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Protester carrying AR-15 at Obama Protest Rally in Phoenix was a Publicity Stunt
Talking Points Memo ^ | 8/18/2009

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 ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: ar15; banglist; obama; opencarry
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To: PhxRising
The MSM are such fools. They completely fell for this publicity stunt and were completely used.

That part is no news at all. lol

41 posted on 08/19/2009 1:18:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: dcwusmc
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.

I do too. I don't care if it was a publicity stunt. He carried it lawfully and respectfully and that needs to be done until it is so passe that it wouldn't work as a publicity stunt.

42 posted on 08/19/2009 1:25:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye
Coming up on Chris Matthews' show ... he's still got his panties all twisted about this. I guess he didn't get the Talking Points Memo telling him it was a stunt.
43 posted on 08/19/2009 2:15:57 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican
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To: Obadiah

Actually, I think it was a really good idea. You see, the SRM like to portray EBRs as capable of action all by their lonesome, and here we have a case where one was actually seen in public... and it didn’t leap to life and gun everyone down! It didn’t turn its owner into a blood-crazed killing machine.

All in all, I’d call it a win.


44 posted on 08/19/2009 5:07:46 PM PDT by ex 98C MI Dude (All of my hate cannot be found, I will not be drowned by your constant scheming)
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To: dcwusmc
I have NO problem with it. More people need to carry, any time, any place. And if libs wet themselves over it, so much the better. Your attitudes are more like those lily-livered cowards afraid to exercise a RIGHT because you might offend someone who hates you already...

Agree, I don't like the Lindsey Grahams either. These fellows appeared to have acted very rationally and planning appropriately.

45 posted on 08/19/2009 6:27:23 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Freedom First in 2010)
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To: airborne

AYBABTU very nice


46 posted on 08/19/2009 7:19:15 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Vendome

ping the admin mod...


47 posted on 08/19/2009 7:45:48 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Luke 22:36...Trust in the Lord...=...LiveFReeOr Die...)
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To: Gilbo_3

Kissed and made up.

thanks


48 posted on 08/19/2009 7:59:05 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Gilbo_3; Vendome

He’s been let off of “double secret probation”.


49 posted on 08/19/2009 8:09:26 PM PDT by 2111USMC
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To: 2111USMC; Gilbo_3

LOL!

Free at last, Free at last!


50 posted on 08/19/2009 9:29:11 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: aragorn

I find it interesting that someone peacefully exercising their lawful Constitutionally-protected right was orchestrated as a publicity stunt.


I’m trying to determine any difference from Rosa Parks’ “stunt a few generations back.


51 posted on 08/20/2009 7:01:39 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Typical "Rightwing Extremist")
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To: PhxRising
The MSM are such fools. They completely fell for this publicity stunt and were completely used.

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Kind of like the birthers and the kenyan birth certificate a few weeks ago.

Not an attempt to hijack the thread, just pointing out that anyone with a strong desire for things to be as they want, rather than as they are, can easily be duped.

52 posted on 08/20/2009 7:20:17 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Vendome

Blame the trolls.

Too many articles being posted for race baiting, violence baiting, etc.


53 posted on 08/20/2009 7:22:55 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: MrB

Well I figured who it was and it was an over reaction.

Hopefully we are friends. I don’t hold to many grudges.

In regards to trolls, we have already seen a few this morning.

They come here pimping their blogs, which make little to no sense, and they are easy to spot.

Check out this one: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2320390/posts?page=5#5


54 posted on 08/20/2009 8:51:20 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Matthews has been carrying on like that for over a week. You’ve got a stronger stomach that I do to tough it thru Ron Reagan (gag).


55 posted on 08/20/2009 9:06:15 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: PhxRising

By definition. all protests or demonstrations are “publicity stunts” intended to sway others to a cause or promote something.


56 posted on 08/20/2009 2:32:51 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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