Blacks vs. Police
October 5th, 2017 12:06 AM
Let's throw out a few numbers so we can put in perspective the NFL players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem. Many say they are protesting against police treatment of blacks and racial discrimination. We might ask just how much sense their protest makes. According to The Washington Post, 737 people have been shot and killed by police this year in the United States. Of that…
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CBS Whines Dianne Feinstein’s Past Gun Control Efforts Fizzled
October 4th, 2017 10:05 PM
In the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting a few days ago, liberals all across the country and in the media had begun to push for greater gun control. On Wednesday, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein announced a bill to ban the so-called “bump-stocks” that allowed the shooter to use his semi-automatic rifle as one that was fully automatic. And in looking back at her past attempts at gun control…
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Scarborough Slams Gun Maker 'Getting Richer' as 'Children Slaughtered'
October 4th, 2017 8:48 PM
On Wednesday's Morning Joe, MSNBC was again showing itself to be the news network where the conservatives talk like liberals while the liberals also talk like liberals as host Joe Scarborough went on a rant against gun makers supposedly "getting richer" after mass shootings because the talk of gun control drives a temporary spike in gun purchases.
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Chris Matthews Compares Gun Rights Advocates to North Vietnamese
October 4th, 2017 6:54 PM
Leading off Tuesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews seemed to insinuate a comparison between pro-gun advocates and the communist North Vietnam in a segment about gun control in the wake of Sunday night’s Las Vegas shooting. All the while, Matthews’s two assembled guests/so-called journalists mocked certain gun owners and bewailed the “gun culture” in America that they wished was the…
ESPN's Nichols Pushes Group Attacking NRA
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October 4th, 2017 6:52 PM
Without actually uttering the words "gun control," ESPN's Rachel Nichols used her NBA television program, "Jump," to appeal for donations to attack the National Rifle Association (NRA). In the aftermath of the Las Vegas massacre, she said we need to figure out how to end gun violence and she plugged a gun control advocacy group called "Everytown for Gun Safety."
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The Real Vegas Villains? Media Blame Gun Owners For Latest Shooting
October 4th, 2017 3:33 PM
The media’s inevitable exploitation of the Las Vegas shooting to rip up the Second Amendment was sickeningly swift. Not even 24 hours passed before journalists had began badgering politicians for more gun control and even worse, disgustingly blaming gun owners for the bloody attack. One CBS employee actually said she wasn’t “even sympathetic” because “country music fans often are Republican…
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‘View’: ‘No One Is Taking Away Guns’ But Let’s ‘Ban’ These Guns
October 4th, 2017 2:25 PM
Sounding like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, The View’s Sunny Hostin argued Wednesday that she “believed in the 2nd Amendment” but wanted to see various types of guns “banned.” The show’s host echoed the other liberal hosts at the table in wondering “why” any American would need certain types of guns, modifiers and silencers. Hostin tried to have her cake and eat it too by saying she “didn’t want to…
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MSNBC’s Ruhle Lobbies for Gun Control, Urges Trump to Sell Out Base
October 4th, 2017 1:19 PM
During her 9 a.m. ET hour show on Wednesday, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle and USA Today Senior Politics Reporter Heidi Przybyla traded in their press passes in order to play the role of liberal lobbyists as they demanded a legislative push on gun control. Ruhle implored President Trump to abandon gun rights supporters and try to appease “all of those people he has thoroughly offended and…
‘Spurious’ But Accurate? NYT Uses Straw Man to Fight Gun Chart
October 4th, 2017 11:12 AM
The mass shooting in Las Vegas has led to liberal media prodding for gun control, even infecting so called fact-checking features, like the recently established one in the New York Times. Resident checker Linda Qiu penned “Do More Guns Really Mean Fewer Gun Murders? Not Exactly.” Qiu tried to refute a chart from the “conservative-leaning” American Enterprise Institute that suggested there was no…
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Kimmel: Critics Are 'Nuts' 'Responsible' For Their 'Dirty Business'
October 4th, 2017 10:55 AM
ABC’s late night host Jimmy Kimmel doubled down against his conservative critics on his Tuesday night show, after smearing Republicans, gun owners and Donald Trump the night before, for not doing enough to stop the Las Vegas massacre. For his ten-minute-long tirade against the right, he earned an avalanche of media praise from virtually every network. But even that didn’t drown out the criticism…
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MSNBC Republican: 'You're a Bad Parent If You Have a Gun in the House'
October 4th, 2017 10:33 AM
On Tuesday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, frequent MSNBC Republican guest David Frum lamented over the trend towards loosening gun laws -- even after high-profile mass shootings -- and then predicted that it would be necessary to convince gun owners that "you're a bad parent if you have a gun in the house" to get the public to support more gun restrictions.
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Gun Grab Debate: French Tries to Talk Down Hysterical Todd
October 4th, 2017 12:48 AM
With the Las Vegas mass shooting just a couple days old, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd was eager to push the gun grabbing debate. So to satisfy his urge, he dedicated nearly all of Tuesday’s MTP Daily to talking about different proposals for gun control and hammering the National Rifle Association (NRA) for standing up for the Second Amendment. But Todd did bring on the National Review’s David French who…
WashPost Op-Ed: Gun-Control Ideas 'Crumbled' When Researched
October 3rd, 2017 11:59 PM
As seen in at least ten separate NewsBusters posts in the past two days, the left has wasted no time politicizing the mass murder at the at Route 91 country music festival in Las Vegas to push hard for "gun control" — which ultimately, as anyone who has noticed what governors in Connecticut and New York have done in the past several years knows, involves total gun confiscation. Thus, it is quite…
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Shapiro Decimates SJW Kimmel for His ‘Abhorrent,’ ‘Nasty' Gun Rant
October 3rd, 2017 11:16 PM
Almost two weeks after demolishing Jimmy Kimmel over his asinine health-care tirades, conservative star and podcast host Ben Shapiro obliterating the ABC late-night host on Tuesday for an “abhorrent, “gross,” and “nasty” gun control rant touting confiscation and mauling those against his views as monstrous.
