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"What difference, at this point, does it make?" was the non-answer soundbite from the Secretary of State that was featured on all three newscast packages: by NBC's Andrea Mitchell, CBS' Margaret Brennan and ABC's Martha Raddatz. Thus a sometimes tearful, sometimes impassioned, Rodham Clinton dodged the issue of what inspired the attack, and whether the protests against a low-budget movie blaspheming against the Prophet Mohammed played any role whatsoever. NBC followed up Mitchell's report with Richard Engel's first-hand account of the late Moammar Khadafy's massive arsenal falling into the hands of militiamen all over northern Africa. A "Pandora's Box" was the line from Brennan on CBS.
All three Pentagon correspondents showed us military women who had already been wounded in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though they were technically deployed behind the lines. Rep Tammy Duckworth, a helicopter veteran who had her legs blown off, was quoted by ABC's David Kerley and NBC's Jim Miklaszewski -- Miklaszewski landed the better of the two soundbites. Given that CBS' David Martin was able to introduce us to Victoria Rivers, an expert machine-gunner, who has already fought on commando raids, there was no excuse for ABC's Kerley to use a fictional Hollywood-produced movie clip to illustrate the idea of female special operations forces. Demi Moore, getting her head shaved in GI Jane, was not a soldier. She was an actress.
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