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MSNBC's Hayes: 'Far-Right Fringe' NRA 'Might Be Spelling Their Own Demise'
Newsbusters ^ | May 6. 2013 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 05/06/2013 8:28:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On Friday's All In show, with the words "The Sickness" displayed on screen behind him, MSNBC host Chris Hayes began the show with a commentary in which he tagged the NRA as a "far-right fringe organization" that "might be spelling their own demise" by celebrating the defeat of the universal background check proposal. Hayes:

While they did win the short-term victory with the background check bill, that vote could ultimately prove to be the NRA's undoing. Because, in a lot of ways, it's a classic wedge-issue vote, in that it separated the NRA from mainstream gun owners. And if they lean into that vote, as they appear to be doing, and mistake it for a victory, they might be spelling their own demise because Americans will come more and more to see them for what they are, which is a right-wing fringe organization.

Early on in the segment, after complaining that the NRA successfully worked to defeat the gun control deal after helping to negotiate it, Hayes found the pro-gun group's actions "admittedly, a semi-impressive -- if kind of gross and unseemly -- party trick on the part of the NRA. But it's a trick they're incredibly proud of today."

A bit later, he asserted:

People are starting to recognize that the NRA is not a nonpartisan organization, it is a creature of the American political right. It is interested in victories by the American political right. It grows out of the culture of the American political right. It has increasingly come to embrace the fringe margins of the American political right.

He added:

I mean, if you want tangible evidence of that, just look at who's speaking at tonight's conference. Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, John Bolton -- John Bolton, seriously....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; cruz; guncontrol; johnbolton; nra; palin; rickperry; secondamendment
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t think the NRA will cause the rights demise, BUT obama, clinton and BenghaziGate will hopefully cause theirs.

No Gosnell or Benghazi, just NRA all the time. Mindless drones..


21 posted on 05/06/2013 9:00:45 PM PDT by mardi59 (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Never heard of this boy. Is the MSNBC lineup Two Chrissies and a Half of a Missy?
22 posted on 05/06/2013 9:03:14 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The NRA has a record 5 million members.

In their moonbat lefty delusions is the NRA facing their “demise.”


23 posted on 05/06/2013 9:04:22 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 4, 2008 and November 6, 2012.....Two days that will live in infamy!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

You poor soul . are you in one of their new Political Reeducation Camps? If you want as triple digit from msnbc hosts, stay there another couple days and add up all the hosts’ IQ’s.


24 posted on 05/06/2013 9:11:31 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: faithhopecharity

...three days won’t be enough!


25 posted on 05/06/2013 9:12:11 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MSM agitprop, period. Like Pravda was to the politburo. Pure BS.


26 posted on 05/06/2013 9:24:51 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

They have trotted out a couple of alleged gunowners who are willing to trash the NRA for 15 minutes of infamy on a network nobody watches. One claimed to own a gun shop. I wish I had gotten his name so I could tell him he just bought a million dollars’ worth of bad publicity. The other was some dope who wrote a book he wanted to sell.


27 posted on 05/06/2013 9:34:36 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought partisan was supposed to mean aligned to one of the political parties. I didn’t think partisan meant being aligned with those who have a consistent view of the world.


28 posted on 05/06/2013 9:48:32 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I see. That explains why they more than doubled their membership since last November. LOL

NRA Surges to Record 5 Million Members (May 4, 2013)

29 posted on 05/06/2013 9:59:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Well then its hopeless. You will go stark ravinmad watcing msnbc for more than 3 days. You’ll be reduced to their level and have to count on yer toes. Max count then will be about 10, no way to reach 100.


30 posted on 05/06/2013 10:58:42 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.


31 posted on 05/07/2013 12:08:05 AM PDT by glock rocks ("If not us, who? If not now, when?" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brain defective nonsense; the NRA will be celebrating ever-increasing membership when this moron has long since retired and sits around the nursing home gumming his porridge and wetting himself.


32 posted on 05/07/2013 12:26:47 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
On Friday's All In show, with the words "The Sickness" displayed on screen behind him, MSNBC host Chris Hayes began the show with a commentary in which he tagged the NRA as a "far-right fringe organization" that "might be spelling their own demise" by celebrating the defeat of the universal background check proposal.

Chris Hayes and his ilk are so far to the left that they cannot even see the center, common sense, or the will of the people.

As is typical of the leftists, they accuse others of their own failings.

33 posted on 05/07/2013 2:13:49 AM PDT by olezip
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To: nitwits

             

                           tyrannis delenda est

34 posted on 05/07/2013 3:11:30 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Leftists are only able to think in clichés.


35 posted on 05/07/2013 3:36:21 AM PDT by AdaGray
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To: olezip

Proud to say that I have “the sickness”.

If trouble ever finds me, I will be able to take care of myself. Chris Hayes apparently prefers to fight back from a fetal position.


36 posted on 05/07/2013 3:48:07 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Pity the poor network of MSNBC.

They know they have a (non)ratings problem. All the cool young liberals watch Jon Stewart and nobody to the right of John McCain can stand their single viewpoint leftist analysis.

So they figure the gruff union persona of Ed Schultz is turning off viewers and they put in this nonthreatening metrosexual Chris Hayes, and their viewership gets even worse!

hahahahah

37 posted on 05/07/2013 5:42:20 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This talking point is everywhere so it must have been sent out by the Democratic Party.


38 posted on 05/07/2013 5:43:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NRA membership surges to 5 million

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/04/nra-meeting-lapierre-membership/2135063/


39 posted on 05/07/2013 5:47:30 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Because, in a lot of ways, it's a classic wedge-issue vote, in that it separated the NRA from mainstream gun owners.

Huh? The way things are going, the NRA is more likely to end up being that 'third political party' everybody keeps thinking is going to happen because of the GOPe spineless RINOs that infest & are ruining the current Repub party ... and I'm only half joking here.

40 posted on 05/07/2013 6:19:23 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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