Ann Coulter Slams ‘Mainstream Media’ As ‘Threat To Democracy’
Appearing on CNBC’s Kudlow Report last night, Ann Coulter went after “the mainstream media” for being what she deemed a “threat to democracy” for its lack of coverage of the administration’s response to last year’s Benghazi attacks.
Asked to comment on the lack of controversy over the news that outgoing CIA director Leon Panetta had minimal contact with President Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton immediately after the attacks, Coulter said: “I mean, you really wonder if Democrats would win any elections if we had an honest media in this country.”
“As [former Democratic pollster] Pat Caddell says, the media is becoming a threat to democracy,” she continued. “The things that they went crazy over when Bush was president,” she said before recalling the George W. Bush‘s jokey video at the 2004 White House Correspondents’ dinner, which depicted a dog sniffing under furniture for weapons of mass destruction. “You would think someone died,” she said of the resultant media uproar.
By contrast, she said, during the 2012 embassy attacks, “under Obama, four people did die and this is coming out five months after it happened, four months after the election? What is with our media?”
The conservative commentator agreed with host Larry Kudlow that the news of minimal contact between Panetta and the Obama White House constitutes “a major story.”
“Americans were dying,” she said. “On a few news outlets you would hear about this before the election, that there was time to get helicopters there, to get fighter planes there, to have saved some of these Americans, and we get the cock-and-bull story about some American-made video ramping up a spontaneous demonstration, and now we find out that the president and the secretary of state were AWOL.”
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[h/t Jeff Poor, TheDC]
