One thing politicians can generally count on is that the American public often has the attention span of a gnat and Hillary Clinton is counting on that. Two grieving parents who lost sons while serving their country pleaded their case before millions of viewers over the past few weeks.
Pat Smith told the story of her son at the Republican National Convention but, par for course, most media outlets paid little attention as commentators at CNN and MSNBC accused the RNC of taking advantage of a mother’s grief.
However, after Khizr Kahn and his wife appeared at the Democratic National Convention to express their sorrow for their son’s loss and heap blame on Donald Trump those same networks couldn’t wait to rehash the story again and again.
Since his now-famous rebuke of GOP nominee Donald Trump Khizr Kahn and wife have appeared for interviews at least twice on MSNBC, CNN, on NBC’s “Today” and “Meet the Press,” and on ABC’s “This Week.”
Contrast that with the media’s attention to Patricia Smith, the mother of Foreign Service officer Sean Smith. Since she spoke at the RNC she has been interviewed on exactly one national TV program, Fox News’ “Hannity”.
The dispute between Trump and Khizr Khan has gotten the headlines, with CNN having devoted at least three hours in one day solely to that story. Some are rightfully asking why equal time is not being given to a mother who claims that then-Secretary of State Clinton outright lied to her face about the terrorist assault on Benghazi.
Pat Smith made an impassioned speech at the Republican National Convention when she mournfully remembered her dead son and put the blame for his murder squarely at Clinton’s feet. She told the story of how Hillary Clinton blamed an anti-Muslim video for the attack when she was more than aware that such was not the case.
“Since then, I have repeatedly asked Hillary Clinton to explain to me the real reason why my son is dead,” Smith said during her RNC speech. “I’m still waiting.”
Charles Woods, the father of former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, has been outspoken as well in confirming Smith’s assertion that Clinton lied to him and Smith about the reason for the Benghazi attack.
While other survivors are divided on how Clinton handled them, one thing is irrefutable, Hillary Clinton emailed her daughter, Chelsea, that same day to say a video had nothing to do with the attack. We can thank Julian Assange for that revelation.
As early as 2013, Smith told the House Government Affairs Committee that every administration official blamed the attack on a video. “Obama and Hillary and Panetta and Biden and Susan all came up to me at the casket ceremony,” she said.
“Every one of them came up to me, gave me a big hug and I asked them what happened, please tell me. And every one of them said, it was the video. And we all know that it wasn’t the video, even at that time they knew it wasn’t the video. So they all lied to me.”
Woods goes one step further in blaming Clinton in that he has his own hand written notes to prove it. After the parents’ meeting with Clinton he wrote in his pocket calendar: “I gave Hillary a hug and shook her hand, and she said we are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of my son.”
United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, repeated the video story over and over on every Sunday morning news show. Both Clinton and President Obama have stood solidly behind her ever since.
Just as troubling is the thought: How do you trust a media that refuses to even cover a story that does not fit its narrative while bending over backwards to accommodate one that does?
~American Liberty Report
