demonstrate why Mitt Romney was unfit to be president.

Here, for example, was NBC the day after.
Yesterday we noted that Mitt Romney, down in the polls after the convention, was throwing the kitchen sink at President Obama. Little did…

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  • Martin hanson

    ‘Media’ is plural!

  • Welshpenguin

    Hmmm…Republicans vetoed extra funds for the Embassy defences…

  • wcm_eu

    We now approach mid-December and this story is all but forgotten. Reading your piece this morning, I commend it as having been and being spot on. I had missed it, but I think you’ll find my own blog post on the subject (I think on a Tim Stanley thread) echo some of the points. I noted the Figaro coverage, but subsequently learned that the US blogosphere and Fox had picked up on some of the truth gaps the French report, but not all.

    You’ve omitted the FT as one of the once-worthy banners providing extraordinary cover to the Americans as they push on with the Clinton-led “Soft Power” agenda to remake the Maghreb and the Middle East by recasting their tired geopolitical objectives in the guise of enhancing women’s lives. The only thing keeping Susan Rice from being named Secretary of State is her schoolgirl naïveté that this plan can now be rolled out across Sub-Saharan Africa. Anyway, the FT has given Roula Khalaf an extraordinary platform and, it seems, mandate to set the high tome to what is second-generation Neocon propaganda.

    So, why did the FT run this House & Home story on 2 November about a US “doctor” who had been in Libya on the day and contacted Ambassador Stevens shortly before the attack?

    “The emergency medicine specialist takes a break from consulting in Libya to show his weekday refuge ”

    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/631fe592-1eb7-11e2-b906-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2BouvNFFc

    Why would a little-known American who had been so near the fire (and proved useless, despite the needs you cite in your column) want to be featured less than two months later sitting on his houseboat in Boston? Why would the Ft want to run such a story in its “House & Home” section and lead off with a sentence that includes, “…We spoke on the phone to Ambassador Stevens about our programmes about an hour before the attacks,” says Burke…”

    Returning to the Figaro story, why so little interest in what was clearly a “safe house”, which Figaro says was rented personally by Stevens shortly before the attack and which was apparently adjacent to the abandoned property US Special Forces went to when they arrived in Tripoli at 03:30 BEFORE going to attend to the Ambassador’s body. Figaro reports on the shootout at this location.

    The suggestions by Fox News that there were arms deals ongoing before and, specifically involving Turkey, on the day of the attack, would explain why your paper, The Telegraph, ran Cameron’s unpressed mention that there are times when illegal arms deals are “legitimate”. The likelihood that Benghazi remains the principle Qaddafi arsenal would support such scenarios, yet John McCain, a friend fo the Defence + Security masterchefs, has demeured on his once-laoud demands for a congressional investigation, useless as they are.

    I trust you’ve not forgotten what you’ve written here. Please keep us posted.

    btw–Any word or interest in what Said Qaddafi is up to? The French have reported not so long ago that he was receiving some prominent French visitors, close also to Sarkozy, at his desert prison. The Libyans (or someone) escorted at least one of these guests to the Tunisian border as a courtesy.