Sipsey Street Irregulars: This just in: The Washington Post is still dead, but that fact is increasingly irrelevant. So much for "seems to have fizzled."

Friday, March 4, 2011

This just in: The Washington Post is still dead, but that fact is increasingly irrelevant. So much for "seems to have fizzled."

Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer's Washington Post lies unread on the breakfast table as he carries yet another wrecked television set out the door to the garbage. "(Expletive Deleted) CBS," he is heard to mutter. All the caviar and vodka sent to Grimaldi looks like a waste.

This just in: the Washington Post is still dead to the Project Gunwalker scandal, but that fact is increasingly irrelevant.

Recall this from Waldo's leaked ATF spin-doctor memo?

Please make every effort for the next two weeks to maximize coverage of ATF operations/enforcement actions/arrests at the local and regional level. Given the negative coverage by CBS Evening News last week and upcoming events this week, the bureau should look for every opportunity to push coverage of good stories. Fortunately, the CBS story has not sparked any follow up coverage by mainstream media and seems to have fizzled.

In the harsh light of this morning, ATF flack Scot Thomasson will have to revise that last estimate. Now we have the LA Times as well as CBS out in front and running with this story. Senator Grassley has sat for his first on-the-record interviews, and his latest letter demanding "the time for truth is now" will surely at the least force a "modified limited hangout" from Eric Holder. The stone wall is breached beyond possibility of repair. There are too many whistleblower agents and too many documents already in Grassley's hands and the tone and substance of those documents are absolutely damning. There will be hearings in both houses of Congress. Count on it.

Who cares now if the Washington Post is still dead? They have made themselves, by their moribund inaction, completely irrelevant. Whether the corpse is finally, one day, buried is now moot. Real news organizations will continue to step over that dead body to get to the truth. "Here lies the Washington Post," the headstone should read, "Cause of death: suicide by strict adherence to a collectivist meme."

5 comments:

Cybrludite said...: National Review's website has an interesting tidbit: The Border Patrol has been under orders to use shotguns with beanbag rounds first, and was operating under those orders when the shooting happened.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261283/bringing-bean-bag-gunfight-mark-krikorian; March 4, 2011 at 5:41 AM
Sean said...: I would like to kick them as they lie dead in the street. III.; March 4, 2011 at 7:50 AM
Anonymous said...: I would like to run the carcass over with a monster truck and then accidentally back up over it. The anticipation of the satisfying thump, thump, thump, thump just has to bring a smile to your face.; March 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Anonymous said...: I would like to run the carcass over with a monster truck and then back up over it by accident. The satisfying anticipation of the thump, thump, thump, thump, has got to put a grin on any freedom fighters face.; March 4, 2011 at 1:32 PM
W W Woodward said...: The Dallas Morning News has also picked up on Gunwalker.

WaPo be damned. Nobody West of DC reads that liberal progressive collectivist rag anyway.

[W3]; March 4, 2011 at 9:29 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

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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This just in: The Washington Post is still dead, but that fact is increasingly irrelevant. So much for "seems to have fizzled."

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