Code Pink protesters — including the group’s Marxist founder, Medea Benjamin — disrupted today’s press conference by National Rifle Association chairman Wayne LaPierre. Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has video. Meanwhile, as Alex Pappas of Daily Caller reports, influential members of the nation’s elite press corps were openly mocking LaPierre:
If it wasn’t for all the dead children, the #NRA press conference might have been amusing.
— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) December 21, 2012
Who is Jonathan Weisman? Just another neutral, objective congressional reporter for the New York Times, that’s all.
Might as well get your news from Erik Loomis. (“Metaphor“!)
Here’s the full text of Wayne LaPierre’s speech. More at Memeorandum.
UPDATE: If there’s one thing America can always expect from progressives, it’s civil discourse about important policy issues:
Oh, look! @twitchyteam found still more delightful progressive metaphors for civility! twitchy.com/2012/12/21/kil… #tcot #nra
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 22, 2012
It’s times like these that you wish some gun wielding, never owned a TV or games psychopath would shoot up the .@nra offices. #FuckTheNRA
— derrickgott (@derrickgott007) December 21, 2012
Wayne LaPierre: kill yourself. Do what you love to do best – shoot a gun. Just place it inside your mouth first, you fucking cunt. @nra #NRA
— Arlen Riesau (@ArlenR24) December 21, 2012
Lots more Progressive Civility™ where that came from.
Linked at Hogewash — thanks!
UPDATE II: Oops! Neutral objective reporters caught on a hot microphone disparaging the NRA, praising Code Pink.
UPDATE III: Linked by American Glob — thanks!
UPDATE IV: Linked by the Lonely Conservative — thanks!
[…] MSM Coverage of the NRA—Unbiased_Not Posted on 21 December, 2012 by wjjhoge The Daily Caller points out how the MSM is responding with one voice to Wayne LaPierre’s press conference today. (H/T, The Other McCain). […]
I’m reasonably sure the NRA will outlast the NYT. Especially if circumstances force it to change its name to the New Republican Army…
As for Medea Benjamin, we should have let the Pakistanis keep her.
Yeah, the inner fascist is really coming out in these people.
[…] Maybe Code Pink and Erik Loomis should join forces because civility. […]
Is it too late to give her back?
[…] RulesHomeNeutral Objective Press Unloads On NRADecember 21, 2012By Lonely ConservativeThe “neutral objective” media didn’t even wait until the end of NRA chief Wayne LaPierre’s press […]
Off Topic: This is what you want for Christmas!
Twitchy is all over this. America’s Nuttiest Professor should not be allowed anywhere near firearms (what he does with his historic collection we really do not want to know about either).
I think they threatened to have a Spanish judge indict us if we did…
In the meantime, the NRA is suggesting we begin to live like communists – under the watchful of armed soldiers in the hallways and on the rooftops. That’s just as insane as banning guns.
And his speech today was pro-Second Amendment, but very much anti-First Amendment – a tendency they’ve shown in the past too. Remember these are the same guys that sided with the Democrats on the dead-for-now DISCLOSE Act…..after they’d carved out an exception for themselves, natch.
Sure. If by “we” you mean schoolchildren, while on school grounds. And by “armed soldiers” you mean some retired guy who looks like a WalMart greeter, but dresses in standard security garb and has one handgun.
Moral equivalence arguments are considered fallacies for a reason. You might want to look it up.
Hyperbole much?
The NRA is about as much a threat to the First Amendment as Obama is to the Muslim Brotherhood.
[…] that armed school attacks could be better prevented by having armed guards in the schools. Robert Stacey Stacy McCain has a good, and well-documented, article on what he calls the Progressive…1 as does L D Jackson and Kate of Victory Girls. Trouble is, though the left will present Mr […]
AngelaTC is, by and large, hyperbolic. Or at least the majority of her posts here are such. I read her posts mostly in the hopes that she retains some rationality.
The NRA was more a danger to this country when they endorsed Harry Reid in 2010 than they are endorsing armed guards in schools.