Posted on 05/07/2013 3:04:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Here's one thing you can say about Republicans: They sure like their props.
First there was Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair at the Republican National Convention. Then there was Sarah Palin chugging down a Big Gulp at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March, and a couple months later, waving a tin of chewing tobacco at the National Rifle Associations annual convention in Houston this past weekend.
But in the prop-toting antics category, Glenn Beck may take the cake. He used not one but five props at his keynote address at the NRAs Stand and Fight convention Saturday, a rousing almost-two-hour talk during which he paced, mocked, pontificated, and of course, referred to props in classic Beck fashion.
He presented a series of firearms: the gun owned by serial killer Charles Manson before police confiscated it and Manson had nine victims slaughtered with knives, not guns; a 9/11 first responders handgun, which Mr. Beck called a small token of liberty; and an antique rifle used by an American the first time we fought against Muslim extremists the Barbary pirates.
A parade of arms? A firepower fashion show? A gun pageant? No, Beck was hammering home his point.....
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Diane Feinstines “these are the rifles to buy” show...
she might as well go to qvc television.
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H-A-C-K.
Those are good ones. Plus, toting around nearly-brain-dead Gabby Giffords is another one. As quickly as they could, they started hauling her around like “Weekend at Bernie’s.”
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I like his radio show. For the NRA, he promised a story on the "deportable" Saudi hospitalized from the Boston Bombing.
Was mention made of it?
i do not know this DS I’M wondering if any of our fellow FR friends can answer that question for us.
The left uses people as props, the right uses a non-person prop and they get blistered for it...
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