Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski snagged an interview with President Obama over the weekend, and they asked him about the Benghazi debacle. Two things are notable about this exchange.

This morning on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” John McCain says that the President’s reaction to Benghazi is either a cover-up or gross incompetence (see video above).

During a round table discussion on “Meet the Press” this morning, Carly Fiorina brought up the failures during and after the Benghazi attacks (see above). As she was laying out the case against the Obama’s administration’s response, host David Gregory interrupted and brushed the critique aside with, “Let’s get to Libya a little bit later.” Guess what happened when they came back to the topic of Libya? Nothing. They never came back to it. Not only does Gregory fail to initiate discussion about the topic, he cuts off the one person who did. One would think that the deaths of four Americans might get a little more attention on a…

Pro-life politicians need to take a page from Newt Gingrich’s playbook when answering questions about Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock. In an appearance on ABC News’s “This Week,” George Stephanopoulos asked Gingrich if Romney agreed with Mourdock’s recent remarks about rape. The exchange begins at 4:37 in the video above. Gingrich responded,

A local reporter in Denver, Colorado did not get the memo that he was supposed to give President Obama a pass on the Benghazi issue. In a recent interview with the President, the reporter pressed the President to account for the failure to send help to the Americans who died in Benghazi. The President’s answers were at best evasive. Not only does the President refuse to answer the question, he tells the reporter that that his question is irrelevant:

Albert Mohler has fantastic commentary on the controversy surrounding recent remarks made by Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. He writes: A closer look at Mourdock’s comments reveals that the candidate was not in any true sense calling rape “something that God intended to happen.” Everything Mourdock said in that answer flowed from his stated presupposition that life begins at conception, and that every human life is a gift from God.

I have been watching with some consternation the whole imbroglio surrounding the remarks of Richard Mourdock, candidate for U.S. Senator from Indiana. I’ve listened to and read his remarks in context, and my frustrations are twofold. First, his words have been completely distorted by his political opponents. Contrary to what you may have heard from reports, Mourdock did not say that God endorses rape. Anyone who says otherwise is not being objective and is likely beholden to the lowest form of hackery. Should Mourdock have expressed his point more clearly? Yes, absolutely. But that does not excuse bearing false witness in order to score political points against an opponent. And…

The media almost always give pro-choice politicians a pass when it comes to questions about abortion. The questions that reporters ask rarely get to the heart of the issue—the humanity of the unborn. Moreover, reporters nearly always fail to ask tough follow-up questions of pro-choice politicians. This state of affairs has long been a frustration to pro-life people who are watching the media scrutiny only going towards one side. That is why I love Trevin Wax’s fantastic post over at his blog titled, “10 Questions a Pro-Choice Candidate Is Never Asked by the Media.” His list of questions includes this: