It's not the media's role to be "conservative" or "liberal"

Scandal week.

If this past week has brought anything to light for the media, it's that everyone but Fox News understated the Benghazi situation.

This reporter, all along, was pushing for transparency and strongly suspected that President Obama and Secretary Clinton were covering up the truth. Suspecting is not the same as stating, conclusively, but it's the role of the press to follow curiosity as the clues unravel.

Instead, what the so-called "liberal" press did, mostly, was accuse Fox News, the Republicans and those crazy Conservatives of a witch hunt. Yet in hindsight, even the fair and balanced Grey Lady needs to be squirming this week.

Clearly, Obama wanted to be re-elected. What happened beyond that regarding the watered-down talking points indicates that his agenda was furthered before Susan Rice spoke on camera. Coincidence?

Further, regarding the AP scrutiny from the Department of Justice, there is no reasonable explanation for the latter to snoop on the former. AP cowtowed beyond what was required due to the government's investigation of a proposed al-Qaeda plot out of Yemen, a story the AP wanted to and did run. It would appear, and I suspect, that when the DOJ asked the AP to wait another day to run their story -- so the DOJ spin doctors could craft a saleable press release -- the US was pissed off at the lack of compliance.

I was at the New York AP offices on Apr. 18, 2012. It's creepy to imagine that around that time, DOJ was busy wire-tapping, or however the phone records snooping occurred. Getting into the AP itself requires a careful process of showing one's ID and going through an electronic gate.

As for the IRS, clearly there is no reasonable explanation for what they did other than the president was targeting them prior to the election. Win at all costs, even if an ambassador has died, conservatives' applications for non-profit status are unfairly targeted, and the world's oldest and one of the most respected news agencies is bugged.

In the midst of all this, we're seeing the once only liberal press -- the same press that chuckled at Obama's jokes at the White House Correspondents' Dinner just a few weeks ago -- call a spade a spade, or in this case, a liar a liar.

I would have more respect for Obama, Holder, Miller, et. al if for once, one of them could say, "We overstepped our authority. We were wrong."

But then, this is politics, after all.