NBC's Today Continues Blackout on Fast and Furious Controversy

News Boster.org ^ | June 20, 2012 | Matthew Balan

[AAABEST]

Your #16 is spot on. Some of us picked up on this aspect from the very beginning and have been screaming it at every opportunity. The MSM has been and still is doing their best to frame it as a "failed sting operation" when it never was.

Further, it's utterly impossible for Maobama not to have given such a massive undertaking his direct blessing. Hopefully he's stupid enough to have left a trail.

The good news is that FINALLY the wheels of justice are beginning to move. There is hope.

[Brown Deer]

NBC Nightly News Devotes Mere Seconds to First-Ever Mention of Fast and Furious

In the eighteen months since the Operation Fast & Furious investigation began, Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News have never mentioned the Department of Justice's gunwalking controversy. Every single time Mr. Holder has testified or a major development happened, NBC Nightly News ignored it. Tonight, in their first mention of the scandal--ever--NBC Nightly News and Brian Williams distorted Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony.

[lentulusgracchus]

Checked your FR page ..... you guys run an air ambulance, yes?

Liked the map of Oz ..... esp. the "sharks with frickin' lasers" -- now that was good for a laugh!

Brisbane -- you guys are in the warm and trade-windy, rainy part of Oz, aren't you? None of that dreaded 10,000-year drought stuff where you are. But you aren't far enough north to start seeing jungly things. Tho' I guess you're eligible for funnel-webs and blue-rings and fer-de-lances and dingoes just about anywhere you go in Oz. At least the abos killed off the marsupial lions for you!

Where were you in the States before you went Down Under?

Think you're gonna stick?

Using atlases and different sorts of enviro maps (rainfall, ambient temps, etc.) I once determined, in a schoolboy way, that SW Australia would be the best-favored weatherwise and every otherwise .... meaning that part of the south coast east of Fremantle, opposite the Archipelago of the Recherche. Ever been there or know anyone who has? Let me down easy .... the archipelago is solid fer-de-lances eating funnel-webs and vice-versa, right? And the shallows are all stingrays and blue-rings, and the great whites come right up into the surf? (Steeling myself for letdown ....)

Another part of the Antipodes I thought might be interesting is Christmas Island, 400 mi. ESE of Christchurch, part of New Zealand, and the farthest-south of all the Polynesian Islands, and actually a temperate-zone island, about, umm, 40^o S Latitude iirc. Fairly cool, moist climate, and some unusual weather effects (unique cloud formations). Long, long, nearly-deserted beaches. But has air service and a weekly ship from Kiwiland. Sounds interesting. (I once spent a year on an island while in the Nav .... it's a life one could get used to.)

[lentulusgracchus]

It’s nice to be able to watch TV news without so much editorial filtering like in the US.

I'm on broadcast and so don't see FNN, CNN, CNBC, etc. ... what there is, is CCTV, a state-run network out of Peking. Yeah, mainland China. I call it "ChiComTV". I actually watch it, and when I get tired of the Chinese accents trying to talk to Scots or South American accents, I mute the thing and just watch the banner crawls at the bottom and turn the sound up when the talking heads give way to actual news footage that looks promising ...... like the wall-to-wall coverage they did recently on their most recent space shot.

Even with their spin it's hard to miss the menace in their stuff aimed at the Filipinos re the South China Sea reef islets they're arguing over. They want to take some of the Ryukyu Islands, too, and are rubbing the Japanese enough the wrong way that the US Fleet is starting to show up .... denied by both Chicom and US official sources, of course, but -- ahem -- the US is doing a deal to (partly, contingently) reopen some activities at Subic and Clark Field. Now how about that? No coverage Stateside, tho' .... except for the threads here on FR. Disgraceful!

"We're maneuvering toward a general thermonuclear exchange with China, but in political news today, Senator Chuck Schumer said ....."

Feh.

[RegulatorCountry]

You want it to stick or even register, call it something other than the name of a movie about cars or a video game.

There’s all manner of negative conditioning already in place. Turn it on them. Our own government smuggled guns to Mexican drug cartels and blamed it upon law abiding American citizens, while Border Patrol agents and cuddly undocumented citizens in waiting were killed by the hundreds.

Surely there’s something to work with, there.

[jaydubya2]

"CORDES: So unless someone blinks this morning, this contempt vote is going to go ahead in the committee. If it passes, then it would go to the House floor. If it passes in the House, it would come to the Senate. But the Senate, Charlie and Erica, is controlled by Democrats, so it's likely that the move would die there."

I don't think Cordes is correct, It doesn't go to the Senate for a vote.

[Kaslin]

Well it could very well go to the Senate, but you can be sure Harry Reid will stop it right there. This is why it is important that we not just get the majority in the Senate back on November 6, but get the Super Majority back. Plus adding more seats to the House would also help

[marktwain]

Broadcast licenses are for “public convenience” The licensee must show that they serve the public. These Alphabet networks are not doing that because of their bias. Their license to broadcast should be rescinded.

My working hypothesis is that the "progressive" take over of the main stream media could not have happened without the requirement for licenses. I think that the reform should be to sell off the air space so that it is private property. There is money to be made in giving news without the "progressive" agenda. The MSM makes decisions to put agenda over profit every day.

Consider the whole public broadcasting system aka the propaganda broadcasting system. It is a disgrace to the first amendment that there is a government broadcasting system at all.

[jersey117]

ABC’s big “news” brief was: is it really a Democrat cover up or just a Republican witch hunt.

[jaydubya2]

If the House votes to pass that this was a contempt of congress, the case will be assigned to a local US attorney for enforcement. The Senate is not involved. But I agree with you, we need to take the Senate back.

[driftless2]

I was talking with one of my Brit in-laws a few weeks ago and told him that it’s not so much that the mainstream media lies, it’s that they frequently only tell half the story or none at all. They’re more truth-suppressors than they are bald-faced liars.

[what's up]

Regardless of what you think of the philosophy of trying to break up the cartels, there isn't a moral equivalancy here.

Only one President lauched the operation apparently with the intent of implicating US gun owners in order to trash the 2nd Amendment. In that process hundreds died and now they are trying to cover up their criminality.

That is now the thing which is being focused on and rightly so.

[SkyDancer]

Yes. The RFD provides air ambulance service in our area plus we have an EMT vehicle for local emergencies. Our main mission is to provide emergency service and airlift service to the bush (what Yanks call the outback).

Brisbane is pretty much like San Diego in a way. Cool in winter, rain, but gets bloody hot in summer.

And too, we do have the pesty critters, getting into everything, such as but not included

Sure cure for constipation they are.

I live on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.

Not sure If my contract will be extended. I like it here in Oz, met new friends, new culture. Depends on how work goes in the states, who'll get elected president and how long it'll take to turn things around. If Romney get in I sure hope he won't go and say he inherited the mess from Obama. That'd turn me off real quick.

Been up to New Zealand, over to Tahiti, Bora Bora ... interesting places.

Thanks for your post, Janey

[gunsequalfreedom]

I simply said both plans were stupid. Band aid approach to solving the problem. Is it your position that we should not seal up the border?

[lentulusgracchus]

Is that a funnel-web or just a Damn Big Spider? Checked the "properties" field to see if it was labeled ....

Looks ugly enough!!

[SkyDancer]

Nope, just one Big A** spider. Quite common. The girls air raid alarm goes off and the guys come running. They know what’s happening. The funnel web lives in the ground and pretty much in grass/garden areas. They will come out and attack. Can bite right through trainers.