The original ESPN story was over-hyped, but it sounds in-character for Obama and his radical environmentalist friends, and the truth is not as cut-and-dried as Administration apologists would like you to believe.

Here’s the story that started the recent hubbub:

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762

A Fox News story says that the ESPN story is probably overboard, and certainly government spokesmen are denying that the regulations being considered related to recreational fishing.

Also, ESPN has issued this clarification.

However, the Administration’s Interim Framework released three months ago clearly and repeatedly mentions recreational fishing as one of the uses of waterways, including the Great Lakes, that would be part of what is regulated.

So, when you read denials from left-leaning sites such as the one that one of my leftist readers sent me HERE, look out for the outright lies such as the one that the Interim Framework ” says zip about recreational fishing".  Just search the document (linked above) for “recreational"…