Media absent on 9-11 scandal

Panel probing terror attack 'absolute joke,' coverage would be Page 1 if tied to Bush

Radio talk-show giant Rush Limbaugh calls the 9-11 commission an "absolute joke" for ignoring and suppressing evidence that terrorists were identified in the U.S. long before the Sept. 11 attacks, and he's blasting the mainstream media for its lack of coverage on the matter.

"They blew it sky high. They didn't get what was really going on. They didn't get in their report the fact that there were terror cells already here, and that the ringleader of 9-11 was in the country for a year, and it was known," said Limbaugh of the panel which probed the 2001 onslaught. "If you ask me, the 9-11 commission ought to be profoundly embarrassed."

The conservative icon issued a blistering criticism of the mainstream media for its lack of coverage on the matter today, pointing out the New York Times did not write its own story on the revelations, but instead ran a report by the Associated Press. And while the Washington Post did write its own account, Limbaugh observed the paper buried it on Page 9 of today's edition.

"To me this is evidence that the people in the liberal media assume this could be a problem for the Clinton administration," opined Limbaugh, who called the panel's omission of the Atta evidence "an abomination of an error."

"If they could pin this on George W. Bush, this would be front page everywhere and it would be pretty much all that we are seeing."