What is with conservative talking heads caving in on the Second Amendment? Vanity

12/18/12 | Keith Brown

[Keith Brown]

So yesterday I heard Michael Medved on the radio (noon pacific time) and he was beating up on "assault" weapons and gun makers who were only selling to make a "profit..."

He was literally going down the liberal anti gun line... then when a few callers took him to task on it he talked over them and hung up.

Then there was O' Reilly on Fox who started off with a good talking point, but then started whipping on the stuttering 2nd Amend foundation guy (Gottleib? .... not a good showing for him).

Neither so called conservative host voiced the affirmative uses of guns in contemporary times.

Its terrible to see the so called conservative voices folding under pressure...but to see them turn on a core values such as gun ownership does not bode well.

I hope others see more positive representations out there but I am not seeing it.

It seems we need to remind these folks who pays their bills.

Thoughts?

[Sybeck1]

Listen to Mark Levin. He is all you need.

[MachIV]

Add Bill Bennett to the list. God Bless Mark Levin, but the other day I sortof cringed when he said if his items were confiscated, he would “sue”. I’m sorry Mark, but when that starts happening, effecting anything via the courts is long past a reality.

[joe fonebone]

There are no conservative talk radio hosts..

only republican party hacks...

[Cheerio]

Michael Meds is a closet LIBERAL - worked for the RAT Party way back in the “first worst President of our lifetime”, who has now replaced by Baraq Hussein Soetoro, our lord and savior (to quote a noted hollyweird actor).

At one time I am sure I heard him say that he had helped the Carter campaign but this morning I cannot find a reference to that little tidbit. From his wikipedia bio........

After his first year of law school, he left to work as a head speech writer for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Joseph Duffey,[2][3] and then for four years as a speech writer and political consultant. After political campaign work, including a position as an aide to Congressman Ron Dellums, Medved worked in advertising, and coordinated a campaign to recruit more African Americans and Hispanics to the police departments of the California cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.

[longtermmemmory]

remember when OReily faked his “fight” with michael moore going onto his show? Once a tabloid reader always a tabloid reader.

[y6162]

ObaMugabe has used Newtown to unleash his cultural revolution and Red Guard to terrorize opponents. Extracting public confession to wrongful thinking was a common punishment.

That’s what we’re seeing.

[faucetman]

Correct. I will only surrender my “assault weapon” after I have given them all my ammunition, ONE round at a time.

[NELSON111]

Part of the problem we have is WE have done a VERY bad job of explaining the 2nd amendment.

I have, on my Facebook page...and granted...thats only a few hundred people...but it's my circle, begun an in-earnest education campaign about the 2nd.

Every chance I get I remind people: The 2nd is NOT for hunting. The 2nd is not for home or self protection. The 2nd exists to back up the 1st. The 1st amendment is there, not to allow you to make porn movies or so you don't have to look at the 10 Commandments posted in front of the Court House...but to voice concerns when the government goes beyond it's authority. The 2nd is there for when the government attempts to prohibit the 1st.

ALL of the Bill of Rights are aimed DIRECTLY at limiting Federal Power and empowering the individual. If we would teach this to our children, like we used to, we would be much better off.

[longtermmemmory]

the Media Mob is dragging the shoting victim leftists out to speak for gun control since the NRA has officially surrendered.

[ohioman]

The abolishment of the 2nd Amendment will bring civil war to this country.

[zerosix]

Medved is no conservative. He’s a RINO at best.

[TADSLOS]

The irony of losing their 1st Amendment rights by relinquishing our 2nd Amendment rights is lost on the likes of Medved and O’Reilly.

[Cheerio]

The media and democrats are exploiting the mass shootings to take away our individual rights and to empower government.

That is all one needs to know about the state of our nation. Too many Americans and illegal aliens are way too dumb and uncaring to even understand what is happening to their freedoms and liberty that they are giving up in order to embrace Baraq O'Clause and his RAT party's promise of goodies for the rest of their lives. ACCEPTING THESE GIFTS WILL COME WITH A VERY HIGH PRICE. Fortunately for me I am old enough to not have to live through the horrific state of affairs that are coming. I cry for my grandkids - there is no way out of this.

I was a teenager in the early '60s and worked a good part of my life for Defense contractors and consider myself a cold-war warrior. UNFORTUNATELY the commies won, but from within - not an outside attack like Red Dawn.

[flaglady47]

Well, actually the good news for both O’Reilly and Medved, is that they at least moved more to the right in their lifetimes. They could have both stayed pure liberal. Don’t trust either of them to be anything resembling a true conservative, because they aren’t, but I’d rather have them as sometime political friends than 100 percent political enemies. You don’t always get perfection.

Just be aware that on some things both are perfectly capable of turning on us at times, because they really aren’t conservatives. My question is, how is it that some conservative people haven’t figured these two out a long time ago. It’s so obvious that they are RINO’s at best, or moderates in the pure sense of the word. Some things are self evident.

[TheRhinelander]

My biggest issue with O’Reilly is that he constantly interrupts people and talks over them. I consider that incredibly rude.

As a matter of fact I hate it so much I think people guilty of it should be shot by firing squad.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Clearly Michael Medved does not own guns and does not understand that “assault weapon” is a thoroughly phony PR phrase that means nothing. Likewise Jim Boeheim, the Syracuse coach who won his 900th. game yesterday, made some similar statement which indicates he just doesn’t know jack about guns.

Medved does an interesting show, but he always hewes very closely to the far left edge of Conservatism.

[meyer]

O’Reilly is NOT a conservative, he’s a statist.

[Responsibility2nd]

Yep. There was a thread here yesterday about Bill Bennett advocating gund control.

Sad. Bennett is one of my political heroes.

[miss marmelstein]

Krauthammer was mewling on the same subject last night. But at least he admitted that gun control was not gonna happen in his lifetime.

[miss marmelstein]

Is it possible that the famous neoconservatives are moving back towards liberalism?