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one_voice

(20,043 posts)
Sun Dec 6, 2015, 11:30 PM Dec 2015

Everything is Awesome..



https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/673691056207175682/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

edit to add:

The New York Daily News has been running one helluva campaign against guns on its front page lately. Last month, the (financially troubled) tabloid launched one of the boldest attacks on the National Rifle Association in recent memory with just three words: "NRA's Sick Jihad." The story inside accused the gun rights group of tacitly abetting terrorists by blocking a proposed bill that would make it more difficult for suspects to buy guns.

Then, last Wednesday, after 14 people were killed in an allegedly terror-inspired rampage in San Bernardino, California, the paper rebuked Republican politicians for supporting victims with their "thoughts and prayers" rather than taking meaningful action to curb access to guns. That front-page headline was four words: "God Isn't Fixing This."

Now comes this lesson in high sarcasm from the New York tabloid: (insert above picture)

*snip*

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/12/new-york-daily-news-front-page-guns-awesome
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Everything is Awesome.. (Original Post) one_voice Dec 2015 OP
wtf is that? Kalidurga Dec 2015 #1
see edit.. one_voice Dec 2015 #2
Ok thanks I am just stunned Kalidurga Dec 2015 #5
they're on DU Skittles Dec 2015 #3
What's a cowardly "pol"? No, really. I don't know. lindysalsagal Dec 2015 #4
politician Kalidurga Dec 2015 #6
not so much derogatory as simply fewer characters. unblock Dec 2015 #7
OIC Kalidurga Dec 2015 #11
Politician. shenmue Dec 2015 #16
They've got the New York Times playing catchup ball rocktivity Dec 2015 #8
True!! avaistheone1 Dec 2015 #12
It can't be that awsome bearssoapbox Dec 2015 #9
Impotent Rage, the headline. n/t Shandris Dec 2015 #10
KnR Hekate Dec 2015 #13
Well at least one publication is taking a stand. avaistheone1 Dec 2015 #14
Wow! Who is at the wheel at the Daily News lately? flamingdem Dec 2015 #15

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
5. Ok thanks I am just stunned
Sun Dec 6, 2015, 11:47 PM
Dec 2015

Just when I think that no one will have the guts to say anything about the gun problem someone does. I doubt it will have an impact, other than people will stop buying the paper cuz that is what people do when confronted with their complicity.

bearssoapbox

(1,408 posts)
9. It can't be that awsome
Mon Dec 7, 2015, 02:09 AM
Dec 2015

No unicorns or fluffy bunnies.



Good to finally see someone going after the domestic terrorism enablers though.

 

avaistheone1

(14,626 posts)
14. Well at least one publication is taking a stand.
Mon Dec 7, 2015, 03:01 AM
Dec 2015

That in itself is something positive. The Daily News are using their newspaper as pulpit for good and hopefully to prick the public's conscience.

flamingdem

(39,332 posts)
15. Wow! Who is at the wheel at the Daily News lately?
Mon Dec 7, 2015, 03:04 AM
Dec 2015

Did someone leave pot brownies lying around the place?

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