Lamestream media discover Obama lied about Libya attack

In "It's not 'the film', stupid! It's just anti-Americanism, is all", Walt explained, for the benefit of those who have trouble understanding Middle Eastern politics, that last month's near-riots in the streets of cities throughout the Muslim world were not against "Innocence of the Muslims" so much as against America itself.

The Muslims hate America, I said. That has been the case for decades, I said, long before American soldiers burnt copies of the Qu'ran, long before they pissed on dead Afghan prisoners and long before this stupid little film appeared on YouTube. "Innocence of Muslims", I said, was just a catalyst for a deep and longlasting hatred of America's culture, America's religion and America's version of democracy.

But that wasn't the Democratic Party line. Oh no! Rex Murphy, writes in today's National Post of the spin put on the story by the Obama administration. Here's an excerpt:

More telling than their zeal in denouncing "Innocence of Muslims" was their suggestion that it was this video, and the “spontaneous” protest the video generated — not anti-Americanism, nor some other hatred — that was the precipitating agent. They hung a huge tragic event on a slender thread.

But a month later, very few are talking about the video anymore. A series of revelations about such matters as inadequate security at the compound, denied requests for greater security and a much more detailed account of actual events that night, raise serious questions that the Obama administration has yet fully to acknowledge, let alone answered.

But why? Rex hears us ask, and obligingly provides the answer.

An administration bragging that bin Laden is dead, and that his surviving al-Qaeda lieutenants are quivering in fear, doesn’t want a successful attack on one of its diplomatic compounds to be attributed to the very terrorist group it claims to have tamed — not two months before an election, certainly.

The furious spin of the first few days, and in particular the absolutely empty claims put forward so vigorously, and without qualification, by Ambassador Rice, might constitute more than an error. They may prove to be deliberate efforts to smother what really happened in a cloud of misinformation. There is an air of subterfuge on this story. And as is well known since the days of Richard Nixon: It’s not the crime — it’s the cover-up.

The most valued personal quality in a presidential candidate is the ability to inspire and hold trust on matters large and small. As the administration’s Benghazi storyline unravels, as parts of it prove to be demonstrably false, the Obama campaign may be set for a larger panic than that stirred by the President’s curiously apathetic performance in last week’s debate against Mitt Romney.

To give Rex credit, it only took him three weeks or so to figure this out. Obviously he hasn't been reading WWW! Sadly, many political pundits have not yet caught up with Rex, let alone Walt. Will American voters be fooled? We'll know in just over three weeks.