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Lapdog Media Protects Obama After Attacks in Libya and Egypt, Slams Palin and Romney Instead
Posted on September 13 2012 - 11:09 AM - Posted by: Stacy Drake | Follow Stacy on Twitter!
Following the news of the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Egypt and the U.S. Consulate building in Libya, Governor Palin released a statement that sent some in the media into a tizzy. Most notably the seething Tommy Christopher over at Mediaite, who posted a piece titled (warning: he’s unhinged) “Lying Sarah Palin Somehow Finds The Dick Humor In Libya Tragedy,” wrote:
As Republicans like Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich rush to politicize the violence in Egypt and Libya that has claimed five American lives so far, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has added an extra layer of awful human being by taking to her Facebook and Twitter accounts to crack wise about the violence, and to spread the same lies that Romney and Gingrich have.
First of all, what? Is that the kind of garbage Mediaite pays him to produce, or did Governor Palin hit a nerve in him so hard that he couldn’t possibly recover in time to form a coherent paragraph? Secondly, what lies is he talking about? He goes into that next, stating:
As we pointed out earlier, the statement by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was not a “response” to the violence that had already claimed one American life when Palin released her statement, it was made before any of the protests began.
He only points to one example, and considering the word “lies” is plural, Tommy lied. Beyond that, however, he isn’t even being forthright with the one instance he did note. At the time that Governor Palin posted her statement, the apology posted from the embassy in Cairo was the only “response” released to the public about the situation itself, not the violence that took the life of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Libya. But what does it matter when the State Department doubled-down on the apology the next day? As Joel B. Pollak noted over at Breitbart:
Clinton’s statements on the day’s events, released through the State Department’s website and Twitter feed, condemn “in the strongest possible terms” an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya in Benghazi that left one American dead, but offer no condemnation of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Cairo.Instead, Clinton reiterates an apology issued earlier today by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo–now deleted–which said: “We condemn the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.”
So, how does Tommy Christopher justify calling it a lie when it was the official position of the Obama administration, before it wasn’t? He continues (emphasis):
But aside from being a liar, Palin proves herself to be a callous ghoul, leaping to stuff every unrelated political issue she can think of into her exploitation of tragic American death, and glibly cracking wise even as more Americans were yet to be killed in the unfolding situation, even throwing in a dick joke at the end, for good measure.
