The Media Research Center is taking its transcript trutherism to a new level by falsely declaring President Obama to be a liar for pointing out that he called the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi an “act of terror” in a Rose Garden speech the day of the attack.
An Oct. 18 MRC press release complained that “NBC and ABC continued to run interference for President Obama last night by participating in the cover-up of his lie regarding the terrorist attack in Benghazi,” then quoted Bozell saying that “Jan Crawford and CBS News deserve credit for exposing Obama’s deception and criticizing CNN’s Candy Crowley for her role in validating the President’s lie.”
But at no point does Bozell or the MRC explain what the “lie” is. In fact, Obama referred to “acts of terror” in the Rose Garden speech — which the MRC has decided, by purporting to read Obama’s mind, that Obama didn’t actually mean to link the two. The MRC also is silent about a speech Obama made the next day in which he said that “no act of terror will go unpunished.”
Bozell kept up his lie about the “lie” in his Oct. 19 column, in which he ranted that Obama “lied, claiming he’d labeled the Libya attack as an act of terrorism,” and that moderator Candy Crowley “leapt to Obama’s defense, declared a lie a truth.” Again, Bozell failed to explain exactly what the “lie” is — apparently, he believes that if he shouts “lie” long enough, his own lie will no longer be one.
That’s the situation Bozell and the MRC finds itself in yet again — factually deficient partisan advocacy masquerading as “media research.”