Conservatives feel pretty vindicated these days about Benghazi. The emergence of a memo, they insist, cements what they’ve claimed for nearly two years: the White House engaged in some kind of cover-up following the 2012 attack.
But the story still strikes PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill as a bit political. And, she said, there are other stories probably deserving of more attention.
“If this weren’t about politics, we would be talking about the 200-plus missing girls in Nigeria,” Ifill said Sunday on CNN. “We’d be talking about the outbreak of war in South Sudan. There are so many important issues around the world which involves people’s lives, helpless people’s lives, that could use a little attention.”
Emboldened by an email that shows a White House aide explaining how to discuss the attack, House Republicans announced their intention last week to set up a select committee to investigate the attack.
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer gloated that many journalists “are somewhat embarrassed by the fact that unlike Fox they allowed themselves to be stoned and spun and rolled for a year-and-a-half and now the memo appears and it’s obvious they missed the story.”
Right she is. Not to mention that the Bendghazi obsession is a cynical effort to smear Hillary and obscure the fact that the GOP has absolutely nothing going for it. I was wondering if this so called ‘find’ of the memo was an intentional act on the part of the WH to keep the conservative media embroiled in an issue that does not resonate with the American people.
The 53 who died in embassy attacks during Bush’s presidency were barely worth a mention when they happened.
Somehow, I doubt anyone but maybe PBS and NPR would be filling the Benghazi vacuum with stories on war in Sudan.
More likely Cliven Bundy, Hillary’s poll ratings, and missing Malaysia flight updates.
Ifill is absolutely right. Why aren’t we hearing more about the kidnapped girls? That is a big story.
Oh, I know, it takes up time better devoted to a nothing burger Benghazi memo.
To say nothing of the continued freedom of those who let 9/11 happen, lied the country into two wars, and tortured prisoners.
To quote the great Sarah Palin (heh), the correct answer to which stories deserve more attention than Benghazi is “All of them, Katie”.