I am each day disappointed, flummoxed and frustrated by the Obama administration, and the way that most of the national media portrays it is, well, disappointing. So the ongoing nonsense in Washington is of a piece with how and what is being reported. I'd like to think that the nonsense couldn't otherwise exist, absent the compliant media professionals who owe us better.
But maybe I'm biased. I don't pay attention to the mainstream media much anymore, and maybe the content that I do see, read or hear is itself biased.
But the news coverage of the assassinations in Libya, followed by official fudging and - dare I say? - cover-up by government officials has been extraordinary and disheartening to witness, as a journalist and as an American.
Our ambassador to Libya, by all accounts a fine man who worked very hard for the Libyan people, and three of our citizens were killed, in a conscious act of terror.
And why? Could this have been provoked by an Obama foreign policy that acts as if his personal charm, driven by his implacable narcissism, might have failed miserably?
No, the video did it.
I don't know which was worse: the analysis of what happened, which parroted the silly pronouncements by the White House, or the non-reporting that followed. And that I lay at the door of the national media.
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