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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Moyers and Michael Winship: A New Low for the NRA
A New Low for the NRA
The gun lobby's new "recruitment ad" is really a call for white supremacy and armed insurrection, deliberately crafted to stir anger and fear.
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | June 29, 2017
Ad at link~
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It is the nature of such malevolent human beings to hate those whom they have injured, and the NRA has enabled more injury to more marginalized and vulnerable people than can be imagined. Note how the words guns or firearms are never mentioned once in the ad and yet we know that the NRA is death on steroids. And behind it are the arms merchants the gun makers and gun sellers who profit from selling automatic rifles to deranged people who shoot down politicians playing intramural baseball, or slaughter children in their classrooms in schools named Sandy Hook, or who massacre black folks at Bible study in a Charleston church, or murderously infiltrate a gay nightclub in Orlando.
Watching this expertly produced ad, we thought of how the Nazis produced slick propaganda like this to demonize the Jews, round up gypsies and homosexuals, foment mobs, burn books, crush critics, justify torture and incite support for state violence.
Its the crack in the Liberty Bell, this ad: the dropped stitch in the American flag, the dregs at the bottom of the cup of freedom. Its a Trump-sized lie invoked to bolster his base, discredit critics, end dissent. Joseph McCarthy must be smiling in hell at such a powerful incarnation on earth of his wretched, twisted soul.
With this savage ad, every Democrat, every liberal, every person of color, every immigrant or anyone who carries a protest sign or raises a voice in disagreement becomes a target in the diseased mind of some tormented viewer. Heavily armed Americans are encouraged to lock and load and be ready for the ballistic solution to any who oppose the systematic looting of Washington by an authoritarian regime led by a deeply disturbed barracuda of a man who tweets personal insults, throws tantrums and degrades everything he touches.
Look again at the ad. Ask yourself: What kind of fools are they at the NRA to turn America into a killing ground for sport? To be choked with hate is a terrible fate, and it is worst for those on whom it is visited.
Take one more look, and ask: Why do they get away with it? What is happening to us? How long do we have before the fire this time?
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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: A New Low for the NRA (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2017
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BumRushDaShow
(129,459 posts)1. All for the almighty $$$
Turbineguy
(37,366 posts)2. They have to compete
with Trump now.
babylonsister
(171,092 posts)3. Ugh. What a thought. nt
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)4. Is it the Dana LOESCH one? She was "complaining" on her radio circus that she was making news instea
instead of her job of commenting on news, but she played her ad multiple times and spent who-knows how much of the circus "refuting" the allegations against her and raining hate on Leftists she said are targeting her. She's in the main circle of wingnut haters.
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)5. Kick.