Mexican drug wars - American guns at fault

By Colleen Raezler

Is foreign drug violence a reason to reinstate the ban on assault weapons in America? U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder thinks so. And judging by its relentless and one-sided coverage in the last month, CNN agrees.

Last month, during a press conference in which he announced that more than 50 members of Sinaloa Cartel, a Mexican drug cartel, were captured, Holder revealed his intentions. "Well, as President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons. I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum," he said.

"That's your attorney general talking about selling out the second amendment and your rights for the benefit of the benefit of Mexico," Lou Dobbs said on his Feb. 25 program. But Dobbs must be a lonely man at CNN. The rest of the network took Holder's statement as its cue, began hammering the point that American weapons are being used in Mexico's increasingly violent drug wars. More at NewBusters:

Ok, is it just me ... or is this "objective jourrrrnalist" talking like he knows best and anyone who disagrees is an idiot? Do you detect any condescension in his voice and/or mannerisms? Do you detect an air of "the answer is so obvious" in his presentation? This is what CNN (and the rest) have become. Seriously, these jourrrrnalists make me supress my urge to puke.