Are They Kidding?

The main stream media wasted little time in jumping on the resignation of David Petreus as a means to help defend president Obama from the inadequate response to the Benghazi terror attack. Here is the actual headline from an AP article that I just saw:

Officials will want to know if there was any link between David Petraeus’s extramarital activities and what has been increasingly criticized as the CIA’s weak performance during the Benghazi attack.

Are they kidding? The media wants to change the issue from why the requests for increased security in the weeks prior to the attack which went to the State Department and the White House were ignored. The media wants to change the issue from why the requests for help from the embassy which began within minutes of the attack occuring were ignored. Indeed, president Obama claims that he directed that American forces were to do what they could to assist those in the embassy, but somehow nothing was done -- even though the means for such defense was just a few hours away. Any defense would have prevented the deaths of two men who were not killed until 8 hours later. The media wants to change the issue from why the Obama administration spent two weeks telling America that there was no evidence of any sort that this was a terrorist attack even though we now know that it clearly was a terror attack and even though Obama knew that fact within hours of the attack beginning. None of these issues have anything to do with the performance of the CIA director. None of them have any conceivable relationship to an affair that Petreus had.

My initial reaction to the resignation was that the Obama team was getting revenge on Petreus for not following the party line with regard to Benghazi; Petreus actually told the truth about what he knew. Today's reaction in the press tells me that my initial reaction was correct. Even reporters for the AP are not moronic enough to just make up the story line that they used. Someone in power told them that the affair was going to be investigated in connection with the Benghazi mess. It is a continuing effort to discredit a brave man who has devoted his life to serving his country, something that he has done with great skill and courage.

If the media is looking for a good story, maybe they can write about senator Menendez of New Jersey. The recent story is that he frequents prostitutes but refuses to pay full price for their services. Maybe that had something to do with the slow response by the utilities in New Jersey to hurricane Sandy.