Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson revealed explosive information on Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz” that CBS worked unethically to help President Obama win reelection.
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Of course, you remember the infamous moment in the second presidential debate when moderator Candy Crowley interjected to wrongly say that Obama had called the Benghazi attack an act of terror on September 12, 2012. It turns out CBS sat on a clip of the president refusing to call the attack terrorism in an interview with Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” from September 12th.
Here is the exchange that CBS hid – even from Attkisson who was heavily involved in reporting the story – until the waning days of the election (emphasis mine):
KROFT: Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word “terrorism” in connection with the Libya attack. Do you believe that this was a terrorist attack?
OBAMA: Well, it’s too early to know exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans. And we are going to be working with the Libyan government to make sure that we bring these folks to justice, one way or the other.
Instead, CBS repeatedly aired a more ambiguous clip from the interview that Attkisson used for an October 23rd segment on “CBS Evening News:”
SHARYL ATTKISSON, CBS INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: Fourteen hours after the attack, President Obama sat down with Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” for a previously scheduled interview and said he did not believe it was simply due to mob violence.
OBAMA: You’re right that this is not a situation that was exactly the same as what happened in Egypt. And my suspicion is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start.
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Attkisson was outraged when she found out that CBS hid the footage from her and the American people at such a relevant time:
Attkisson said, “Let me say that that exchange should have been pulled out immediately after the debate, which would have been very newsy at the time. It was exclusive to CBS. It would have to me proven Romney’s point against Obama. But that clip was kept secret.”
“I was covering Benghazi, nobody told me we had it and directed me from the ‘Evening News’ to a different clip of the same interview to give the impression that the president had done the opposite. And it was only right before the election that somebody kind of leaked out the transcript to others of us as CBS and we were really shocked. We saw that was something very unethical done to have kept that up.”
She added, “The ‘Evening News’ people who had access to that transcript, according to the emails that I saw when it was sent from ’60 Minutes’ to ‘Evening News’ the very day it was taken, they, in my view, skipped over it, passed it up, kept it secret. And I think that was because they were trying to defend the president and they thought that would be harmful to him.”
H/T Breitbart
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Some of these ‘related topics’ are several months old. Not exactly ‘breaking’ news.
it is all inclusive, abc, nbc, cbs…..etc, etc, etc
Nooooo….LOL…just the Liberal paid media
A team! Obama and the Communist Broadcasting Syndicate!
most journalists, and I use the term loosely are scum.
Hopefully Trey Gowdy will get the answers to questions that need answers and just exactly who the guilty parties are. He is knocking on Hillary’s door AND Obama’s door…get ready
Yep, John, I thought the same thing…instead of a half-hearted admission of guilt, they had better start pointing fingers and not the social finger either.
so who are the people who knew through the e-mails? give up their names. maybe it doesn’t mean anything to the general public, but possibly others in the media will shame those unethical pricks. maybe it makes their jobs difficult through lack of interest in communicating/networking with the scum.
I do not believe that CBS can be held liable for what they did not say but viewers can hold them accountable.
I wonder if there is any Civil Liability associated with not presenting the truth, covering up the truth, by CBS. It would be great if we the people could sue CBS for damage done to our country because of CBS’s actions.
Its really is amazing to what length people will go to protect this traitorous FRAUD IMPOSTER PRESIDENT ! HE HAS IGNORED THE CONSTITUTION TIME AND TIME AGAIN there is no way for anyone to act the way this IDIOT HAS A THESE ACTIONS BE LEGAL GOD SAVE AMERICA !
It does not show Obama to be a Muslim, which he very well may be. It does show him to be a liar but we already knew that.
It just goes to show everyone that Obama is a Muslim and he feels these people are okay! It makes no difference that they killed our people to him he is their protector not ours! He is a traitor to America!
Some of these ‘related topics’ are several months old. Not exactly ‘breaking’ news.
Nooooo….LOL…just the Liberal paid media
it is all inclusive, abc, nbc, cbs…..etc, etc, etc
A team! Obama and the Communist Broadcasting Syndicate!
most journalists, and I use the term loosely are scum.
so who are the people who knew through the e-mails? give up their names. maybe it doesn’t mean anything to the general public, but possibly others in the media will shame those unethical pricks. maybe it makes their jobs difficult through lack of interest in communicating/networking with the scum.
Yep, John, I thought the same thing…instead of a half-hearted admission of guilt, they had better start pointing fingers and not the social finger either.
Hopefully Trey Gowdy will get the answers to questions that need answers and just exactly who the guilty parties are. He is knocking on Hillary’s door AND Obama’s door…get ready
Its really is amazing to what length people will go to protect this traitorous FRAUD IMPOSTER PRESIDENT ! HE HAS IGNORED THE CONSTITUTION TIME AND TIME AGAIN there is no way for anyone to act the way this IDIOT HAS A THESE ACTIONS BE LEGAL GOD SAVE AMERICA !
I wonder if there is any Civil Liability associated with not presenting the truth, covering up the truth, by CBS. It would be great if we the people could sue CBS for damage done to our country because of CBS’s actions.
I do not believe that CBS can be held liable for what they did not say but viewers can hold them accountable.
It just goes to show everyone that Obama is a Muslim and he feels these people are okay! It makes no difference that they killed our people to him he is their protector not ours! He is a traitor to America!
It does not show Obama to be a Muslim, which he very well may be. It does show him to be a liar but we already knew that.