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Biden: We’re counting on the “legitimate news media” to cover our gun-control messaging
Hot Air ^ | February 11, 2013 | Allahpundit

Posted on 02/11/2013 5:16:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Good lord, man. What more can they do for this policy push that they aren’t doing already? You’ve got major network news bureaus using the term “assault magazines,” for cripes sake. When you’ve had a horse pulling a cart for two months, it’s humane to pat him and tell him “good job” before hitching him up again.

Piers Morgan, I’m sure, would appreciate some water and a sugar cube or two.

Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that those who claimed the Obama Administration was trying to take away guns from law-abiding citizens were spinning “a bunch of malarkey.”

“I know that’s a word you’ve never heard before, although it’s now in the dictionary,” Biden said at a roundtable discussion with law enforcement officers in Philadelphia. “That’s just simply not true. And to be very blunt with you, we’re counting on all of you, the legitimate news media, to cover these discussions because the truth is that times have changed.”…

Biden also pledged to bring the fight to rural areas, where instances of gun violence were less frequent than in cities and the tradition of gun ownership is strong. The vice president said he had read reports in a local newspaper that the administration had not done enough to reach out to rural voters.

“I’m coming, I’m coming,” Biden said.

Times really haven’t changed much, but the White House needs to maintain that fiction to have any hope of passing even the most modest new gun regulations through Congress...

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: banglist; biden; bidenguncontrol; guncontrol; legitimatenewsmedia; legitnewsmedia; msm; obama; presstitutes; secondamendment; talkradio
Yeah, they only have 98% of the media, academia, Hollywood, the music industry, cartoonists, publishing, the fashion crowd, unions, NGOs and Broadway, but that's not enough?
1 posted on 02/11/2013 5:16:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Talking points issued, accompanied by a veiled threat.


2 posted on 02/11/2013 5:20:49 PM PST by Toespi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Call them the propaganda media, every chance you get.
3 posted on 02/11/2013 5:22:57 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Joey! There is no “legitimate news media” anymore. You communists destroyed it. All of it.


4 posted on 02/11/2013 5:29:04 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Now Playing. Obama II - The Revenge of My Father.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At what point do they officially become the state run media?


5 posted on 02/11/2013 5:33:43 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver
At what point do they officially become the state run media?

I think we passed that point four years ago when they got tingles up their legs.

6 posted on 02/11/2013 5:39:23 PM PST by Ditto
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There goes Biden again.. Speaking highly of White House’ employees (mainstream media).


7 posted on 02/11/2013 5:41:21 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe he hasn’t heard that Glenn Beck and Rush have been talking about Gun Control everyday, aren’t they the “legitimate Media”??


8 posted on 02/11/2013 5:48:19 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First, regulate and prohibit certain people from buying firearms.
Next, require background checks for purchases from FFL dealers.
Now expand the background check to be universal.
Then require registration of all firearms.
finally, confiscate firearms from all citizens.


9 posted on 02/11/2013 5:56:56 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There is no requirement to show need in order to exercise your rights.)
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10 posted on 02/11/2013 6:01:58 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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11 posted on 02/11/2013 6:07:12 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Good lord, man. What more can they do for this policy push that they aren’t doing already? You’ve got major network news bureaus using the term “assault magazines,” for cripes sake. When you’ve had a horse pulling a cart for two months, it’s humane to pat him and tell him “good job” before hitching him up again.

Nah, Sound Bite Joe is more of a "ride em hard and put em away wet" kind of guy.

12 posted on 02/11/2013 6:09:17 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

LOLOLOL.
Right and I’ll wager they’d prefer it over their Idol’s Drone Strikes.


13 posted on 02/11/2013 6:12:36 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm sure you are, Joe.

Pat Caddell called it. Do you believe it yet?

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: “These people have no honor!” Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

The Media are enemies of the people!

14 posted on 02/11/2013 6:56:37 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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