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NBC Nightly News Devotes Mere Seconds to First-Ever Mention of Fast and Furious

In the eighteen months since the Operation Fast & Furious investigation began, Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News have never mentioned the Department of Justice's gunwalking controversy. Every single time Mr. Holder has testified or a major development happened, NBC Nightly News ignored it. Tonight, in their first mention of the scandal--ever--NBC Nightly News and Brian Williams distorted Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony.

While the majority of the testimony covered Operation Fast & Furious, NBC made it appear that the hearing was mainly over the national security leaks. The segment even made it appear that Senator John Cornyn called for Mr. Holder to resign over said leaks when, in fact, he expressed his greatest frustration with Mr. Holder over Fast & Furious.

NBC devoted roughly thirty seconds to Fast & Furious in a segment lasting two minutes and seventeen seconds--the explanation of the controversy less than a third of it. No background information was given about the operation and no mention was made of how it led to the deaths of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and over 300 Mexicans. You'd think that after eighteen months, NBC's producers would want to give their in-the-dark audience some information to get up to speed on the controversy.

There is no way Williams and everyone involved in NBC Nightly News could watch Mr. Holder’s testimony and not notice Fast & Furious. They went out of their way to make sure the primary topic of discussion at the day's hearing was not the main story of their report. This news segment is further proof that the mainstream media seeks to control viewers' reaction to issues of great public concern with less information, not more.

Imprisonment is not a sufficient answer for this kind of systematic malfeasance. They need to pay.
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Again...tipping point reached.

That they even mentioned it is very significant.
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So someone actually watches the NBC nightly news to see if they mention F&F? That's gotta be a suck job.
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So someone actually watches the NBC nightly news to see if they mention F&F? That's gotta be a suck job.

 ::hysterical::

No kidding!  Must not have cable/satellite.   ::unknowncomic::
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Again...tipping point reached.

That they even mentioned it is very significant.

Gotta agree w/Trap here. Makes me wonder if F&F isn't suddenly going to be seen on regular broadcasts (and in other outlets) between now and November. At some point, you simply can't hide stuff like this by not talking about it. Eventually it gets out. At that point, you have to talk about it or else you look as though you're covering it up.
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Still, don't get too giddy, it is the Democrat-Media Complex after all...they'll still try to spin things to meet their agenda, all we can do is hope their agenda includes cutting themselves from BO, but even if that is the case, it is only to protect other dem's and hope a new savior comes along in 2016...perhaps riding side-saddle.
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...perhaps riding side-saddle.

More likely, bareback...
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We are now where The Founders were when they faced despotism.