Having retired gracefully to the south of France (actually that would be Algeria, should say south in France), ABC News rushed Ms. Compton back to Washington on Friday to confront Josh Earnest personally in his west wing office. Why, you ask, did these key guardians of media integrity and intellectual honesty fly Compton back and reinstate her to the White House beat? Simple answer - they decided that a rare opportunity to expose the pompous and self important CBS 60 minutes program as being a fraud in the tank for Obama/Hillary had just presented itself.
Last week, Steve Kroft asked the president a number of questions about the use of a private e-mail server by former Secretary of State Clinton. Mr. Obama in answering these soft ball questions dismissed the entire matter as nothing more than mundane political fodder for the republicans in the run up to the 2016 election. The most outrageous claim so casually offered by the president was his assertion that nothing transpired by Ms. Clinton's exclusive use of an easily hackable, bathroom stored server that could have compromised national security. Giving up the identity of a CIA spy in Libya as just one example that Kroft might have followed up with to factually challenge that absurd assertion that this Secretary of State, through her entire four year tenure, never once communicated anything relevant to our nation's national security. But of course, he didn't.
Indeed, in the face of this blatant attempt by the nation's Chief Law Enforcement official to compromise, and shut down even, an ongoing FBI criminal investigation, Mr. Kroft said absolutely nothing. CBS gave the president a national platform and audience to send an unequivocal message to Attorney General Lynch: "nothing to see here, these are not the drones you are looking for, move on".
Thus, armed with the full transcript of the president's August 18, 2014 Presser, Ann Compton demanded Josh Earnest reconcile Mr. Obama's 60 Minute performance with his categorical statement in answer to her press conference question of that date regarding the July local police shooting of an unarmed young, black man in Ferguson, Missouri:
"I have to be very careful about prejuding these events before investigations are completed because, although these are issues of local jurisdiction, the DOJ works for me and when they're conducting an investigation I've got to make sure that I don't look like I am putting my thumb on the scales of justice one way or the other. So, it is hard for me to address a specific case beyond making sure ... people can trust the process, that as a consequence you end up with a fair and just outcome."
(President Barrack Obama, 8/18/14; speaking at the White House Press Room to Ms. Compton)
When Ann Compton read that same quote verbatim to Mr. Earnest, he replied: "At this point what difference does it make, whether they were a group of Libyians out for a stroll or a group of demonstrators who decided just to kill four Americans, what difference does it make?" At which point, CBS Senior White House Reporter, Bill Plante, leaped up from his seat just as his head exploded.
To my knowledge, no News Outlet, reporter or talking head in the entire country has asked the White House to explain Mr. Obama's egregious violation of his own articulated standard for not tampering with ongoing FBI criminal investigations. Accordingly, I imagine this Blog Post is either satire or fantasy journalism ethics.
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