Mika: Wayne LaPierre's 'Stupid' Arguments 'Something Sarah Palin Would

February 4th, 2013 7:08 AM
Sarah Palin's profile might not be as high as it was a few years ago, but she apparently still serves as a convenient punching bag for the left. On today's Morning Joe, as Joe Scarborough railed against the allegedly "stupid" arguments NRA leader Wayne LaPierre made on Fox News Sunday yesterday, Mika Brzezinski muttered "something Sarah Palin would say."  Consider that Palin had been in no…

Joe Klein: NRA 'Acting Like a Bunch of Crazies These Days

January 20th, 2013 1:39 PM
There clearly is no limit to what liberal media members are allowed to say about the National Rifle Association in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. Appearing on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show Sunday, Time's Joe Klein said the NRA "are acting like a bunch of crazies these days" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Stephen Colbert to NRA's LaPierre: 'You Sir Are F--ked In the Head

January 10th, 2013 12:09 PM
The indeceny of media attacks on gun rights advocates knows no bounds. Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert said of the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre Wednesday, "You, sir, are f--ked in the head" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Howard Kurtz: David Gregory Was Far Tougher on NRA's LaPierre Than Oba

December 30th, 2012 10:29 AM
CNN media analyst Howard Kurtz was impressed last Sunday with how Meet the Press host David Gregory hammered the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre during their interview. One week later, Kurtz wondered why Gregory "didn’t brandish any weapons or show much firepower" during this Sunday's interview with President Obama.

Anonymous Narrative Arrives to Defend Gregory in Meet the Press Magazi

December 26th, 2012 11:28 PM
William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has relayed the latest turns of events in the David Gregory Meet the Press magazine brandishing incident (previous posts here, here, and here). The press is finally paying attention: "Now that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department is on record that it told NBC News not to use the high capacity magazine in its segment with Wayne LaPierre, the big media is…

Gregory on MTP: Likely Broke DC Law, Hypocritically Mocked NRA's Armed

December 23rd, 2012 10:03 PM
Two blog posts today should shred the credibility of Meet the Press's David Gregory in making arguments for gun control and against appropriate armed staff or security personnel at schools -- or they would, if journalists had the least bit of interest in exposing lawbreaking and hyprocritical behavior by their professional colleagues. During the show, as reported at the Patriot Perspective,…

Lawrence O'Donnell: NRA's LaPierre Is 'The Lobbyist For Mass Murderers

December 22nd, 2012 8:22 AM
The hatred the media have for Wayne LaPierre knows no bounds. Hours after the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association presented a strategy to protect America's students from the kind of massacre that happened in Newtown, Connecticut, a week ago, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell opened his program Friday by accusing the gun advocate of being "the lobbyist for mass murderers" (…

NRA CEO LaPierre Refutes Bob Costas: Jovan Belcher's Girlfriend Should

December 7th, 2012 8:51 AM
The National Rifle Association and guns in general have taken a lot of media criticism in the wake of last weekend's murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend. NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre pushed back Thursday telling USA Today Sports, "The one thing missing in that equation is that woman owning a gun so she could have saved her life from that…

MSNBC’S O’Donnell Calls NRA’s Wayne LaPierre a ‘Blood-Drenched

July 25th, 2012 1:51 PM
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell has joined the list of his colleagues deciding to disgustingly politicize the tragic Colorado shooting.  On Tuesday night, O’Donnell felt the need to attack Wayne LaPierre of the NRA and Republican Senator Ron Johnson (Wis.) for their support of the Second Amendment. O'Donnell started off his "Rewrite" segment claiming LaPierre was a "blood-drenched lobbyist" who…

LA Times Cartoonist Capitalizes on Aurora Tragedy By Portraying NRA As

July 24th, 2012 5:28 PM
  The Los Angeles Times has published an inane and irresponsible piece of political commentary about the recent mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. This time it's cartoonist and columnist David Horsey, blaming the NRA for the bloodbath, both in writing and in a cartoon depicting a callous Wayne LaPierre quipping "I hope the guns weren't harmed." Horsey writes: Let's also consider…

Chris Matthews Lumps NRA in With 'Crazy, Far-Right' 'Hatred' of Obama

September 27th, 2011 5:52 PM
While running through his usual litany of attacks on anti-Obama conservatives, MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Tuesday included the National Rifle Association as part of the "crazy far-right" who "hate" Barack Obama. Matthews began by wondering, "What is it about Obama that inspires this kind of weird, zealous hatred?" He later added, "Well, here's something, another strain of the crazy, far-…

FNC Examines Plight of Would-Be Gun Owners in D.C. Even After Ban Stru

October 9th, 2009 6:21 AM
On Monday's Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC, correspondent James Rosen filed a report describing the line of obstacles to acquiring a handgun legally in Washington, D.C., in spite of last year's Supreme Court ruling overturning the city's outright ban on handgun possession in the city. Host Baier introduced the report: "Correspondent James Rosen reports while it is now legal to get a…