Submitted by: Donald Hank
TIME FOR OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO “GROW UP!” THEY ARE TRYING TO PUNISH FOX
The Obama Administration is playing dirty. Trying to put a price tag on access — either a news organization plays ball and accepts what they dish out without challenge, or the news organization is excluded, punished. Check this out:
Fox News has been aggressively reporting on Benghazi because it is newsworthy when 4 Americans are MURDERED and because it was obvious the Obama Administration was telling “silly stories” that didn't make sense and were not supported by the facts. The Administration’s Benghazi story got more curious when the Administration sent out Ambassador Susan Rice to sell the silly stories on 5 news shows. Two months later, the American people still don’t have the straight story. It is our job to get the facts. We are trying. [By 'silly stories' Greta is referring mainly to the false report that the killers in Benghazi were spontaneously organized ordinary citizens who were irate at a Mohammed film that had come out months earlier, somehow without causing a stir at the time. The actual fact is that the killers were terrorists, probably Al Qaeda, and had sophisticated weapons such as grenade and rocket launchers (possibly supplied by the Obama administration during the anti-Ghadaffi uprising, which Obama supported). Irate citizens may come armed with pitch forks, but not that kind of weapons. Don Hank]
The Obama Administration has done everything but give us the straight story and they are fighting us on getting the facts.
And why do I say the Obama Administration should grow up? Because the Obama Administration is trying to punish Fox for trying to get the facts from the Administration (do I need to remind anyone that 4 Americans were murdered?) The Administration in what looks like a coordinated effort is denying Fox access to information that they are handing out to other news organizations. Why exclude Fox? That is simple – to punish — to try to teach us a lesson not to pry, not to look further for facts.
Here is my proof. The Administration is now 3 out of 3:
1/ The State Department called a media conference call the night before its employees testified on Capitol Hill and OMITTED FOX FROM THE CALL; (they claimed it was an accidental oversight);
2/ About 2 weeks after the above State Department conference call to all in the media, the CIA had a media wide briefing and released their timeline. The CIA invited major news organizations to the briefing but THE CIA EXCLUDED FOX FROM THOSE INVITED TO THE BRIEFING
3/ and now the latest…. DNI Director James Clapper told Capitol Hill last week that the DNI did not know who took the term Al Qaeda out of the talking points that was given to Ambassador Susan Rice. It turns out that is not true and the DNI released a memo to the media last night indicating that DNI Director James Clapper was wrong last week when he said that (incidentally two plus months after the murders.) The DNI / Intelligence removed Al Qaeda from the talking points memo given to Ambassador Susan Rice. But that’s not all – it isn’t just the “who is on first” at the DNI, it is also what the DNI did to Fox last night. The DNI LEFT FOX NEWS CHANNEL OFF ITS DISTRIBUTION LIST last night when it released this new memo to the media.
You know why Fox is left out 3 out of 3. We at Fox are not simply accepting what they say, what they dish out. We are looking for facts and corroboration when there are inconsistencies and discrepancies. To the extent we get anything wrong is because the Administration is doing whatever it can to thwart us from getting the facts.
They are trying to punish us into going away — hoping we get their message that we will never have access to them as long as we dare to challenge what they put out. And guess what? What they have put out and what we have challenged shows they are cagey and not giving the straight story.
PS – The above note about the Obama Administration and my admonition that it should “grow up” is what I think. The American people deserve the facts, they deserve the truth. The Administration is acting in a disgraceful manner.
I have no idea what my colleagues think or what Fox Management thinks. I have not spoken to any of them about this. I speak only for myself and not for Fox.
Comment of Donald Hank: Folks, consider this: If Fox News were lying or making things up about our easily offended White House resident, then the best thing they could do in a news conference would be to show the rest of the reporters present just how they are doing this. They could easily call them out for misrepresenting them if the WH spokesperson told Fox one thing and Fox distorted what they said. Inviting Fox News would nip that problem in the bud. But distortion of Obama's statements by Fox is not the problem, is it?
Comment of Donald Hank: Folks, consider this: If Fox News were lying or making things up about our easily offended White House resident, then the best thing they could do in a news conference would be to show the rest of the reporters present just how they are doing this. They could easily call them out for misrepresenting them if the WH spokesperson told Fox one thing and Fox distorted what they said. Inviting Fox News would nip that problem in the bud. But distortion of Obama's statements by Fox is not the problem, is it?
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