Obama's Katrina?

America's Northeast Suffers As President Puts Re-Election Ahead Of Relief.

Not that you will see anyone in the legacy media making the comparison.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal Not Only Endorses Romney . . .

It Excoriates Obama as "Unworthy" while slamming him on everything from foreign policy and Benghazi to the economy and energy.

Read the whole thing.  And hat tip to Instapundit.

Plus: Survey USA Nevada Poll - Freakout time for Dems.

It Just Keeps Getting Worse And Worse

More and more information continues to trickle out about the attack on our Benghazi Consulate and CIA annex: Via Hotair:

• Troubling Surveillance Observed Outside Consulate Before Attack
• Today, the White House press secretary let it slip during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One that President Obama’s inaction on the Benghazi situation now extends to inaction on the supposed investigation taking place. The administration has still not made clear what exactly is being investigated, or the extent of the investigation. And President Obama doesn’t much care.
• Senior Department of Defense official:  “There was no request from the Department of State to intervene militarily on the night of the attack.”The president, however, would have the final say as to whether or not to send in the military.

Plus - Via Ace:

[D]uring the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG)

"The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon." ...

Counterterrorism sources and internal emails reviewed by CBS News express frustration that key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help in the attack...

Absent coordination from Counterterrorism Security Group, a senior US counterterrorism official says the response to the crisis became more confused. The official says the FBI received a call during the attack representing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and requesting agents be deployed....

Another senior counter terrorism official says a hostage rescue team was alternately asked to get ready and then stand down throughout the night, as officials seemed unable to make up their minds.

 Sadly, the most shocking thing about this last story may be that it was actually reported on by the legacy media over at CBS News.  It would also seem to confirm the rumors Newt Gingrich referenced Tuesday night.

Former National Security Adviser Bud McFarlane: For Obama to Do Nothing During Benghazi Attack is “Dereliction of Duty”

On today's Fox News Special Investigation.

But if you don't watch Fox:  Media Blackout: Aside from FOX, Sunday News Hosts Fail to Raise Benghazi

Fox News Special Report Investigates - Benghazi

I was watching tv earlier today and stumbled upon a Fox News Special Report on Benghazi.  It's an hour long special that investigates what happened before, during, and after the attack.  I only caught the tail end of the special, but it looks like they are reairing it at 10:00 p.m. 

 

Meanwhile, other networks seem to have taken a different approach to the story:

Hat tip to Instapundit on the cartoon.

UPDATED: All Four Major Iowa Papers Endorse Romney

The left leaning paper is the largest in Iowa and had not previously endorsed a Republican presidential candidate in 40 years.

The New York Times streak, by contrast, is at 50 years and still going strong.

Update:  All four major Iowa papers have now endorsed Mitt Romney.

Another Endorsement In Another Swing State

The Detroit News Endorses Romney.

Related:  Latest Michigan poll shows a dead heat (Disclaimer:  Poll based on absurdly low response rate)

You Don't Need A Weatherman . . .

The Orlando Sentinel, which endorsed Obama in 2004, has endorsed Mitt Romney.

As has the Tennessean, the liberal paper that previously endorsed Gore (also a former employee, Kerry, and Obama.

The New York Observer.

And even the Chicago Jewish Star, which observes:  "It is not only that Mr. Obama thus deserves to be a one-term proposition; it is that Mr. Romney is simply the better bet for our country.”

Imagine That

Breitbart.com:  On CNN's "State of the Union" on September 30, Candy Crowley asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) why he thought it took the administration 17 days after the Benghazi attacks to give a "sort of definitive statement" that terrorists orchestrated the attacks.

Plus:  Crowley Let Obama Have Last Word 8 out of 11 times.

And:  Crowley Interrupts Romney 28 Times, Obama Just 9.

A Post-Racial America? Hardly

Elizabeth Price Foley:

Ah yes, remember those heady days back in 2008, when Americans of all races voted for a young Senator named Barack Hussein Obama in the sincere hope that he would heal this country’s racial divisions, ushering in a new, post-racial era? Fuggedaboutit. It was merely a carefully crafted illusion, intentionally designed to tug on the heart strings of well-meaning, ordinary folks hoping for a color blind society

But Obama showed his real face–the Billy Joel “Stranger”-type freaky face (“Well we all have a face that we hide away forever. And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.”)– in this Daily Caller video, in a 2008 speech to an audience of black ministers. Copping an insincere, absurd, stereotypical black “accent,” then-candidate Obama repeatedly suggests that the federal government behaves in a purposefully racist manner.

She goes on to add:  "Hopefully, now that we’ve seen The Stranger, we can all vote with our eyes wide open."

Sadly, a quick scan of the major media websites confirms they are doing their best to make sure most Americans never see "The Stranger" (just as they did in 2007).  Comparing the coverage between this video and Romney's "47%" video would be stunning if it weren't all too predictable. The fix is in.  We can only hope that most American's see it.

Obama's Other Race Speech

Daily Caller has the exclusive release of a newly surfaced Obama video from 2007 and offers this summary:

For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America.

Click the link for more, including the full video.

Better Late Than Never?

CNN hits hard on Libya: The only conclusion is that the White House tried to cover something up.

Doing What the Legacy Media Won't

Preview of Univision’s “bombshell” report on Fast & Furious.

Legacy Media Downplay (Or Downright Ignore) Obama's September of Incompetence

Via GayPatriot:  "In the month of September, the conservative (and Spanish-language) media (and from a few rogue reporters at ABCNews) reported a number of stories about President Barack Obama all showing his disinterest in or ambivalence toward governing. And yet, outside those pockets at ABC and occasionally on CNN), our legacy media all but ignored (or otherwise downplayed) these stories which called Obama’s competence into question."

But The Media's Objective Is To Protect Obama, Not Americans

Democrat Kirsten Powers: More Americans will be put in danger if the media doesn’t start challenging the White House on Libya

Why You Shouldn't Buy Into The Negative Polls

It is just another example of the media driving the narrative.

Media Bias? What Media Bias?

Professor Jacobson offers these "Tales of the Tapes."

It's helpful to lay these things out from to time.

Eighty-Five Percent Sure The Legacy Media Wouldn't Actually React This Way

The Onion:  Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide

Five percent chance they would try to pin it on Romney's days at Bain.

Flashback: Presidential Candidate Uses War Deaths To Score Political Points

Via Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

Remember that time when a major-party presidential nominee went on television immediately after the deaths of several Americans abroad to attack the policies of the current administration and his opponent? Remember how the media repeatedly demanded to know whether he regretted the timing of that criticism, and whether he was ashamed at not providing a united political front in the face of tragedy?

Yeah, neither do I … and neither does Andrew Kaczynski at BuzzFeed. This CNN interview took place in July 2008, immediately after the deaths of nine US troops in Afghanistan.

Mitt Romney Hates Naked People!

Michael Ramirez