Cupp Slams Media/Politicians: No ‘Basic Curiosity’ in Niger Ambush

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 18, 2017
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During Wednesday’s edition of Unfiltered, host S.E. Cupp was outraged over the fact that more of the media and Washington’s time had been spent arguing over what President Trump may or may not have said to a gold star family, instead of demanding answers for the ambush in Niger. “It's a little empty to be outraged over what the President did or didn't say to these gold star families. If you're not also asking: Why they are now gold star families,” she lamented to her panel.

As they were discussing the ridiculousness of the current he said she said feud going on between the President and a Democratic Florida representative, Cupp declared that she was “disappointed on a number of levels.” And she compared the Niger ambush to the attack on the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya in how there was a hunger for answers after that attack:

I'm appalled that today is day 14 and we still don't have basic answers as to what happened … By day 14 the press and the public had already debunked the [Obama] administration's video retaliation theory. Sean Hannity was on his radio show calling out the liberal media for believing it. Today on day 14 many are busy pointing fingers on who called whom.

I was watching a lot of different news coverage, and there were very good journalists trying to uncover answers to this. But too few, far too few were asking this question: Why-- what happened,” she added in frustration.

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