{"id":11524,"date":"2015-11-07T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T13:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11524"},"modified":"2015-11-07T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T13:02:23","slug":"liberal-media-take-no-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11524","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Liberal media&#8217; take no prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/media.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11467\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/media-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"media\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/media-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/media-1024x755.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/media.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Carson\u00a0has counterattacked the &#8220;liberal media&#8221; for what he calls a &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Questions about his past have become all the rage. CNN keeps poking around in the hunt for corroboration that he once stabbed someone in a fit of anger. The network can&#8217;t find anyone to back it up. Now we hear that Dr. Carson, um, didn&#8217;t exactly get offered a West Point scholarship in the manner he said he did.<\/p>\n<p>The media want to know the truth.<\/p>\n<p>The counterattack points to what the doctor\/Republican presidential candidate said is a double standard as it regards <em>Democrats<\/em> running for president. The media don&#8217;t look quite as intently at them as they do Republicans, according to Dr. Carson.<\/p>\n<p>Hold on, doc.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama faced intense scrutiny over:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His relationship with a fiery Church of Christ pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.<\/li>\n<li>His friendship with anti-Vietnam War activist William Ayers.<\/li>\n<li>His place of birth and whether he was constitutionally qualified to run for president of the United States.<\/li>\n<li>His academic records at Harvard, which Carson brought up again this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, oh yes, Hillary Clinton, the current Democratic frontrunner has, throughout\u00a0her public career,\u00a0faced down matters involving:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allegations that she covered up information about Benghazi.<\/li>\n<li>Her involvement with her husband, the 42nd president, in the Whitewater real estate matter.<\/li>\n<li>The death of her good friend, Vince Foster, who some in the media have suggested was murdered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So &#8230; let&#8217;s take a breath, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>I also should mention the names of other prominent Democratic pols who&#8217;ve wilted under the media glare.<\/p>\n<p>Do the names Gary Hart and\u00a0John Edwards ring a bell? How about Anthony Weiner and Barney Frank?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get back to the story at hand. Did a leading candidate for president of the United States misrepresent whether he was offered a West Point scholarship?<\/p>\n<p>Well &#8230; ?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Carson\u00a0has counterattacked the &#8220;liberal media&#8221; for what he calls a &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221; Questions about his past have become all the rage. CNN keeps poking around in the hunt for corroboration that he once stabbed someone in a fit of anger. The network can&#8217;t find anyone to back it up. Now we hear that Dr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Liberal media&#8217; take no prisoners<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[540,588,631,2139,2778,5256],"class_list":["post-11524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-ben-carson","tag-bill-clinton","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-liberal-media","tag-whitewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11525,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}