On June 29, the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi (CCB) held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington to discuss the release of its new report on the events surrounding the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the Special Mission Compound and CIA Annex, resulting in the deaths of four Americans. As usual, the liberal media largely stayed away. Apparently, if The New York Times, CNN, the Associated Press and NBC don't cover a story, no matter how important, it isn't really news. So instead, the only representative from the mainstream media was The Washington Post's designated hit man, Dana Milbank, who regularly trolls conservative gatherings to heap scorn, sarcasm and peddle misinformation to his waiting readers. That is the sad state of journalism in this country today.
Mr. Milbank's penchant for playing fast and loose with the details has gotten him in trouble before, when he claimed that conservative speakers had taunted a young Muslim girl. These speakers had, in fact, thanked her for her presence. In the latest case, Milbank wrote an opinion piece, not a news story, with the online headline, Benghazi Conspiracy Theorists Turn on Trey Gowdy. The headline in the print edition of the paper was Appeasing the far right? You'll always end up wrong.
