Posted on 08/19/2009 9:18:56 AM PDT by PhxRising
Ernest Hancock, the online radio host who interviewed the man with the assault rifle outside yesterday's Obama event in Arizona, today stated that the whole event was actually planned in advance. Watch the video below.
Hancock appeared on Rick Sanchez's CNN show this afternoon. After explaining a few details about the interview, including the tidbit that he's known 'Chris' (the man with the AR-15) for two years because of their mutual work for Ron Paul, the CNN host said "the more we look into this, the more it appears that it was really planned."
"Oh, it's more planned than you think," Hancock responded. He then let loose with a string of details, including how Hancock contacted the Phoenix police department days before the event and how he was partially motivated to do so because of the controversy surrounding William Kostric, the man armed with a gun outside of Obama's town hall in New Hampshire last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...
AFAIC, just because you have the right to do something doesn’t necessarily make it the best thing to do.
However, the MSM seemed to not be able to see any firearms carried by a number of Black Panthers who gathered in a protest in 2000 against Bush:
To complete the thought, when leftists legally carry firearms in public near the POTUS and it is not an issue with the MSM, yet when non-leftists do the same thing and it is an issue, then what, exactly, is the issue? It is certainly NOT the RKBA.
As an owner myslf, I believe there is a right time and a wrong time to make statements. This was inappropriate. It plays right into the corrupt MSM’s agenda to cast these protests as made up of crazy wingnuts looking to off the POTUS.
While you and I might not think it a big deal, I am quite sure the MSM and all of the other Obama supporters will use this for nefarious reasons — to our detrement.
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Of course it was planned.
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One thing I have not seen adequately reported (likely I managed to miss it somewhere) was exactly where the citizens were located with respect to the security zone around POTUS?
Seems to me that, in each case, they must have been outside that zone, or the Secret Service or local LEO would have intervened. One can extrapolate, then, that both the Secret Service and local LEO did not believe these folks to be a threat. Please tell me again, then: why all the fuss?
I’ve never heard of FR software reviewing posts.
You are being monitored.........
by who? Can’t be the Cherokee, the Pawnee or the Osage Nations.
We are friends.
Must be the cave dwellers of Arizona
Or the Emmanual Bros.........
well I guess I am suddenly and mysteriosly off whoever’s list.
Well I guess I am suiddenly and mysteriosly off whoever’s list.
Thanks for listening to my plaintive cries for attention.
Now let’s agitate and postulate some more.
You said — Now let’s agitate and postulate some more.
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As they say out on the street... “abso-dam-lutely”... LOL...
Let’s try this from Home.
Okay. Fixed.
Be back in a few hours.
Got a couple of quick appointments.
You said — If I may say so, it was a dumb publicity stunt, worthy of a Ron Paulite. If the purpose was to support the Second Amendment, then it was a really stupid thing to do.
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And being a publicity stunt, with it being cleared ahead of time and having a police officer right there, just a few feet away, knowing what the situation was (i.e., planned ahead of time and a radio interview “set-up”) — it takes away from it being “for real”...
What I would like to know is what would happen is about 100 people showed up all at once, with those over their shoulders... LOL...
Then you would see the *real story* on this issue... :-)
I made myself watch some of Matthews show last night, and he had Ron Reagan on. The two of them kept insinuating this man and the others were there armed to threaten the president. They should be embarrassed about their overreaction.
Great find. I remember that story, and I’ve been wondering how the media coverage of it would compare to media coverage of armed protesters today.
No, I don’t think so. Not in Arizona, anyway. And I understand that a LOT of others were in the neighborhood carrying their pistols openly, as they have every right to do. This being the case, I think it should happen MORE often until people get used to seeing armed Americans walking freely and proudly down the street, exercising their absolute right to bear arms.
If the lefties and the MSM want to wet their panties ‘cause WE exercise OUR rights, just like the Black Panthers and other HOODLUMS do, too bad, so sad.
I’m pinging my brother ‘cause he lives in AZ and might have more light to shed.
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