Entry #2: Opinionated Press

On September 11th, 2012, The United States faced another disastrous incident resulting in the deaths of our own citizens. This incident was very, very lightly covered in the news, and in my opinion, the news was opinionated towards these attacks, because it would have made President Obama look entirely at fault. While researching this topic, not only did i find out that these attacks occurred on the soil of foreign U.S Embassies, which is an act of war towards America; however recent political changes in the Libyan government made it illegal to act upon these actions as an act of war. After reading multiple articles about this situation, I have found that only a few of them blame the president for this incident. Some reports even state the President took the day off, and wasn't even in the oval office while these attacks took place. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney even stated publicly that, "President Obama waited two weeks to call the attack in Libya "terror".". So basically what happened was, the president took the "day off", which no president has ever done in the history of the United States; and coincidentally the US Embassy in Benghazi gets attacked by a group of Libyan Radicals, whom under a new government, did nothing out of the ordinary. Then the president makes it look like he was under such grief, as it took him 14 days to call the act of the murder of US officials, an act of terror. There is way too much lee way in this incident to truly know what really happened.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/14/world/africa/libya-us-ambassador-killed

I believe this was an opinionated article because it makes President Obama look like the hero. "There's no doubt these are difficult days," said Obama. But he pledged that "the United States of America will never retreat from the world. Four Americans, four patriots, they loved their country and chose to serve it and serve it well," the president continued. "They had a mission and they believed in it, and they knew the danger and they accepted it. They didn't simply embrace the American ideal, they lived it, they embodied it: the courage, the hope and, yes, the idealism.We will bring to justice those who took them from us" Obama said. However many people believe that these attacks could have been handled in a much better way, if the president was actually in office when they happened.