Without the media beating the drum, no issue, no matter how crucial, will ever become front and centre in the national conversation. The media is lock, stock and barrel in the hands of the left and they are just running dead on the various scandals that the Obama White House has been involved in. The intensity of the current debate – or lack thereof – will never wake the slumbers of a somnolent population.

This story of the Gibson Guitar Company, which always had the strangest look about it from the start, is now explained. But the explaining is not done with the intense anger it ought to bring forth but really, is nothing more than a venture into, now I can understand what I didn’t understand before. Fancy all that. The para that matters:

On Aug. 24, 2011, federal agents executed four search warrants on Gibson Guitar Corp. facilities in Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., and seized several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. One of the top makers of acoustic and electric guitars, including the iconic Les Paul introduced in 1952, Gibson was accused of using wood illegally obtained in violation of the century-old Lacey Act, which outlaws trafficking in flora and fauna the harvesting of which had broken foreign laws.

In one raid, the feds hauled away ebony fingerboards, alleging they violated Madagascar law. Gibson responded by obtaining the sworn word of the African island’s government that no law had been broken.

In another raid, the feds found materials imported from India, claiming they too moved across the globe in violation of Indian law. Gibson’s response was that the feds had simply misinterpreted Indian law.

Interestingly, one of Gibson’s leading competitors is C.F. Martin & Co. According to C.F. Martin’s catalog, several of their guitars contain ‘East Indian Rosewood,’ which is the exact same wood in at least 10 of Gibson’s guitars. So why were they not also raided and their inventory of foreign wood seized?

Grossly underreported at the time was the fact that Gibson’s chief executive, Henry Juszkiewicz, contributed to Republican politicians. Recent donations have included $2,000 to Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and $1,500 to Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.

By contrast, Chris Martin IV, the Martin & Co. CEO, is a long-time Democratic supporter, with $35,400 in contributions to Democratic candidates and the Democratic National Committee over the past couple of election cycles.

And the story’s title, “Now The Gibson Guitar Raids Make Sense“. Good to understand things, I suppose, but where’s the outrage. where’s the anger, where’s the will to do something about it?