A lesson in critical thinking

Fast and Furious was a scheme by which guns made in the USA were bought and sent - illegally - into Mexico - by Federal agents.

What did Eric Holder know, and when did he know it?

If Holder only learned of it in May - why was that? Why didn't he know about it as soon as he took charge of his department? He's either dishonest...or incompetent. Either way, he must be fired. And if he did know about it from the get go - time to send him to jail as an accessory after the fact to several murders.

Here is John King and a random act of journalism. He was on CNN, and what he did -- we got the sound bites here -- he plays Eric Holder's testimony to Congress May 3rd, 2011, where Holder said that he had only just recently heard about the Fast and Furious gunrunning program. "I'm not sure the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."

Then, in a random act of journalism, CNN compares Holder's testimony to what Obama said in March. For those of you in Rio Linda, March comes before May. Holder testified in May, and Obama said in March to CNN Espanol, "I heard on the news about this story, the Fast and Furious alleged guns were being run to Mexico, the ATF knew about it but didn't apprehend those who had sent it." So that's Obama to CNN Espanol in March. Holder says, "I'm not sure," in May, "I don't know." Which caused John King to commit the random act of journalism that followed. So here are the three sound bites, and the key one is number three, set up by the first two.

HOLDER: I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.

RUSH: That was Holder being asked by Darrell Issa May 3rd, 2011, "When did you first know about the program, officially I believe, called Fast and Furious?" "I'm not sure but I think the last few weeks." Then March 22, two months earlier, CNN Espanol correspondent Juan Carlos Lopez interviewed Obama. Lopez said, "There was an agent who was murdered in Mexico. Some of the weapons came through the programs, so where is that aid to Mexico?"

OBAMA: There have been problems, you know. I heard on the news about this story that Fast and Furious, where allegedly guns were being run into Mexico and ATF knew about it but didn't apprehend those who had sent it. Eric Holder as the attorney general has been very clear that he knew nothing about this. We've assigned a IG, inspector general, to investigate it.

RUSH: Okay. So in March Eric Holder has said I didn't know anything about it. In May, Holder said, "I probably heard about this for the first time over the last few weeks." Here's the random act of journalism. Last night on CNN's John King USA during an interview on Fast and Furious, King plays these bites that you just heard and then said...

KING: It begs the question, how did the president know about this in March and how did the president know the attorney general knew nothing about this in March when the attorney general says in May he just learned about it a couple weeks ago?

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