Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Video: Fox Balanced? Jon Stewart Begs to Differ, And Fox Commenters Confirm that Fast and Furious Outrage is Really About Keeping Stronger Gun Laws Off the Books



Since Fox is the voice pushing the most for the right, I find it it very significant that they are wailing about the Fast and Furious program as some kind of gimmick to "take people guns away". (In other words get some sanity in US gun laws or crack down on illegal gun sales at shows.)

My Blog partner, CA Lady, told Anderson Cooper that she would no longer watch his show while it was acting like a anti gun law outlet by stressing on the one man killed with a gun that was released in the program while ignoring the thousands killed each year by the out of control sale of guns, many of them done illegally, and/or without background checks. Cooper mentioned the name of Representative Darrell Issa more than once and she guessed that Issa's staff may have pushed to have CNN push the outrage, because they have been proven to push many politically motivated memes to the press before.

Between us we do believe the Republicans want to make a huge deal of the "Fast and Furious" problems to stave off increased regulations on guns and their sales, or even to weaken gun laws more. And in the video you can see the FOX mouthpieces for the GOP raising the idea that the Obama administration created a deliberate problem as a pretext for "tougher guns in the US" which Jon defines as "taking away guns".