There are two glaring examples of the left-wing Pravda-like American media influencing the upcoming election to favor their leftist candidates. Nationally it's their refusal to show any interest in a full-blown scandal regarding the President's response to the Libyan Consulate invasion and murder of the American ambassador with others. Locally it's their constant drumbeat aimed at mischaracterizing statements made by Indiana Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock.
If you are unaware of a scandal surrounding the Benghazi incident, I'll run down a quick synopsis to catch you up. While the terrorist attack was taking place there, the White House had real-time audio and video of what was happening. The former Navy Seals who were eventually murdered in the attack requested backup to help protect the ambassador from the al-Quaeda attackers and were denied. Then they notified their superiors that they were going to go in themselves to attempt a rescue, and were ordered to "stand down". Meantime, two unmanned drones flew over the site and sent video back to Washington as the raid unfolded. Unmanned and unarmed drones, by the way.
The incident unfolded over a period of 9 hours. Troops, planes, missiles, drones, etc. were all staged relatively nearby and stood ready to go take out the terrorists and rescue the cornered ambassador. But they were ordered to stay put.
When it was all over, everyone in the Administration from the President on down were publicly claiming the entire incident was a demonstration that sprang up because of outrage over some YouTube video. That narrative was disproven beyond doubt weeks ago, yet Obama and Hillary Clinton continued to push it, even though it's clear that both knew it was false.
Seen any investigative reports on the subject from ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC? Not likely, since they've all chosen to ignore it completely. Because of Fox News, the networks have abandoned all pretense of honest reporting and now feel justified in airing only stories they can spin for a positive impression of the President. A story that reflects poorly on the President is buried - they think if only Fox News airs it, by ignoring the story they can isolate Fox News and paint them as somehow partisan and dishonest.
Then there's Richard Mourdock. He responded to a "gotcha" question from the liberal debate moderator about whether there should be exceptions to an abortion ban. He began discussing his personal views on abortion in the case of rape. His explanation mirrored the feelings of many committed Christians, that he can't find a justification for taking an innocent life because that life was created as a result of a violent crime. His inelegant comment siezed on out of context by Democrats and their compliant media partners was, "That was something God intended to happen".
The next day he gave a news conference to explain exactly what he meant by that sentence, but of course the media never reported it. Every day I see articles in the newspaper fostering the shrill message that Mourdock thinks God intends rape to happen. Christians understand he didn't mean that, but he meant that God has a way of bringing about good from bad. The good being an innocent human child who has nothing to do with the awful rape that led to his or her existence.
For every person influenced by the misleading reporting on this issue to vote for Joe Donnelly has cast a vote based on false and misleading information purposely imposed by a media complex that does not deserve to be trusted.
A similar but worse example is from Missouri, where Todd Aiken made a comment that seemed to suggest there would be no need to exempt abortions for rape because women who are raped somehow are able to shut down the process through the trauma they experience. He was stupid to say that without being able to point to a specific scientific study that might confirm his statement. I didn't find out until after the Aiken story broke, but it seems that's a popular belief among Evangelicals. He should have made the point that it's not a good choice to kill the innocent child to punish the crime committed by its father, then left it at that.
Without a free and independent press, our republic is lost.
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