Almost alone among mainstream media outlets, CBS News reporter Sharyl Atkisson has been digging away at the Gunwalker Scandal. In an interview yesterday with Laura Ingraham, she told how she that White House and Justice Department spokespeople have been “screaming at her” in response to her questions about what the Attorney General knew, when. They told her that, “the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it.”
And now, CBS seems to agree:
Today, I called CBS News in an attempt to interview Attkisson. I was told by CBS News senior vice president of communications Sonya McNair that Attkisson would be unavailable for interviews all week. When I asked why Attkisson would be unavailable, McNair would not say.
I’ve also heard from a producer at another media outlet that has previously booked Attkisson that they tried to book her since she made news with the Laura Ingraham interview yesterday. They were also told that she would be unavailable.
After our initial conversation earlier today, I called McNair back and left a message with her office. I also sent McNair an email asking whether Attkisson’s unavailability has anything to do with reporting that the White House and Justice Department were angry at her. I further asked McNair if the White House or Justice Department contacted CBS News about Attkisson since yesterday. McNair has not responded to my inquiries.
I don’t know whether we should apply the “what if Bush had done this” test or the New York Times, “peoples’ right to know” test (applied to blowing the cover on the completely legal, and extraterriorial analysis of terrorist money laundering techniques).
Either way, this smells to high heaven.
I agree, it does indeed smell. Not sure if I’m ready to lay all the blame on the government though. CBS is quite capable of making their voice heard and yet it sounds like they’re complicit with (or possible even responsible for) Attkisson’s silence.
The OBOTS have already established that they will shut-out any news organization that ruffles their feathers…..They respond like the insolent teenagers they are.
The wheels have been coming off Obama’s charade for the past two years + .
Only issue is who are we going to get ” stuck with ” on the GOP side as the best man for the job will be staying in NJ. The rest of the GOP field looks like more empty suits…..Perry, Romney, et al are more of the same…..They all want the job but none of them are really what s needed….A True Leader.
It’s the MSM. What do you expect???????????
you misspelled “MFM”…
+100…and I’m stealing the acronym…
YES! Our man redc1c4 has a certain way with words, don’t hee?
We’ve known for quite a while that the major networks were in bed with the maladministration. The silencing of Attkisson They may well be removing all doubt.
And this is a surprise? Just like the saber-rattling done by the regime about that Ford commercial that dared mention the b-word (buyout for those attendees at the We Hate Capitalism, But Love the Benefits of It rallies everywhere), her silencing is proof that the admin and the msm are one and the same. They are no different than Pravda in the USSR. They’ve totally traded their role in a free society as watchdogs for access. And become lapdogs in the process, especially since the regime is composed of their fellow travelers in far-left circles. Beware the political-media complex. What a tangled web they weave.
So much for transparent government.
This sounds like interference with the news media with cooperation of news media owners. Somewhere in this major cover-up there is either grounds for at least someone’s termination, or proof that the whole debacle surely must have been Bush’s fault.
5:6 odds say they will try to contrive something making it appear to be Bush’s fault. Things do not get much more frightening than this attempted coup of our representative democracy without fools being hanged from telephone poles. Enough already, pinkos!
odds are it will be 5.56…. or 7.62, not telephone poles.
There is one mentally defective soul at the formerly right of center blog that says because the reporter once did an article about the vaccine (to get or not to get), then she is just a right wing whack job, out to smear The WON!.
I dislike, greatly, those who will not accept truth, when it’s biting them on the nose, just because someone they disagree with said it. Stupid way to go through life…hope your “adversary” in this case never has to yell “get out of the road, there’s a semi coming!” to them, huh? LOL…could up as road kill…you know, because a right wing whack job said it…
You know, in Watergate, no one died., but the Prez lost his “will of the people.”
OT, but very important round these parts…Steve Jobs has passed away.
I saw that, how sad.
Not surprising as a cancerous tumor was found on his pancreas back in 2005. The surprise is he lasted this long.
I’m still reminded of the old line about “ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” Eventually, gravity gets us all.
Also on the Job’s death, Stacy McCain has playfully “fessed” up that he is to blame for Palin not running. One of the commenters, Adjoran, said,
“At least they can’t blame you for the problems at Apple.
That’s all on Obama, that Jobs-killin’ bastard!”
Totalitarianism by any other name..
And if you don’t think we’re “slouching” there at an increasingly rapid pace NOT ONLY do I have a certain bridge to talk to you about but I’ve ALSO got some slightly moist land in Fla to run by you ..
I concur with Judge Bork’s assessment and appropriation of Mr. Yeats’ work: “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
Bethlehem of old is, for those who can hear, transcendant.
The U.S. has chosen a more sulferous destination.
Gomorrah.
Do we need to file a “missing persons” report and start combing the woods for a body? Afterall, one more death to gun violence might just prove their case. /sarcasm off
If I were in management at Fox News I do believe I’d hire her sight unseen and make her first story what happened to her at CBS.
CBS might find it’s hard to silence somebody when you’ve no power over them.
– Max
They way the Administration is acting, you’d think accessory to murder was an impeachable crime or something.
Not to go “All Flit” or anything, but as a general rule (see: “Woodward & Bernstein Exception” and “Giraldo Rivera Corollary”) reporters are never supposed to make themselves the story. By letting herself be interviewed, especially by someone whose syndication group is not part of the CBS ownership group, the reporter diverted attention away from the base story and focused it on herself. That might very well be the basis for the editors’ decision for no more interviews. OTOH, once you let the nose of the camel under the tent, you’re pretty much committed. One other thing for enterprising bloggers or others to try and determine: When is her current employment contract up? Is she in negotiations for a raise? Giving this interview could have very well been an attempt to raise her asking price. I’m not saying that’s the reason, but it’s one I’ve seen over the years: There may more to this than what it looks like on its face.
I’ll agree that the reporter isn’t supposed to be part of the story. But, in this case, by their actions in apparently trying to silence a reporter/network, this administration has made that reporter into a new story. Or maybe a new angle on this story.
Comjam, she didn’t make the story about herself; rather in the Ingraham interview the story was about the administrations reaction to her work. Not her.
I don’t doubt her contract allows her to discuss in general terms the reactions of various interviewees during a story. If she had re-published CBS material, then she might be in breach of contract.
Even then, what kind of chicken***t news group silences one of their reporters? Ever? Much less in a case like this which (should) reap great fame & reputation to those who broke it wide open. No, a real news
manperson would be egging their investigator on, not shutting them down.Favorite description for F&F so far: “Watergate with a body count.”
I would say it’s more like Iran-Contra, except without all the profit or advancing our interests.
Atkisson’s boss at CBS, one Sonya McNair,Sr VP of Communications, happens to be a black female. Make of that what you will… If the whole concept is just too distasteful to contemplate, then look at Melson’s replacement, the new acting head of ATF, B. Todd Jones, a black male, the recent revelations of ‘the won’ marching with black panthers, Holder’s (dropper of charges against black panthers) wallet card proclaiming “Blackness is more important than anything, and the black US attorney has common cause with the black criminal.” in today’s “American Thinker”. Welcome to B.R.A. (black-run America). How do you like it so far? Connect the dots, brothers & friends.
Completely off any subject here:
http://blogs.babble.com/family-kitchen/2011/03/15/nutella-mug-cake/
http://www.recipegirl.com/2011/03/01/cinnamon-roll-pancakes/
http://www.recipegirl.com/2011/09/22/pumpkin-cinnamon-roll-pancakes/
Oh man those look TASTY!
Yeah, don’t they just? A big stack of the pumpkin ones for Sunday breakfast. Along with some good sausage links, butter, Grade B maple syrup. And coffee. Lots of coffee.
This steams me so much, I am speechless. Not surprised though.
“Heretic! BURN HER!!”
B. Todd Jones. The man who just announced his plan for treating the F&F fiasco as “…pushing the reset button and moving forward on new programs”……Move along folks….nothing to see here. Move along.