Pat Caddell: Media Have Become An “Enemy Of The American People”
Former Democratic Pollster
In recent remarks to an AIM conference, “ObamaNation: A Day of Truth,” former Democratic pollster and analyst Pat Caddell said, “I think we’re at the most dangerous time in our political history in terms of the balance of power in the role that the media plays in whether or not we maintain a free democracy.”
Caddell noted that while First Amendment protections were originally provided to the press so they would protect the liberty and freedom of the public from “organized governmental power,” they had clearly relinquished the role of impartial news providers.
Nowhere was this more evident than during the tragic death of a U.S. ambassador in Libya that was lied about for nine days, because the press and the administration did not want to admit it was a terrorist attack.
“We’ve had nine days of lies over what happened because they can’t dare say it’s a terrorist attack, and the press won’t push this,” said Caddell. “Yesterday there was not a single piece in The New York Times over the question of Libya. Twenty American embassies, yesterday, are under attack. None of that is on the national news. None of it is being pressed in the papers.”
Caddell added that it is one thing for the news to have a biased view, but “It is another thing to specifically decide that you will not tell the American people information they have a right to know.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/09/29/pat_caddell_media_have_become_an_enemy_of_the_american_people.html
Most Americans are not interested in what is happening outside the country because the issues that the US itself currently faces. With rising unemployment, higher taxes, out of this world gas prices and increasing prices in basic food items, why should they be concerned about Libya or anywhere else? It is just not important news to them. The funny thing is that these are not terrorist attacks – they are being carried out by the same people that the administration supported to overthrow the Gaddiffi regime so a year on, you can’t call them terrorists or if you do, does that mean that the US has been supporting terrorists in North Africa and the Middle East for over a year now??? People need to make up their minds about what constitutes a terrorist, especially people like Caddle