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Dana Milbank "Grossly Misrepresents" Heritage Briefing on Benghazi to Make It Sound Like a Hate Crime in ProgressI'm having a hard time seeing how this can be characterized as anything other than a deliberate smear and deliberate lie -- with a dollop of of risible ignorance thrown in to boot. Before the quote, let me note that Milbank is an "opinion" writer and this was published in the Post's "Opinions" section. But that does not avail Milbank, because here is acting as a first-hand reporter of facts, not an after-the-fact commentator opining on facts reported by someone else. Milbank's position as an "Opinion" writer does not give him license to misrepresent and, frankly, lie about actual facts he's reporting. Heritage’s ugly Benghazi panel Milbank is snarkily proud that he has no interest in the Benghazi matter -- that he is in fact fashionably ignorant about it. We'll get to that later. But this one took an unexpected turn. Then the video of the event was released -- by Media Matters, hoping to advance Milbank's smear. Trouble is, the video shows nothing like what Milbank claims happened. Even reliably-liberal-partisan Dylan Byers commented on the video thus:
He went on to write a column stating that Milbank had "grossly misrepresented" the exchange. Among several other points, Byers notes: Starting from the top: And so on (read the whole thing). Milbank's original deception is reporting this woman's charge -- a vague claim that the panel was Muslim-bashing -- without first stating if the charge was accurate or not. He reports her charge as if the charge is, itself, a fair one. But is it? He doesn't say. He implies it is, without saying so. Note, however, what this panel was about. It was not about terrorism. It was not about Islam. It was about the American government's response to Benghazi, including lying to the public and retaliating against internal whistelblowers. How would Islam have even have come up, except as a brief tangent? It seems unlikely that it did -- and I imagine when the full video gets released, it will demonstrate, as one panelist told this woman, that this questioner was the only person talking about Islam, while all the panelists were focused on the Obama administration. That is, she hijacked the panel to make her own point and toss out a vague charge of Serious You Guys Racism while doing so. Mollie Hemingway has a great rebuttal to Milbank's smear as well. This part of Milbank's original column shows him as biased and giddily ignorant. He's actually proud to know nothing at all about the subject he's allegedly covering. Watch and learn: Plante had kicked off the forum by lamenting a “news media that is spectacularly uncurious when it comes to even the basic bare-bones facts of what happened in Benghazi that night.” But the hour that followed showed exactly why Americans (or at least the non-Fox-News-viewing subset of Americans) are rightly skeptical: The accusers’ allegations grow wilder by the day. Milbank reports that as a "wild claim" made by crazy Benghazi conspiracists. He assumes that the panelists are lying, just making stuff up because they're Crazy People who Only Tell Lies. That shows his blatant partisanship and stupid prejudice -- yes, Dana Milbank thinks anyone who isn't a card carrying leftist is cognitively incapable of telling lie from truth. But it also demonstrates his willful ignorance, and how the average member of the media has so studiously avoided coming into contact with any contamination of facts about Benghazi. They've cocooned themselves so thoroughly that no discomfiting information can penetrate them. If Milbank's going to write about Benghazi -- offer "opinions" on it -- he at least should have a basic level of information about it. And before claiming that someone's statement about terrorists having frappes with journalists is some kind of wild-eyed lie, he might want to google it. Because this wild-eyed conspiracy theory was reported by the New York Times about a month after the Benghazi attack: Suspect in Libya Attack, in Plain Sight, Scoffs at U.S. By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK That's the first f***ing paragraph, for crying out loud. But Dana Milbank is defiantly ignorant. As they say: He doesn't know what he doesn't know. That's real ignorance. Not knowing something is no sin. But being so actively ignorant to assume you know things (that this frappe business must be a Crazy Lie because Crazy Liars Tell Crazy Lies) to not even bother to check with a five second google search...? And yet he offers his "opinions" on shit. For all that they may be worth. Googling "frappe" and "Benghazi" would have -- yesterday or before -- brought the New York Times article up near the top of the list. Not today, though. Today, this is the top hit disclosed by "frappe" and "Benghazi:" Strawberry-Frappe-Sipping Benghazi Suspect Captured in Secret Raid That's from the notorious rightwing conspiracy-sheet New York Magazine. A one-second google search. He couldn't be bothered. Not only was this information -- known by anyone with even a passing familiarity with the Benghazi attack -- not part of his active knowledge base, but he refused to take even the most trivial steps to make it part of his potential knowledge base. | Recent Comments
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