At first I thought I might have misunderstood. Lester Holt surely didn't mean to imply that befriending the NRA jeopardizes a politician's reputation for being tough on crime, did he?Posted on 09/22/2007 5:28:59 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
At first I thought I might have misunderstood. Lester Holt surely didn't mean to imply that befriending the NRA jeopardizes a politician's reputation for being tough on crime, did he?
Oh yes he did.
On this morning's "Today," weekend co-anchor Holt introduced a segment on Rudy Giuliani's Friday speech to the NRA, in which Rudy tried to take some of the sharp edges off his prior anti-NRA positions.
LESTER HOLT: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giulani remains the apparent GOP front-runner of his party for the White House, but his long record of being tough on crime was put to the test on Friday as he addressed one of his party's biggest supporters, the NRA. NBC's John Yang has the story.
Yang perpetutated the notion that crime-fighting and supporting the NRA are intrinsically at odds.
JOHN YANG: As a crime-fighting NYC Mayor, Rudy Giuliani called the NRA "right-wing extremists." As a presidental candidate he's asking for their votes.
A bit later, Holt began his conversation with NBC political analyst Craig Crawford by choosing an unflattering metaphor for Guliani's softening of his anti-Second Amendment stance.
HOLT: It was almost as if you could hear the sound like from a garbage truck backing up "beep, beep, beep" as Giulani tried to explain to the NRA campaign what he said then and what he's saying now.Later, Lester left no doubt that as far as he's concerned, being strong on law and order requires opposing the NRA and Second Amendment rights.
HOLT: Is there a bigger message [he's] sending to social conservatives, at least coming back a little bit from his [ant-NRA stance]. I mean he's got to keep his strong law-and-order stance but obviously he has to take care of groups like this to some extent, doesn't he?
So there it is. As far as Holt's concerned, the NRA is just a bunch of "social conservatives" who Rudy needs to pacify, or "take care of" as Lester put it. And that's a problem because opposing the NRA is what's required "to keep his strong law-and-order stance."
Oh, and would people please alert me the next time anyone in the MSM analogizes Hillary Clinton to a garbage truck?
“Today” thinks supporting NRA at odds with being tough on crime. Ping to Today show list.
He’s actually correct. Opposing the right to keep and bear arms strips the citizens of their right to protect themselves. Strengthening “law and order” would be the logical outcome of disarming the public. I don’t necessarily mean the kind of law and order you may be thinking of either. Remember, the state makes the laws.
Being tough on crime is a self-policing neighborhood.
Yep. Law and order. A police state that is. In fact, a good definition of a police state, is a country where only the police have guns.
Holt and his Mainstream Media lib buddies are typified by this jerk - the High Priest of Heat and Humidity. They have no clue about which end of the tube the round exits from. Like the future Veep sent to the vicinity of a war without a magazine for his assault weapon, Libs fight the battle of wits unarmed.
In otherwords, Lester Holt says, “screw the constitution”.
Lester Holt says, “ The 2nd Amendment should be dissolved” in order that only crimminals will have guns, and the citizen forbidden to protect themselves and their property.
Yep, no doubt this arsehole will be front row and centre with a smile and a boner for Ahmadinejad at Columbia U.
Does anyone have any remaining questions as to why Lester Holt will never be anything more than a glorified news reader?
Video clip of Lester Holt on “Today”: http://newsbusters.org/static/2007/08/2007-09-22NBCTSHolt2.wmv
That makes a darn good slogan!
I’d appreciate this item being pinged to Second Amendment and other relevant lists. Thanks!
5.56mm
It’s a twisted pleasure.
TV by the blue bits, for the blue bits.
I'll second that! :)
1984 “Newspeak” comes to the USA...
NRA - Group which opposes crime control
La Raza - Civil rights group
Cleartext...
NRA - Civil rights group
La Raza - Criminal support group
Un-Friggin-Believable!
Mark
Rudy and Mitt are both proven gungrabbers by their records in NY and MA. OTOH, Fred has supported the RKBA consistently since he first entered politics, and so has Duncan Hunter. A Thompson/Hunter ticket would be my idea of the most pro-2nd Amendment ticket the GOP could put up next year.
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