A full day after the U.S. ambassador to Libya  was brutally killed by a Muslim mob, another mob attacked Mitt Romney. While  armed only with pens and notebooks, the cabal meant to inflict the same outcome  on the Republican’s presidential campaign.

Protecting and defending President Obama through his failures and blunders  and gaffes is a full-time job for America’s mainstream press corps — and they’re  getting worried. So, they attacked the GOP nominee for his reaction to the U.S.  Embassy in Egypt’s statement condemning “the  continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of  Muslims.”

Was that “appropriate”? “Mixed signal”? “Jumped the gun”? Seven of eight  questions were on his statement. It was an another embarrassing day for the  national media, and the slap-down was short-lived; within 48 hours, the Middle  East and North Africa were in full-blown crisis, and details began to pour out  about all the administration had done wrong leading up to the first killing of a  U.S. ambassador since the one term of Jimmy  Carter.

The U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, it turned  out, was barely guarded; the mob easily breached security and swarmed in. Worse,  a U.K. newspaper reported, “the U.S.  State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the  consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions  may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert  and ‘lockdown.’”

In the days following the killing, the White  House scrambled to pin blame on something or someone — anything but them. White House spokesman Jay  Carney said the violence in Egypt and Libya  was “in response to a video, a film we have judged to be reprehensible and  disgusting,” referring to a YouTube video, “The  Innocence of Muslims.”

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