Bloomberg recently published a horribly inaccurate post by Jonathan Alter titled, “The Obama Miracle, a White House Free of Scandal.” It’s time for Mr. Alter to wake up, remove the rose colored glasses, and come back to reality. President Obama’s administration has a huge scandal on their watch and it’s called Operation Fast & Furious.
I sent an email to him and the editor responsible for the article.
Dear Mr. Alter & Mr. Lavin:
My name is Mary Chastain and I’m a writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Big Journalism. Lately I’ve been keeping an eye on the mainstream media and their Operation Fast and Furious coverage. I have one question for you: Are you serious?!? President Obama is scandal free?!? You said How much research did you do? Sir, you have to take off the rose colored glasses and allow me to introduce you to Operation Fast & Furious. Have you heard of that scandal? Probably not since the only mainstream media outlet covering it is CBS and I can tell from your article you don’t put much effort into your research.
Operation Fast & Furious (part of Project Gunrunner) started in fall 2009. The federal government approved the sale of illegal guns to Mexican drug cartels KNOWING they’d be walked into Mexico and used in crimes. Yes sir. The Obama administration told gun shop owners in border states to allow straw purchasers to buy these guns even though they knew these people would give them to Mexican drug cartels and be used in crimes. Do I need to repeat myself?
The Obama administration approved an operation that told gun shop owners in border states to sell illegal guns to straw purchasers KNOWING they’d be walked across the border into the hands of Mexican drug cartels and be used in crimes.
Do you know what ended Operation Fast & Furious? The vicious murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry on December 14, 2010 in Arizona. Yes that’s right. Not all the guns crossed the border. Many have been found at crime scenes in AMERICA! One was used to MURDER Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. I’ve attached a picture of him.
I love this part of your article the most because we all know you’re alluding to Operation Fast & Furious, thus proving you DO know about it and PURPOSELY forgot about it.
Every time Representative Darrell Issa, the Republican from California who leads a House investigative committee, calls the Obama administration “corrupt” without offering any evidence, he hurts his cause. It’s much harder to make a story register as a bona fide scandal when the political motivation is so obvious.
Again, how much research did you do? Would you like to use all the research I’ve done? If you go to CBS News and use keyword Sharyl Attkisson (their investigative reporter who is on top of this SCANDAL) you receive 50+ hits on Fast & Furious.
You can go to Townhall and look at the the excellent work done by Katie Pavlich.
I will let you read through all of their hard work, which includes the EVIDENCE Congressman Issa has against the administration. I guess you missed out on all of the memos PROVING Mr. Holder was briefed on Fast & Furious as far back as July 2010. You should also check out Congressman Issa’s appearance on Face The Nation a few weeks ago. He again showed the evidence he has. You can easily find that appearance in the link I provided from CBS News.
Mr. Lavin, I know you put a disclaimer that said these are Mr. Alter’s opinions and not Bloomberg’s. But in all honesty this horrible and bias piece reflects incredibly bad upon YOU. I cannot believe you published an article that is filled with obvious LIES.
Respond back to me ASAP. I’ll have a piece up at Big Journalism soon. I’ll make sure to email it to you as soon as it’s posted.
Mary Chastain
We know for a fact Alter knows about Operation Fast & Furious because of his comment about Congressman Issa. Mr. Issa has been very vocal about Operation Fast & Furious. He didn’t appear on CBS’ “Face The Nation” to talk about the post office. So, did Mr. Alter bother to research the corruption Congressman Issa was talking about? Guess not because Fast and Furious would pop up! Let’s not forget the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Arizona on December 14, 2010! Yes, Mr. Alter, this scandal is directly linked to the death of a border patrol agent. A criminal used a gun from Fast & Furious to murder Mr. Terry. How is this not a scandal?
Rest In Peace Brian Terry!
We also know for a fact Mr. Alter did NOT do any research because, despite the Old Media not covering Fast & Furious, it’s not hard to find information about this scandal. There’s an amazing search engine called Google. Let’s Google Operation Fast & Furious, like I said before we know Mr. Alter knows about Fast & Furious because of his Congressman’s comments.
Isn’t Google wonderful? It gave me about 7,110,000 results! Did you see that you can find 46 articles at CBS News alone? Mr. Alter can’t blame the Big 3 because CBS and Sharyl Attkisson are doing a fantastic job reporting on this. I’d like to see Mr. Alter’s research and where he researched. You can even find facts about Operation Fast & Furious at The New York Times and The Washington Post. Granted, you have to dig, but isn’t that what you’re suppose to do when you’re trying to prove a point?
I would LOVE to hear from Mr. Alter and his reasons why he thinks this is NOT a scandal. I’m not holding my breath, but I won’t give up, either. I’ll conclude with a message to Bloomberg. I don’t care about your disclaimer at the end saying these opinions belong to Mr. Alter. Any news source that has a single ounce of self-respect or integrity would never publish a piece, article or opinion, knowing it was filled with lies. It doesn’t reflect well upon you at all. You might want to think about that before you publish an obviously inaccurate piece.