Good article. It’s obscene the amount of attacks that Romney has endured by the media in the last 24 hours. The saddest part is that most casual observers of politics will view this as “another Romney gaffe” or “Romney politicizing tragedy” because that is how it is being reported almost entirely. For Republicans to really have a decent shot at winning national elections now and in the future, something has to be done about the increasingly shameless and unrelenting propaganda that is put forth by the media.

So, what should we do about it?

heeeellllllloooooooo – Mr Obama, where in the world are youuuuuuu?????? now it’s happening in Yemen – get a clue sir, and act like a President!

The reason O is condemning Romney harder than those who attacked our embassies is that Romney committed the “sin” of acting and looking presidential. While O looks and acts like someone continually running for president.
If Romney looks Presidential to people especially in times of crisis it will be much easier for them to vote him into the office.

Our gov’t is supposed to care when Americans are killed overseas.
They are really supposed to care when American diplomats are killed overseas.
In another time this would be considered an act of war.

Obama’s weak leadership points, ultimately, to his flawed vision and philosophy, leading America in the wrong direction. To borrow a slogan from Jimmy Carter in 1976 (if I remember correctly), we need “leadership, for a change”.
It’s Mitt’s time. It’s America’s time.

The way forward is for the Romney Campaign, the RNC and all Republicans in Congress to pound this exact message out on every possible venue during every interview – that the media decided that the more important story was the timing of Romney’s criticism rather than Obama Administration incompetence (as listed above) says that their priority is to protect the President and his re-election chances than the interests of the American people.

From Reince Preibus on down, this should be the message. The audio recording of Romney’s media correspondents plotting should not be allowed to be memory-holed out of existence. Every media house should have to answer for it.

Exactly.

Beclowned? No. Exposed. Exposed themselves as the lying sacks of waste that they are. I want revenge against them. I want billboards along I 95 with the faces, names and number of lies posted across their chests, like mug shots. I want the woman from ABC News who laughed and joked on a terrible day for America — on September 11, no less — to have her face shown and her family humiliated. She mocks our presidential candidate while hiding behind anonymity and then goes on to try to submarine him, then goes out for a two-martini lunch. No. This is going to change. WE are going to stop this.

Remember how lefties were ridiculously afraid of Bush offending the Muslim world by saying the word “crusade” and other meaningless faux pas? Did they not think that by bringing up dead Osama every five minutes that they would piss off those same Muslims?

Keep in mind that these were the people that Obama used to kill Gadaffi with. They honestly believed that after they won the civil war that they would be allowed to take over Libya and instill strict Sharia Law. Now they have been tossed aside and they are ticked off. It’s called blowback and anyone paying attention should have seen this coming. This “Ambassador” was sent over to parley with these nice kind “rebels” by Hillary. They were not provided adequate security so their blood is on the hands of Hillary and Obama.

“The American people are angry at those who kill our diplomats, attack our embassies, burn our flag, and demand we censor ourselves to avoid offending them.” From Newt Gingrich’s article.

I agree with Newt and Romney – and I am willing to take a chance a majority of Americans do as well. The media and especially the Obama campaign don’t want a discussion about the asshatted policies of appease and apologize that got a U.S. Ambassador killed.

If you believe the chanting crowd in Cairo, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and John Kerry acting like a bunch of schoolyard adolescents playing touch football over the killing of Osama Bin Laden had way more to do with the attacks on the United States than a preacher no one cares about, or a movie no one has seen.

Brian Terry is dead because Barack Obama’s White House ran guns for Mexican Drug Cartels. Chris Stevens is dead because Barack Obama’s administration pursued “appease and apologize” in dealing with radical Islam (and acting like children in the aftermath of the Bin Laden killing). Shakil Afridi is in a Pakistani gulag as a reward for helping the US kill Osama Bin Laden because this administration couldn’t keep their mouth shut. Benjamin Netanyahu fears a nuclear Iran; sees enemies on every border and can’t get a sitdown with the President of the United States. The blunders of this administration are just the butt of jokes for the world – they get Americans and their allies killed and imprisoned, but you know the big story is Mitt Romney should have waited to give a statement that would have been in no way changed and was correct both in tone and message because you know we Americans should be happy that the occupant of the White House is incompetent.

Mods, clean up in aisle 5!

A word to Joint Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey: Shut up and do your job. You have not business asking an American civilian to curtail his free speech. If you and the other clowns in the Obama administration were doing your job, then Libya would not have happened. The blood lies on your hands. Now grow a pair you prima donna.

Partition the nation, really? If you are serious, then you should not be here.

By and large Martin, The SCUM is our enemy too. Anyone who does not at least question their abject fawning and arranged complicity is just not Living In The Real World, currently.
Let’s see 54 days of relentless attacks. Use triple-verified facts and do not stop.
No More Dithering……This IS The Chance that must be taken……..

Whoa whoa… I’m wrong?

The consulate probably wasn’t protected by marines because it isn’t an embassy — the item you link to refers to it as an embassy and a consulate interchangeably. An embassy has extraterritorial status that makes it more permissible to have what would otherwise be foreign soldiers guarding it. A consulate usually does not have this status, although it’s possible that the one in Benghazi might.

In any case, the mission of Marine Security Guards is to protect classified information within the embassy, and given that there is only one battalion of them spread out worldwide, no embassy has nearly enough of them to cover its overall security needs. If there were trouble, maybe the marine on duty could wake up the other marine, and you’d have two marines.
Other reports say that the Libyan security forces made at least four attempts to retake control of the main building that Stevens was in, but they were repelled by small arms fire for several hours. It’s entirely possible, and much more likely, that the main building was being fired upon because it is the main building.

Also, the press release out of the embassy in Cairo was written and put out by the local senior public affairs officer, a man named Larry Schwartz, after he received specific instructions from Washington not to do so.
Mitt Romney is being criticized for attempting to leverage this issue for political gain before he could even have known what was happening. Similar to how Erickson, here, seems to have no idea, and no interest in having any idea, of what he’s talking about.

I see no reason to concede…yet. If we can get the Republicans heads out of their ass and take back our schools we’ve still got a fighting chance.

let’s remember President Bush is one of the most genuine and sincere politicians we’ve ever had. I’m 60 something and of course would put Ronald Reagan at the top of that list but who else other than GW would you put there? I always felt so sad over the attacks he endured while president, yet seemed so at “peace” despite the media’s constant hounding.

Romney led, Obama followed.

gosh, the media *hates* when that happens.

Amen!

6AM Eastern
“The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing
efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of
Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.
Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who
serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy.
Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We
firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of
free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.”

Protestors are not armed, but are rioting and causing destruction.

10PM Eastern
Attack on Libyan US Embassy where individuals are armed with RPGs and other weapons…
10:10PM Eastern
Presidental Administration says the egyptian statement was not cleared by them.
10:24PM Eastern
Romney Criticizes Response from Embassy
“I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and
Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi.
It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not
to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with
those who waged the attacks.”
See… Romney saw the embassy statement, and believed it was somehow related to the Libyan attack.

He moved first… and he didn’t have all the information.
When it was later shown that the Libyans were armed with Assault weapons and RPGs, heavily hinting this was a terrorist attack, it makes him look worse.
Both the Egyption embassy and Yemen’s embassy have protestors, but not armed like what happened in Libya. He jumped the gun, mis-identified sources of information, and basically looked like a fool while the rest of the nation was in shock.
Plain and simple…
He needs to do better, or all these campaign funds are just a waste.

As my grandmother used to say, emptybucket, old lady Noonan made my butt hurt yesterday when I heard her snide condescending criticism of Romney’s response to the O’s bumbling of the Libya/Egypt incidents. She’s another has been who is completely out of touch with reality as far as I am concerned.

You start with a false supposition. That the people doing these things are “extremists”….these are just muslims. Not muslim “extremists”.

It would destroy our reputation to crush a violent nation that has repeatedly committed acts of war against us? So be it. If the rest of the world is so irrational to forget things such as America saving the world in WWII or our response to the Japanese earthquake and the Asian tsunami, so be it. If our reputation is “lost” in such circumstances, then we haven’t lost anything. Frankly, we should’ve burned Yemen to the ground after the attack on the USS Cole. Muslims the world over continue to committ acts of war against the US because we generally do not hold them accountable.

There is no miscalculation by the media. They are following their agenda to clean up after and cover up for Obama. Nothing new here, just more of the same disgusting slobbering over the pretender in the White House.

I doubt you’ve ever met a real Muslim. But out of curiosity, I have to ask… what do you think we should do in the Middle East?

Kill everybody? Forcibly convert everyone to Christianity? You know, War of Civilizations type stuff?

Don’t hide how you really feel.

Krauthammer called what happened both “humiliating and ineffective”. Groveling normally is.

What the MSM has done is to make themselves irrelevant. How many people do you know that still take a newspaper? How many people do you know who watch the news every single day? They are losing billions in ad dollars b/c mainstream America does not trust them. We’ve had too many stories “walked back” too many stories with obvious and open bias. Sorry, I can find more varied and accurate stories online. And some of the most accurate are from foreign and not necessarily conservative outlets that do not shy away from condemning Obama.

No, you just hit a nerve with the Kos kiddies and their ilk. Voting is a sham and the trolls know it because voting does not require a RS log-in. I just logged out and voted ‘up’ both of your comments just to be certain as I was seeing some *really* screwed up voting for RS’ers.

I do agree with the wasted energy and effort on the defense of the past. We have more important things to work on.

BTW the up vote made on the above comment (“Whoa whoa…”) while signed out was negated because I added a down vote after logging back in.