Censorship

Does anyone get the feeling that there is a de facto censorship when it comes to certain subjects?  That's what I am reminded of when I read the State Department Meltdown post ( h/t Instapundit) on the Powerline blog.  It seems that there was this request from the State Department that there be no more questions on the Consulate attack in Libya.  Can you imagine what the reaction would have been if the Nixon administration had made a similar request with respect to the Watergate break-in?  Let's look at this post a little closer:

Which prompted this remarkably unprofessional response from the Secretary of State’s official spokesman:

I now understand why the official investigation by the Department of the Defense as reported by The Army Times The Washington Post concluded beyond a doubt that you’re an unmitigated asshole.

How’s that for a non-bullshit response?

Now that we’ve gotten that out of our systems, have a good day.

And by good day, I mean Fuck Off

The State Department spokesman said that.  Again, if someone in the Nixon Administration said anything like this, what would the reaction had been?  The Watergate Scandal resulted in the resignation of President Nixon, and it was due to aggressive reporting.  If the media isn't following this aggressively, could you say that they are covering for this administration?

If anyone bothers to recall, Romney got a lot of grief from the media for a little mild criticism of the events there.  Now it turns out to be a full scandal, but where's the outrage?  This should be consuming the media.  Like Watergate.  Though nobody died from the Watergate affair.