MSM Sheep: Ignoring the Scandal of the Century
Monday’s revelations by Mike Vanderboegh at Sipsey Street Irregulars and David Codrea at the Gun Rights Examiner, corroborated here at PJMedia and expounded upon at Fox News, comprise a “smoking gun” of the one of the most stunning political scandals in U.S. history.
As William Lajeunesse writes at Fox:
Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel — the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons, sold them to criminals and then watched as the guns disappeared.
I don’t wish to understate it: elements of the U.S. Departments of Justice, State, Homeland Security, and Treasury are responsible for supplying an arsenal to narco-terrorists waging a civil war against an American ally. Our federal government may bear responsibility for at least 200 murders committed with “walked” firearms, in what Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales describes as a “betrayal” of her country by the Obama administration.
Are there legal ramifications? Perhaps. According to Title 18, 2331 of the U.S. Code, Operation Fast and Furious may amount to international terrorism, which carries with it stiff penalties for conspiracies that result in homicide. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act — which was originally used to prosecute the mafia — and the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) may also fit, as may assorted state and federal charges. Charges may also result from two investigations launched by Mexican authorities, and Mexico could conceivably file charges with the International Criminal Court.
This is objectively the most important political and legal story in America right now.
But despite the revelations from of documents and testimony obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and repeated calls for full disclosure from senators and congressmen, mainstream media organizations have done everything in their power to bury the scandal. This can only be viewed as a partisan media’s attempt to protect a criminal executive branch.
Let’s play “if Bush did it.”
If thousands of firearms had been provided to the Sinaloa cocaine cartel by the Justice Department; and if those guns had been blamed for not one or two, but hundreds of murders by Mexico’s lead prosecutor, would there not be wall-to-wall front page coverage every day on the pages of the New York Times … if Bush were still president?
Under Bush, the MSM did provide blanket coverage for the warrantless wiretapping program — which was deemed legal by the courts and caused no deaths.
If circumstantial evidence, political speeches, and talking points from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and President Bush all suggested that the solitary goal of a gunwalking conspiracy was to put American weapons in the hands of criminals in hopes they would commit violent crimes in order to undermine the Constitution and Bill of Rights … the Washington Post columnists would call for impeachment and criminal prosecution each day.
Recall how they breathlessly reported the minute details and speculations of the Valerie Plame affair, which had much smaller stakes.
I’m sure they will get right on it as soon as they uncover the full extent of Nancy Grace’s wardrobe malfunction. Priorities, you know.
Who is Nancy Grace, and why should I care?
She’s an old lady who did NOT expose her nipple on “Dancing With The Stars.”
Bugs,
You wish you were an “old lady” like Nancy-Attorney, Prosecutor, Famed reporter and TV icon ,
Survivor of violent trauma of intended,
new mother of twins
Straight talking truth telling great broad broad!
And you are an anonymous lonely bug unknown kind
Precisely.
I can’t believe that a few inches of my screen are taken up by mentioning “Dancing With The Stars” on THIS site – unbelievable!
Oh look! A dancing cow!
Well, not having watched the program except by accident, I took the comment as sarcasm. You’ve heard of that I hope.
Want more coverage of this story?
Just let it be known that Sarah Palin might be involved.
This is the Hope&Change! that you voted for.
Perfect! We should have some fun by Photoshopping a picture of Sarah with one of her hunting weapons crossing the border in a Ford pickup with a canvas-covered towed container … and then show it on Jon Stewart’s show. THEN, when the deception is revealed to be a fake (ALSO on Jon’s show), have ourselves a jolly old laugh all round. We can start by mocking Jon’s foolishless on his own show; I’d pay big stimulus money to see that.
Followed by indictments for the Obama administration … starting with Holder himself.
HE’S the real criminal liberals love to say Dick Cheney is.
that pickup that Sarah is driving? It’s registered to the Koch brothers.
No, it’s registered to Haliburton and Dick Cheney is in the passenger seat.
(Oh man, collectively we could make up a story that the MSM would swallow SOOOO fast!)
We could make up a story? Rube, that story is prolly already made up! Sitting in Ed Schultz’s top drawer as we speak!
The media organizations have been conquered by the subversives long time ago, we cannot expect from the members of a subversive and revolutionary organization to criticize the leaders of the same organization.
It is correct to denounce their silence as a form of totalitarianism already fully in power in America, but it is wrong to expect that a fanatical commie (like a fanatical nazi) will change his ways.
“fast and Furious” is an example of the simple truth that the totalitarians would do and will do anything to reach their goals, and the silence of the media organizations about it is a further confirmation of the same example.
We have to do with people who hate this Country and actively work against America.
We must unseat them from power: through the elections, by not buying their papers by not watching their TVs, by spreading information.
But the most important piece of info to spread is that the subversives are in fact subversives, they are at war against America.
And now that they have violated the law, the subversives will become even more dangerous, because they know that they will be prosecuted for a serious felony (accessory to murder). That’s why they start speaking about “suspending” the elections, that’s why they speak about rioting.
You are 1000% correct. These people will not stop. This sudden talk of “suspending” elections is not a accident. Their hold on power is very tenous now and they know it. The “independants” who voted this communist into power have realized their awful mistake. This is not going to end well. I pray, and hope, and pray some more our mostly dedicated military is up to the task of securing the sacred Constitution of the United States. God bless America.
We are waaaay past time for a military coup. Which tells me they don’t care.
About suspending elections: first, they need a reason.
Possible reasons: 1) General economic collapse; 2) a devastating terror attack either nuclear or biological. (IMHO, a biological attack, though very difficult to control, would be ideal, people would be so frighten that could very easily, with media collaboration, DEMAND near dictatorial controls over all of our lives.)
As for number 1, we are well on our way. Early in 2012 if Obama appears to be heading for overwhelming defeat, expect the unexpected.
I had hoped that Fox News would pursue this story.
Bzzzzzt, wrooooong…
I believe the reaction of the left to the beginnings of limiting government, forced on congress through the influence of TEA party activists Is pure unadulterated fear. Their bluster, name calling and dire warnings of disaster are evoked by fear of ghosts from the past reincarnated in the Tea party movement. Their fear is real, it is part of the liberal cell structure; it has been embedded in their brains for decades. They also now realize that the Fast and Furious scandal has exposed their true agenda. (More US gun control)
It is the fear that the American people will realize that our Founding Fathers really had it right. The modern liberal rhetoric is completely destroyed when stacked against the ideals of those grave yard ghosts in the form of our Founding Father’s spirits. The Liberal fear is that we have finally awakened and have had enough. They are beginning to realize their Waterloo will be the 2012 elections and they are whistling past the graveyard.
The Lame Stream press are whistling right along with them.
Journalists are supposed to live for a chance to break a Gunwalker.
They do, but only if it hurts Republicans. If it hurts Democrats, it isn’t newsworthy.
When you have a good double-standard, you stick with it.
With all that is involved in this Fast and Furious scandal and a republican/conservative was president, this story would be 24/7 and the lame street liberal lap dog media will questioning when impeachment proceedings were going to begin.
So we have a corrupt administration, am equaly corrupt and complicit main stream media, and last but not least a vile and corrupt education system that indroctrinates our children.
We can remove the administration via the voting booth but what to do about the other two.
Without exposing and dismantling the other two we will never right this ship. So our strategy must focus on the media and education.
We can begin to correct the education problems in this country by dismantling the Department of Education, removing the SecEd from the Cabinet, and restructuring federal support of education by turning the funds into block grants that are sent to the states for THEIR choices on how to structure and pay for education. And speaking of choice, if there is any federal oversight left for education after the Department is done away with, it should be for federal standards in some areas, and promotion of school choice in the states wherever possible.
As far as the media is concerned, well … if we fix education in this country, then that will hopefully mean that different voices make their way into the media (and maybe even the arts/Hollywood eventually). One should follow the other, organically, over time.
The rag MSM is slowing self-destructing. The people no longer trust them, and without trust a “new source” has no readership. The Onion has more integrity these days.
I guess a lot of dead Mexicans and a seriously damaged international relationship just isn’t “news” to the cadre of Journachicks.
The death of an individual Mexican is a tragedy for his/her family;
The deaths of untold thousands is but a statistic.
Our media are just as solipsistic as is our president
What does it say about us that we put up with this?
One word: Access.
While some individual reporters are probably willingly ignoring the story, most others know that if they cover Fast and Furious, their organization will be put on the “enemies list” and will never get to cover the administration as close as their competition. It’s the reason CNN sat on the stories of Saddam’s Iraq prior to 2003 and only painted Iraq in vague human terms.
What is shocking is that even if this isn’t nefarious – it’s a bungle on a staggering scale. An operation that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Mexican civilians and law enforcement, violation of international arms trading laws and the death of US border agents doesn’t get front page coverage?
and to think $10 billion of the stimulus money went to fund this project…
I live near Phoenix, AZ and the “newspaper of record” is The Arizona Republic. Isn’t Phoenix the centerpoint of this scandal? I have not seen a single word printed about “Fast and Furious” at all in any recent issues.
I’d buy this access defense more if the same thing happened in repub administrations, but it does not. If there is any whiff of scandall in a repub administration, reporters will be all over it, regardless of what may happen to their access. This dodge of denying access to people who might file unfavorable stories only works now because so few reporters are willing to do so, while most actively coverup for the dems. Thus the small number of honest reporters can be denied access, without anybody noticing. But if the majority of reporters were honest, instead of being dem shills, the denial of access to all of them would be so widespread that everybody would notice, and the denial of access would itself become an issue.
Access is not the main problem, leftist bias is.
Newspapers won’t die. They’ll get bailouts. Well, the ones which toe the line will.
If you want a news story, audit the holdings of retired DEA, ATF, FBI and rest of alphabet govt agencies.
There are very high percentage with millions in undeclared properties and equities and offshore accounts, derived from weapon, drug and money laundering operations.
Gunwalker is a small slice of a very large corruption scandal nobody wants to investigate. If only the public knew extent of cartel influence in the US government, maybe one day a journalist will have enough guts to write the truth.
This article should not comment on Brewster Jennings & Associates unless there is understanding of what went on within the State department / White house and why.
The stakes are much higher than a few hundred, actually millions of people were risked for personnel and political reasons regarding Brewster, the damage and loss of intelligence and relationships in the middle east are directly tied to personal vendetta’s by white house officials.
We don’t need to worry about spy’s infiltrating the pentagon or white house when we have government officials giving up decades long intelligence programs on a silver platter to satisfy their ego and pride
“Under Bush, the MSM did provide blanket coverage for the warrantless wiretapping program — which was deemed legal by the courts and caused no deaths.”
Actually, that’s not quite true. It did cause some deaths…of terrorists!
*rimshot*
“[Journalists]are no longer watchdogs, but docile sheep.”
You could also argue that they are still watchdogs, but just watchdogs for the dems, not the public. Or in other words, “hacks”.
One of those running for the Republican nomination should bring this up, perhaps at the next debate. They should bring it up even if not asked. I’d love to see Gingrich, Perry or Romney, maybe even Cain bring it to a national forum and make an issue of it. I don’t think the MSM could ignore it then.
Not docile sheep, just watchdogs with a very selective sense of which side of the property needs protecting.
I your a democrat and liberal you get full press protection, anything else you are fair game and open season on your head.
Compare petty break-in and cover-up to mass murder, supporting insurrection against an ally, subversion of US law, and an attempt to sacrifice the U.S. Constitution itself on the alter of Gun Control…
It would be 24/7 Impeachment Watch and 24/7 Perp Watch by the commie media…
Is it possible for a blogger/anyone to ask perhaps the top 12-20 news organizations (TV/Paper) if they have any reporters assigned/dedicated to this story and then compile the results? I think it would be interesting to know what specific MSM entities are doing (or not doing) with respect ot this story.
Uh, did I read that the Gunwalker perps violated STATE laws? Then why hasn’t Arizona filed State charges against the Obama-Holder gang? Arizona hasn’t seemed to shy away from confrontation with the Feds in the past. Get on it, Arizona!
Wasn’t Iran Contra about something like this?
Oh, but I forgot, those were Republicans.
Iran-Contra used Israeli-supplied munitions to sell to Iran, using that Iranian money to buy weapons from international arms-merchants for shipment to the Contras, for the purpose of overthrowing a Communist Government that had usurped power in a Central American country.
No Border Patrol, or DEA, agents were killed in Iran-Contra, only Sandanistas.
Don’t you get tired from moving all those goal-posts?
Not sure what you’re trying to say here with the moveable goalposts comment, but the ‘rats and the MSM did their level best to ‘get’ Reagan.
They were sooo sure they had impeachment material and sooo giddy with joy they offered Oliver North immunity WITHOUT knowing what he was gonna testify to.
North, a man of loyalty and integrity, had the immunity and basically said “screw you”.
The liberal ‘establishment’ HAD their chance and they screwed THAT up.
And of course the Iran-Contra situation wasn’t a set-up for massive gun control.
In other words, it’s all right for Bonnie to rob banks and kill people because Clyde did it first.
No, Bill. Fighting an enemy and supporting an enemy are opposites.
The Obama Administration is alleged to be subverting an ally by way of all types of high crimes and misdemeanors that are far more serious and numerous than the Reagan scandal. Moral equivalence is pretty hard here. There was a Pajamas Media article about this exact issue. Google it.
Barza, one of us has misinterpreted the intent of Austin’s comment. Understandable, since he’s pretty cryptic. I took him to mean that it’s all right for Democrats to “do something wrong” because the Republicans “did something wrong” first. It wasn’t about the specifics of the deeds. I doubt that Austin has a clue as to what Iran Contra was about – or cares. To him it was simply a Republican scandal, which excuses Democrats their actions. Not.
That said, it is just possible that Austin meant that the MSM covered Iran Contra 24/7 on page 1 for as long as they could because it was a Republican doings that they could portray as something bad, regardless of the facts; and that Gunwalker is a Democratic doings so it gets a pass. If that’s the case, (and it is more on-topic vis-a-vis the article), then my Bonnie and Clyde remark is inappropriate. But I don’t think so.
There are some important differences between Iran-contra and gunwalker which to me make gunwalker seem much worse:
1. The MSM was all over Iran-Contra from the very first, while they show their bias by ignoring gunwalker.
2. The only people that might have been killed as a result of Iran-Contra were with the communist nicaraguan gov who were fighting the contras. In gunwalker, the victims were friendly law enforcement agents and civilians, in both Mexico and the US.
3. I beleive Iran-contra had a special prosecutor appointed fairly early. But even if gunwalker is at least equally serious, if not worse, we have yet to see a special prosecutor.
4. Several people were indighted and went to jail in Iran-Contra. people SHOULD be going to jail for gunwalker, but haven’t yet.
5. Evidence showed that Reagan and his attorney general were not informed of the details of Iran-Contra. We have yet to find out how much Obama knows about gunwalker, and is is quite likely that attorney general Holder is implicated in gunwalker.
6. The only real similarity is in both cases the US gov was involved in illegally getting arms to people. But in Iran-Contra, the recepiants were fighting against a communist gov that was hostile to the US, and were sympathetic to the US gov. In gunwalker, the arms recepients were drug criminals who are fighting the friendly gov in Mexico, and our own gov. By my mind this also makes gunwalker much worse.
I have listed numerous points that clearly make Gunwalker much worse than Iran-Contra. If you have any that make Iran-Contra worse, I would love to hear them.
The MSM has basically functioned as a Palace Guard for the Dems and the Blue State model of governance for decades now. They are part of the team, and being team players, they aren’t going to do anything to hurt the team.
The biggest scandal regarding Watergate was the post-event mythmaking regarding The Washington Post. After Watergate, W. Mark Felt freely dished to the press about his role in COINTELPRO; That was good enough for the Post out and disown him as a self-serving backstabber which never happened. Then came his own conviction for illegal wiretaps but Woodward-Post et al still kept it all secret. Watergate was not about reportage, but creating a myth that the left held the monopoly on freedom and the myth about TWP being “non-biased”.
Ask yourself this: If North Vietnam had been a fascist country attacking a socialist government in Saigon, would we have even had an “anti-war” movement? Or would we have had a resurgence of “Lincoln Brigade” volunteerism among ’60s youth? Would the media have gone after the government so relentlessly to stop the war? Or would it have led the cheering section for a war to end “fascist aggression?” To frame this hypothesis is, I think, to answer the questions it raises.
“Nobody died in the Watergate break-ins, but the Washington Post’s dogged coverage of the story created a reputation that the now clearly partisan newsletter coasts upon to this day.”
This is the most important point about the whole “Fast and Furious” scandal. But here we have a dead American border guard agent and almost 200 dead Mexicans, and the main stream media is saying NOTHING about it. Newspapers are not even digging into this, not nearly as much as Watergate. But because there is no Republican in the White House, it’s not news. And the main stream media wonders why nobody is listening to them anymore.
I’m as cynical as the next guy, but I still believe this scandal can’t stay buried through Election Day 2012. When Issa escalates to a criminal investigation and thence to prosecution, the MSM will at least have to start spinning and denying. Two hundred dead Mexicans and a PO’d Mexican AG aren’t going to evaporate. Who knows, by then the Democrats may be sick of Obama anyway and ready to drop him for a primary opponent or other savior.
“I just want you to know that we are working on it, We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.” — Barack Obama
And now that it’s actually on the Radar Screen in some places, the MSM has begun thier full court press to put it back under the Radar.
After all, isn’t saving lives from gun violence important enough to ingnore a little scandal between friends.
“After all, isn’t saving lives from gun violence important enough to ingnore a little scandal between friends.”
No not when you lie cheat and steal not just time and money from the taxpayers but try to act as though they are wrong for feeling cheated by our own government, no it is wrong and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law of our land!
Gun violence is committed by those with no morals and most usually gang members or criminals who could care less about the law. We have such people actually in positions of great power in this country and I should not have to name names, you and I both know them.
What happened to the cash that the cartels paid to whoever for the guns?
One rather obvious question that hasn’t been asked so far is, were the straw buyers or go-betweens paid in cash, or drugs?
If the latter (which used to be SOP with the cartels), there’s a good chance that “Fast & Furious” and “Gunwalker” caused at least a minor uptick in the amount of drugs crossing the border headed north.
And if so, did they bother trying to keep tabs on where the drugs ended up? Since it would have been inside CONUS, that would at least have been in their jurisdiction.
Unless, of course, they simply didn’t care. Which I strongly suspect would be the case.
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I expected the MSM to ignore this story, but where was Fox on it? They have the ability to create the stories, but only PJM seems to be covering this debacle.
I have seen fairly decent converage from Fox. Of course Fox is also busy reporting on Solyndra, and the repub primary debates. They aren’t covering this as much as the MSM would cover an anti repub scandall, but at least they are covering it. Only the MSM is completely biased.
The scale of the cover up is akin to the cover up of the gigantic terrorist memoiral mosque being built on the Flight 93 crash site. They call it a broken circle now, but the original Crescent of Embrace remains completely intact in the so called redesign. It is a giant Islamic-shaped crescent, POINTING TO MECCA.
Yes, it is the central feature of a mosque, called a mihrab: the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built. The Park Service flat lies to the press, denying that the giant crescent points to Mecca, and the press never checks the facts because they don’t want to know.
That’s just the beginning. The Tower of Voices part of the memorial turns out to be a year-round-accurate Islamic prayer-time sundial, a very exacting structure that could simply never appear by accident. More at my link.
Patience everyone. I would remind you that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Let’s follow this where it leads and not go all 9/11 Truther just yet.
If this really is an anti-Constitutional conspiracy among dozens or hundreds of people, and not just monumental government incompetence, there is no possible way they can keep it secret. But Issa needs to do a methodical investigation before he turns it over to the Justice Department in order to be able to call them out for stonewalling or destroying evidence.
We also don’t want to be in a position to allow the media to dismiss it as “yesterday’s news” as we go into election season. Far better to build an ironclad case in dribs and drabs that continually wear down the Administration for the next ten or eleven months, then roll out the big smoking guns at the end of next summer after the conventions.
If we play our cards well, we can not only get rid of Obama and the Democratic Senate, but deal a mortal blow to the gun control agenda. If not,we’re Michael Moore.
I speculate that Gunwalker may cause Obama to throw the election. He knows the path of the dominoes leads straight to him, and he sees them falling one-by-one. A sitting president can be impeached. On the other hand, no former president has ever been prosecuted for any alleged crime, and we are unlikely to do so no matter how much of a firebrand Barry’s successor is
I read a scenerio, where barry would resign, in order for Plugs Biden to pardon him & Holder. Prez Biden (shudders) Would that make Dingy Hairy VP?
This.
The MSM *is* ignoring Gunwalker. They’re doing it to try to help President Obama. And they’re making a tremendous tactical error.
If the scandal had broken six months ago, it would have exactly no effect whatsoever on the next Presidential election. It would be “old news.”
But, since the MSM won’t talk about it, Republicans will be able to bring it to national attention when they think it will do the most good, when the evidence is even stronger and clearer, and when we have a party spokesman standing up and challenging President Obama every day on the issues — i.e. a nominee.
Of course, it’s possible that Republicans will still fail to capitalize on this…
Good point.
Issa is doing exactly what he should be doing, slowly and carefully gathering evidence, which should eventually lead to justifying a special prosecutor, and convicting the guilty.
The only really guilty parties in this are the Obama administration, and the MSM and other dems for covering up for them.
They already have the proof that this was not meant to catch drug cartels. Senator Grassley called it sinister a couple of days ago. I don’t believe BP was an accident, or the shooting in AZ. Fast and Furious was done intentionally either to frame Americans or for the reason in the attached video. Van Jones is calling for some type of uprising here in October, and then the talk of suspending elections the other day. I have to wonder if this isn’t Obama’s private army.
http://youtu.be/HWMIwziGrAQ
200 dead in Mexico is a vastly underestimated number.
As to why the MSM will not cover this issue (all the comments above I accept as true) I do not see any mention of my belief that most, if not all, of the Left are drug users. Drug users with blood on their hands, lungs and up their nose.
Obama himself shows signs of Meth use.
Meanwhile, the street prices of a gram of coke and/or a kilo of Mexcan pot have plummeted. That’s the strategy, keep the “upper-crust” high on coke, and keep the ‘lower class” stoned on pot….. while the republic crumbles as basic freedoms give way to restricted rights. “Nothing to see here”, those thousands of dead Mexicans won’t be crossing the border. “It’s their problem”
Meanwhile dirty DEA agents get rich, and the pols get to demagogue the drugs and guns issue ad nauseum.
Seems like a win-win-win to me!
/sarc
Yeah, and meanwhile twenty thousand shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles have been liberated from the Libyan armories and are in route to Gaza and Somalia and…? Of course, there’s no boots on the ground to track them down under the new Obama humanitarian intervention model. With that in mind, what’s a few federal bought and paid for AK47 variants getting across the border, Mexico way, to get upset about–not a bad kill ratio, 200 Mexican nationals to one US Agent? Haven’t seen LaRaza or Ruben Navarret complaining about the carnage or the failure to lock down the border to federal gun smuggling. Looks like a pretty good amoral attrition strategy to me with historical precedents, it even exceeds the Vietnam ratio of ten commies to one American killed. However, when those European airliners start falling out of the skies with some main stream media types on board you may finally see a stink get raised over the Obama intervention model–until the price of Brent crude exceeds one twenty per barrel.
What I’d like to know is how many MSM guys are Friends of Angelo.
Let’s play “if Bush did it.”
Oooo, I love that game! It is almost as much fun as, “If Palin said that.” (gush)
So let me get this straight, the Justice Dept. sanctioned the ATF to commit felonies which resulted in an cop being murdered. Seems like this makes the ATF and the Justice Dept. accomplices to murder. I would bet that no arrests have been made in either agency.
The idea probably came from a sermon by Jeremiah Wright on the idea of casting one’s bread upon the water, or something to that effect. “Hey, let’s just give some drug pushers a bunch of automatic weapons and see what happens.”
“Great idea!”
is this all in english? or can it be translated to spanish? B/c if I were spanish, and hearing about how the us gov’t was killing my family, I might want to get up in church and start talking during testimony times. I know that the proprietors of this site are mostly secular, but how you inform people in the middle? about justice? is in church.
if we have all these illegal immigrants coming here for safety, wouldn’t they be upset that the gov’t here was undermining safety? and making it very impossible to go home? how’s about making it easy for them to learn what is going on?
Here are two:
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
http://www.blogdelnarco.com/
Remember this? It’s the New York Times Magazine’s special edition on Abu Ghraib, complete with a ponderous Susan Sontag meditation on the meaning of representations of images of torture: http://donswaim.com/nytimes.sontag.html
In addition to the magazine, the Times ran 32 consecutive front-page stories about the scandal.
Watergate morphed from a story into a veritable moonwalk that sprouted more self-serving biopics than all of Woodward and Bernstein’s sideburn hairs. Heck, their sideburn hairs have more biopics than some major wars.
And I do seem to recall reading something in the paper about Iran-Contra. Not to mention it’s the only thing they teach middle-schoolers in social studies class, besides lessons on Americans’ insensitivity in the wake of 9/11.
So, yes, there is a cover-up by the media. And it is extraordinary. And it depends on keeping those 200 murdered men and women faceless and nameless (as Susan Sontag could tell us in more than 50,000 words). So I hope Pajamas keeps up the good work and publishes some of their stories.
I’m incredulous there isn’t rioting over this. But I guess I guess i read too many books.
“Scandal of the Century” seems rather hyperbolic. Wasn’t the Iraq war which resulted in the deaths of thousands of US soldiers, tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis, and the wasting of potentially trillions of dollars, rather more scandalous? Or how about the wholesale looting and ruination of the US and world economy by the Wall Street banksters, aided and abetted by their bought and paid for congresspeople of far greater consequence than “gunwalker”? Who has paid the price for those debacles? But then we couldn’t pin those scandals on BHO… Yes, gunwalker sucks and is an example of this administration’s gross incompetence. But it pales in comparison to the two larger issues cited.
Unfortunately for you TimJ, “But – but – but — IRAQ!” is nothing but a rhetorical response; your guys Obama and Holder will need an actual legal defense. Start working on that.
“aided and abetted by their bought and paid for congresspeople”
Do you mean people like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd? Maybe we should look at which presidential candidate got the vast majority of Wall Street money in the 2008 election. Who was the favored candidate of Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms? (Hint: It was not McCain.) You can find the names of those involved in the book, Reckless Endangerment. I agree that we need to hold the people responsible accountable, and if we ever do, we will find that many more of them were Democrats than Republicans.
As for the Iraq war, it had bipartisan Congressional approval in the beginning. It was not a secret and illegal government operation that was never meant to be known to the public, unlike Fast and Furious.
But keep trying to defend the Obama administration with the Blame-Bush meme.
“Wasn’t the Iraq war which resulted in the deaths of thousands of US soldiers, tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis, and the wasting of potentially trillions of dollars, rather more scandalous?”
Yeah, it’s a scandal that we didn’t wipe the Baathists and their pet terrorists (like Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas just to name a couple) off the face of the planet the minute we found out they were killing Americans.
Thanks, to George Bush II, that’s fixed.
Now we go to work on wiping the Democrats and their (current) pet terrorists (Mexican Drug Gangs) off the face of the earth.
“The could have lived, but chose death.”
I say “Good Riddance” would be a better epitaph.
When the republican primary is over this issue will come to greater light. When Obama loses in 2012 the perpetrators of this insidious crime will have to answer for what they have done. That is my great hope, and I think a very good possibility.
We owe a great debt to those who have broken this story and to PJM, and to you Mr. Owens for continually hammering on it. Keep it up Sir.
I posted before the story came on Fox’s ‘The Five’; I am watching Bob Beckel attempt to defend the indefensible yet again.
Governor Perdue of North Carolina has suggested suspending elections in 2012 and the ‘panel’ is discussing it.
Gunrunning to enemies of the US, wishing for dictatorial powers, suspension of elections….These are some very very dangerous people. They are not un-american. They are anti-american. It is not over the top to call them enemies of this country.
Tim J –
By “ten of thousands of innocent Iraqis” do you mean the 300,000 plus murdered civilians found in mass graves in Iraq or maybe the Kurdish and Shia victims of Chemical Ali’s poison gas?
By “Wall Stree Banksters” do you mean Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their enablers in congress (Dodd, Frank, etc.). By “looting and ruination” do you mean the ill concieved Community Reinvestment Act that started the avalanche of bad debt?
Regardless, the rule of law is paramount to a free society*. It is becoming more and more clear that laws were broken as part of Operation Fast and Furios by the very people charged with enforcing the law, including the AG of the US and, perhaps, the President (our chief law enforcement officer). Even worse, it now appears that the perpetrators are trying to cover it up with assitance from their enablers in the mainstream media.
* By the way, President Bush asked and received permission to invade Iraq from both Congress and the United Nations. Look it up. At the same time, you might check on how much taxpayer money has been sunk into Fannie and Freddie to bail out the miserable results of the CRA. Or you could just contiue to go along wiht the main stream medias tired talking points like a useful idiot…
Do you really think that the Marxist Media that lied, obfuscated, and hid Lil Barry’s radical associations are going to do any stories that nail their guy.
Oh, no they are into the protecting their investment in their multicultural man of mystery.
You must have all missed the plaintive whine in today’s LA Times by one James Rainer: “Without Newspapers there might be No News.”
He says all your news originates with newspapers. Really.
Remember how the newspapers chased down Dan Rather and John Edwards? The unbiased stories about Obama’s experience and views in 2008? The devastating stories about Madoff before he collapsed? The critiques of the Health Care Bill? The outing of Solyndra before it went BK? The housing bubble? Remember how all those caught the bloggers asleep? Remember?
Very good article here.
Coupled with the news report of 18,000 Mexican cartel active in the Perry state of Texas.
¡Viva México del Norte
This isn’t the first time there’s been a scandal where it turned out the “liberal” Dems murdered people and the MSM helped keep it under wraps.
They did it in the Tuskegee Syphilis “Experiment” and the whole thing stayed a deep dark secret, for decades, until…Dick Nixon was president.
Same thing with the My Lai massacre, which took place under a Democrat Administration (though it wasn’t planned, it just happened), but was kept buried until…Dick Nixon was president.
Same old, same old. Generally speaking, the MSM has zero interest in scandals, including scandals where government murders, people unless they can use it against a Republican controlled government.
It’s not always that way (ask Slick Willy about it), but it usually is that way.
This story is too difficult for “journalists” to understand. After all the story is -
Obama administration conspired to violate US arms export laws by directly providing arms to Mexican drug cartels in order to gin up support for another “assault weapons” ban and other infringements on the 2A.
You see, there are more words in that sentence than in -
“Obama sends a tingle up my leg”.
It simply is above the ability of today’s journalists to comprehend!
It’s supposedly racist to point out the failings of this President
apparently he is untouchable because he is part black
the sad part is, he’s all fool
You would think that Drudge would highlight something on this everyday. People don’t trust traditional media and get their news online. If we need to inform American’s then it has to be taken on by the web. Thanks PJM for keeping your readers up to date.
JJKRN, re: “I pray, and hope, and pray some more our mostly dedicated military is up to the task of securing the sacred Constitution of the United States. God bless America.”
The armed forces had their chance to protect and defend the constitution, but they didn’t do it. Obama, who fails the test of natural-born citizenship under article II, section I of the constitution, is in office illegitimately. The first time he tried to issue orders as CIC of the armed forces, the Joint Chiefs should have refused to carry them out until his status was clarified via the Supreme Court or by other means. The members of the JCS should have been willing to fall on their swords if necessary, and resign rather than carry out possibly illegal orders. Instead, they rolled over like a bunch of trained poodles begging for a doggie treat. LTC Terry Lakin, MD – an officer and a gentleman who took his officer’s oath seriously – refused deployment orders until Obama’s status could be clarified. He was trying to do the job his superiors – military and civilian alike – were supposed to do, but did not. The army threw Lakin under the bus in a rigged trial, and Obama has since moved on to waging war in the Middle East without Congressional approval, and without a peep of disapproval from our senior military leaders.
The rank-and-file of our military are patriots, but the fish rots from the head, and our senior officer corps has been corrupted. Many of them care more about their pensions than doing their duty.
Reading these comments is scary. Take a few minutes and read them as a whole and try to start from an unbiased state. I don’t think the anger displayed is healthy. It has me shaking my head.
The anger is not healthy, but it is righteous. We are supposed to be angry.
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
There simply comes a time when one must fight. If the ballot box fails, the only thing left is the ammo box. We have been resisting the ammo box for a long time. We are trying to hold out until the next election. However, every day, more outrages are discovered.
Gunwalker was nothing more than an attempt to undermine the 2nd Amendment, which lately has been completely supported by the Supreme Court in every case. This violates their many offices. It is treasonous. There is no other word for it. They violated many, many laws in order to subvert our Natural Constitutional Rights.
Let us look at some more complaints of our Founders, elucidated in that great charter.
“He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”
No budgets from the Dems. They refuse to pass them. I think we have reached 100 days of no budget from Congress.
“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.”
Obama has sued to stop various immigration laws passed by the States.
“He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.”
Obama refused to declare the massive Texas wildfires a disaster zone. Red State Texas job creation makes him look bad. He denies them out of pique, while declaring far more disaster zones for far smaller things. For his friends.
“He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.”
We have a sitting Democratic Governor, who faces dismal approval numbers, advocating for suspending elections! She is not alone! The President himself has stated his “temptation” to just seize full power, and his devotees cheer it! Obama vowed also to go around Congress to enact his agenda via executive orders, to do the very things which have already failed in Congress.
These are mere examples, and are not the exact same violations. They are usurpations, nonetheless. Unhealthy anger? Yep. Justified? Absolutely. For we verge on Tyranny. 2013 cannot get here soon enough. It’s gonna be a close-run thing.
This anger is not healthy? As another poster states, it is right. This country is going down the tubes at the hands of a socialist narcissist, it is deliberate, and planned. This is not a conspiracy theory. We are on the slick path to be a 3rd world country, with a few very powerful at the top, and the rest lower middle class and poor. THAT is scary. Wake up.
Ah yes, the “anger” accusation.
It would be nice if people like you took the claims you make seriously enough to actually sign your name when you write such nonsense. It’s one thing to engage in a conversation on the web. It’s entirely different to lob false accusations at a group of people while hiding behind an anonymous tag.
Le’t be really clear about what you’re doing here: you are claiming that you fear the people on this comment thread, but you’re not actually worried enough to act on this “fear” you’ve manufactured.
Talk is cheap. But when somebody accuses me of something as serious as being dangerous, I want to be able to defend myself. Because I’m not, like, the Justice Department, which apparently doesn’t need to fear any accusation, including those that show up by registered mail from concerned parties who have the backbone to do so publicly.
I don’t think you’re really afraid of anything, Julian. I think you’re trying to silence people with whom you disagree.
Thank you for responding to my concerns. Apparently I am alone in my reading, which is not new for me. I am usually one of the last to figure out what is going on.
For instance, I thought Coulter’s book, “Demonic”, pegged the Democrats as the party of violence. But then, maybe it is because of this fact that you are getting ready. I just get so confused when the guns come out. This is because I just can’t see where it is headed. I am blind.
The “Scandal of the Century” is that Obama is in office in the first place, for the Kenyan fails the test of natural-born citizenship – aka article 2, section 1 of the constitution. Even if Obama was born in the USA (which has not been conclusively proven or documented), he still fails the test, because his father was a Kenyan and a subject of the British Empire in 1961, the year of Obama’s birth.
Operation Fast and Furious, specifically “Gunwalker,” should bring down the Obama regime. Watergate was serious, but no one died as a result of it. At least one American, and as many as 200 Mexicans, have been killed as a direct result of this lawless conspiracy. Holder, Napolitano, and Obama himself, should be indicted, convicted and imprisoned.
I am with you Georgiaboy61, Obama’s SS# was recently flagged by the Government E-Verify system put in place to expose illegal immigrants. This can be added to the evidence already collected by State Licensed Private Investigators who discovered Obama was using a FRAUDULENT SS# months ago. This represents additional evidence pointing to a lack of a VALID Birth Certificate, as typically individuals without a valid Birth Certificate have to resort to using invalid and fraudulent SS#s. We have an Undocumented Worker in the WH who needs to be investigated promptly and thoroughly.
so, not following and believing in our current white house occupant is racist.
last year to not believe that picture of a suspect birth certificate (b.c.)
was real was racist.
well, hate to break it to everybody, but following that logic, if you don’t believe in BIGfoot or in u.f.o.’s, you are a racist.
you see, i have pix of both, and they both look more real than that piece of crap b.c.
our simple friends call us racist for not believing w/o any forensic proof.
forrest gump’s mother was right about being stupid.
it is truly amazing how far and how fast our great country has fallen following this commie tripe. affirmative action has already taken a terrible toll on our ability to tell facts from fiction, and speak up about it. i fear for what is to become of my country.
I’m surprised that you missed the most obvious parallel: Iran-Contra. How much ink was spilled over that, as compared to Obama’s scandal?
Thank you for raising this issue again and calling it the greatest scandal. I totally agree. Some have urged patience as Issa slowly uncovers the evidence. But I remember Watergate. I remember the press HOUNDING the Whitehouse for answers. Any opportunity for the press to question the Administration about anything should automatically morph into a challenge for answers on this topic.
We have two horrible scandals here. One is the international and domestic killing spree that the Administration has caused. The other is the failure of our press to call them on it. I love the epitaph: “They could have lived but chose to die.” The fact that they seem to be doing this in lock step with no one breaking from the herd in the name of truth is most disturbing. I don’t understand it.
It means if you approached them and said “Here is your chance to be a Woodward! Here is your chance to be a Bernstein!”, they would look at you, mumble something unintelligible, and walk away.
Seriously, I wonder if they (the MSM) have even thought of the difficulty they are going to re-establish their credibility? If they don’t deem this story worthy of coverage, and it all breaks after the 2012 election, it will be obvious what they have done. The LATNYTWaPoABCCBSNBC claque will have no more credibility than the Globe, the National Enquirer, the UK’s Sun, and maybe even less…
Yeah, calling Woodward & Bernstein — Hello? [knock knock] … Pulitzer Prize, anyone? It’s there for the taking. Imagine the momentousness of it all: First Black Administration in American History Conspires with Narco-Terrorists, Then Tries to Cover Up. It is the story of our time! Fame awaits the intrepid journalist who has the courage (like Dustin Hoffman — or was it Robert Redford? — Jason Robards?) to reveal the SHOCKING and SORDID truth re sociopathic conduct at the HIGHEST level.
How can Hollywood resist this? It practically writes itself: _All the President’s Strawmen_; starring Spike Lee as Barack Obama; Will Ferrell as Joe Biden; Jane Fonda as Eric Holder; Ellen DeGeneres as Hillary Clinton; Rosie O’Donnell as Janet Napolitano; Ricardo Montalban as Leon Panetta; Ron Jeremy as David Axelrod … with cameo appearances by Whoopie Goldberg as Michelle (“The Mooch”) Obama; Sean Penn as Rahm Emanuel; Robert Redford as Harry Reid; Phyllis Diller as Nancy Pelosi; Matt Damon as Jay Carney; Alec Baldwin as Bill Clinton; Janeane Garofalo as Bill Clinton’s personal secretary; and Charlie Sheen as “Bo” the Portuguese Water Dog. (Rated GLA for General Liberal Spoonfed audiences.)
“Jane Fonda as Eric Holder”
I dunno about that one.
Love it! Can’t wait for the grand opening. Maybe in Washington?
The main stream media’s bias is what elected Obama in the first place. It’s what keeps Obama’s job approval so surprisingly high even now. And it’s a crime that nothing is done to stop it.
Of course, The sheepish Republican Party could sap the power of the lying media. Trouble is, they don’t know how.
They don’t realize that the sheep media represents more a marketing problem than a political problem. Macko Rubio, incidentally, is the only Republican around who can make the mental leap from telling something to selling something.
Fact is, taking out an opponent as weak and despised as Obama is like trying to to hit a ten foot wall with a rock standing five feet away. It’s like holing a two inch putt. It should be easy. But watching the fumbling Republican candidates debate is like seeing a re-run of the Bad New Bears movie. The only good line in the last debate was stolen from Rush. (Shovel ready….)
In spite of themselves, though, the Republicans will win in 2012. Obama will take NY and California. The Republicans will run the table with the other 48 states.
Apart from crippling the main stream media; one obvious way to hurt Obama is to put the U.S. National Debt Clock in the background of every Fox evening show. If Hannity’s producers had any brains, they’d do because it complements Hannity’s silly “Can we afford another four years” line so nicely.
No, the main stream media bias isn’t the scandal of the century. The scandal of the century is not being smart enough to know how to disarm it.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/media-having-trouble-finding-right-angle-on-obamas,2703/
Satire, but spot on.
We are living in the Left’s wet dream. Hopefully the right will awaken and rise up.
The evil criminal in the white house and his evil twin in the justice department are hell bent on destroying, i.e., “fundamentally transforming” America. The criminal, communist media, i.e., MSLSD (according to Mark Levin) are stollworth allies to the evil twins and their minions. I honestly do not believe, unless God intervenes, that America will survive until the 2012 elections. We are on the hit list by these evil communists, just as Israel is on that list of seek and destroy. I have a clear conscience. I didn’t vote for him.
There’s an old couplet, “Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?/ For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.” Keep that in mind, folks. In the old days, anyone connected with a treason was done up the good old fashioned way: hanged, drawn, and quartered, with the head set on a pike and the quarters sent to the four corners of the realm. In our case, this includes the reptiles (aka MSM) Not for nothing did Bismarck call his slush fund, ‘the Reptile Fund’.
The generals? What about Africa? I recall coups being mounted by flight lieutenants (Jerry Rawlings) and master sergeants (Samuel K Doe). It may come to that. It can happen here, folks. O Guillotine! Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite—ou la Mort.
How many NYT cover stories on Abu Ghraib? How many on Gunwalker?
Like their fellow travelers of old, Hitler and Stalin. Murder and betrayal are part of their plan for conquest of this great nation.
Say, doesn’t Rick Perry own a gun?!!
Gunwalker/F&F coverage is nonexistent outside the USA.
Mr. Owens, I’ve noticed friends, colleagues and sadly family (though in-laws!) eat up WaPo, NYT, SacBee etc., due to Illiberals NEVER research/question said fictitious/sensationalism-type articles.
An Illiberal friend will spout off some nonsense whereas I’ll provide FACTUAL background to the topic, not my take on the matter, he’ll then go silent for a moment where we’ll veer into a mundane discussion.
I’m sure some people have read NYT’s comments section following a Krugman piece (..of shit). Facts are optional and NEVER explored, used. Frightening stuff.
It’s the same useful idiots who use Michael Moore as ‘validity’ when Michael Moore has been quoted in regards to his ‘documentaries’ being more opinion. Apparently his usurpers hearing was amiss that day.
Nearly every piece on a news network is not ‘news’ per se. The majority are their slant of human interest-only. Attempting to reprogram the viewer by a ‘Clockwork Orange-esque’ means to come about to their form of ‘right’- counterproductive gender, climatological (look at Oz politics right now.. yikes), sexual, financial, racial, agricultural etc., ‘justice’.
The SCANDAL of the CENTURY is Obama FORGED Birth Certificate release on April 27th and his FRAUDULENT SS# FLAGGED by the Government Web Page E-Verify. Gun Runner has nothing on a CRIMINAL in the Oval Office who just so happens to be the Commander-in-Chief. He has been COMPROMISED to the extent that he should be our top National Security issue.
Why are we surprised! The MSM’s so anti 2nd Amendment they can not cover this story. Only FOX News is giving it the attention it deserves. The fact is-to have a free country you must have news that covers both sides of any issue.
We used to have balance. Now if you don’t look for both sides you don’t get it.
I have no doubt that the MSM is working hard to devise cover stories, distraction articles and any kind of screening they can come up with to cover the administrations butt. They know how serious this is and, since its pointing to a Democrat, it must be buried.
The MSM should be renamed DCS. Democratic cover stories. They are all the same and are no longer news organizations. Fox News is one of the few, such as PJ Media, that honestly report news. They are not owned by G.Soros who is left of Stalin and Lenin.
My thanks to PJ Media, Fox News, and all others who honestly report the news and are not cowed by Soros and Democrats.
Forget NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the rags that are simply lap dogs of the left.
We live in interesting, albeit terrifying times. The article rightly exposes an either corrupt, or incompetent international media. But times change. Outlets like MSM once coined Abu Graibh; now outlets like PJM coin Gunwalker, terms of common usage. The result is the destruction of old line news monopolies such as the NYT, or CBS. They published every negative trivia about GWB’s air force record, or about Sarah Palin, but ignored John Edward’s scandal. The Boston Globe broke the well known story about the Catholic church priest pedophile scandal, but ignores a ten fold worse scandal in our public schools.
It is inevitable as rain, that the next political season will bring more scandals, both real and lies. Erudite people will decide who gets awesome power, based on media reports. But Gallup polls reveal a media deeply distrusted. It is reasonable, and not complicated. The NYT can not run a fifty font head line proclaiming that as of tomorrow, we will stop lying. Today, in our sophisticated world, this is normally done by omission, e.g. blanket coverage of Sarah Palin’s stolen emails, not a word on John Edwards. Or DoJ – Gunwalker facts.
Mr. Owens, et al may, or may not, get a Pulitzer, which itself has been debased. He has contributed to American history, by reporting facts. It is enough. Thank you, well done. Keep it going, and straight.
I have not bought a mainstream newspaper or magazine for 20 years and shall not again.
I thank my fellow American taxpayers for paying for the Internet, which has disintermediated the biased hacks of the Left.
Mainstream journalists have betrayed the American people and their profession, by siding with the Democrat Party and opposing the Republican Party.
Shame! Shame! Everlasting shame on all of you.
Best to stop using the expression “MSM” in as much as that attaches some kind of elevated position that this branch of news/editorial media no longer deserves. It is definitely not main stream media. Somehow, Lamestream media sounds a bit amateur and snarky.
Around here, we have divided up the Media into two branches: Old Media and New Media and have defined both. To wit:
Old Media consists of predominately leftwing, pro-Democrat-Party newspapers(LAT,NYT, ChTrib, HouChron,and just about all in between), TV(NBC,ABC,CBS, MSNBC, CNN and suck ilk), magazines such as Newsweek, Time, New Yorker), a bit of blog and a little talk radio. That’s Old Media, which is dying, plays to shrinking audience, suppresses major news breaks and stories, and generally acts as a shield to the feckless DemProgs.
New Media consists of predominately Conservative newspapers(WSJ, Wash.Times,NYPost), TV(Fox 1,2, CNBC Kudlow, GBTV), big presense on talk radio and Internet (Pajamas, GBTV, Breitbart), and magazines(Nat.Review, Weekly Standard, Commentary). This is New Media, which is living and expanding, plays to exploding audience, breaks most all the news stories and follows them up with accurate reporting, factual documentation, and genuine exposes.
So make the distinction; it’s easy; it’s reality. Examples: No passes to BHO&Co. deliberate screwups—-they’re not screwups, they are actions to fulfill the progressivist agenda to tear down America, Fast&Furious is a key story. But this goes on and on and most people get their news and breaks from New Media. We all begin using the phrase New Media, it will happen very quickly that such phrasing will take over as it should and need to.
I can’t help wondering how many of these guns will walk back across the border in late 2012, along with the criminals that carry them Perhaps Jimmy Hoffa & Richard Trunka and other leftist loons will appreciate, shall we say, reinforcements. Just wondering. There never was any real tracking, so the effective purpose was nil. That and Obama’s constant hate speeches and rabble rousing do not have a civil intent. Pieces to a puzzle, but as before, I can’t help wondering.
“I don’t wish to understate it: elements of the U.S. Departments of Justice, State, Homeland Security, and Treasury are responsible for supplying an arsenal to narco-terrorists waging a civil war against an American ally. Our federal government may bear responsibility for at least 200 murders committed with “walked” firearms, in what Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales describes as a “betrayal” of her country by the Obama administration.”
But you ARE understating it! There is virtually no remaining room for doubt that there have been two hundred cases of murders of Mexican citizens by means of firearms supplied from the United States, with the connivance of the DoJ, FBI et al.. The real question now is what the genuine toll is. Given the numbers of guns involved, does anyone seriously think that the number of victims will plateau out at two hundred? The cartels aren’t hanging those other guns above their fireplaces.
“I don’t wish to understate it: elements of the U.S. Departments of Justice, State, Homeland Security, and Treasury are responsible for supplying an arsenal to narco-terrorists waging a civil war against an American ally. Our federal government may bear responsibility for at least 200 murders committed with “walked” firearms, in what Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales describes as a “betrayal” of her country by the Obama administration.”
I suspect, though, that you actually are understating it. There is virtually no remaining room for doubt that there have been two hundred cases of murders of Mexican citizens by means of firearms supplied from the United States, with the connivance of the DoJ, FBI et al.. The real question now is what the genuine death toll turns out to be. Given the numbers of guns involved, does anyone seriously think that the number of victims will plateau out at two hundred? The cartels aren’t hanging those other guns above their fireplaces.
As with the Pajamasmedia pieces on the DoJ recruitment scandal, this is an excellent series of articles, which would put the MSM to shame, if the MSM had any.
Great post – spot on, mate.
I simply can’t believe there aren’t tons of young and hungry journalists who want to make a name for themselves by reporting this criminal operation.
Here’s a petition to get an independent prosecutor to find the truth…
http://wh.gov/4Gg
I have yet to fathom the lack of coverage of Gunwalker. The only rational explanation left at this point is willful silence. That makes the MSM complicit in the scandal. Kudos to those going after the Solyndra scandal but let’s be clear: no one has DIED due to the fraud and waste associated with Solyndra. I’ve heard more screeching from the media over Michelle Bachmann’s speaking off the cuff about Gardasil, for Pete’s sake.
The understatement is in the fact that the House Committee has only looked at the traffic heading south. What went north in exchange? Drugs? Cash? Political influence? Where did the cash/drugs/whatever start its journey and where did it stop? Is the WH in debt to drug lords? Are employees of the US Government richer because of the walking guns? Who has been corrupted in the USA? Surely the murders in Mexico are not the only crimes. The 2nd Amendment looks like a smokescreen to cover more serious crimes.
With due respect and regard to the points of the article (I agree except for the title)the “Ignoring the Scandal of the Century” , it begs correction. I love Mr. Owens writing but the “ignoring” for almost all journalists, media outlets, and CONgress, DoJ, SCOTUS, and average citizens of this Republic regarding the illegal status as putative POTUS barry soetero.
Now, before any comments are posted please present facts that refute the claim. Experts (20 total so far, 10 ex CIA) have confirmed barry soetero’s birth record as a forgery. Formal criminal charges have been filed to the FBI of this scenario by sworn affidavits. Three investigators have confirmed the SS# of barry soetero to be fraudulent. Another private investigator has confirmed that barry (aka obama) cannot pass the E-Verify system as a legal citizen to be employed in the USA. So, the status of GunWalker is definitely high on the list but, THE crime of the MILLENNIUM is the liar-in-chief occupying the Oval office being ignored.
The most astounding aspect of this fraud on “we the people” is the massive complicity of writers, CONgressional members, Justices, and circuit court judges that won’t allow standing. If the documentation is hidden by Executive order (#13489)of barry’s past, and judges won’t allow discovery, the looming question is WHY? If birthers are crazy, why not allow discovery? Why not release the college records that will confirm foreign student aid? Why is the only person that did snoop the passport records of barry now dead? Why is there not ONE student of 400+ at Columbia that ever saw him on campus?
Why does he have a Connecticut SS# ?
I could list more questions as above but suffice it to say, unless these legitimate inquires are answered with verified data and confirmed by independent sources the MAIN issue is still on the table. So, who is ignoring what? Here is a challenge to PJ Media and the readers-answer the few questions above with source documentation on the non-vetting of barry soetero (his last legal name found on Indonesian passport)and I publicly will apologize for this comment post on this wonderful journalistic venue.
The liberal media has always highly prided itself on its coverage of Watergate back in the 70′s. But the reality of Watergate was: it was a simple break in no one died, no one was injured yet people went to jail and a president was forced to resign in disgrace, and it is still talked about today. Today we have a scandal that makes Watergate look like two preschool children arguing over a sandbox toy. This Fast and Furious scandals we have known American deaths, 200+ dead Mexicans, drugs with our governments blessing allowed to flow into America from Mexico, 1400+ missing AK47 firearms mostly likely now in the hands of drug cartel members, these guns “also allowed with our governments blessing to enter into Mexico” are now turning up at multiple crime scenes. The true goal of Fast and Furious was to attack the Second Amendment by having these “walked” guns show up crime scene, and then be traced back to American gun shops and dealers. Obama and the left would then push for more gun control by saying things like: criminals are easily getting their guns from American gun shops not the black market, therefor more firearm restrictions are needed. Remember Obama has been bragging to his liberals supporters that he has been working behind the scene for more gun control well, here it is in all its glory. This scheme from Obama almost worked except for due to Obama’s stupidity and incompetence, Fast and Furious got out of control. They lost track of multiple guns, the body count started mounting, and someone had enough brain cells to blow the whistle on the entire mess. One would think that a scandal this big would make the media smell blood and be circling around like sharks anticipating a big fat meal. But with only a few exceptions most of the media does not want any part of it and thry seem to be doing their best to suppress it and make it go away. I believe this scandal goes right to the top, Obama literally has blood on his hands, impeachment should be only the opening salvo is this, there are multiple murders are involved here including a American citizen. The liberal Obama lap dog media is presently to do all they can to shield Obama from this and the Obama regime is attempting to stone wall all investigation into Fast and Furious, it looks like it will be up to us the regular American citizens to hold our representatives feet to fire till justice is done.
OK… I am reporting every one of you to ATTACK WATCH.. Tomorrow belongs to me!
I mentioned Fast and Furious to a liberal at work, and he knew nothing about it.This was two weeks ago. Something to keep in mind when you are tempted to argue with a liberal.They are the most uninformed people you will meet in America; but then, you can’t really blame them.They get their news from the MSM. But, to be fair, they COULD tell you if Sarah Palin ever farted in church.
Dear Mr. Owens,
While the information you provide on GunSlime-er is pretty good, your conclusion that the MSM are sheep is wrong. They are much more akin to the attack dogs owned by any self-protective, corrupt group such as drug dealers, pimps or a theft-ed parts-chopper junk yard. The dog’s keep comes from the “master”, in this case the coalition of freeloaders(MSM consumers), enablers(the MSM itself) and legitimatizers(government functionaries), in a manner that the current administration epitomizes. There is no way to hurt them, save hard work in informing, inspiring and actuating the destruction of the financial foundation to this corrupt coalition, through boycotts and the ballot. A lot of work.
Why in the name of all that’s holy does not the U.S. House of Representatives commence impeachment hearings with regard to Obama, Holder and Clinton? Holder and Clinton are deeply implicated in the treasonous government gun-running programs, which could not have been implemented without Obama’s initiative. Obama is very likely a Comintern mole, and has been for all or most of his adult life.
Such hearings should at least get the so-called mainstream media’s attention.
There is another historically unprecedented scandal – actually, a communist cabal – that should be included within the scope of the hearings. Thorough investigation would probably prove that Obama lost his U.S. citizenship through his acquisition and exercise of Indonesian citizenship. Moreover (though this goes more to election fraud than citizenship) he stole the 2008 election by pretending to be African American. Obama is probably the first ineligible President since Chester Alan Arthur, and the first in history not to be a U.S. citizen. This and all other grounds for impeachment should be included in the scope of impeachment hearings.
Congressional investigation is increasingly urgent:
- rank and file Democrats need to know the facts, such as Obama’s real identity, racial heritage, citizenship and allegiance, to decide whether to renominate him;
- state secretaries of state need to know whether to allow him onto their respective states’ ballots; and
- the People and their official representatives need to be aware of a probable mole hiding in plain sight at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
What a brilliant comment! It’s so frustrating isn’t it? And utterly unbelievable what is happening. What I wanted to ask was, what do you mean about obama’s racial heritage? I thought he was 1/2 Kenyan.
This is like one of those expose’ movies of the seventies: China Syndrome, All the President’s Men,etc. Only those movies were made to expose corruption in what Hollywood perceived as ‘right-wing’ issues. They never, ever deal with the huge scandals in this or any other democratic administration because Hollywood and the so-called main stream media is nothing but a sham…ill-informed, bigoted, shallow, utterly corrupt and biased (to put it mildly) and like many of your ‘California contributors’ pretty stupid, as well. Have I covered most of the bases?
This president, like the democratic crook before him, should have been impeached a long time ago. How did the leftist thugs get such a stranglehold on the media? Is there any hope for truth like the scandal you’ve exposed to be made known? Stay tuned to the ever shocking, never boring saga of America as she slides into decay and chaos.
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