One of the most under-appreciated events in politics happened this last Friday on social media. While pundits argue about the value of the new media, and whether it detracts from “real” reporters, conservatives were able to quickly leverage social media resources to out-run the mainstream media blackout on the Obama administration’s culpability in the terrorist attack on our embassies on September 11th, and the death of our ambassador and  3 American soldiers.

Late on Thursday night the story broke that the father of one of the murdered at Benghazi was accusing the Obama administration of withholding assistance to the attacked, as many as three times. This set the conservative blogosphere afire, but was met with glassy-eyed yawns from the lapdog mainstream media all too eager to protect Obama.

On Friday morning, Fox News and conservatives on social media mounted a beleaguered attempt to force the issue and make the administration face the accusations from a frustrated and angry father of a deceased Navy Seal.

And then a fissure in the stranglehold of the mainstream media appeared.

Kyle Clark of Channel 9 News was able to secure an interview with President Obama, and to his great credit, opened up to twitter for suggestions on what questions he should ask:

Interviewing @barackobama today. What would you like to hear him address? @9news #copolitics

— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) October 26, 2012

This got 14 retweets, not a lot considering that Obama has millions of followers. Thankfully, local conservative Kelly Maher took the initiative to spread the word:

Hi Twitter! @kyleclark is interviewing @barackobama this afternoon and is requesting you tweet/fb him question suggestions. GO!

— Kelly Maher (@okmaher) October 26, 2012

This was picked up by Tabitha Hale of the Franklin Center:

RT @okmaher: Hi Twitter! @kyleclark is interviewing @barackobama this afternoon and is requesting you tweet/fb him question suggestions. GO!

— Tabitha Hale (@TabithaHale) October 26, 2012

And also Jason Whitman, the National Policy Chairman for the Republican Party:

RT @okmaher: Hi Twitter! @kyleclark is interviewing @barackobama this afternoon and is requesting you tweet/fb him question suggestions. GO!

— Jason B. Whitman (@JasonBWhitman) October 26, 2012

Immediately conservatives filled the request, and demanded Obama answer the newly revealed accusations about Benghazi:

.@kyleclark @barackobama @9news He needs to address today’s new revelations about #Benghazi

— Jason B. Whitman (@JasonBWhitman) October 26, 2012

Your favorite friendly neighborhood Mexican jumped in, having seen Tabitha’s tweet. I paused to try to zero in on what I thought was the most precise and incisive question on the this issue. After considering how best to phrase my question, I made this suggestion:

.@kyleclark ask Obama a very simple question – did White House or State Dept deny security requests to #Benghazi during the 7 hour attack?

— el SOOPer (@SooperMexican) October 26, 2012

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