Politico: House Oversight Committee & Fast and Furious whistleblower demand 'Fortune' retract story

[DanTex]

7. I know this must be hard for you to accept, but the Fast and Furious "scandal" is over.

Like the Fortune author pointed out, there really aren't any major factual disparities, and the Fortune article and IG report agree on the most essential conclusions, for example, that there was no conspiracy to let guns walk. This contradicts what the right-wingers (in the House and also in the Gungeon) have been insisting for months, which is that this couldn't possibly be a "botched sting" and there must have been some ulterior motive. We even had a few morons doing things like comparing F&F to Watergate (some of those trolls have since been banned, but others have not).

Of course, to those of us in the reality-based community, it was obvious all along that this was basically a witch-hunt, based on conspiracy theories that were born on loony gun blogs and got mainstreamed by FOX News. After all, as pretty much everyone outside the NRA bubble knows, the real reason that so many guns flow across the border to Mexico is not some ATF conspiracy, but rather the absurdly lax gun laws in border states that might as well have been written by the drug cartels and gun smugglers. And now the IG report has come out and put the conspiracy theories to rest once and for all.

Since I started posting in the gungeon, I have seen very few instances where pro-gun ideologues adjust their views based on factual and empirical evidence. That trend continues...