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60 Minutes pushing the 90% lie, again. (Vanity Alert)
60 Minutes ^ | June 21, 2009 | CBS

Posted on 06/21/2009 4:45:37 PM PDT by TLI

60 Minutes just three minutes ago pushed the blatant lie of 90% of the drug cartel's machine guns come from the U.S. citizens. It is complete with pictures of M-60 belt fed GP machine guns, hand grenades, etc etc.

Not a peep on the origin of the select fire weapons coming from Mexican army defectors and the huge increase of State Department approval of sales of those very same M16's to Mexico.

Just the usual pack of lies, it our fault `cause American are evil enough to actually but the dope THEY smuggle into the U.S.

I included the link to 60 Minutes but my guess is they will not put the hit piece on their website.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 60; border; drugs; mexico

1 posted on 06/21/2009 4:45:37 PM PDT by TLI
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To: TLI

90% of gangmembers are Democrats. Ban Democrats.


2 posted on 06/21/2009 4:47:48 PM PDT by exist
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To: TLI

the LeBron James bit is certanly up. I am watching it again on the site right now. Nothing on the 90% lie.


3 posted on 06/21/2009 4:50:13 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: TLI

Yet they don’t put out there the amount of stringent regulations placed on fully automatic weapons here in the U.S. Or the 17% only that are actually sent back and that the 90% is the 90% that have been able to be traced of the 17%.


4 posted on 06/21/2009 4:51:38 PM PDT by FreeSouthernAmerican (All we ask is to be let alone----Jefferson Davis)
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To: TLI

End the failed drug war before they use it to take your guns.


5 posted on 06/21/2009 4:52:38 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: TLI

Ultimately these m60s did come from the US. The US sold them or gave them to the Mexican Army.


6 posted on 06/21/2009 4:56:13 PM PDT by arthurus (ACORN + Amnesty = Venezuelan Democracy in the USSSA)
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To: TLI

Investigative journalism is not necessary when your objective is to propagate deceit. The first objective is to propagate the lie that your investigative journalists, of course.


7 posted on 06/21/2009 4:57:31 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr
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To: TLI

If you tell a lie over and over again.....


8 posted on 06/21/2009 4:58:50 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: TLI
Ok, they claim to have the video up now, here I think.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4836950n&tag=cbsnewsSidebarArea.0>

But the video only has about 10 seconds of the story they actually broadcast. Then it morphs into Claudia Wallace's 35-year-old brother Hugo was kidnapped and killed. She talked with Anderson Cooper about the pervasive sense of fear that ordinary Mexicans live with.

The actual broadcasted video story is NOT there.

9 posted on 06/21/2009 5:05:01 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: exist

I get my M-60s at Costco.


10 posted on 06/21/2009 5:12:44 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: TLI
Found it... http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5101335n&tag=related;photovideo

Watched it again, they are talking "missiles and rocket launchers" and blame "the Second Amendment" for the cartels possession of the military weapons.

They DO NOT say they are coming from Mexican Army defectors and "missiles and rocket launchers" and hand grenades being smuggled in from China and other weapon supplier nations.

11 posted on 06/21/2009 5:27:27 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: mainepatsfan

Once again they are living up to their name... See B*** S***.


12 posted on 06/21/2009 5:29:38 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: TLI

Viewer comments here... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/26/60minutes/main4831806.shtml (whew)


13 posted on 06/21/2009 5:42:56 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: arthurus
The US sold them or gave them to the Mexican Army.

Yea, they were for the drug "war."

I guess we should have specified which side.

14 posted on 06/21/2009 5:58:57 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Morgana
Mexico could have stopped this years and years ago, but chose not to...now they pay.

Yea, by playing the U.S. based communists (that call themselves democrats) so they will push their "it's America's fault" excuse.

Apparently they do not understand what National Socialists, err, democrats, historically do to drug abusers and dope peddlers.

That is if the American based not-so-National Socialist's achieve victory. Likely the little commies will sink back into their morass of lies, perverts and back-stabbing so the dopers will only have to deal with the Republicans.

16 posted on 06/21/2009 8:02:39 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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http://www.factcheck.org/politics/counting_mexicos_guns.html

Factcheck.org conclusion

Given the lack of hard data from Mexico, we can’t calculate a precise figure for what portion of crime guns have been traced to the U.S. Based on the best evidence we can find so far, we conclude that the 90 percent claim made by the president and others in his administration lacks a basis in solid fact. But we also conclude that the number is at least double what Fox News has reported, based on its reporters’ mistaken interpretation of ATF testimony.

Whether the number is 90 percent, or 36 percent, or something else, there’s no dispute that thousands of guns are being illegalIy transported into Mexico by way of the United States each year.


17 posted on 06/21/2009 10:28:55 PM PDT by april15Bendovr (Free Republic & Ron Paul Cult = oxymoron)
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