ALEXANDRIA, VA – For the
sixth night in a row, ABC World News,
CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News refused to give one
single second of coverage to a Fox News report that the Obama Administration denied
help to those attacked and killed by terrorists at the US consulate in Benghazi
on September 11. According to a Media Research Center analysis, ABC, CBS, and
NBC have failed to cover this devastating story - not to confirm it, not to
knock it down, and never mind do their own investigation. The story broke last
Friday, long before Hurricane Sandy swamped the news cycle.
Further, neither The Washington Post nor The New York Times has committed a
single inch of their newspapers to a news story about this report.
According to Fox News, “sources
claim officers at the nearby CIA annex in Benghazi were twice told to stand
down when they requested to help those at the consulate. They later ignored
those orders. Fox News was also told that a subsequent request for back-up when
the annex came under attack was denied as well.”
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell
reacts:
“The liberal ‘news’ media’s refusal to cover
this story exposes how corrupt they have become. Four Americans died in Libya
in a coordinated terrorist attack on the anniversary of 9/11. The Obama
Administration has been caught in a maze of falsehoods. This reeks of a
cover-up. This scandal could and would derail the Obama re-election efforts. ABC,
CBS, NBC, The Washington Post, and the New
York Times are so vested in the re-election of Barack Obama that they are
deliberately spiking this huge story. It’s sickening.
How big is this story? Bigger than Watergate.
No one was killed in that burglary, and no one covered up the truth about the
deaths of four brave Americans.
“Now there are rumblings that one or more of
these so-called news networks have emails from the National Security Advisor’s
office telling a counter-terrorism unit to stand down. If that’s true, they
must tell the American people what they know, and how long they’ve known it. And
if it isn’t true, then the networks need to say so. Their silence is deafening.
“The Obama administration’s
cover-up of their deceitful response to the Benghazi terrorist attack is
without a doubt the biggest political news story of 2012. The American people
have a right to know what really happened before they cast their ballots on
Election Day.
“If ABC, CBS, NBC, The Washington
Post, and the New York Times refuse
to ask the tough questions, then they no longer serve any purpose. And if
they’re sitting on evidence to help Obama win re-election, they’re as guilty in
this cover-up as is the administration.”
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