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Milbank Exposed: Media Lapdog Slimes Benghazi Coalition to Protect Obama
Breitbart / Big-Journalism
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
6/18/2014
Excerpt:
I had a ringside seat on Monday as a “mainstream media lapdog” performed for his masters in the Obama administration. What made it a man-bites-dog story, though, is that the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank was so abject in his submission that he was called out for it even by an organ of the left like Politico.
Milbank used his column in the Post on Tuesday entitled “Heritage’s Ugly Benghazi Panel” to smear an event he attended and I participated in at the Heritage Foundation the day before. The occasion was the launch of an initiative clearly unwelcomed by Team Obama and its press poodle: the Benghazi Accountability Coalition.
The coalition is a pick-up team of national security, law enforcement, intelligence, and other public policy practitioners, experts, and activists and is chaired by former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. We share a common determination to support the new House Select Committee on Benghazi in ferreting out the truth about what led up to, occurred during, and happened after the jihadist attacks that killed four Americans on September 11, 2012. We are also prepared to hold the select committee’s members accountable if they fail to fulfill this duty.
It is instructive that, out of nearly four hours of compelling presentations and often-newsworthy pronouncements by, among others, former three-star generals, a one-time U.S. Attorney, former senior Justice Department officials, a career clandestine service operator with the CIA, and several best-selling authors, Milbank seized upon, then distorted, a single line of questioning and the responses it generated.
Milbank’s gambit fit the pattern of deflection and defamation by a press corps that – with few exceptions – slavishly defends President Obama and his subordinates, no matter how outrageous their perfidy and misconduct.
To be precise, Milbank failed accurately to report and in some cases outright mischaracterized several exchanges prompted by an intervention from the audience in the form of a statement/question by a self-described “law student at American University.” The hijab-wearing young woman warned that the West was failing to understand that we are confronting a hostile ideology.
In Milbank’s rendering, the program “deteriorated into the ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering.”
After examining a videotape of the program, however, Dylan Byers of Politico responded that “Milbank grossly misrepresented the nature of that exchange.” He added, “I do believe that the video disproves or casts doubt on several of Milbank’s assertions.”
That is putting it charitably. Milbank, like the Obama administration, wants to shoot the messengers on Benghazi. The immediate object is to obscure the message, but if in the process the messengers are taken down, so much the better.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journal...ILBANK-EXPOSED
Breitbart / Big-Journalism
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
6/18/2014
Excerpt:
I had a ringside seat on Monday as a “mainstream media lapdog” performed for his masters in the Obama administration. What made it a man-bites-dog story, though, is that the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank was so abject in his submission that he was called out for it even by an organ of the left like Politico.
Milbank used his column in the Post on Tuesday entitled “Heritage’s Ugly Benghazi Panel” to smear an event he attended and I participated in at the Heritage Foundation the day before. The occasion was the launch of an initiative clearly unwelcomed by Team Obama and its press poodle: the Benghazi Accountability Coalition.
The coalition is a pick-up team of national security, law enforcement, intelligence, and other public policy practitioners, experts, and activists and is chaired by former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. We share a common determination to support the new House Select Committee on Benghazi in ferreting out the truth about what led up to, occurred during, and happened after the jihadist attacks that killed four Americans on September 11, 2012. We are also prepared to hold the select committee’s members accountable if they fail to fulfill this duty.
It is instructive that, out of nearly four hours of compelling presentations and often-newsworthy pronouncements by, among others, former three-star generals, a one-time U.S. Attorney, former senior Justice Department officials, a career clandestine service operator with the CIA, and several best-selling authors, Milbank seized upon, then distorted, a single line of questioning and the responses it generated.
Milbank’s gambit fit the pattern of deflection and defamation by a press corps that – with few exceptions – slavishly defends President Obama and his subordinates, no matter how outrageous their perfidy and misconduct.
To be precise, Milbank failed accurately to report and in some cases outright mischaracterized several exchanges prompted by an intervention from the audience in the form of a statement/question by a self-described “law student at American University.” The hijab-wearing young woman warned that the West was failing to understand that we are confronting a hostile ideology.
In Milbank’s rendering, the program “deteriorated into the ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering.”
After examining a videotape of the program, however, Dylan Byers of Politico responded that “Milbank grossly misrepresented the nature of that exchange.” He added, “I do believe that the video disproves or casts doubt on several of Milbank’s assertions.”
That is putting it charitably. Milbank, like the Obama administration, wants to shoot the messengers on Benghazi. The immediate object is to obscure the message, but if in the process the messengers are taken down, so much the better.
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View the complete article at:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journal...ILBANK-EXPOSED