Liberals are a special kind of stupid.
What part of NOT do they NOT understand?
Please keep ‘em coming! Thank you all very much!
Posted on 04/18/2013 10:36:58 AM PDT by servo1969
The first mistake the media-complex made was the decision to immediately make the National Rifle Association the "Newtown Bogeyman." This happened even before the bodies had been removed and was an immediate "tell" into the media's motives. This wasn't going to be about protecting children, this was going to be yet-another culture war launched to marginalize the dreaded NRA and hand Obama a win.
This was also a media so full of its own power, they simply assumed they could exploit another tragedy into yet-another another Us vs. Them cultural victory. Out of the box, though, the plan was tactically stupid.
But the media's first fatal error wouldn't come for another week.
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In a masterful speech carried live across the cable networks, LaPierre completely caught the media off guard by refusing to budge an inch on America's Second Amendment civil rights. Immediately, the objective, unbiased, not-at-all-liberal media collectively bared its corrupt backside on Twitter spewing the kind of partisan hate you might expect from a Daily Kos blogger.
Then LaPierre delivered his masterstroke: a federal plan that would ensure that someone armed and trained to stop a spree-shooter, like the one at Newtown, would be on guard in every school across the nation.
Checkmate.
Caught completely off guard, and having no idea how to respond, the media moved into the default position it always assumes against all-things conservative --which is that we can never do anything right. And what followed was the media making an unbelievable spectacle of itself, from which it would never recover.
Blinded by frustration, rage, and an insufferable sense of entitlement, and before finally getting a grip on themselves, the media as a whole would spend the next thirty-six hours mocking, marginalizing, and publicly pushing back against ... guarding schoolchildren against madmen with guns.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
He missed on point.
Bloomberg was lying in wait for this event. HE WANTED this crisis to launch his attack. The tacticts were written long before the first tear.
Bloomberg did not spend a single dime to secure schools. Bloomberg only spent money to photograph the dead.
He missed on point.
Bloomberg was lying in wait for this event. HE WANTED this crisis to launch his attack. The tacticts were written long before the first tear.
Bloomberg did not spend a single dime to secure schools. Bloomberg only spent money to photograph the dead.
He missed on point.
Bloomberg was lying in wait for this event. HE WANTED this crisis to launch his attack. The tacticts were written long before the first tear.
Bloomberg did not spend a single dime to secure schools. Bloomberg only spent money to photograph the dead.
'Baby, I am NOT from Havana.'
Mel Brooks wrote about everything important years ago.
/johnny
so....the Media essentially blew it by not cutting to live coverage of a tandem rig getting a speeding ticket on I-95 during LaPierre’s speech?
I just hope that decent people learned too, and that we won't be training to fight the last war. We still have to win the next war and the one after that. Those who want the government to hold absolute power over disarmed citizens will never stop, so we cannot afford to stop. I think our best strategy is to move the football as far down field as possible, so the leftists will be fighting to regain the yardage they already had. We can't afford to continue losing ground and then merely defend our new position. We have to systematically attack bad gun laws in the courts, in the legislature, and in the press. We have to convince the swing voters that our position is both right and popular (completely realistic because it's the truth).
—brings to mind the statement about twenty years ago by one of the then leading lights of Handgun Control, Inc. (at the time of the NRA convention in Minneapolis)-— “a lot of our people couldn’t care less about crime—they just want to beat the NRA”-—
Maybe I’m a bit naive. The creation of the DHS counts in a big way, but I don’t feel that previous administrations had declared war on America and American values.
It's twue, it's twue.
The POTUS/MSM vaudeville act using dead children and a brain-damaged politician was designed to begin in earnest the elimination of weapons under civilian control. That tactic may have backfired. Some previously neutral Americans suddenly have realized that life is occasionally dangerous and that it is a good thing to be able to defend yourself and your family.
Understatement of the year. Giving power to a government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenage boy.
Or me.
Either way, we're not talking a pretty outcome.
/johnny
/johnny
The Department of Homeland Security was brought into being in the aftermath of 9-11. I don’t think it was wise, but I don’t see any evidence that Bush and Cheney had ill motives in agreeing to its creation. But now that it’s in place and growing, the current crop of polls are using it either for a cash-cow of pork barrel spending in their districts/states, or an instrument of STATIST CONTROL OVER THE PEOPLE, or both.
The current crop of “pols” (politicians), not polls...
I know the end to this story.
/johnny
The Rancid Media’s lies about gun control has had one local effect: we’ve had to cap the number of members of our gun club, so many new people have been trying to join.
Agreed—Nolte’s embrace of the Manchin-Toomey mess is a disappointment.
You’re spot on about the rest of the article. It should form the basis of all future tactical responses to the Democrat/MSM axis because, as a notable American has observed, they only have one page in their playbook.
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