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Topic: Dereliction: 60 Minutes Ignores Benghazi For Obama/Clinton Love-Fest |
Dereliction: 60 Minutes Ignores Benghazi For Obama/Clinton Love-Fest
Big Journalism, by Larry O´Connor
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Posted By:Drive, 1/28/2013 8:21:11 AM
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| Only a few days after CBS News´ intrepid investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson detailed a comprehensive list of questions the White House has refused to answer regarding the terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, the network had the opportunity to finally get some of those answers from Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama as they both sat with Steve Kroft for an exclusive interview on 60 Minutes. We imagine Ms. Attkisson might have thrown a handful of popcorn at her television as she watched the segment Sunday night when her colleague gently broached the Benghazi
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Judith, 1/28/2013 8:26:06 AM (No. 9143642)
Was that the down payment for hillary´s "testimony"? Wonder what the senators received for their equally disgraceful performances?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/28/2013 8:30:21 AM (No. 9143653)
If any serious questions were asked, they will never see the light of day.
Note too that her heinous had the last couple of hundred thousand dollars of her campaign debt paid off the day before her testimony.
The payoff by Obama for her silence.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
US Veteran, 1/28/2013 8:40:04 AM (No. 9143675)
Dereliction of duty?
hardly...
I´m quite sure Kroft followed his ´´orders´´ to the letter...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nimby, 1/28/2013 8:51:58 AM (No. 9143704)
These are not serious journalists. The word is "pressitutes"
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
O.G.´s Mom, 1/28/2013 8:56:37 AM (No. 9143712)
Not sure why anyone would even watch that show. We stopped watching 20 years ago.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rational, 1/28/2013 8:58:36 AM (No. 9143714)
What annoys me even more than these drones that march in lockstep with the dictator-in-chief, is the likes of O´Reilly and Bernard Goldberg circling the wagons and saying "Kroft is a wonderful journalist, yada, yada....I´ve known him a very long time." Who the he!! cares Bernard how long you´ve "known" him. ?? I´m the stupid one for being sucked in for even watching Fox anymore. I´m slowly recovering my fox addiction.....just look at Hannity´s numbers dropping.....thats because of our house barely tuning in anymore. Karl Rove and Dick Morris scarred me after this last election.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 1/28/2013 9:03:14 AM (No. 9143722)
Obama selected Kroft because of their mutual love of softball shooting. On Obama´s "Pull" command, a slobbering Kroft tosses a pre-approved softball in the air and Obama blows it away. Kroft honed his skills at CBS and 60 Minutes while Obama´s practiced by shooting skeet at Camp David. Obama is an avid skeet shooter, since skeet is the Kenyan word for manure.
Blow is another Kenyan word with two meanings: what one does with cocaine; and what one did in Chicago gay bathhouses.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Adam, 1/28/2013 9:27:11 AM (No. 9143779)
Oh dear friends, did any of you, any of you, really believe he would ask any a genuine question about it? With sadness, heartbreak really, i have to say Hillary is right. What difference does it make? America is over.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
KanCreeper, 1/28/2013 9:43:35 AM (No. 9143817)
The alphabet Media demonstrates only that they are only interested in ´pimping´ the Regimes´ Line. They have long ago ceased to be a media for delivering News. Now they are just Propagandists, and pretenders for the Regime.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RightShoe, 1/28/2013 9:53:15 AM (No. 9143833)
Imagine what would happen if no conservative outlet anywhere made a single mention of what happened on 60 minutes!
When are we going to come to terms with the fact that 60 Minutes is nothing more than a liberal distraction?
There are so many more important things that we could be focusing on right now. Why does any reputable publication give 60 Minutes the time of day? I think the only reason that 60 Minutes continues to exist is that they know they can turn the heads of conservative media away from America´s real problems.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
spahrkl, 1/28/2013 9:54:01 AM (No. 9143834)
I don´t think the parents and family/friends of the four who died think or conclude it is over. How about the 20 who were saved by the actions of another? How about the fellow marines and and those in the know of what happened. How about the seals? Surely there are those of courage and knowledge, insight, power are going to stand up and pin these liars and abusers of the truth to light and expose and hold them responsible.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
knarfski, 1/28/2013 10:01:15 AM (No. 9143855)
Probing vs partisan journalism...the thrill is gone. Our people are being glaringly short-changed.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
caddyjak, 1/28/2013 10:02:46 AM (No. 9143860)
Interview?/ What interview? I thought it was a trailer for a Peter Seller´s movie.I would have scripted it a little differently. Kroft should have been on his knees although his nervous trembling was quite effective. What must our international enemies think when they witness these two unmistakeable frauds? We can only guess but fear and respect for the old U.S. are not in their thoughts.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
RightShoe, 1/28/2013 10:20:03 AM (No. 9143913)
Dereliction: Big Journalism fails to interview Sandra Fluke about Bob Menendez.
I don´t expect 60 minutes to address Benghazi. And I don´t care. I don´t watch 60 minutes. I don´t know anyone who does, except for the people in the conservative media who don´t appear too interested in doing their jobs anymore.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hotrod, 1/28/2013 10:38:04 AM (No. 9143967)
There would have been no interview if Kroft had not agreed to stick to the script. Also, I am certain that a private screening of the video was conducted to make sure that nothing embarrassing got out.
It isn´t your daddy´s 60 Minutes any more..... Pure propaganda.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Speedypetey, 1/28/2013 10:38:12 AM (No. 9143968)
There were no tough questions that were left on the cutting room floor. Actually there was no video taken of Kroft on his knees kissing both their posteriors. And saying,"we´re not worthy, we´re not worthy.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 1/28/2013 10:57:02 AM (No. 9144037)
Like #5, I stopped watching 60 Minutes many years ago. This is disgraceful - I thought Steve Croft was better than this.
If it were a Republican President (say GW Bush) and his SOS (say Condi Rice), Steve would have done a brutal investigation and made them appear to be unconstitutional criminals. There wouldn´t have been any softball questions for GW, Condi, Cheney, or Rumsfeld.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
GreatPlains, 1/28/2013 12:37:23 PM (No. 9144321)
Sixty Softballs. November 2008 , Kroft interviewed Barry and Michelle just after the election. Kroft asked really tough questions. Like why Michelle had to " force " Barry to do chores. She told Kroft that she would force Barry " to make his bed " ( his bed ? ) and wash dishes. Barry told Kroft he actually found washing dishes to be " soothing ". Michelle reacted with head snapping incredulity. When the the Obamas lived in Chicago , they had a long time personal chef, Sam Kass. Another factoid the media decided to hide. Kass is now a White House chef. Apparently Kass didn´t clean up after doing their cooking. So, yesterday´s hem kissing interview by Kroft was not surprising. Huckabee has been playing clips of Barry stuttering in the interview and he sounds like Porky Pig. That´s all folks !
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
rustycfc, 1/28/2013 2:34:33 PM (No. 9144611)
little by litte this country is coming apart.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
reefdiver, 1/28/2013 4:21:49 PM (No. 9144815)
60 Minutes is just a small fraction of the Media Complex whigh includes the network TV, liberal newspapers, Hollywood, etc. As an entity the Media Complex has a slogan (Seems to me at least): "TO PROTECT AND SERVE LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS, PROGRESSIVES AND ALL OTHERS WE AGREE WITH" This clearly does not include conservatives or the U.S. Constitution.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
dolphin, 1/28/2013 5:39:37 PM (No. 9144997)
This isn´t news. I didn´t even watch it and I knew this would happen. Worrying about it is the very definition insanity because nobody can or will do anything about it. I´m getting really tired of it and I guess I´m going to have to stay tired of it.
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