Univision - Doing The Job That The U.S. Media Refuses To Do

I remember when the media in this country actually served a useful purpose, instead of shilling for obama and the liberals. Now, we are dependent on an Hispanic news organization - Univision - to ask the tough questions of those in power and report more or less objectively on failed government programs.

Asking the tough questions:

President Barack Obama on (Sep. 20) faced some of the toughest questioning of his reelection campaign to date, pressed repeatedly on his failure to achieve comprehensive immigration reform and other unmet promises from his 2008 run.

The Univision presidential forum ... kicked off with grilling on another topic ... the violence at the consulate in Benghazi which killed American Christopher Stevens.

Asked why the United States was not better prepared, with better security at its embassies on the Sept. 11 anniversary, Obama responded by repeating the admonitions about not tolerating violence, but continued to discuss the incident in the context of the controversial video depicting scenes from the life of Mohammed.

Terrorists? What terrorists? I don't see no stinking terrorists.

As for investigative reporting and failed government programs:

On January 30, 2010 ... at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins ... broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.

The morning after the Villas de Salvarcar massacre. 

... the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the murderers.

If I was the father of one of those kids, the Secret Service would have its hands full keeping me away from that asshole Eric Holder and his equally worthless boss.

The Univision News investigation also found ATF offices from states besides Arizona pursued similar misguided strategies. In Florida, the weapons from Operation Castaway ended up in the hands of criminals in Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela...

Other firearms under ATF surveillance were permitted to leave the country from Texas...

The obama administration's -- and the media's -- initial response?

And their follow-up?

Blame it on Bush.

... the Left has been conducting a public relations push to downplay operation “Fast and Furious” and convince Americans that the failed gunrunning initiative was actually started under former President George W. Bush under the name “Wide Receiver.”

One thing about the media: they never let the facts get in their way.

The insinuation is that Fast and Furious is somehow a continuation of the Bush-era operation. The only problem with that theory is that it’s not true.

But even the laziest of fact-checks would prove his assertion wrong ... the differences between the two operations are stark and should be considered.

(1) First and foremost, operation Wide Receiver did not result in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent or an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. Fast and Furious did. The guns that ultimately killed Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and ICE officer Jamie Zapata were traced back to straw purchasers related to Fast and Furious.

(2) Second, Wide Receiver, though flawed, was more of a gun-tracing operation than a gun-walking program. Gun-tracing involves putting specific safeguards in place to track firearms, such as RFID chips perhaps with video or aerial surveillance. Gun-walking is what happened in Fast and Furious, where ATF agents sold thousands of guns without a reliable way to recover them, apparently just hoping for the best.

(3) Third, one must take into account the size and scope of the operations.

Speaking to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month, Holder said that “three hundred guns” were allowed to “walk” (although note the difference between “tracing” and “walking” above) in Wide Receiver ... the figure is dwarfed by the approximately 2,000 firearms that walked in Fast and Furious.

(4) Perhaps the most convincing piece of evidence proving the two operations are separate from each other is the fact that Wide Receiver was shut down in 2007 shortly after it was clear the program was a failure ... Fast and Furious wasn’t shut down until late 2010 after the deaths of hundreds of Mexicans, a border agent and an ICE officer.

(5) Finally, unlike Fast and Furious, officials involved in Wide Receiver were reportedly in close contact with Mexican authorities during the operation ... Mexican authorities were kept completely in the dark during Fast and Furious

Maybe the upcoming presidential debates should be hosted by Univision.