Sipsey Street Irregulars: CBS "will be with this scandal until Holder and Napolitano leave in disgrace & Emanuel is having heart-to-heart chats with a Special Prosecutor."

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

CBS "will be with this scandal until Holder and Napolitano leave in disgrace & Emanuel is having heart-to-heart chats with a Special Prosecutor."

The battle of the eyes.

Robert Farago follows up on CBS with Gunwalker Scandal Spreads to DHS, USMS, DEA, ICE, AUSA.

In response a couple of commenters sneer at CBS. My response to them:

Anyone who sneers at CBS or doubts the story a. doesn't know sh-t from shinola about this scandal; and b. must be cognitively dissonant, trolling for Obama, or both.

Many other reporters and networks tried to get the whistleblowers to talk to them. Usually they came swaggering in to David and me and said, "OK, the Professionals are here, little boys, just give us your sources and we'll find out if you're lying." I could give you names, we have the emails, but what's the point? Each failed on fundamental issues of trust and operational security until CBS. They approached us, having read all the material and documents, and began by asking really intelligent questions. Then they approached the agents by being, first and foremost, sensitive to their position. Thus it is no wonder that after all the arrogant bullsh-t of previous media suitors, CBS got the nod.

They have been doing a great job since day one and if it strikes you as remarkable that it is C B S of all networks that got this story and has stayed on it like a terrier on a rat ever since, I must say that it does me too.

But don't doubt them -- their skills or their facts. They will be with this scandal until Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano leave in disgrace and Rahm Emanuel is having heart-to-heart chats with a Special Prosecutor.

Mike Vanderboegh

I would add one thing. My faith is in CBS only by extension from Sharyl Attkisson, et. al. It is entirely possible that now, with the great eye of Mordor on the Potomac belatedly focused on this little hobbit of a scandal about enter the bowels of Mount Doom, that considerable political pressure is being brought on CBS and parent company to kill this story. In that case, I can certainly see a bright and happy future for Sharyl Attkisson and staff at whatever other network, probably FOX, that would pick up such an already-developed and promisingly developing story. The only thing is, Mordor would have drawn even more attention to the scandal in the process. Don't you like "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenarios when the other guy is caught in them? I know I do. ;-)

Sauron: "That says 'UPS' not 'CBS' you idiot."

Gríma "Gunwalker Bill" Wormtongue, cringing: "Please master, don't let them flay me alive at hearings!"

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Excellent work as always. My thought is that all the info you and David have,has already been stolen from you both by others through the electronic transom. Just a thought..

CIII; March 22, 2011 at 9:04 AM
WarriorClass said...: I agree with CIII; the grunts do all the work and the ocifers get all the credit.

WarriorClass
III; March 22, 2011 at 5:48 PM
Scott J said...: I'm just amazed CBS is going with this.

They must be trying to atone for the forged memos Dan Rather put out there.

Just keep in mind they've been supporting the anti-freedom agenda for decades. Watch your back.; March 22, 2011 at 9:32 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

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Sipsey Street Irregulars

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

CBS "will be with this scandal until Holder and Napolitano leave in disgrace & Emanuel is having heart-to-heart chats with a Special Prosecutor."

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