National Rifle Association claims bias news reporting
My immediate posting plans include tonight’s post on news bias, two or three posts on “Global Warming,” a few more posts on “Healthcare Nationalized,” and then a short series on gambling/Video Poker. A somewhat restricted Video Poker activity has recently been legalized in Illinois—a “painless” method to raise more taxes, I mean money, for the Illinois General Assembly to waste, I mean spend. Of course, these plans could change.
I became a member of the National Rifle Association for the first time earlier this year. I don’t own a firearm personally but it is obvious that the libertines want to violate, ignore, rewrite this portion of the Constitution—Amendment II—as they have many other portions of the Constitution. I received the following late last week.
The letter as received and put into my format:
“Fifteen years ago, you and I and the NRA (National Rifle Association—my addition) were facing a firestorm of attacks from Washington, D.C. and from the national media.
Clinton Administration officials, anti-gun members of Congress, and the gun-hating media were all demanding that we give up our Second Amendment rights—claiming that law-abiding gun owners should take the blame for violent crime.
At the end of that battle, Congress enacted a sweeping ten-year ban on hundreds of semi-automatic firearm models based only on the way they looked.
Now, our enemies are at it again. And this time, they’re playing for much bigger stakes.
Now, they’re not simply blaming us for the heinous acts of violent criminals, they’re blaming us for an all-out war—a drug war in Mexico that the Mexican government seems powerless to stop.
As you know, drug lords in Mexico have in recent months been killing each other at a record pace—competing to protect their $30-billion-a-year, across the border illegal drug trade.
Armed with fragmentation grenades, grenade launchers, full-auto machine guns and their own fleets of ships, airplanes, and private armies, the drug cartels have virtually unlimited firepower and unlimited financial resources at their disposal. And their brutal turf wars are costing thousands of lives each year.
But instead of placing the blame on billionaire drug criminals in Mexico, American politicians and the American media are using this tragedy to further their own anti-gun political agenda here in the U.S.—blaming law-abiding Americans and our Second Amendment freedoms for the chaos and bloodshed taking place south of the border.
And they’re demanding a ban on hundreds of models of firearms—including virtually EVERY semi-automatic pistol, rifle, and shotgun for sale in America today.
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this past March, Senator Dianne Feinstein claimed that Mexico’s drug crime problem was our fault because our gun laws are not strong enough to keep guns away from Mexican criminals.
[Dianne Feinstein [D] California
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/ (Website)—my addition]
What’s more, she issued a patently false statement that ‘90%’ of the firearms used by Mexican drug cartels are coming across the border from the United States.
A few days later, the Brady Campaign released a report entitle ‘Exporting Gun Violence: How Our Weak Gun Laws Arm Criminals in Mexico and America’—a 28-page rant blaming our firearms industry, the NRA and American gun owners for Mexico’s violent crime problem.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano have all chimed in with their own bogus claims that our Second Amendment rights are somehow at the heart of Mexico’s drug wars.
CBS News Anchor Katie Couric and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell have both echoed the phony ‘90%’ figure—either without checking the facts or as a deliberate effort to mislead the American people.
ABC News—pouring gas on the fire by showing footage of fully-automatic machine guns that have been virtually banned in the U.S. for 75 years—has likewise endorsed this ‘Big Lie’ to convince the American people that licensed U.S. firearms dealers are pumping guns into the Mexican drug wars.
And CNN News—with its bizarre and ridiculous claims that Mexican drug lords are buying missile and rocket launchers from mom-and-pop gun stores here in the U.S.—has gone far out of its way to abet gun-banners in their efforts to mislead the American people on this issue. (Don’t tell me CNN News now wants to take away my right to buy missile and rocket launchers at my local “Stop Crime Now Gun Store.” If only we could!—my addition)
CNN even gave Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke a column on their ‘news’ website—where he claimed that U.S. gun sellers supply the drug cartels with ‘95 to 100 percent’ of their guns, and demanded not only gun bans, but gun show shutdowns, the release of confidential gun trace information to gun-ban lawyers, and a federal gun rationing program that could only be enforced through gun registration. (Why not ration guns? After rationing healthcare, the government will no doubt have reason to keep guns out of the hands of people who are given a pill to temper the pain rather than a life saving procedure—my addition.)
Now, this bogus claim—that our Second Amendment rights are the cause of Mexico’s drug wars—has been repeated in scores of big-city newspapers like the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, on countless T.V. and radio broadcasts across the country, and in hundreds of internet and magazine articles. (That’s the concept of the “Big Lie.” If enough “important” people and organizations repeat it often enough, many people are bound to believe it. For example, “If you like your insurance company and/or your doctor, you’ll be able to keep them.” Or, “The Republicans don’t have a healthcare alternative.” Or, “We can bend the cost curve and increase coverage, increase the number of people covered, decrease the cost, and not have any rationing.” Or, “The MURDER of unborn babies will not occur under this plan. That’s why it isn’t necessary to have an amendment that specifically bans the MURDER of unborn babies.” Or, “Trust me!” Or, “Change you can believe in!”—my addition)
But every single one of these claims is false. Instead of trying to save lives in Mexico, anti-gun extremists are trying to use these tragedies to destroy freedom in America.
The real truth is, only a small fraction of the guns being used in Mexico’s drug wars are coming from the U.S.
The Mexican government has recovered hundreds of thousands of guns, but they’ve turned over only a small fraction of those guns to the U.S. government for tracing. Clearly, the Mexican government is picking and choosing the guns it turns over for examination by American authorities!
So it’s no surprise that many of these guns originally came from the United States—including many that were sold to the Mexican army by the U.S. government!!!
In fact, in the last six years alone, more than 150,000 members of Mexico’s army have deserted their posts—many taking their firearms with them and then joining the drug cartels or selling their guns to the drug lords.
And with billions of dollars in cash at their disposal, Mexican drug kingpins don’t rely on so-called ‘straw buyers’ or illegal gun purchases in the United States.
The truth is, Mexico itself is an international arms bazaar, where guns and war materiel are trafficked almost openly by Russian crime organizations, the Chinese government, former Warsaw Pact nations, and international black market arms syndicates.
Yet, every single day, in newspapers, on the radio and especially on the T.V. networks, I still see the same bald-faced lies trotted out to the American people…
…That 90% of the guns used in Mexico’s drug wars are coming from the United States…That American gun owners are somehow responsible for Mexico’s crime problems… (Everyone knows that all world problems are directly caused by the United States and its desire for oil, natural resources, power, and control. If not for the United States, we’d have a utopian world with the governments of the world taking care of all our needs and wants. We could do anything we want and all will be perfect—my addition.) And that Mexican drug kingpins can’t and won’t be stopped unless Americans like you give up your Second Amendment rights!
Unless you and I take immediate action to fight back, and force the media and the politicians to stop lying to the American people, we could be headed for the biggest Second Amendment disaster of our lifetimes.
And we could see Congress move forward toward banning virtually every semi-automatic firearm for sale in America today, including many you may now own.
That’s the reason I’m writing to you today—to ask you to join this fight right now, before our enemies spin this issue so far out of control that we can’t stop a massive gun ban from moving through the U.S. House and Senate.
I’m asking you to get personally involved in this battle against those who are cynically manipulating Mexico’s tragedies to achieve their own political aim (“Never let a crisis [real or imagined—my addition] go to waste” according to Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Hussein Obama’s Chief of Staff—my addition.)—a ban on virtually every semi-automatic pistol, rifle and shotgun available in America today.
And I’m asking you to help me fight back against these ‘blame freedom’ and ‘blame America’ lies and distortions that are coming from Obama administration officials, gun-hating members of Congress, big city newspapers and especially the T.V. networks including ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN News. (Do people still actually watch these programs?—my addition)
That’s the reason for the four postcards enclosed with my letter—already addressed to the top corporate officials at these four networks.
The truth is, fewer and fewer Americans are watching the major news networks each and every year. And part of the reason is that the American people—especially America’s 80 million gun owners—no longer trust these networks to tell them the truth!!!
By mailing your postcards, you can send a powerful reminder to the T.V. networks—that they’re not fooling anyone with their extremist anti-Second Amendment bias, and that if they continue to LIE to the American people, they’ll continue to have fewer and fewer viewers every year!!! (But, the one’s they’ll have left will be eager to hear the lies so they won’t change the minds of anyone!—my addition)
So please take a powerful step to protect our Second Amendment rights by signing, stamping and mailing these postcards as soon as you can.”
“… A battle that pits you and me and the NRA against the Mexican government, anti-gun politicians in Congress, Obama administration officials like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder, and Big Media propagandists who have abandoned the truth in favor of their own personal political goals. (There is a reason why the sale of firearms increased dramatically after the election of Barack Hussein Obama and it has NOTHING to do with racism!—my addition)
Time and time again, you and I and the NRA have found ourselves with our backs to the wall in battles no one thought we could win.
But time and time again, members like you have rallied around our Second Amendment cause and given us the resources we needed to defeat freedom’s most powerful political enemies.
That’s why I love this great Association—because the power of the NRA isn’t in our building, it’s in the hearts and homes of millions of patriotic Americans like you who, fighting together, are nearly impossible to defeat.
You can ask any politician in Washington D.C.—friend or foe—and he or she will tell you the same thing … that NRA’s strength is our members, plain and simple.
It won’t be easy and it won’t be quick.”
“Please, mail your cards and take the first step toward exposing the lies of Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, the gun-ban lobby, anti-gun members of Congress, and especially the gun-hating T.V. networks who are working day and night to turn our fellow Americans against us.”
“Thank you very much for your participation and support in this epic battle.
I look forward to hearing from you, and I’m grateful every day for your commitment to protect and defend our Second Amendment rights.
Sincerely, Wayne La Pierre
Executive Vice President”
The addresses on the four postcards are as follows:
“Mr. David Westin
President, ABC News
77 West 66th Street
New York, New York 10023
Mr. Sean McManus
President
CBS News
524 West 57th Street
New York, New York 10019
Mr. Jim Walton
President, CNN/U.S.
Time Warner Inc.
1 CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Mr. Steve Capus
President, NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112
Each postcard has the following statement:
Dear Mr. (The name of the specific President—my addition)
You should be embarrassed by your network’s phony ‘news’ stories claiming that Mexico’s drug lords are obtaining ‘90%’ of their guns from American gun stores. The truth is, the Mexican government has recovered hundreds of thousands of guns, but it has turned over only a small fraction of those guns to the U.S. government for tracing. I know that viewership for your news programming is down significantly in the past few years, and there is little wonder why. If you want to reverse this trend you should stop repeating gun-ban propaganda and start telling America the truth.
Sincerely,”
The mass media, Barack Hussein Obama’s worldly creator and enabler!
My immediate posting plans include tonight’s post on news bias, two or three posts on “Global Warming,” a few more posts on “Healthcare Nationalized,” and then a short series on gambling/Video Poker. A somewhat restricted Video Poker activity has recently been legalized in Illinois—a “painless” method to raise more taxes, I mean money, for the Illinois General Assembly to waste, I mean spend. Of course, these plans could change.
I became a member of the National Rifle Association for the first time earlier this year. I don’t own a firearm personally but it is obvious that the libertines want to violate, ignore, rewrite this portion of the Constitution—Amendment II—as they have many other portions of the Constitution. I received the following late last week.
The letter as received and put into my format:
“Fifteen years ago, you and I and the NRA (National Rifle Association—my addition) were facing a firestorm of attacks from Washington, D.C. and from the national media.
Clinton Administration officials, anti-gun members of Congress, and the gun-hating media were all demanding that we give up our Second Amendment rights—claiming that law-abiding gun owners should take the blame for violent crime.
At the end of that battle, Congress enacted a sweeping ten-year ban on hundreds of semi-automatic firearm models based only on the way they looked.
Now, our enemies are at it again. And this time, they’re playing for much bigger stakes.
Now, they’re not simply blaming us for the heinous acts of violent criminals, they’re blaming us for an all-out war—a drug war in Mexico that the Mexican government seems powerless to stop.
As you know, drug lords in Mexico have in recent months been killing each other at a record pace—competing to protect their $30-billion-a-year, across the border illegal drug trade.
Armed with fragmentation grenades, grenade launchers, full-auto machine guns and their own fleets of ships, airplanes, and private armies, the drug cartels have virtually unlimited firepower and unlimited financial resources at their disposal. And their brutal turf wars are costing thousands of lives each year.
But instead of placing the blame on billionaire drug criminals in Mexico, American politicians and the American media are using this tragedy to further their own anti-gun political agenda here in the U.S.—blaming law-abiding Americans and our Second Amendment freedoms for the chaos and bloodshed taking place south of the border.
And they’re demanding a ban on hundreds of models of firearms—including virtually EVERY semi-automatic pistol, rifle, and shotgun for sale in America today.
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this past March, Senator Dianne Feinstein claimed that Mexico’s drug crime problem was our fault because our gun laws are not strong enough to keep guns away from Mexican criminals.
[Dianne Feinstein [D] California
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/ (Website)—my addition]
What’s more, she issued a patently false statement that ‘90%’ of the firearms used by Mexican drug cartels are coming across the border from the United States.
A few days later, the Brady Campaign released a report entitle ‘Exporting Gun Violence: How Our Weak Gun Laws Arm Criminals in Mexico and America’—a 28-page rant blaming our firearms industry, the NRA and American gun owners for Mexico’s violent crime problem.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano have all chimed in with their own bogus claims that our Second Amendment rights are somehow at the heart of Mexico’s drug wars.
CBS News Anchor Katie Couric and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell have both echoed the phony ‘90%’ figure—either without checking the facts or as a deliberate effort to mislead the American people.
ABC News—pouring gas on the fire by showing footage of fully-automatic machine guns that have been virtually banned in the U.S. for 75 years—has likewise endorsed this ‘Big Lie’ to convince the American people that licensed U.S. firearms dealers are pumping guns into the Mexican drug wars.
And CNN News—with its bizarre and ridiculous claims that Mexican drug lords are buying missile and rocket launchers from mom-and-pop gun stores here in the U.S.—has gone far out of its way to abet gun-banners in their efforts to mislead the American people on this issue. (Don’t tell me CNN News now wants to take away my right to buy missile and rocket launchers at my local “Stop Crime Now Gun Store.” If only we could!—my addition)
CNN even gave Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke a column on their ‘news’ website—where he claimed that U.S. gun sellers supply the drug cartels with ‘95 to 100 percent’ of their guns, and demanded not only gun bans, but gun show shutdowns, the release of confidential gun trace information to gun-ban lawyers, and a federal gun rationing program that could only be enforced through gun registration. (Why not ration guns? After rationing healthcare, the government will no doubt have reason to keep guns out of the hands of people who are given a pill to temper the pain rather than a life saving procedure—my addition.)
Now, this bogus claim—that our Second Amendment rights are the cause of Mexico’s drug wars—has been repeated in scores of big-city newspapers like the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, on countless T.V. and radio broadcasts across the country, and in hundreds of internet and magazine articles. (That’s the concept of the “Big Lie.” If enough “important” people and organizations repeat it often enough, many people are bound to believe it. For example, “If you like your insurance company and/or your doctor, you’ll be able to keep them.” Or, “The Republicans don’t have a healthcare alternative.” Or, “We can bend the cost curve and increase coverage, increase the number of people covered, decrease the cost, and not have any rationing.” Or, “The MURDER of unborn babies will not occur under this plan. That’s why it isn’t necessary to have an amendment that specifically bans the MURDER of unborn babies.” Or, “Trust me!” Or, “Change you can believe in!”—my addition)
But every single one of these claims is false. Instead of trying to save lives in Mexico, anti-gun extremists are trying to use these tragedies to destroy freedom in America.
The real truth is, only a small fraction of the guns being used in Mexico’s drug wars are coming from the U.S.
The Mexican government has recovered hundreds of thousands of guns, but they’ve turned over only a small fraction of those guns to the U.S. government for tracing. Clearly, the Mexican government is picking and choosing the guns it turns over for examination by American authorities!
So it’s no surprise that many of these guns originally came from the United States—including many that were sold to the Mexican army by the U.S. government!!!
In fact, in the last six years alone, more than 150,000 members of Mexico’s army have deserted their posts—many taking their firearms with them and then joining the drug cartels or selling their guns to the drug lords.
And with billions of dollars in cash at their disposal, Mexican drug kingpins don’t rely on so-called ‘straw buyers’ or illegal gun purchases in the United States.
The truth is, Mexico itself is an international arms bazaar, where guns and war materiel are trafficked almost openly by Russian crime organizations, the Chinese government, former Warsaw Pact nations, and international black market arms syndicates.
Yet, every single day, in newspapers, on the radio and especially on the T.V. networks, I still see the same bald-faced lies trotted out to the American people…
…That 90% of the guns used in Mexico’s drug wars are coming from the United States…That American gun owners are somehow responsible for Mexico’s crime problems… (Everyone knows that all world problems are directly caused by the United States and its desire for oil, natural resources, power, and control. If not for the United States, we’d have a utopian world with the governments of the world taking care of all our needs and wants. We could do anything we want and all will be perfect—my addition.) And that Mexican drug kingpins can’t and won’t be stopped unless Americans like you give up your Second Amendment rights!
Unless you and I take immediate action to fight back, and force the media and the politicians to stop lying to the American people, we could be headed for the biggest Second Amendment disaster of our lifetimes.
And we could see Congress move forward toward banning virtually every semi-automatic firearm for sale in America today, including many you may now own.
That’s the reason I’m writing to you today—to ask you to join this fight right now, before our enemies spin this issue so far out of control that we can’t stop a massive gun ban from moving through the U.S. House and Senate.
I’m asking you to get personally involved in this battle against those who are cynically manipulating Mexico’s tragedies to achieve their own political aim (“Never let a crisis [real or imagined—my addition] go to waste” according to Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Hussein Obama’s Chief of Staff—my addition.)—a ban on virtually every semi-automatic pistol, rifle and shotgun available in America today.
And I’m asking you to help me fight back against these ‘blame freedom’ and ‘blame America’ lies and distortions that are coming from Obama administration officials, gun-hating members of Congress, big city newspapers and especially the T.V. networks including ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN News. (Do people still actually watch these programs?—my addition)
That’s the reason for the four postcards enclosed with my letter—already addressed to the top corporate officials at these four networks.
The truth is, fewer and fewer Americans are watching the major news networks each and every year. And part of the reason is that the American people—especially America’s 80 million gun owners—no longer trust these networks to tell them the truth!!!
By mailing your postcards, you can send a powerful reminder to the T.V. networks—that they’re not fooling anyone with their extremist anti-Second Amendment bias, and that if they continue to LIE to the American people, they’ll continue to have fewer and fewer viewers every year!!! (But, the one’s they’ll have left will be eager to hear the lies so they won’t change the minds of anyone!—my addition)
So please take a powerful step to protect our Second Amendment rights by signing, stamping and mailing these postcards as soon as you can.”
“… A battle that pits you and me and the NRA against the Mexican government, anti-gun politicians in Congress, Obama administration officials like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder, and Big Media propagandists who have abandoned the truth in favor of their own personal political goals. (There is a reason why the sale of firearms increased dramatically after the election of Barack Hussein Obama and it has NOTHING to do with racism!—my addition)
Time and time again, you and I and the NRA have found ourselves with our backs to the wall in battles no one thought we could win.
But time and time again, members like you have rallied around our Second Amendment cause and given us the resources we needed to defeat freedom’s most powerful political enemies.
That’s why I love this great Association—because the power of the NRA isn’t in our building, it’s in the hearts and homes of millions of patriotic Americans like you who, fighting together, are nearly impossible to defeat.
You can ask any politician in Washington D.C.—friend or foe—and he or she will tell you the same thing … that NRA’s strength is our members, plain and simple.
It won’t be easy and it won’t be quick.”
“Please, mail your cards and take the first step toward exposing the lies of Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, the gun-ban lobby, anti-gun members of Congress, and especially the gun-hating T.V. networks who are working day and night to turn our fellow Americans against us.”
“Thank you very much for your participation and support in this epic battle.
I look forward to hearing from you, and I’m grateful every day for your commitment to protect and defend our Second Amendment rights.
Sincerely, Wayne La Pierre
Executive Vice President”
The addresses on the four postcards are as follows:
“Mr. David Westin
President, ABC News
77 West 66th Street
New York, New York 10023
Mr. Sean McManus
President
CBS News
524 West 57th Street
New York, New York 10019
Mr. Jim Walton
President, CNN/U.S.
Time Warner Inc.
1 CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Mr. Steve Capus
President, NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112
Each postcard has the following statement:
Dear Mr. (The name of the specific President—my addition)
You should be embarrassed by your network’s phony ‘news’ stories claiming that Mexico’s drug lords are obtaining ‘90%’ of their guns from American gun stores. The truth is, the Mexican government has recovered hundreds of thousands of guns, but it has turned over only a small fraction of those guns to the U.S. government for tracing. I know that viewership for your news programming is down significantly in the past few years, and there is little wonder why. If you want to reverse this trend you should stop repeating gun-ban propaganda and start telling America the truth.
Sincerely,”
The mass media, Barack Hussein Obama’s worldly creator and enabler!
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