U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder may have lied to Congress when he stated in May 2011 that he did not know about the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) "Operation Fast and Furious" (OFF), until a few weeks before his testimony before Congress. This is a story largely being ignored by the Lame Stream Media. For the uninitiated, "OFF" is a sting operation run by the ATF between 2009 and 2010. OFF was part of the bigger Project Gunrunner investigation into illegal gun trafficking that is mostly benefiting drug cartels. The purpose of the OFF sting operation was to let suspected straw man purchasers complete weapons purchases and smuggle them into Mexico. The ATF hoped to build a case against various Mexican criminal and drug organizations suspected of being the ultimate weapons buyers.
Documents obtained by CBS News (surprise), show that Holder knew about the operation as early as July of 2010. The documents as described on the CBS website are:
But never mind that the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States might be a perjurer. Never mind that one of the guns smuggled into Mexico under his watch was used in the murder of a Border Patrol Agent. We already know that Holder played racial politics in his dismissal of the 2008 Philadelphia Black Panthers voter intimidation case. Yet, the Lame Stream Media, for the most part, has not made much ado about any of these matters involving an Obama henchman. You see, selective morality is the guiding "principle" of the Lame Stream Media. Democrats, Liberals, or any group that can be of assistance to the Liberal Fascist agenda are protected.
But the Lame Stream Media is more concerned about a rock located on leased land with a painted over racial epithet. Never mind the continuing parade of serious legal offenses of the Obama Administration. Apparently, GOP Presidential candidate, Rick Perry and his Dad didn't paint or turn over the offending rock soon enough to suit the prissy presstitutes. The rock is on property leased, by among others, the Perry family and used as a hunting camp by them. According to Slate E-zine, Perry has pushed back regarding the recent Washington Post hit piece about the offending rock that is substantiated primarily by "anonymous sources." As an aside, "anonymous sources" are often the "BFFs" of agenda driven reporters. (This is not to imply that the Washington Post reporter did anything wrong in putting together her story.) The Slate story said:
When asked further about the rock and when it was painted over, the presidential candidate said first that his father painted over the rock in 1983, then gave a more detailed account, according to the Post:
“My mother and father went to the lease and painted the rock in either 1983 or 1984. This occurred after I paid a visit to the property with a friend and saw the rock with the offensive word. After my visit I called my folks and mentioned it to them, and they painted it over during their next visit.”
The governor’s campaign says the story was misleading however, according to Politico. A statement on his website reads:
“"A number of claims made in the story are incorrect, inconsistent, and anonymous, including the implication that Rick Perry brought groups to the lease when the word on the rock was still visible. The one consistent fact in the story is that the word on a rock was painted over and obscured many years ago.” [Emphasis added]
Ignored by the intrepid Washington Post reporter is the fact that the property was leased. As anybody that has ever rented an apartment knows there's not a whole lot that a lessee can do to alter a leased property--good or bad. And it is conceivable that the trust could have sued the Perrys for committing waste upon the leased premises by painting the rock over. A funny twist to the waste concept is that you can be sued for damages for making an improvement to a leased property. So one could argue that the Perrys committed waste, yet improved the property, by painting over the offensive epithet shortly after they joined the lease. Remember that the tagged rock was around before the Perrys joined the lease. The property was widely known in the area by its pejorative name "N***** Head."
But if there was a responsibility to have painted or done something about the offensive word on the rock it was with the trust that owned the property. According to the above-cited Washington Post article:
The camp is secluded, situated on a vast, 42,000-acre ranch that reaches into three counties and is owned and managed by the Hendrick Home for Children Trust. Various parcels of the Hendrick ranch, as it is known, have been leased out over the years for grazing cattle, oil drilling and, since the mid-1970s or so, hunting. All sorts of people have been on the winding, rocky ranch roads over the years — cowboys, ranchers, hunters, fishermen, oil workers, power company workers, wildlife biologists, real estate agents, tax assessors, surveyors, locals and outsiders who have visited the hunting camps that dot the property. [Emphasis added]
What the Washington Post would have you believe is that it was Perry's sole responsibility to have remedied the offensive rock, which his family did do. Despite the fact that "all sorts of people" had numerous opportunities to complain to the landowner-trust, it's still Bush's Perry's fault that the epithet was there. But that's the selective morality of the Lame Stream Media presstitutes
The Lame Stream Media's lazy, weak, and deceptive reportage makes My Weekly Reader (now called the Weekly Reader), look like a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper. The average Lame Stream Media reporter also makes Weekly Reader comic strip characters Peanut and Jocko look like Woodward and Bernstein. Think of the big stories ignored or covered up by the presstitutes. Like Obama's background, e.g., his questionable relationships with convicted felon Tony Rezko and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers that were ignored or covered up. And can we see his grades to see if he's as smart as the Democrat party hacks say he is? Funny how the presstitutes spent more time looking for an picture of an allegedly coked up George W. Bush playing air guitar in his underwear than they did vetting Obama. By the way, Obama admits to cocaine use in his book, but no one recalls the presstitutes ever questioning that behavior.
But journalistic malaise isn't limited to the national news media. For years in San Diego, (a.k.a. Scam Diego), ALL of the snooze media, print and electronic, ignored or buried the pension scandal that first brewed under Republican Mayor Susan Golding's leadership. Maybe it's time to have a consumer's revolt against the shoddy journalistic practices of the Lame Stream Media. Otherwise, journalistic ethics is just another oxymoron.
But journalistic malaise isn't limited to the national news media. For years in San Diego, (a.k.a. Scam Diego), ALL of the snooze media, print and electronic, ignored or buried the pension scandal that first brewed under Republican Mayor Susan Golding's leadership. Maybe it's time to have a consumer's revolt against the shoddy journalistic practices of the Lame Stream Media. Otherwise, journalistic ethics is just another oxymoron.
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