I flashed back to "Ninety percent of the guns recovered in Mexico were traced back to the United States" Fast and Furious.
Barack and his anti-gun team apply spin with the delicate touch of the old Soviets.
Pulled up this old thread instead of starting a "Journalism’s War against America" one. The media has demonstrated time and time again that the agenda comes before the story: edit and massage the fact to fit the message.
This one is just too funny:
North Carolina voluntary gun surrender event produces big results
A staple among the more “reasonable” gun control advocates in America is the voluntary gun turn-in or buy-back program. Hillary Clinton has recently gone on record as a big supporter of these programs, whether they be optional or… not so optional, like in Australia. If you had any doubt about the effectiveness of such plans, the folks in Greensboro, North Carolina were out to prove you wrong this month. They held just such an event where they would accept any number of weapons, getting them off the streets and presumably out of the hands of criminals. And while some offers of this type promise cash or gift certificates in exchange for the surrendered firearms, this one was based on nothing more than the good will of the people. No money was offered and participants were given the chance to sign a “pledge of non-violence” for the future.
So how did that turn out? If you read the coverage from this Time Warner Cable News Network report it was a smashing success. Almost 1,000 people turned out and it was a glorious day to get guns off the streets.
Almost 1000 people took “A Pledge of Non-Violence” Saturday at Destiny Christian Center in Greensboro.
This was to show their commitment to safety across the Gate City.
Gun owners also turned in unwanted firearms and ammunition at the event.
Signing the pledge and turning in weapons was spurred, in part, by an increase in gun violence across the city.
So that’s a big win all the way around, right? Sure… but the details of the “success” become a bit less impressive if you watch the video associated with the report. NRA-ILA checked into it and, sure enough, plenty of liberals showed up to sign the pledge but reports of the number of “weapons” surrendered might have been just a tad misleading.
Police-community partnerships are a positive measure to increase public safety, but good intentions aren’t the same thing as a good (or effective) plan. A report by Time-Warner Cable News tried to put a positive spin on things by noting that “almost 1,000 people” responded to take the pledge, leading one to believe that 1,000 firearms had been turned in, but this was hardly the case. As evidenced by the footage accompanying the story, the gun turn-in apparently resulted in a single BB pistol and a single sheathed hunting knife being “taken off the streets.”
Fear no more, citizens, for the streets are a safer place today. This was apparently the extent of their haul. The “gun” portion of the turn-in looked like this:
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. It’s a BB gun. One BB gun. But they also managed to remove this item from the criminal community.
I suppose the phrase weapons and ammunition is accurate. The BB gun did come with a couple of bags of pellets. And while “firearms” (plural) seems a bit dishonest, there were actually “weapons” since the knife counts as one. But the fact is that these voluntary turn-ins seem to produce a higher volume when the government offers a lot of cash. Yet even then you tend to get antiquated or broken hunting rifles and world war era leftovers found in people’s attics. It’s a rare day when an actual criminal with a functional, high power handgun is going to show up where a bunch of cops are standing around and surrender the piece he used to kill somebody last week for some extra lunch money.
But don’t tell that to Hillary Clinton. In her world, this is the neatest thing since sliced bread.
Moral: when when we read a story from the news medai, it might be wise to find out what really happened.
New Jersey – Officers Log Sept. 11th 2001: “People Here Dancing on Rooftops”
Did you read that Scott Adams (Dilbert)link I posted elsewhere? Adams and other political bloggers have made the same observation that the more that their attempts at negativity fail, the more desperate they seem in the next round.
Most GoP candidates have folded under similar story telling and when Trump doesn't wilt and poll support grows, the OPRESS™ seem to be more befuddled and confused.
I think the media in general has helped set the stage where Trump rises because of their tacit support in reporting SWJ, BLM, the innocence of ILLEGALs, Islam is piece, the normality of gender confusion--things that go against traditional American ideology. Most of us are tolerant when it comes to these things, but cannot accept and resist when they are forced upon us.
An example can easily be seen when it comes to the 2A. The majority of gun owners (and there are large numbers) know that all the anti-gun stories are mere politics and ignore the reporting and just buy more guns/vote for pro-2A politicians (other links I have posted).
Thus, try as they might, none of the Trump stories ever catch and resound.
The media has made itself irrelevant to too many people.
I have yet to see a serious effort from the main stream press to take him out.
DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Vintage Media’s Manufactured Outrage
By Cliff Kincaid
We don’t remember any outrage from the media over the alleged roles played by Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn in the 1970 bombing murder of San Francisco police officer Brian V. McDonnell. In fact, the media peddled the nonsense that Ayers and Dohrn, who helped launch Barack Obama’s political career, were “anti-war activists” who bombed a few buildings and never hurt anyone.
Since “domestic terrorism” is now a topic of concern for the media, in the wake of the attack on the Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado, can we expect the media to pressure Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch to gather new evidence in the McDonnell case? It’s not likely.
Lynch has already seized upon the killings at the Planned Parenthood clinic, saying federal officials “stand ready to offer any and all assistance to the district attorney and state and local law enforcement in Colorado as they move forward with their investigation.” Yet, neither Lynch nor her predecessor, Eric Holder, committed any resources toward solving the McDonnell murder, which is still an open case.
There is no statute of limitations on murder. But because Ayers and Dohrn were associates of Obama and helped launch his campaign for political office in Chicago, the media have shied away from the McDonnell murder story and have distorted the facts of the case.
The double standard proves the media have no interest in exposing alleged “domestic terrorism.”
For more than seven years Accuracy in Media has been calling on the media to join the campaign to get justice for McDonnell’s family. Many news media organizations have falsely claimed the Weather Underground terrorist organization of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn destroyed property but did not kill people. In fact, the McDonnell murder was blamed by the FBI and other law enforcement organizations on the Weather Underground. What’s more, former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl named Ayers and Dohrn as being involved in, or having knowledge of, the plot to kill McDonnell and other police officers. Grathwohl has passed away, but former FBI agents like Max Noel say evidence can still be gathered in the case and that old evidence can be analyzed with new forensic techniques.
When a Planned Parenthood clinic is apparently targeted by a crazy nut living in a shack, the media are determined to link him to conservative Christians and pro-lifers who work through the democratic system to shut down federal funding of these killing centers. Planned Parenthood propaganda about the alleged culprit being inspired by politicians who want to defund the abortion industry is published as if it were established fact.
The media want you to believe that the killing outside Planned Parenthood is more significant than the killing which goes on inside. Yet we have seen in the videos from the Center for Medical Progress that unborn babies are being killed and their baby parts harvested for profit. These, too, are human lives.
In contrast to the Colorado case, the Weather Underground was part of a global network with foreign connections that reached into the Oval Office itself. Yet, for seven years the Obama administration has refused to commit sufficient resources to investigating this network and bringing terrorists who were part of it to justice. Our pro-Obama media simply don’t care.
This is why the left-wing rhetoric from the media about protecting women’s health and women’s lives in the wake of the Colorado killings cannot be taken seriously. They see this violence as a political opportunity to smear conservatives. They don’t care a whit about “domestic terrorism,” except when it serves their political purposes.
In association with the Black Liberation Army (BLA), the Weather Underground carried out the October 20, 1981 armed terrorist assault on a Brinks armored car that left Nyack, New York Police Sgt. Edward O’Grady, Patrolman Waverly Brown and Brinks guard Peter Paige dead. Cheri Laverne Dalton is wanted for her alleged involvement in that robbery. She is on the FBI’s “domestic terrorism” list and is believed to be living in Cuba.
Obama normalized relations with Cuba without demanding the return of Dalton and other fugitives from American justice, such as Joanne Chesimard of the BLA and William Morales of the Puerto Rican FALN. Chesimard killed a New Jersey State Trooper.
Two members of the May 19 Communist Organization, a support group for the Weather Underground, are still on the FBI “domestic terrorism” wanted list. They are Donna Joan Borup and Elizabeth Anna Duke. Our media show no interest in helping to apprehend them. Neither does the Obama administration.
Obama’s first attorney general, Eric Holder, was deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, where he played a key role in pardons for members of the FALN and the Weather Underground. As attorney general, he approved the early release from prison of communist terrorist Marilyn Buck, a member of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army.
In the case of Chesimard, who is a member of the “Most Wanted Terrorists List,” Lynch could authorize FBI director James Comey to wiretap Obama’s friends, Ayers and Dohrn, and other members of the Weather Underground, in order to find out where in Cuba she might be living. The Weather Underground had helped Chesimard—a convicted cop-killer—escape from a New Jersey prison in 1979 and flee to Cuba.
Somehow we doubt that Lynch has any interest in bring Chesimard to justice.
But Lynch will use federal resources to go after a nut, who apparently opened fire on a Planned Parenthood clinic and is now in custody.
The Obama administration and its media allies don’t care at all about bringing terrorists to justice. They use terrorism as a partisan political issue.
Read more at AIM.org
Exactly.
Worldwide.
"The purpose of the mainstream media in 2015 is not to accurately convey news to the American people. The purpose of the mainstream media in 2015 is to sell politically convenient lies in order to shape political opinion in favor of the anti-gun faction within the Democrat Party."
(This article is about media duplicity, not Trump, joshuaf) ;o)
