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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.
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Matthews Mocks GOPers As 'Ballsy Bastards,' Ban 'Semi-Automatic' Guns
October 3rd, 2017 11:13 PM
On Tuesday's Hardball, during a discussion of how Republicans are responding to calls for more gun laws in the aftermath of the Las Vegas attack, host Chris Matthews mocked several GOP U.S. Senators as "ballsy bastards" after playing a clip of them recommending against debating new gun laws.
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Joe: I Support The Second Amendment. Also, Ban All Guns!
October 3rd, 2017 6:04 PM
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough returned in fine form to play the part of the impassioned, moderate conservative who completely supports the Second Amendment, but just wants some sensible gun controls too. However, by the end of the show, Joe had argued for banning most legal weapons currently in Americans’ possession while simultaneously revealing a complete lack of knowledge about…
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MSNBC Analyst: Congress 'Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Gun Lobby'
October 3rd, 2017 5:00 PM
Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's MSNBC Live, MSNBC law enforcement analyst Jim Cavanaugh derided Congress as a "wholly-owned subsidiary of the gun lobby" as he complained about the difficulty of getting new gun laws passed. Calling himself a supporter of the Second Amendment, he went on to declare that it should not be a "suicide pact that takes away our life and liberty."
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60 Minutes Skimps on Scalise Shooter’s Lib Beliefs, Hypes Gun Control
October 3rd, 2017 3:20 PM
In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, CBS This Morning’s Norah O’Donnell jumped on un-aired footage of her 60 Minutes interview with another shooting survivor, Congressman Steve Scalise. Declaring it timely, the co-host on Tuesday introduced her push for gun control: “The shooting here is reigniting calls to debate the nation's gun laws. Before the massacre, we spoke with Republican Congressman…
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'View': ‘You Don’t Have to Do Anything to Get a Gun’ In Some States
October 3rd, 2017 2:56 PM
After Monday’s show was interrupted with live news coverage, ABC’s The View got its first chance to respond to Sunday night’s mass shooting on Tuesday’s program. As to be expected, the dialogue was high on emotions and low on facts, with the hosts reciting Democrat talking points, praising Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night rant, and urging viewers to vote Republicans out of office for not doing enough to…
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Brokaw Urges Viewers to ‘Organize' Against the NRA
October 3rd, 2017 1:11 PM
After repeatedly demanding a “national dialogue” about gun control throughout NBC’s special coverage of the Las Vegas shooting on Monday, on Tuesday, the former Nightly News anchor abandoned any pretense of being a journalist as he slammed gun owners and urged liberal viewers to politically “organize” against the National Rifle Association.
NYT Lauds Kimmel’s ‘Social Conscience’ After Host Trashes GOP, NRA
October 3rd, 2017 12:13 PM
In the aftermath of the massacre in Las Vegas, late-night comedian turned moral scold Jimmy Kimmel excoriated the GOP for “letting the gun lobby run this country,” and New York Times Giovanni Russonello praised the host for acting as a social conscience” and calling out Republicans and the National Rifle Association, in his Best of Late Night rundown Tuesday morning: “Jimmy Kimmel Seizes on Las…
