{"id":10385,"date":"2011-07-07T19:27:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T23:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10385"},"modified":"2011-07-07T19:27:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T23:27:02","slug":"msnbc-too-quiet-on-atf-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10385\/msnbc-too-quiet-on-atf-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Too Quiet on ATF Fiasco?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/awrhawkins\/2011\/07\/07\/which-was-worse-watergate-or-operation-fast-and-furious\/ \" target=\"_blank\"><em>Big Government<\/em><\/a>, AWR Hawkins asks the obvious question about the political hot potato being passed around by President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and interim ATF director Ken Melson \u2013 none of whom claim any \u201csubstantive\u201d knowledge about a federal program to arm Mexican drug dealers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In other news, on July 5<sup>th<\/sup> Jack Tapper (ABC News) peppered Obama\u2019s White House Press Secretary with questions about \u201cFast and Furious\u201d in front of the rest of the press reporters, but the most substantive answer that <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2011\/07\/06\/still_no_answers_from_obama_administration_on_operation_fast_and_furious\">Jay Carney gave was<\/a>: \u201cThe president takes this very seriously.\u201d (In all fairness to Carney, he\u2019s clueless because Obama keeps him clueless.)<\/p>\n<p>Look folks, this is ridiculous. Where is Chris Matthews? Where is that Keith guy who used to work for MSNBC? Where are all the freaks who wanted to hang George W. Bush in effigy for supposedly-lying about Iraq?<\/p>\n<p>Why are they silent in the face of so great a cover-up?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Probably because the \u201cGunrunner\u201d and \u201cFast and Furious\u201d projects have too many inconsistencies to tolerate; better to just ignore them.\u00a0 A liberal president presides over the intentional escalation of a narco-fueled civil war.\u00a0 His celebrated AG fails yet again to faithfully execute his oversight responsibilities.\u00a0 And the man charged with ensuring that alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives don\u2019t fall into the wrong hands is at the head of a bureaucracy actively peddling the most lethal one (guns) to obtain the others.<\/p>\n<p>With Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry killed as a result of guns used in the ATF program, isn\u2019t it about time to get an updated (and much more accurate) version of \u201cBush lied, people died\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for Big Government, AWR Hawkins asks the obvious question about the political hot potato being passed around by President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and interim ATF director Ken Melson \u2013 none of whom claim any \u201csubstantive\u201d knowledge about a federal program to arm Mexican drug dealers. In other news, on July 5th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2613,2851,143,1251,498,2847,2836,2645,2463,1304],"class_list":["post-10385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-awr-hawkins","tag-barack-obama","tag-drugs","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-gunrunner","tag-guns","tag-jay-carney","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10390,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions\/10390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}