Project Gunrunner started in 2005 under Dubya and was with the full knowledge and cooperation of the Mexican government. It resulted in 1,400 arrests and no deaths.
Fast and Furious started in October 2009, eight months into the Obama Administration -- without the knowledge of the Mexican government and over the objections to LEOs on the ground -- and this resulted in 1,800 weapons, most of which were semi-auto rifles, safely in the hands of Mexican drug dealers, and who knows how many dead.
There is a difference.
The administration must have been talking to their buddies at NPR.