I ran across a news lead with Pelosi saying it was fruitless to pursue a filibuster since another AWB couldn't get passed, just work on the no fly no buy bills and expanded background checks.
Then again maybe that was a spoof piece from an unreliable source? It made too much sense.
The 16 news anchors parroting the same lines is proof enough the media is just passing along their political talking points. It's much the same as the last federal shutdown, when Park Police posted closing signs in the thousands across the capital on less than 12 hours notice of no bill. They had them printed up weeks before hand ready for a showdown.
Almost nothing in DC happens spur of the moment, it's always part of an larger agenda with numerous pre planned checkpoints to accomplish. Hence the AR15 "mistake" - it really doesn't make a difference as long as they keep pounding the same drum. Their audience always takes what they are spoon fed as credible and don't pay attention to fact checking or 2d day corrections anyway.
For the rest of us - especially mil/LEO - we always expect the first reports to be wrong and to deal with a changing perception of what the situation might be. What the media and crisis panderers tried to present hasn't really proven to be what they initially presented. Which is the norm.
"Let no crisis go to waste." Well they keep crying wolf and eventually the public will ignore them.
Then again maybe that was a spoof piece from an unreliable source? It made too much sense.
The 16 news anchors parroting the same lines is proof enough the media is just passing along their political talking points. It's much the same as the last federal shutdown, when Park Police posted closing signs in the thousands across the capital on less than 12 hours notice of no bill. They had them printed up weeks before hand ready for a showdown.
Almost nothing in DC happens spur of the moment, it's always part of an larger agenda with numerous pre planned checkpoints to accomplish. Hence the AR15 "mistake" - it really doesn't make a difference as long as they keep pounding the same drum. Their audience always takes what they are spoon fed as credible and don't pay attention to fact checking or 2d day corrections anyway.
For the rest of us - especially mil/LEO - we always expect the first reports to be wrong and to deal with a changing perception of what the situation might be. What the media and crisis panderers tried to present hasn't really proven to be what they initially presented. Which is the norm.
"Let no crisis go to waste." Well they keep crying wolf and eventually the public will ignore them.
