As part of its HighTaxHillary campaign, Americans for Tax Reform has rediscovered video of Hillary Clinton supporting a 25-percent tax on gun sales. She lent her support for the gun tax during a Senate Finance Committee hearing back in 1993, while she was First Lady.
ATR released a story and accompanying video on Sept. 8, but the major media have yet to cover the story in the two days since.
Earlier today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted how the Associated Press produced a series of reports following Texas Gov. Rick Perry's announcement that he would not seek another term which "can only be explained if their purpose is to poison his possible 2016 presidential aspirations."
The first example was a list of "five things to know" about Perry compiled by the AP's "wiseguy" Will Weissert which, except for an item about his early upbringing, were trivial. (Here are three substitutes from, of all things, an AP photo caption: "staunch Christian conservative, proven job-creator and fierce defender of states' rights.") Weissert was also the author of the second example, this time contending that Perry is an object of ridicule outside of the Lone Star State (bolds and numbered tags are mine):
For those of you concerned about what Hillary Clinton is going to do once Barack Obama finally wins the Democrat nomination for President, our friend Doug Ross on Sunday offered a number of hysterical options including her taking over the Golden EIB microphone for Rush Limbaugh:
In Ross's view:
Joy Behar warned of the imminent "Republican attack machine" and of course it’s "lethal." On the February 12 edition of "The View," the co-hosts discussed, surprisingly, that Obama has been getting excellent press.