Hurricane Sandy is helping drown media coverage of several White House scandals in the crucial run-up to Election Day.
The storm has also dampened coverage of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s progress in critical Midwest swing states.
On Monday, the networks’ cameras were pointed at Obama as he stood at
a White House podium to sketch out his administration’s response to the
oncoming hurricane.
“I’m extraordinarily grateful for the cooperation of our state and
local officials. … At this point, there are no unmet needs,” he said,
speaking as the president, instead of a candidate.
The cameras weren’t pointed, however, at the Obama administration’s
proliferating scandals, including the Justice Department’s “Fast and
Furious” gun-smuggling project, the Treasury Department’s decision to
strip Delphi Automotive workers of their pensions and the
administration’s intelligence leaks.
The cameras also weren’t pointed at the top GOP officials who
recently began demanding the White House provide support for Obama’s
claims that he directed his deputies to immediately secure U.S.
diplomatic sites after jihadis assaulted the Benghazi consulate on Sept.
11.
However, there’s no evidence that nearby U.S. forces — such
fast-moving jets, helicopter-borne rescue forces or missile-armed drones
— were rushed to help either the besieged officials in the diplomatic
compound or the CIA officials in the nearby CIA annex.
Instead, Fox News has cited unnamed U.S. sources in Libya who said rescue attempts were countermanded three times.
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