Video: Amid Round-the-Clock Khan Coverage, Benghazi Families Speak Up
Guy Benson
8/4/2016 3:35:00 PM
"What about us?" That seems to be the message coming from several relatives of the Americans murdered in Benghazi four years ago, when a lethal terrorist raid tragically exposed the Hillary Clinton-run State Department's woefully inadequate security measures in a city that had been effectively overrun by jihadists -- thanks in significant part to her reckless foreign policy. These Benghazi families have watched as the Khans, a Muslim family whose valiant and heroic son laid down his life for America in Iraq, have attracted an enormous amount of media coverage over their DNC appearance and subsequent public battle with Donald Trump. They have 'absolute moral authority' in honoring their son's legacy, and Trump has made a string of remarkably foolish, unforced errors in "defending himself" against their critiques. Polling indicates that the flap has damaged him politically. But as we noted in our analysis of the Khan contretemps, a breathtaking media double standard is once again on display. The press generally greeted Patricia Smith's address in Cleveland with a muted mix of reverence and scorn, but mostly silence. When it was the Khans' turn to summon their status as grieving parents to harshly criticize a presidential nominee, the media's collective flood-the-zone reaction has been breathlessly rhapsodic. Both parties have legitimate grievances, in my view, and both had every right to air them on a national stage. They've all earned our sorrow and respect. But the disparity in the tone and quantity of coverage couldn't be more glaring.
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