Is press working fast and furiously to deflect blame for botched gun sting?(gunwalker)

Seattle Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 9 August, 2011 | Dave Workman

[marktwain]

Readers of Tuesday’s edition of USA Today were treated to an editorial, a rebuttal by National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and a “hard news” story that, taken all together, make it appear that the newspaper’s editorial board either doesn’t “get it” about Operation Fast and Furious, or they are feverishly trying to deflect responsibility.

It is not likely Pacific Northwest gun rights activists will buy it, judging from conversations on the Northwest Firearms and WaGuns forums.

In the story, focusing on the most prolific Fast and Furious suspect, Uriel Patino, the newspaper clearly points to the culpability of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for allowing guns into criminal hands:

Now, Patino was back for more. And the ATF, eager for the young suspect to lead them to a bigger fish in the rich trafficking ring, was more than happy to oblige, despite concerns raised by the local gun store. Alarmed by the size of Patino's August request, the dealer, who was cooperating with federal investigators, asked the ATF whether a special order for the weapons should be placed because there were only four in stock.

"Our guidance is that we would like you to go through with Mr. Patino's request and order the additional firearms," ATF Supervisor David Voth wrote the dealer in an Aug. 25 e-mail.—USA Today news report

However, on its editorial page, USA Today promoted a new regulation that takes effect this weekend aimed at gun dealers in four Southwest states: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. This new rule requires them to fill out a new form and report anyone purchasing more than one centerfire semiautomatic sport-utility rifle within a five-day period.

[marktwain]

The MSM is the problem. We have been living under a mediacracy for most of the last 50 years.

[WayneS]

...or perhaps a mediocracy...

[Texas resident]

Are they trying to deflect blame?

Do bears do their business in the woods?

The MSM was part of the operation!

Remember all the stories they ran about gun shows and straw buyers and Americans caught sneaking weapons into Mexico? There was a story posted here on FR about some goofball trying to sneak an automatic rifle across to Mexico with the weapon strapped inside the engine compartment. The media provided lots of pictures as proof.

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Is press working fast and furiously to deflect blame for botched gun sting?

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Does a bear eliminate in the woods?

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[marktwain]

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[MestaMachine]

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[MestaMachine]

I was wondering yesterday if congress being out of session for five weeks would give the pressitutues time to spin this as all a big misunderstanding and MAYBE just bad judgement on the part of some low echelon bureaucrats.

We can’t let this cool off.

[MestaMachine]

It’s a melanin thing.

[MarkL]

The MSM is the problem. We have been living under a mediacracy for most of the last 50 years.

You've got that right... Back in 1989, Time (both the magazine and HBO) ran a story that purported to report on every murder by guns in a 24 hour period. While there were a fair number of murders, Time reported suicides along with them (nearly 50% of the deaths were suicides) and the best example of how biased they were was reporting a man who was shot at (but not hit) who actually died of a heart attack as a gun death.

When Time was deluged with angry letters, they were actually honest: They stated that according to the editorial board, gun control was too important an issue to report fairly, and they were going to push it as hard as they could, facts be damned.

Mark

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[The Sons of Liberty]

The MSM is 'A' problem, but even if the case went to court, I doubt there are enough honest judges left that would prosecute any member of the 0bama regime.

DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz:‘We own the economy’ - June 15, 2011
You own The 0bama Depression - 17% unemployment, among many things!
We're going to hang you, your commie boss, and all the dims with this Ms. Wasserman Schultz!
FUBO GTFO 2012 !

[Durus]

It wasn't a "botched gun sting", it worked exactly how they intended it to work. This reveals media's methodology. It doesn't look like they can throw a "couple of bad apples" under the bus, nor can they say it was "bad leadership at the ATF", they can't blame a flawed operational plan because that's all that saving their collective ass from jail time, so they will say it was all a "mistake". However anyone that has paid attention to this knows it wasn't a mistake. It was deliberate malicious action with no realistic, even tenuous, connection to a legitimate law enforcement action. Any person in a decision making capacity involved with this operation should be removed from office/fired and charged with a wide variety of crimes. ATF agents that carried out said commands, without coming forwards and testifying against the operation, should lose their jobs and go to jail.

The American people need to draw a line in the sand that the government can't cross. If the Government can get away with using a law enforcement department to knowingly break the law for the purpose of lending credence to their effort to diminish constitutional rights, then we are lost as a nation.

This is far worse that Iran-Contra. It's far far worse than Watergate. It make every other American scandal look petty by comparison.
We need to punish every willing member of this operation so severely that no administration will ever try something like this again.

[Durus]

It wasn't a "botched gun sting", it worked exactly how they intended it to work. This reveals media's methodology. It doesn't look like they can throw a "couple of bad apples" under the bus, nor can they say it was "bad leadership at the ATF", they can't blame a flawed operational plan because that's all that saving their collective ass from jail time, so they will say it was all a "mistake". However anyone that has paid attention to this knows it wasn't a mistake. It was deliberate malicious action with no realistic, even tenuous, connection to a legitimate law enforcement action. Any person in a decision making capacity involved with this operation should be removed from office/fired and charged with a wide variety of crimes. ATF agents that carried out said commands, without coming forwards and testifying against the operation, should lose their jobs and go to jail.

The American people need to draw a line in the sand that the government can't cross. If the Government can get away with using a law enforcement department to knowingly break the law for the purpose of lending credence to their effort to diminish constitutional rights, then we are lost as a nation.

This is far worse that Iran-Contra. It's far far worse than Watergate. It make every other American scandal look petty by comparison.
We need to punish every willing member of this operation so severely that no administration will ever try something like this again.

[Diogenesis]

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