The Arbiters of Real News

The story that many conservative media considered a “bombshell” Tuesday didn’t even register as a blip on the screens of CNN, ABC and CBS. All three of the networks completely ignored the revelations by a private investigator that DNC staffer Seth Rich, who was shot dead last July while walking home from a bar, had leaked more than 44,000 internal DNC emails to WikiLeaks before his death. [More]

And if they can't ignore it, they'll control the narrative. Hence masterstrokes like "Botched gun sting." And keeping uncontrolled narratives off the news feeds.

Doing What They Do Best?

Macron Stretches Lead As French Presidential Campaign Enters Final Day [More]

They had a choice and it looks like they're rejecting it. We can hope the polls are wrong, and the establishment has been fooled before (!!!), but unless the lead is completely fabricated, it does not look good.

As an aside, I've been seeing people pointing to One America News Network as a potential alternative once the Murdokinders trash Faux News. But adopting "Authorized Journalist" conventions like "far right" to describe someone who believes in sane border and immigration policies, and "centrist" to describe an Obama endorsee makes me wonder.

And profiling Miley Cyrus getting over her nipple pastie phase hardly fills me with confidence.

At least I get no hits there searching for "botched gun sting."

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UPDATE: Won't this be interesting if it pans out...?

We're the Only Ones Foot-Dragging Enough

The review finds fault with the speed of the agents' response to the evidence against the three Lancaster men. [More]

Hey, but then they couldn't have ensured the guns would turn up at a Mexican crime scene to feed the administration's narrative about U.S. gun sales.

Besides, the media can just refer to it as a "botched gun sting" and no one will care, let alone be held accountable.

[Via Roger J]

Et Tu, Breitbart?

The weapons were supposed to be traced to high ranking cartel figures, however the U.S. Department of Justice lost track of thousands... [More]

No they weren't and no they didn't.

Pretty pathetic and discouraging to see these guys buying into and promoting the "botched gun sting" line of BS.

Rush Limbaugh Recognizes Buried Truth Behind Fast and Furious ‘Gunwalking’

Those guns ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels,” Limbaugh explained.

“So the way they do it is to try to create a mass hysteria,” he elaborated. “The program backfired because it was discovered.” [More]

Meanwhile, Soros-funded apparatchiks dismiss that as "wild conspiracy theory," and the mainstream press dutifully spreads the "botched gun sting" misdirection.

'Flawed'?

Really? You think it was all a big mistake? [More]

You know something our source didn't?

I wish "conservative media" would stop pushing the "botched gun sting" line.

It makes them sound like "Authorized Journalists."

I'd be surprised if the latest revelations are a mistake, either.  When you learn you can get away with murder, what's the incentive to change?

[Via Keith B]

We're the Only Ones Commandeering Enough

A federal court has ruled that the Drug Enforcement Agency does not have to pay a truck owner whose vehicle they commandeered in a botched drug sting operation – without his knowledge or permission – in which the agency's confidential informant driver was shot dead and the truck was damaged. [More]

Securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity again, I see...

[Via Florida Guy]   

Unanswered Questions

Expect them to stay that way, and for anyone getting close to be ridiculed as a conspiracy theorist. [More]

What that does is, it allows "competing" conspiracies, including directed disinformation, to steer a detached public's short attention span away from actual conspiracies.

"Botched gun sting," anyone?

[Via bondmen]

And Still with the "Botched Gun Sting"

AP. [More]

That figures.

[Via everrest]

Real Reporters

This is how the talking points are spread. [Watch]

Here, let me show you something, and this is spontaneous, not planned, so we're going to find the results together:

Fast and Furious botched gun sting

This is my shocked face.

[Via Florida Guy]

Urgent Action Alert on Holder Contempt Vote

I don't normally do this, but I'm tired.  And this needs to get out. So I'm just pasting the whole thing:

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO VOTE ON ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER CONTEMPT CHARGE Your urgent action is needed on Holder contempt vote to be held Thursday, June 28th. Anti-gun rights Attorney General Eric Holder is facing a Contempt of Congress charge as a result of his refusing to comply with the subpoena to turn over all documents relating to the botched "Fast and Furious" gun running sting that were demanded by Rep. Darrell Issa's Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Congress has repetitively asked for accountability in relation to the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry, the firearms recovered at the scene of his murder and over 2000 guns that are still missing. REMEMBER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S URGENT CALL FOR THE REINSTATEMENT OF THE EXPIRED "ASSAULT WEAPONS" BAN. REMEMBER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S FALSE CLAIM OF 90,000 GUNS RECOVERED IN MEXICO BEING FROM THE U.S. The Obama Administration and Eric Holder's Justice Department have been adamant in communications with anti-gun groups that their gun control agenda would be advanced "Under the radar." In the moments before Darrell Issa's committee were to vote on Attorney General Eric Holder's contempt, the Obama White House issued a proclamation of "Executive Privilege." It is important to note that Attorney General Holder and the Obama Administration denied any knowledge of "Fast and Furious" until new evidence surfaced. WHAT YOU MUST DO AS A LAW ABIDING GUN OWNER TODAY.CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN TODAY AND POLITELY INFORM THEM TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER IN CONTEMPT. USE THE LINK BELOW TO FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE'S PHONE NUMBER. http://www.house.gov/representatives/ Help the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms send a message that our rights as citizens cannot be manipulated by failed and legally questionable programs such as "Fast and Furious." 

 Do this. And spread the word.

You Mean the "Oopsie--Our Bad"...?

Keep asking questions about bungled gun sting  [Read]

OK, here's an easy one: How come--in spite of all the evidence that there was never any capability nor intention to track guns once they crossed the Mexican border--the Detroit News and other "official" media outlets still refer to the Project Gunwalker conspiracy as a "bungled" or "failed operation"?

And that perennial favorite, "botched"...

Words Have Meaning

"Botched gun sting"

Whose interests are served by this terminology?

Are yours served by standing by and letting it happen without challenge?