Figures: ABC, NBC, CBS ignore Obama's Medal of Honor gaffe

If Bush were President, this would be front-page news. As I have said many times in this blog, liberal media bias manifests itself far more in what they choose not to report, than the bias in what they do report. Just a few days ago, Obama screwed up big time talking about a Medal of honor recipient (Lovely: Obama pats himself on the back for being friend of soldiers, gets dead soldier's info all wrong). The biased state-run media ignored it. From NewsBusters via memeorandum: Big Three Networks Ignore Obama's Medal of Honor Screw-Up

Barack Obama's confusing one living American war hero with a fallen one he honored in 2009, has been completely ignored by the Big Three Networks shows, including the same NBC Nightly News that threw a fit over Sarah Palin's recent recounting of an event over 200 years ago, Paul Revere's ride.

On Thursday, at Fort Drum, New York, as reported by the Military Times, Obama told the 10^th Mountain Division he had the privilege of meeting "a comrade of yours, Jared Monti" adding it was "the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn't receiving it posthumously." Turns out Monti did receive it posthumously, as Obama presented the award to his parents at a White House ceremony in 2009. After CBN inquired about the gaffe, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney clarified that the President had confused Monti with "Salvatore Giunta, who was the first living recipient of the Medal who served in Afghanistan."

This insensitive blunder by the President was not covered the Big Three Network evening news shows on Wednesday and received zero stories on Thursday's morning shows.

NBC Nightly News, which spent three straight nights mocking Palin on her Revere account, as reported by the MRC's Rich Noyes, ignored Obama's mistake, even as Jim Miklaszewski played clips from the very Fort Drum speech in which Obama made his screw-up. While CBS Evening News also covered Obama's event with the troops they too failed to report Obama's error. On ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer there wasn't even a story on Obama at Fort Drum, but they did air bits of a David Muir interview with First Lady Michelle Obama which Sawyer teased this way: "And still ahead, right here on World News, the First Lady talks to David Muir, what she wants for her daughters when they fall in love."

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