Oh, sure, it’s a smoking gun showing that the Obama administration deliberately sold guns to narcoterrorists and deliberately failed to track them. That is a huge story. Watergate pales in comparison, if for no other reason than the body count, which currently stands at over 200 people.
It is also a smoking gun for the biased media, which is roundly refusing to cover the story.
When the NYT exposed the entirely legal system under George W. Bush to wiretap foreigners calling into the United States, it was a huge story. Day after day of above-the-fold coverage. Wall to wall coverage on the networks and cable news.
When the NYT exposed the entirely legal system under George W. Bush to track terrorist financing, it was a huge story. Day after day of above-the fold coverage. Wall to wall coverage on the networks and cable news.
Example after example of that sort of thing is available. Bush, the lawbreaker (even when he wasn’t.) Bush, the killer.
Obama’s administration – and this includes people working in the White House – sold and/or trafficked the guns that were used to kill hundreds of people. And from the media, mostly silence. The LA Times has had a few stories. There’s been a little coverage here and there. But nothing like the daily pounding the press administered to Bush for programs which were both effective and legal.
If you ever wanted definitive proof that the press operates as an appendage of the Democratic party, I give you Fast and Furious. Q.E.D.
Added: John Hitchcock has an excellent new media chronology of Fast and Furious, chock full of linky goodness. Go check it out.
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I linked this over on TBD and on Common Sense Political Thought.
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Thanks, I just read that and approved the trackbacks. Much appreciated.
Also I just saw your excellent chronology, which I am adding to this post.
Thing to watch out for: some…folks… are trying to confuse Fast and Furious with Gunrunner. (Fast and Furious: sell drugs to criminals. Operation Gunrunner: the parent/cover operation aimed at stopping guns.)
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Who are the … folks… ?
I have heard those names used in conjunction with one another and sometimes interchangeably, so evidently I need to look into it to make sure I’m not sowing confusion.
Trying to be polite and nonjudgmental about a wide group of folks, from newspaper writers to bloggers to commenters– some of them are trying to confuse the issue, because Gunrunner started under Bush. Some are going off of the reports from before we knew the codename for the smuggling operation, when we only knew it was filed under Op. Gunrunner. Some folks are going off of the confusion that folks spread, and probably some other utterly innocent reasons that I haven’t thought of.
And to correct my original comment, it was selling guns to the criminals.
There have even been other sell-the-criminals-guns ops, but I’m not as familiar with the evidence in those as F&F.
Gotcha. So I’d better get busy and get informed on F&F versus Gunrunner.
Pretty basic: F&F is the Arizona smuggling/sting operation, “Gunrunner” is a nation wide…well, funding project.
Oh, and there’re more operations……..
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