My wife and I happened to be traveling this past week and had occasion to travel multiple times from Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX) thru Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson (ATL) airports to Orlando FL. Wow. What a stark difference. Maybe it’s not a fair comparison, I don’t know; but, the difference in quality from top-bottom, ceiling-floor, processes, finishes, services provided, retailers etc was striking. Phoenix is supposedly the #5 or 6 largest city (depending upon who you ask) in the U.S, while Atlanta is a little bigger than Mesa, not even in the U.S. top 25. Just as striking to me, while in ATL, I happened to be reading a copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (don’t know if right- or left-leaning, but a GOOD paper) and I read an AP piece about “Bush-era probe involved ‘walking’ guns”. Apparently, this whole “Fast and Furious” (BATFE) scandal actually happened first back in 2006 under the Bush administration, as “Operation Wide receiver.” Never read about that in the Republic or saw that on Channel 12! John and Patti Latson
Mesa
sockratties posted at 2:42 pm on Fri, Oct 14, 2011.
In this paper, today!
WASHINGTON (AP) — A second Bush administration gun-trafficking investigation has surfaced using the same controversial tactic for which congressional Republicans have been criticizing the Obama administration.
The tactic, called "gun walking," was used in the Obama administration's Operation Fast and Furious. The Justice Department's inspector general and Congress are now investigating.
Emails obtained by The Associated Press show how in a 2007 investigation in Phoenix, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — depending on Mexican authorities to follow up — let guns "walk" across the border in a failed effort to identify higher-ups in gun networks. Justice Department policy has long required that illicit arms shipments be intercepted whenever possible.
The Bush administration also engaged in another such operation, called "Wide Receiver."
VofReason posted at 12:52 pm on Tue, Oct 11, 2011.
So this was a Bush problem too. Fantastic. Boy it is nice that our current President and his administration never does anything wrong. Too bad no one is going to buy it and they will be out on their ear in 2012.
RationalHuman posted at 12:20 pm on Tue, Oct 11, 2011.
"One is at a loss as to proper etiquette in this new Computer Age"
Not to mention a loss of basic reading skills.
So is Leon claiming that "Operation Wide Receiver" never happened?
After all, this is the same person claiming the Occupiers are "just a bunch of anarchists".
Dale Whiting posted at 8:06 am on Tue, Oct 11, 2011.
Leon! Read!!!!
These commenters are "John and Patti Latson [of] Mesa!"
Than you John and Patti. Not sure if being liberal or conservative or neutral makes any difference. The facts are the facts, aren't they? Not according to Leon!
Leon Ceniceros posted at 5:52 am on Tue, Oct 11, 2011.
Dear Mr., Ms., or Miss Mesa (I hope I am not presuming and calling you by your first name without properly being introduced. One is at a loss as to proper etiquette in this new Computer Age).
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is most definitely a "Liberal" newspaper. It is widely read in Atlanta because it is the only Liberal City south of the Mason-Dixon line of any note.
The Atlanta-Journal at one time was a "balanced" newspaper but I think it was in the late 1980's or early 1990's it's Editorial Board went the "Full Monty" as they say in the Media. It was the first newspaper of note to endorse Al Gore in 2000, then John Kerry in 2004 and of course it joined the choir for Barack Hussein Obama in 2008.
I suggest if you want to see if a unknown newspaper is Liberal, Conservative or Balanced that one reads the Opinion Section before reading the Front Page, the Cartoons or the Sports Pages.