MSM Ignores The Obama-Hezbollah Scandal

If this doesn’t demonstrate media bias, I don’t know what does.

The other day, Kimber told you about the Obama-Hezbollah scandal. He basically enabled terrorism to thrive in the Middle East. It’s a big story.

Barack Obama’s administration has been accused of sabotaging an operation to stop Hezbollah smuggling drugs into the US so that the nuclear deal with Iran could proceed.

In a stunning exposé by Politico, the former US President’s officials are said to have opened the door for trafficking and money laundering operations.

Donald Trump’s White House slapped at his predecessor Sunday night, with press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeting that the story shows a contrast of ‘President Trump’s success against ISIS vs. President Obama’s appeasement of terrorists.’

The Drug Enforcement Administration led a complex venture called Project Cassandra to tackle the criminality of the Lebanese militant group from 2008 on.

But it is claimed Obama’s people threw down a number of roadblocks, effectively paving the way for Hezbollah’s illegal activities including cocaine smuggling into the US which agents believe raked in $1 billion for the terror group.

DEA agents claim the Obama administration stopped them from arresting key figures linked to Hezbollah as an agreement on the Iran nuclear deal approached – and scrapped Project Cassandra entirely once the terms were agreed in 2015.

And interestingly enough, there’s a huge media blackout on this. Have you noticed?

Days after the news broke, in fact, neither NBC News, ABC News nor CBS News — whose shows can boast a collective 20 million viewers — had been able to find the time to relay the story to its sizeable audiences. Other than Fox News, cable news largely ignored the revelations as well.

MSM just can’t seem to find the time to cover it.

Most major newspapers, which have been sanctimoniously patting themselves on the back for the past year, couldn’t shoehorn into their pages a story about potential collusion between the former president and a terror-supporting state.

Perhaps if President Trump had tweeted about the story, outlets would’ve squeezed something in.

Even when outlets did decide to cover the story, they typically framed it as a he-said/she-said. “Politico Reporter Says Obama Administration ‘Derailed’ Hezbollah Investigation,” reads the NPR headline. Did Josh Meyer of Politico say something about Obama or did he publish a 14,000-word, diligently sourced, document-heavy investigative piece? If you get your news from NPR, you’d never know.

Shameful —> A deafening media silence on the Obama-Hezbollah scandal https://t.co/uYnkGRVCEL via @nypost

— Brit Hume (@brithume) December 22, 2017

Cable/broadcasters ignore a Obama-scandal story that has a lot more on-the-record sources than they usually can find. A deafening media silence on the Obama-Hezbollah scandal https://t.co/OECpesl7lG via @nypost

— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) December 22, 2017

Obama-Hezbollah is trending! It is Christmas time.

— +++ #TheStorm ++ + (@cetzads) December 22, 2017

Most major newspapers, which have been sanctimoniously patting themselves on the back for the past year, couldn’t shoehorn into their pages a story about potential collusion between the former president and a terror-supporting state. https://t.co/THils2PA74

— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) December 22, 2017

The NY Post’s David Harsanyi nailed it.

What makes the media blackout particularly shameful is that the story isn’t a partisan hit job. It was written by a well-regarded journalist at a major outlet. The story has two on-the-record sources — which is more than we can say for the vast majority of so-called scoops about the Russian “collusion” investigation. One of these sources, David Asher, was an illicit finance expert at the Pentagon who was tapped to run the investigation. There’s no plausible reason to ignore him or the story.

Establishment media personalities will often point out that none of us would have any knowledge of these incidents if not for their reporting. This is true. There are intrepid journalists at media institutions who aren’t swayed by partisan considerations.

The preponderance of editors, journalists, pundits and bookers, on the other hand, still coddle Democrats. They may do it on purpose or unconsciously, but it’s destroying their credibility. Because as David Burge once noted, “Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.”

If this isn’t a prime display of media bias, I don’t know what is.