Great title except anti-gun didn't need half@ss quotation marks.
What's the proper name for those quotation marks within quotation marks?
Just in case:
1. AR lowers.
2. Magazines of all kinds.
Doesn’t $10 million seem kind of low for the NRA to be spending on ads as compared to 2000 and 2004?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Apostrophes.
Spend the money in PA!!!!!!!!!
Please!
Can’t see why groups with so much to lose like NRA wouldn’t put every dime they’ve got into this one...
In television ads, shown in Florida, Ohio and other contested states, the NRA claims that Obama would deny families the right to defend themselves with a firearm against criminals. The group also pounces on Obama's comment earlier this year that "bitter" voters "cling" to guns and religion.
Has anyone actually seen these ads?
They've got an ad on their site that says "Hillary was right: You can't trust Obama with your GUNS! and it links to a PDF file with articles!
“No amount of false attacks from the NRA will change the fact that Sen. Obama firmly believes that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to bear arms and that he will respect the tradition of gun ownership,” said Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman.
What is so startlingly amazing about the electorate is that, forgetting all the blank spots in O’s life, he was an extremely liberal candidate during the primaries. He goes into the general with a different, sometimes opposite narrative.
And the boneheads just now tuning in believe him. He has, in effect, lied about every single one of his stances.
He will do whatever is politically expedient once elected. He will shut down dissent in the courts, his own version of the Sedition Act.
One is tempted to say, Americans deserve this liar. But I’m one of those Americans and I can’t make my mouth say the words.
I have faith. Something about the guy is creepy. The lapses in the facade that led him to say spread the wealth around. That led him to ridicule the Joe Thee Plumber. That led him to say he was only eight when Ayers was bombing.
People know these things in their hearts. They can’t pull the lever for the guy. They just won’t be able to.
I think you're talking about "scare quotes". Per Wikipedia: Scare quotes is a general term for quotation marks used for purposes other than to identify a direct quotation.
Generally, if quotes are used within quotes, then the single quote would be used. Sometimes the single quotes are used even if they are not within double quotes. Depends upon the style. (I tend to use single quotes quite often, to sorta indicate that the words are not actually "quoted".)
You can look up the LameStreamMedia style books, if you want to find their take on it, but they certainly aren't the definitive word on punctuation, grammar or anything else in the English language, since they bend anything any way they feel they want to. Remember Mark Twain's comments:
...That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditchdigging and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."
--Mark Twain, License of the Press, A Talk Before the Monday Evening Club, Hartford, 1873.
although I feel he went too lightly and was much too politically correct in that thought on them. Then again, he did say:
"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Even during the civil war, the military weren't particularly enamored of them either:
"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."
--Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman
Of course, ol' Thomas didn't think highly of them in his time, either:
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
--Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819
Then there's a somewhat more contemporary view:
"The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth."
--Winston Churchill