Debunkin'

Confederate Yankee is on a roll, exposing the naked partisanship of the coverage of the VTech massacre. The MSM is determined to turn this into gun-control fodder, no matter what the facts actually suggest.

Here he's laying to rest the rumors that Cho used high-capacity magazines. They were "standard"--i.e., 15 rounds.

And here he catches another interesting mistake. The media's favorite whipping boy, Wal-Mart, was blamed as the source of Cho's magazines--along with a chain called Dick's Sporting Goods. Not so:

News flash: Dick's Sporting Goods doesn't carry any handgun magazines of any kind, at any location. Walmart also does not carry pistols or pistol magazines.

I called the Dick's locations in Christiansburg and Roanoke this evening and I spoke with employees in the hunting department (called "the Lodge"). They confirmed what I already knew from visiting Dick's locations in New York and North Carolina over the past five years; while the chain carries ammunition, they've never carried pistols or pistol magazines.

I spoke with the young lady in the sporting good department of the Christiansburg Walmart, which took a bit longer than the Dick's calls. I had to first explain to her that when I was asking about "pistol magazines" I was not talking about handgun-related periodicals. Once that point was clarified, I confirmed that Walmart do not sell ammunition holding devices for pistols, either.

Two of the nation's top news organizations are telling hundreds of thousands of news consumers demonstrable lies because journalists were/are too lazy to spend the minimal amount of time it takes (three calls in five minutes) to fact-check an anonymous source regarding claims made about two huge retail store chains and their role in this nation's largest mass murder shooting.