MRC ALERTS: CNN’s Blitzer Refuses to Ask Susan Rice About Benghazi on Anniversary of Attack

CNN’s Blitzer Refuses to Ask Susan Rice About Benghazi on Anniversary of Attack

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed President Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice during Thursday’s edition of The Situation Room and neglected to bring up the second anniversary of the tragic attack in Benghazi, Libya that left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith and CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doherty dead. Instead, the nearly eight-and-a-half-minute interview discussed President Obama’s speech to the nation from Wednesday night on ISIS and reaction to Diane Foley speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about how she believed that the United States did not do enough to save her son Jim before he was brutally murdered by ISIS. http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cnns-blitzer-refuses-ask-susan-rice-about-benghazi-anniversary-attack

CNN Lobbies McCain to ‘Help the Administration Succeed’ with ISIS Strategy

On Thursday’s New Day, CNN’s Kate Bolduan hounded Senator John McCain to back President Obama’s new strategy to combat the Islamist terrorist group ISIS and help him gain congressional support: “We talk about how you are a critic of the administration. But now that there is a strategy, Senator – now that there is going to be action…how are you going to help the administration succeed now in implementing this?” http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cnn-lobbies-mccain-help-administration-succeed-isis-strategy

Networks Push Obama’s ‘Broad Coalition’ as Britain, Germany Drop Out

All three network morning shows on Thursday highlighted Barack Obama’s primetime speech from the night before, promoting his talk of a “broad coalition.” Yet, Germany and Britain have announced that they won’t take part in the President’s planned air strikes. In 2003, ABC, NBC and CBS hit George W. Bush for “going it alone” with a coalition of 18 countries. http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/networks-push-obamas-broad-coalition-britain-germany-drop-out

Schieffer Undermines Obama Campaign’s Anti-al-Qaeda Talking Point He Advanced

CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Thursday night used the 9/11 anniversary as a chance to chastise Presidents Bush and Obama for making declarations that the war on terrorism had been won, but two and a half years ago Schieffer himself championed the Obama administration’s campaign boast. “The Obama administration declared Osama bin Laden dead and GM alive, as if the war on terror had been all but won, but, of course, it hasn’t.” During the 2012 campaign, however, Schieffer forwarded that very same talking point. http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/schieffer-undermines-obama-campaigns-anti-al-qaeda-talking-point-he-advanced