scottw
07-08-2012, 08:39 AM
Early in the morning on June 27, Fortune Magazine published online a lengthy article called "The Truth about the Fast and Furious Scandal."
Fortune's timing was not fortuitous. That evening, the House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to produce documents requested by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. About a hundred Democrats walked out before the vote, and the talking points at their press conference came from the article. Leftist websites jumped on the story. It rapidly became the new liberal narrative on the scandal. Some moderate Republicans have been impressed.
The article is worth a closer look. It contains some new evidence that open-minded readers will find plausible. At the same time, its omissions and distortions reveal the real agenda of the magazine as clearly as the timing of the article's publication.
Fortune would like readers to believe that Fast and Furious was run by a small, overworked office of seven agents, whose diligent efforts to stop the flow of guns into Mexico were thwarted by the U.S. Attorney's Office, and that the scandal was the result of personal grievances by vindictive agents that had nothing to do with gun-walking. Sheaves of documents and sworn testimony before Congress contradict this. If the operation was as innocent as Eban describes, it would not have produced over 75,000 documents, and the ATF and DOJ would have nothing to hide.
The Fortune piece ends with a final whopper. The claim that F&F was going to be used "to limit gun rights seems, to put it charitably, far fetched." But evidence has already surfaced that this is precisely what the administration was planning to do. The memos were disclosed by that obscure right-wing blog CBS News.
Launched in 1930, Fortune was the business magazine of Henry Luce's empire. Luce's flagship publications were TIME and Life. For those under fifty, Life and its rival Look were glossy large-format magazines with full-page photos of the week's events, celebrities, etc. Liberals used to repeat a slogan about the Luce magazines: "TIME is for people who can't think. Life is for people who can't read." Life expired as a weekly in 1972. But TIME, more than ever, is for people who can't think. Fortune is for people who can't Google.
Read more: Articles: The Truth about Fortune Magazine's 'The Truth about the Fast and Furious Scandal' (http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/the_truth_about_fortune_magazines_the_truth_about_ the_fast_and_furious_scandal.html#ixzz202Q99MIO)
Fortune's timing was not fortuitous. That evening, the House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to produce documents requested by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. About a hundred Democrats walked out before the vote, and the talking points at their press conference came from the article. Leftist websites jumped on the story. It rapidly became the new liberal narrative on the scandal. Some moderate Republicans have been impressed.
The article is worth a closer look. It contains some new evidence that open-minded readers will find plausible. At the same time, its omissions and distortions reveal the real agenda of the magazine as clearly as the timing of the article's publication.
Fortune would like readers to believe that Fast and Furious was run by a small, overworked office of seven agents, whose diligent efforts to stop the flow of guns into Mexico were thwarted by the U.S. Attorney's Office, and that the scandal was the result of personal grievances by vindictive agents that had nothing to do with gun-walking. Sheaves of documents and sworn testimony before Congress contradict this. If the operation was as innocent as Eban describes, it would not have produced over 75,000 documents, and the ATF and DOJ would have nothing to hide.
The Fortune piece ends with a final whopper. The claim that F&F was going to be used "to limit gun rights seems, to put it charitably, far fetched." But evidence has already surfaced that this is precisely what the administration was planning to do. The memos were disclosed by that obscure right-wing blog CBS News.
Launched in 1930, Fortune was the business magazine of Henry Luce's empire. Luce's flagship publications were TIME and Life. For those under fifty, Life and its rival Look were glossy large-format magazines with full-page photos of the week's events, celebrities, etc. Liberals used to repeat a slogan about the Luce magazines: "TIME is for people who can't think. Life is for people who can't read." Life expired as a weekly in 1972. But TIME, more than ever, is for people who can't think. Fortune is for people who can't Google.
Read more: Articles: The Truth about Fortune Magazine's 'The Truth about the Fast and Furious Scandal' (http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/the_truth_about_fortune_magazines_the_truth_about_ the_fast_and_furious_scandal.html#ixzz202Q99MIO)