JUST DO IT!
Posted on 10/07/2011 8:22:09 AM PDT by opentalk
Though reporters asked about it during President Obama’s Thursday press conference, media coverage of the gun-running “Fast and Furious” scandal has generally been lacking.
On Hugh Hewitt’s syndicated radio program Thursday, columnist Mark Steyn explained why he hasn’t ignored the story, and attacked the Obama administration’s involvement in the program.
“In this case the government of the United States is the gunrunner,” Steyn said. “That is basically what is happening here. There would be no guns running to these Mexican cartels if the United States government hadn’t instituted a program to facilitate it.”
Steyn noted the lack of media outrage compared with other scandals in the past.
“Now real Mexicans are dead,” he continued. “Does the president of the United States, does his attorney general, does CNN, does The New York Times, does NPR — do they not care about dead Mexicans?
“I mean, forget the United States Border Patrol guys that were killed about these ‘Fast & Furious’ guns. Real-live, or previously live, citizens of third world countries — the kind of people that NPR, The New York Times claim to love — are dead because of this.”
“Why isn’t that a national scandal?” he pleaded. “This is absolutely a — Iran-Contra didn’t rack of that kind of body count. Watergate didn’t rack up that kind of body count. Sarah Palin’s daughter’s boyfriend’s mother, or whatever stupid story they were chasing around Wasilla for months, that didn’t rack up a body count. There were hundreds of dead Mexicans from a gun running program run by the United States.”
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It would make their guy look bad.
simple as that.
The alphabet media is the propaganda arm of the Democratic/cpusa
“There would be no guns running to these Mexican cartels if the United States government hadn’t instituted a program to facilitate it.”
That is a ridiculous statement. I would bet only a small fraction of cartel guns come from the US. Why get semi-automatic guns from the US when they can get machine guns from Central/South America, or from other countries?
That is his his point, and it is why his statement is not ridiculous.
Not too many Americans would not be in the business of running guns to the cartels unless the government subsidized it.
As you point out, they would supply themselves more cheaply from elsewhere.
They DO care about dead Mexicans.
In fact, I’d be willing to bet that three out of four of those dead Mexicans will be voting for Obama in the next election....
Because dead Mexicans can’t vote. Well...maybe in Chicago.
200 deaths in Mexico have been directly linked to ATF guns.
Compare the media’s concern about the Mexicans on American death rows with the Mexicans killed with the assistance of the Holder Justice Department.
Running guns to cartel enemies of Mexico is an act of war against Mexico.
Having both Americans and Mexicans killed is at best: grossly negligent homicide and accomplice to murder.
Where is the headline that says: Obama Murder Hundreds of Mexicans!
Running guns to cartel enemies of Mexico is an act of war against Mexico.
Having both Americans and Mexicans killed is at best: grossly negligent homicide and accomplice to murder.
Where is the headline that says: Obama Murders Hundreds of Mexicans!
Watergate didn’t rack up that kind of body count.
Sarah Palin’s daughter’s boyfriend’s mother, or whatever stupid story they were chasing around Wasilla for months, that didn’t rack up a body count.
The New York Times cares about dead third world people when the dead can be used as a tool to hurt conservative Americans.
The deaths of these Mexican citizens might make a liberal elite look bad... ping
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Maybe the Leftstream media will start caring if their insurance policy (Hillary) starts getting mentioned along with Mr. Black Panther Holder! Then they will start throwing usefull idiots under the bus.
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I love Mark Steyn—he has such a way with words........
Where indeed....
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Fine with me: should have an “s” on the end of Murder for: “Obama Murders Hundreds of Mexicans” or maybe, since Holder is the current chief suspect, “Obama Admin Murders Hundreds of Mexicans”
Because liberals are racists?
Because dead Mexicans [in Mexico] wouldn’t have voted for The Won anyway? They have enough dead people and non-US-citizen Mexicans here who already vote that they’re satisfied.
Excellent point! The UK media even covered death row stories.
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