Count The Paragraphs
By Mitch Berg
News: A California State Senator who helped author California’s latest draconian gun control laws – was arrested yesterday, accused of trying to trade guns for influence:
In San Francisco, FBI agents have charged California State Sen. Leland Yee with conspiracy to deal firearms and wire fraud. The allegations were outlined in an FBI affidavit against Yee and 25 others. The allegations against Yee include a number of favors he requested in exchange for campaign donations, as well as performing “official acts” in exchange for donations to get himself out of a $70,000 debt incurred during a failed San Francisco mayoral bid, according to court documents.
Yee discussed helping the undercover FBI agent get weapons worth $500,000 to $2.5 million, including shoulder-fired automatic weapons and missiles, and showed the agent the entire process of how to get those weapons from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines into the United States, according to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Emmanuel V. Pascua.
Not news: It took to paragraph 7 to note that Yee is a Democrat.
March 27th, 2014 at 8:29 am
From NRO:
#2 Democrat in CA senate takes bribes from Chinese triads to smuggle rocket launchers from Russia to Muslim separatist. NY Times: page A21.
March 27th, 2014 at 10:19 am
The LA Times story never even mentioned party affiliation.
March 27th, 2014 at 11:04 am
And he is against 2nd amendment rights. Yee wants to take your firearms from you, but he is fine selling weapons to criminals and terrorists.
March 27th, 2014 at 11:43 am
Another trick is not to mention the party affiliation of the perp, but somehow work the name of a republican into the story. “Mr. Yee, who rose to prominence during the governorship of Republican governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar . . . “
March 27th, 2014 at 12:36 pm
@BradC: the story is about a CA politician so party affiliation is pretty much a given so attribution need not be explicit except in the vanishingly rare case of that endangered species, the CA Republican.
March 29th, 2014 at 2:28 am
The under-read Godinthemachine blog has a post about this: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godandthemachine/2014/03/anti-gaming-crusader-charged-with-gun-running/