Fast and Furious a flawed gun walking operation by the US Government into Mexico
Cross Post DaTechGuy
today the viewers of Morning Joe found themselves learning
about the president’s use of Executive privilege to shield Eric Holder which
necessitated talking about Fast and Furious.
This entire conversation and the death of an ATF agent must
have come as a shock to their viewers who were wondering why the administration
is invoking executive privilege.
Ironically, like MSNBC I was late to this story as well, my
first post on it was June 28th
of 2011 in a post titled “Is
it Watergate yet?
This is after of course putting up an interview with Katie
from Blogcon CLT
Over and over I’ve seen the Morning Joe crowd scoff at
“just bloggers” and tweeters who comment, yet even a “blogger and tweeter” like
myself who has given this story short shift has been on this story for a year
while the Morning Joe viewers are only now getting anything resembling coverage
of this story and they dare to paint it as an “election year stunt”.
They could have covered this story, with their vast
resources they could have done the work that a 23-year-old blogger Katie
Pavlich did, or they could have interviewed her and talked about her book. They deliberately choose not to do so.
After today I don’t want to hear a single person on MSNBC
or anywhere else talk about “bloggers in their pajamas” vs “real reporters”,
because speaking as a blogger typing cross-legged in his bed, I find the
comparison insulting to me.
I think the real point
comes here:
Exit question: I’m listening right to my show from a year ago as I type this and one section is jumping out at me:DaTechGuy “…This is serious stuff because Watergate nobody ever, For all that Nixon did with Watergate no one died from Watergate and we already have, we have two deaths directly connected with this…”Barbara Espinosa: “…but you don’t just have two deaths”DaTechGuy: “…and that’s not counting the deaths in Mexico.”Barbara Espinosa: “Well there’s been hundreds of Mexican citizens who have been killed with these guns…”When I reflect on how the MSM has covered for this administration for a full year I challenge my readers to consider this question:Are we seeing today, what Watergate would have been if the president had been a Democrat beloved by the MSM?
Me I think that’s a big
yes.
