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This drives me CRAZY!!! Keane DID clarify his interview with the Times reporter, and he was grossly misquoted. I CAN'T FIND THE LINK!!! I am still looking, and as soon as I find it, I will copy and paste it in its entirity. He wrote it Thankgiving morning.

Please do. I wouldn't put it past the media antis- to try and divide the ranks by purposely 'misquoting' anyone. Even Wayne La Pierre's remarks seep horribly disjointed for someone who has proven himself as articulate.

Only written press releases have any chance to be quoted correctly, and you have to be careful to word things so they can't chop those a-la Charleton Hesston's speech butchered in "Bowling for Columbine". At least you can take them to task when you put it in writing.

Okay, I found it. I have embedded the link, as well as copied and pasted it to this post. I hope this clears some stuff up for a lot of you. Freepers, of all people, should know better than to take quotes at face value when it's the MMMers and the Brady Bunch doing the quoting. They got their material directly from the NYT, whom, as we all know, is the most liberal underhanded rag in the country (except, perhaps, for the LA Times, but the NYT is where the rest of the news orgs. get their news. Nobody talks about it 'til it's been in the Times, and it's been this way for a hundred years) Anyhow, here's what I stumbled across on Thursday, sorry I didn't post it sooner. It is an excerp from the message boards at ar15.com. Follow the link to view the entire thread. http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=299360 -----Original Message----- From: Fletchette Sent: Thu 11/25/2004 3:47 AM To: Larry Keane Cc: Subject: thanks for selling us out. -------- Keane's reply: Has it occurred to you that the NY Times took my comments out of context, created quotes, and distorted its my comments to advance its own agenda? The reporter is well know for having an antigun agenda and to whom the Brady Center regularly feeds stories. I never said SKS are "rare" I never said they're never used to hunt. I never said you couldn't use 7.62 to hunt deer. I never said it was inappropriate to hunt w/ a semiauto. I never said anything about it being designed for "combat soldier." I never said SKS was in humane to hunt deer with. I said this guy wasn't a hunter, he was a nut. I said SKS were not among the most common deer hunting rifles - they aren't but that isn't the same as saying they are "rare" or never used. My discussion w/ the NY Times was in general terms -- he was asking about AK-47's, the interview got into a general discussion about so-called "black guns" and the sunsetting of the Assault Weapons Ban. The discussion about ethical hunting related to a question about what's wrong w/ shooting an animal lots of times. In the discussion about the sunsetting of the Assault Weapon Ban I suggested to him that the Bradys and VPC, etc falsely claimed, as did many in the media, that these so-called 'black guns' were "high powered" and I suggested to him that deer hunting rifles were more powerful. I've done countless interviews w/ the print, radio, TV including 2x w/ 60 Minutes representing the interests of gun owners and the industry. Even Mickey Mantle made an error every once in awhile. I'm sorry I didn't do a better job. I've learned a valuable lesson about dealing with the NY Times. Tomorrow I'm going to Radio Shack and buying a tape recorder. Enough said on the subject. I'm going back to the dinner table to spend time w/ my family on Thanksgiving. I hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted :: 11/29/2004 6:54:02 PM