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Will Obama’s Benghazi Cover-Up Succeed?
Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 10/27/2012 5:23:49 PM
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| Barack Obama’s prospects for re-election have been fading for some time now. As Mitt Romney surges, Obama flails, embarrassing himself with silly trivialities that are often summed up as Big Bird, binders and bayonets. That’s what happens when your record is so bad that you can’t talk about it; not truthfully, anyway. So it has been clear for a while that Obama’s re-election hopes can’t absorb another blow. Which the Benghazi story, to the extent the facts get out, surely is. That is why Obama made a decision early on to stop referring to the Benghazi debacle
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ketchuplover, 10/27/2012 5:33:39 PM (No. 8967822)
Maybe someone needs to give the story to the National Enquirer. They and Drudge were the only ones talking about Monica and the blue dress.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Susannah, 10/27/2012 5:34:15 PM (No. 8967823)
John, I assume the question you posed at the end of your article was a rhetorical one. Yes, the press will continue to bury this story.
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preciosodrogas, 10/27/2012 5:43:49 PM (No. 8967838)
I don't think so. I think there is more to come. What he did was evil and he went too far. I think those behind the leaks intend to bring him down in a 'thousand cuts' sort of way. And his rats will turn on him.
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Photoonist, 10/27/2012 5:45:05 PM (No. 8967840)
Benghazi was a successful terrorist attack and so was Ft. Hood. 0bama refuses to have either properly labeled because they show the incompetence of his regime. What do the press whores attempt to talk about instead? A scheme in NYC against a bank by someone the State Dept. brought into the US and which the FBI dreamed up for him. That story seems to have faded away though.
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Kurto, 10/27/2012 5:51:37 PM (No. 8967856)
Benghazi is not going away. We still need one piece of information. Were our people killed with the guns and ammo that 0bama supplied to the 'democracy builders."
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lala, 10/27/2012 6:16:46 PM (No. 8967910)
Well, it's worked so far. Remember, Clinton got away with Monica during a re-election campaign. No, I'm not equating the two, except to say that the media have been whores in both cases.
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kono, 10/27/2012 6:51:27 PM (No. 8967990)
The MSM are still a fairly effective cartel, when they get their mind to it. They succeeded in spiking the IPCC / East Anglia scandal a few years ago. They can pull this off.
Only if one of the major networks or newspapers starts to crack under pressure will the others jump in and report this without the pro-Obama spin. Until then, there's safety in maintaining their innocent-White-House angle on this.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee, 10/27/2012 7:11:56 PM (No. 8968025)
God is still in control in the affairs of men. We should be turning to him. Every believer should be praying for those who are fighting to get to the truth of this matter, for the harm being done against this nation to be thwarted, and for those who are deliberately causing it to be brought to justice.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Hardright, 10/27/2012 8:15:30 PM (No. 8968139)
He knows he'll get away with it. The msm has his back.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bpl40, 10/27/2012 8:28:51 PM (No. 8968165)
A seven point drop in approval rating within 72 hours suggests no. But, we shall see!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 10/27/2012 8:39:38 PM (No. 8968194)
I think Øbama's attempt to cover up his sickening actions before, during and after the attack in Benghazi has done as much as anything to fire up the Conservative base in this country to vote the creep out once and for all. You can't think about this incident without getting extremely angry at the pack of lies this pResident has tried to shove down our throats along with his corrupt Mainstrem Media Shills.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Grambo, 10/27/2012 9:03:11 PM (No. 8968247)
No, the tide has turned, and the rot at the center of the Democrat party and the mainstream media has been exposed. This sort of betrayal of Americans in harm's way will not be tolerated by descent citizens of any political stripe.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Peach1, 10/27/2012 9:30:19 PM (No. 8968300)
The families of those heroes should sue this administration.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
dlta1, 10/27/2012 9:54:44 PM (No. 8968344)
This coverup will succeed in spades. The MSM learned well during the multiple Clinton scandals. Even if Romney wins, he will shut down any meaningful investigation and any findings will direct policy but will not result in any criminal action.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
KTWO, 10/27/2012 11:01:51 PM (No. 8968457)
Yes and maybe.
If success means the LSM downplays Libya and sticks with Obama then success is certain. If success means Obama is reelected that is uncertain
These themes will dominate LSM: 1) Ooh, isn't that a big hurricane! 2) Illegal immigration? Never heard of it. 3) Libya? Can't we just move on? 4) Ooh, isn't that a big hurricane? 5) Unemployment, falling incomes, and inflation are nasty, false, rumors. 6) Obama actually cut the deficits. If you disagree you don't understand economics. 7) Whites are racist if they don't vote for Obama. They may not know they are racists, we have figured it out for them. 8) Ooh, didn't Obama and FEMA handle the hurricane emergency well? Better than Bush. 9) Michelle dresses better than Ann and keeping up America's image overseas is so important.
Several ads will feature children telling us Romney and Ryan made all the ice melt and the polar bears sad. In other ads the polar bears will speak for themselves.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
pgvoisin, 10/27/2012 11:04:30 PM (No. 8968462)
Yes!
The "cover-up" WILL cost Obama the election so it WILL succeed!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
pursuitoftruth, 10/28/2012 12:43:09 AM (No. 8968582)
Many of you may not frequent FB or Twitter, but FB is putting up dozens of stories and pictures. I have 2,000 friends, and they have hundreds or thousands of friends, and they have hundreds or thousands of friends. Stories are posted and reposted. I often post what I find here. It is called going viral...and it has. And my hope is Drudge is planning an attack. He did when the MSM refused to report on Monica. His post today is "Calm Before the Storm". It wouldn't surprise me if he doesn't cook up a storm next week.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 10/28/2012 10:51:14 AM (No. 8969259)
With the MSM carrying all his water, I still doubt it.
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Evil Mitt Romney paid an effective tax rate of 13% when his returns were released during the 2012 campaign. Now, Barack Obama’s returns were released yesterday, and he paid an effective tax rate of 18%. So, how is it that Barack Obama is more fair, more mainstream, and more American – in the eyes of his liberal base – because he pays 5% more in taxes? Paying 18% is less than the effective tax rate of39% he wants for the job creating and investing class in this country, and 12 % shy
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Washington Post, by Erik Wemple
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/13/2013 9:51:15 AM
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/11/2013 10:39:27 PM
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/11/2013 10:29:32 PM
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Progress Kentucky activists behind McConnell tape, Democrat alleges
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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/11/2013 10:27:52 PM
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Jonathan Winters, groundbreaking comic who influenced generations, dead at 87
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/12/2013 1:16:37 PM
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I’ve been writing about media coverage of abortion for many years. And so have many others. If you haven’t read David Shaw’s “Abortion Bias Seeps Into The News,” published in the Los Angeles Times back in 1990, you should. That report also explains why we cover the topic here at GetReligion.But the thing is that I’m getting kind of sick of pointing out egregious bias only to see things not just remain bad but get worse. Just think, in the last year, we saw the media drop any pretense of objectivity and bully the Susan G. Komen Foundation
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Republicans Fear Clinton in 2016
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Time Magazine, by Zeke J Miller
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/12/2013 9:57:16 AM
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HOLLYWOOD — Republican leaders plotted their party’s political comeback on Thursday with plans to court minority voters and modernize their political operations. But some wondered if one person could make it all for naught: Hillary Clinton. As attendees of the Republican National Committee’s spring meeting debated party rules and a refurbished GOP brand capable of winning back the White House, more than two dozen operatives and officials expressed worry that none of their party’s potential 2016 candidates can take her down. One early-state RNC member put it simply
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Windows 8 blamed for biggest PC shipment plunge ever
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Fox News, by Lisa Eadicicco
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/11/2013 1:17:23 PM
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Global PC shipments fell by 13.9 percent in the first quarter of 2013, and according to analyst firm IDC , Windows 8 could very well be the reason. On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that 76.3 million PC units shipped during the most recent financial period, marking the biggest decline since the IDC began publishing quarterly numbers 19 years ago. “The reaction to Windows 8 is real,” Jay Chou, an IDC analyst, said to The Wall Street Journal. Increased demand for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have also played a role in this decline,
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Newtown victim´s mom to give Obama weekly address
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/12/2013 3:53:50 PM
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WASHINGTON — The White House says the mother of a Newtown shooting victim will deliver the weekly presidential radio and Internet address. President Barack Obama typically gives the talk, focusing on a topic that´s in the news or a policy the White House is pushing. This week, Obama has asked Francine Wheeler to deliver the address instead. Wheeler and her husband, David, lost their 6-year-old son Ben in the December schoolhouse shooting in Newtown, Conn. White House spokesman Jay Carney says Obama believes the voices of Newtown families have been critical to progress on gun control.
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