MRC??? Why aren’t YOU covering Extrotion 17 along with Benghazi??

Hillary Clinton is managing to do what conservatives cannot: get Benghazi into the news – but only to showcase her heroic efforts to take on those awful Republicans. ABC anchor David Muir on Friday night heralded how she “is ready to fight back on Benghazi,” trumpeting how a selective release from a chapter of her upcoming book shows “she’s taking on her critics.” Reporter Martha Raddatz touted how “she comes out swinging. Her anger aimed at congressional Republicans who she accuses of politicizing the tragedy.” On NBC, anchor Brian Williams announced “a pre-emptive strike tonight from Hillary Clinton,” marveling “it’s a chapter, a whole one, from her new book.” http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/nets-eagerly-promote-hillary-fighting-back-and-taking-critics-over-benghazi

2. NBC and CBS Tout ‘Defiant’ Hillary Clinton ‘On Offense’ Over Benghazi

On Friday, both NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning dutifully promoted quotes from Hillary Clinton’s new memoir leaked to Politico of the former Secretary of State blasting critics of her mishandling of the Benghazi terrorist attack. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “If there was any doubt Hillary Clinton’s clearly ready to go on offense on this.” Political director Chuck Todd agreed: “There’s no doubt at all. In fact, there’s a concerted campaign effort.” On CBS This Morning, correspondent Nancy Cordes declared: “…the former Secretary of State strikes a defiant tone about the attack and all the investigations into it…” http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/nbc-and-cbs-tout-defiant-hillary-clinton-offense-over-benghazi

3. ABC’s Stephanopoulos Ignores Benghazi During Interview with Ambassador Susan Rice

Susan Rice, former U.N. Ambassador and current National Security Advisor for President Obama, sat down with CNN’s Candy Crowley and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday to discuss a variety of foreign policy topics, yet Stephanopoulos refused to ask his guest about the latest surrounding the Benghazi investigation. Rice appeared on both This Week and State of the Union to talk about the decision by the United States to release five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for the Taliban releasing an American soldier held captive. http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/abcs-stephanopoulos-ignores-benghazi-during-interview-ambassador-susan-rice

4. ABC’s Stephanopoulos Spins for Obama After White House Fails to Notify Congress Prior to Releasing Terrorist Prisoners

On Sunday morning, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and CBS’s Charles Osgood provided the first coverage of the potential violation of U.S. law in trading a U.S. soldier for Taliban terrorists by spinning for the Obama administration. Appearing on Good Morning America to preview his This Week program, Stephanopoulos immediately peddled White House talking points: “What the President says, what the President’s advisers say is that this was moving so fast, they couldn’t talk to the Congress. But they also say the President when he signed this law, said he had the constitutional authority not to live by it, that he had the constitutional authority to go around Congress and simply do what he needed to do to get the detainees back to their home countries.” http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/abcs-stephanopoulos-spins-obama-after-white-house-fails-notify-congress-prior-releasing-t

5. Andrea Mitchell: VA Scandal ‘Far More Serious’ Than Obama’s Other ‘So-Called Scandals’

On her Friday 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell joined fellow media liberals Stephen Colbert and Chris Matthews in labeling the VA scandal the first real scandal of the Obama administration: “…this is the biggest political problem that the President has faced. This is far more serious than a lot of so-called scandals that have popped up from time to time in the last couple of months.” USA Today’s Susan Page affirmed: “I totally agree with you, this is much more perilous for the President politically. Benghazi, they can dismiss that as a partisan battle. The Affordable Care Act, they can argue, ‘This is actually going to work pretty well, just give us a little more time.'” http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/andrea-mitchell-va-scandal-far-more-serious-obamas-other-so-called-scandals