December Brings New Low in Media Matters's Benghazi 'Coverage'
by Frances Martel 1 Jan 2014, 6:04
PM PDT
The Media Matters campaign to portray anyone with questions about the
September 11, 2012, attacks on Benghazi as
madcap extremists entered fever-pitch territory in December.
It ended the year by condemning
the Daily Beast's Eli Lake
for having any questions about what it insists was a "hoax."
The New York Times's exhaustive
examination of facts on the ground in Benghazi, Libya, when
Ambassador Christopher Stevens was
killed appeared to have brought a breath of fresh air to Media Matters's
frothing-at-the-mouth insistence that Benghazi
doesn't matter. The report, which heavily implies that Stevens's naivety about Libya played a
major part in the attack, gave way to a New Year's Eve Media Matters attack in
which anyone who questioned the presence of al-Qaeda members at the attack was
participating in the "denial of reality" it claims is common in
right-wing circles.
The website celebrated the report
as gospel, refusing to engage in the nuanced questions that it presented
without quite answering them, questions such as, "Who gets to call
themselves al-Qaeda?" and "Why, if he was so naive, did the State
Department trust Christopher Stevens so much?" Or, "Where is the
Secretary of State in the Times report when one of her subordinates is murdered
on her watch?"
Media Matters then accused those
with questions about the violent uprising in that city as wanting to know the truth
to "try to end any potential presidential run by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before it can
begin," rather than having a genuine question of national security.
This attack is especially pivotal
in understanding Media Matters because it exposes, not what the nonpartisan
coalition of public thinkers who want answers on Benghazi want, but what Media Matters sees in
this story. There is no evidence it sees what most should – dead public
officials in an attack only vaguely explained by a government supposedly
accountable to the people. Instead it sees a story that might hurt Hillary
Clinton's 2016 run.
Also, it sees a way to hawk its
new e-book, which will make your pocket a dollar lighter. Yes, Media Matters is
trying to convince people to pay for a book that promises its interpretation of
Benghazi – the interpretation that is abundantly clear in the nineteen stories
the website wrote about Benghazi in December, a series which will tell you all
you need to know about its version of the facts. To get an idea of what Media
Matters thinks Benghazi
is about, note that fifteen of those nineteen stories mention Fox News.
There is rightfully a large volume
of speculation nationally as to what should have been done to prevent the Benghazi attacks, why
they happened, and what happened that day at all. This is natural because the
Obama administration has been especially closed-lipped about the situation.
When an ambassador dies and the State Department seems to have no coherent
response to questions on how it let its staffer die, theories based on research
will replace that void into which an official explanation should have gone.
Honest reporters and correspondents with a record of liberal ideas tend to
agree that Benghazi
is a legitimate scandal that deserves attention. Hacks pretend that there is
nothing to see here and the Obama administration is in the clear, and claim
only "crazies" want answers to how our President can leave our
ambassadors so open to attack abroad.
Media Matters
Media Matters
monitors Fox News.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Media Matters, the Aspen
Institute (think tank), the International
Rescue Committee, Demos, and Common Cause.
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, and a co-chair, national finance council for Ready for Hillary.
Condoleezza Rice is a trustee at the
Aspen Institute (think tank), an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, Muammar Abu Minyar
Al-Qadhafi said he loved her & kept scrapbook of her photos, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Muammar
Abu Minyar Al-Qadhafi said he loved Condoleezza
Rice & kept scrapbook of her photos, the leader of Libya, and his son is Saif Al Islam Al-Qadhafi.
Saif Al
Islam Al-Qadhafi is Muammar Abu
Minyar Al-Qadhafi’s son, and the chairman for the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation.
Benjamin R.
Barber was a trustee at the Gaddafi
International Charity and Development Foundation, a senior fellow at Demos, and is a governing board member
for Common Cause.
J.
Christopher Stevens was the U.S.
ambassador for Libya, and killed in the 2012 attack on U.S.
consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a member of the Bohemian
Club, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Christopher
Buckley is a member of the Bohemian
Club, was a blogger for the Daily Beast,
and George H.W. Bush’s speechwriter.
George H.W.
Bush is a member of the Bohemian Club.
George H.W. Bush talks about the NWO; Walter Cronkite said
he is glad to sit at the Right Hand of Satan
Walter
L. Cronkite was a member of the Bohemian Club.
Dark Secrets inside Bohemian Grove
Bohemian Club
Weaving Spiders Come Not Here
The Bavarian Order of the Illuminati Owl of Wisdom
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