Posted on 04/17/2009 6:33:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
Weapons: Reporting on President Obama's visit to Mexico, the Washington Post parrots both governments' line that 90% of guns confiscated from the drug lords originate in the U.S. They're all shooting blanks.
In the liberal circles of the mainstream media and the current administration, not to be redundant, the example du jour was in the Post's coverage Thursday of President Obama's visit to Mexico.
Post reporter Spencer Hsu told us that Mexico "has seized more than 35,000 firearms since December 2006, and both governments say 90% of the weapons originated in the U.S."
The only truth here is that both governments have repeated this falsehood as truth. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it to reporters on a flight to Mexico City. Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell that "most of the weapons, almost 16,000, are assault weapons and 90% of those were sold in the United States."
Well, both governments are wrong, and a little bit of investigative journalism would have unearthed that factoid. First, Mexico sends only one-third of the confiscated weapons to the U.S. for tracing. Of that third, many can't be traced due to efforts to remove registration markings.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
The only guns from the U.S. in Mexico that weren’t stolen (by illegals returning home) are SUPPLIED BY OUR GOVERNMENT to their military and police.
Yeah, like I can buy an RPG at the local Wally World.
If Bubba was a pathological liar, what does that make Øbama? /dumbass rhetorical question
Not part of the MSM's current orders, which are to distort the truth, marginalize and demononize the gun crowd as "extremists."
So let’s turn this blatant lie around on these leftist f@@@s and push for more border control based on stopping this non-existent flow of arms...
BTTT
I wouldn’t be surprised if Hugo Chavez and Venezuela have hands in this as well.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Hugo Chavez and Venezuela have hands in this as well.
The Venezuelan AK-47 Factory. (Another source says it's not on line yet.)
When members of the administration and Sneaky Leader himself continues to tell known and provable lies, they are either incredibly stupid or incredibly hostile or both.
The Anointed one is full of shi’ite...again!
The Anointed one is full of shi’ite...again!
Gun control ping (flashback)
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