Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry wants the media to stop showing terrorist attacks 'so people don't know what's going on'

If you decide one day you're going to be a terrorist and you're willing to kill yourself, you can go out and kill some people. You can make some noise. Perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn't cover it quite as much. People wouldn't know what's going on. ABC, CBS and NBC took their cue and ignored Kerry's remarks but Charles Krauthammer didn't.

KRAUTHAMMER: And it's clear that [Kerry] and his boss, the president, have this view, especially the president. He said it openly that the media, the public, exaggerates the importance of terrorism. He said once, Obama said if it leads, it bleeds, the media love it, it's good ratings but it's completely out of proportion to the threat to the country. It's not existential. It's not world historical. Obama sees it essentially as a geopolitical nuisance and he wants to treat it that way. The problem is that it kills a lot of people. This is a nemesis out there and the idea that if you just don't cover it, if you hide it, and you pretend it doesn't happen, it will go away and you will assuage the anxieties of the people of the West is simply silly. And it simply destroys the confidence of the people in the leadership if you pretend it's not as real and deadly as it is.

Counterterrorism professional Dr. Gorka argued that Kerry meant he doesn't want the public to know about the administration's incompetence.

GORKA: If the media covers the terrorism, then what are people going to know? They're going to understand the rank incompetence over the last 7.5 years and understand why American counterterrorism policy is failing. How the "JV team" has captured territory in Syria, Iraq, Libya. How they've executed attacks in America, in France, in Brussels. That's I think the more likely interpretation. Don't talk about it because it'll make us look bad and it'll make Hillary look bad because remember, she was his predecessor.