If You Just Went By What The NewsHour on PBS Had to Say About It Last Night

…you’d think those pesky old Fast and Furious guns were being counted like salmon swimming up river at Rock Island Dam. Someone’s cell phone goes off, they turn their head for TWO FRICKIN’ DISTRACTED SECONDS and WHOOPSIES!

You miss, like, sixty damn fish! It happens…supposedly.

…JUDY WOODRUFF: The president was also pressed on a Justice Department operation called Fast and Furious.

It targeted gunrunning along the U.S.-Mexico border, but it lost track of many of the weapons.

The responding quote from the President to whatever the interrogatory was at the presser also gives you NO indication WHATSOEVER that his Attorney General stands accused (thanks to five early emails contacting him by NAME) of lying to Congress about his personal knowledge of the clandestine DoJ gun-PURCHASING-for-gunrunning program that has left death and destruction scattered across the American Southwest and Mexico. No, the President is confident the AG wouldn’t know if someone had answered a phone and that fishies were swimming past the window uncounted. It would make them both very unhappy to think that a clicker in the window wasn’t being clicked at fishes and that thought’s really beyond the pale, so it obviously didn’t happen that way.

BARACK OBAMA: I have complete confidence in Attorney General Holder in how he handles his office. He’s indicated that he was not aware of what was happening in Fast and Furious. Certainly, I was not. And I think both he and I would have been very unhappy if somebody had suggested that guns were allowed to pass through that could have been prevented by the United States of America.

Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour.

With friends like THAT at publicly funded media, who needs a lawyer and a PR firm, right?

Oh, and I think you’ve got the fishy part covered, pal.

7 Responses to “If You Just Went By What The NewsHour on PBS Had to Say About It Last Night”

1. Mr. Bingley says:

   October 7, 2011 at 9:11 am

   And I think both he and I would have been very unhappy if somebody had suggested that guns that were sold by ATF were allowed to pass through that could have been prevented by the United States of America, whose DoJ and ATF departments were the ones who sold the weapons to the gun runners in the first place.

   There, fixed that transcript for ya.

2. tree hugging sister says:

   October 7, 2011 at 9:17 am

   Actually, the part where the ATF bought the guns and then “lost track” should have been in Woodruff’s intro and is WHERE I EXPECTED to hear it. You know ~ journalism and all.

   I EXPECT that lying sack o’ Chicago ash to say what he did.

3. Gary from Jersey says:

   October 7, 2011 at 9:21 am

   That PBS gave O deniability shows (A) the story has legs, and (B) the MSM is Pravda for those murderous bastards. Keep digging, PBS; China’s down there somewhere.

4. JeffS says:

   October 7, 2011 at 10:27 am

   PBS isn’t headed for China, Gary, they’re on a course for Hell.

5. aelfheld says:

   October 7, 2011 at 10:39 am

   Despite their occasional nods in the direction of the truth it’s unlikely that the AP, PBS, &c. are going to abandon the non-entity they helped waft into the White House.

6. mojo says:

   October 7, 2011 at 4:23 pm

   See, this is where my base assumption “all politicians are lying s**t-heels” pays off.

   Ok, so sometimes it’s wrong. But not often.

   Cynical? You bet.

7. Winston Smith says:

   October 9, 2011 at 8:03 pm

   Honestly, I’m beginning to think the US is heading for a civil war. The people who have been elected into power, and your Law Keeping authorities, and the cabal of opportunists and wreckers, are trying to bring the nation down.
   I’d be bringing the army back home for support if I was you.