{"id":24281,"date":"2014-11-10T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24281"},"modified":"2014-11-10T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T04:00:06","slug":"did-cbs-report-the-news-or-manipulate-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24281","title":{"rendered":"Did CBS Report The News Or Manipulate The News?"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama<\/a> was re-elected in 2012. He won. The Republican Candidate was portrayed as an out-of-touch rich man who caused people to die of cancer. When he warned of the dangers of Russian aggression, Mitt Romney<\/a> was told, “The 80’s called, they want their foreign policy back.” It was a big joke. And when Mitt Romney pointed out that it took President Obama 14 days to admit the Benghazi attack<\/a> was terrorism President Obama balked, saying he did it that day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, CBS News<\/a> edited out part of a ‘60 Minutes<\/a>‘ interview with President Obama on the day after the Benghazi attacks. During the interview, the President stated, “Well, it’s too early to know exactly how this came about, what group was involved. but, obviously, it was an attack on Americans<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday, Breitbart.com posted an article about the incident. The article reports:<\/p>\n

(Investigative Journalist<\/a> Sharyl) 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<\/a>. It would have to me proven Romney’s point against Obama. But that clip was kept secret.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I was covering Benghazi<\/a>, 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.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t know whether airing that exchange would have changed any votes. I don’t know how well-informed the people who voted for President Obama were. I do know, however, that it was unethical to edit that exchange out of the interview. It prevented the American voters from getting a true picture of the events at Benghazi and the President’s reaction to those events.<\/p>\n

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