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Related: About this forumWhat These Gun Nuts Actually Told Katie Couric Is Ten Times Worse Than 'Deceptive' Silence
To hear conservatives tell it, Yahoo News anchor and executive producer of the documentary Under the Gun Katie Couric committed high crimes and misdemeanors against gun-nuttery when one of her editors followed a question about background checks with eight seconds of silence, when in reality, the group of gun enthusiasts had given immediate responses. Couric has apologized, because of course she has, but it doesnt seem like anyone has actually stopped to listen to the answers Courics editor cut out of the film, because if anything, she should be apologizing to the families of all the gun violence victims, not the gun nuts. She did the cause of unfettered access to guns a huge favor.
Really, she did them several favors, because not only did that edit cover up the completely insane and stupid answers these people gave, Couric also failed monumentally even in the interview. Heres the audio of the two minutes following that fateful question, which was, If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorist from walking into, say, a licensed gun dealer and purchasing a gun?
Listen to what these idiots said, and tell me that eight seconds of silence isnt a huge improvement:
http://thedailybanter.com/2016/05/what-these-gun-nuts-actually-told-katie-couric-is-ten-times-worse-than-deceptive-silence/
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)What a sophomoric piece of shit. I'm betting Sarah Palin has a column there.
ileus
(15,396 posts)poor antis.....they has a sadz-on.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)And lie to the viewers. She should be fired aas she has no journalistic credibility.
Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)Now lies and deception are *good*...."doing someone a favor" in gun control land.
Thanks for admitting to the bankruptcy of your position....
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,577 posts)"...what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"
Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)...keep trying to....ummm...*explain* this editing hack job, the deeper in to chit they wade.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)...but doing so, then argueing about it.
DonP
(6,185 posts)Gotta be scrapin' the bottom of the barrel for that post from Mom's basement.
Applauding the lies and now trying to blame the victims of her scam ... that turned out to be a lot smarter than she gave them credit for.
I'm assuming this poster approves of all of O'Keefe's little misadventures in "journalism" too.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)"Listen to what these idiots said........."
Nobody who credits the lifting of the "assault weapons" ban for a rise in gun violence is entitled to call anyone else stupid, given the well-known fact that long guns of all types are used in only a very small fraction of gun crimes.
There's plenty of other nonsense to deal with in this article, but it's really not worth my time.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Who is dumb enough to believe this???
theatre goon
(87 posts)They didn't bother to say.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)A whole swath in the anti-gun media apparently has got religion and went to a BSJ "buy-back," and gotta a diploma mill-issued degree in advertising or fiction writing.
And to think: this source is acceptable in DU because it fits da Narrative®.
sarisataka
(21,000 posts)For the Winston Smith Ministry of Truth journalism award
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)"California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a candidate actively campaigning for the Senate seat that is opening up with Barbara Boxers retirement, recently made the news when she tried to shame members of Congress for refusing to enact unconstitutional and counterproductive gun-control laws. They should have closed the chambers of Congress on the House and the Senate side, and said all you members go in there, only you, and spread out the autopsy photographs of and them to look at those photographs. And then vote your conscience, Harris said at Politicon, a political convention held in Los Angeles.1
Wow! Thats some pretty extreme rhetoric. But is the pot calling the kettle black here? Harris is the highest level law enforcement officer in California, and the head of the Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ is responsible for maintaining criminal records, mental illness records, records of those who have become ineligible to possess firearms, and all of the databases used to perform background checks on gun buyers, to register firearms, and to take firearms away from people who are prohibited from possessing them but who still have firearms registered in their name.
Those records, and the related databases, are a hot mess."
http://213ajq29v6vk19b76q3534cx.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Special-Feature-K-Harris.pdf
Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)...course from Sir Spamalot from Castle Bansalot.