just watched the NRA's david keene interview on cnn with candy crowley.....

[spanone]

this guy talks like the nra is a branch of the united states government....like Obama has to answer to them.

they are nothing but a lobbying organization for the gun industry.

he claims they don't work for the gun industry....says their 'constituents are gun owners and and 2nd amendment'

he's slick as owl shit as he calls ms crowley 'sandy'.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/13/politics/gun-laws-battle/index.html?hpt=hp_t1


david keene....

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School, Keene worked as a political assistant to Vice President Spiro Agnew during the Nixon administration, and then in Congress as executive assistant to Senator James L. Buckley.
Keene went on to become the southern regional coordinator for Ronald Reagan's 1976 bid for the Republican presidential nomination and national political director for George H.W. Bush's 1980 presidential campaign. He advised Senator Robert Dole's 1988 and 1996 presidential campaigns, and in 2007 endorsed Mitt Romney for president.[2] Today, he is of counsel at the Carmen Group, a lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C. Keene has been called "one of the country’s most astute political observers,"[3] and "was counted as one of the few men with both the ear of Republican presidents and an ability to influence the grassroots."[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keene

[Skittles]

1. NRA represents cowards and assholes

fuck them all

[madinmaryland]

15. ^^^ THIS!!!

[madokie]

2. All of these fake patriots suck

Keene and lape'ars are at the bottom of the pile

[truebluegreen]

3. "a political assistant to VP Spiro Agnew"?

Started young didn't he? And learned from several Masters. Gah.

<sigh> Nixonians and Reaganites resurfacing a decade(s) later...like bad pennies that keep coming back. Can't we boot these people out for good when they eff up?

[spanone]

8. here's the man....

In May 2005, Keene spoke at an ACU dinner celebrating and defending then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who was embroiled in a number of ethics scandals (DeLay has since been

convicted of money laundering). NRA Board Member Cleta Mitchell served as M.C. for the event. Attendees at the event included DeLay himself, then-House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R –

MO), then-RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, NRA Board Members Grover Norquist and Governor Jim Gilmore (R – VA), and approximately 30 members of Congress. The NRA purchased a

table at the dinner for $2,000. In an interview with NPR a day after the event, Keene announced that “conservatives will protect their own” and called ethics investigations against DeLay

“an attack on the conservative agenda” and “each and every” one of the 800 attendees of the dinner.

http://www.meetthenra.org/nra-member/David%20A.%20Keene

[truebluegreen]

12. That's them in a nutshell. nt

[madokie]

18. the dick and w's cabal were all from the nixon/reagan/poppy reigns

[truebluegreen]

23. Yes, I know

too bad we couldn't have run them out of Washington for good...or stuck them in jail.

It'd have to be for life tho, since they have no shame.

[starroute]

21. He's got a few more blots on his resume

He started out as national chairman of Young Americans for Freedom in the 1960s, and that led him -- like many other YAFers -- to become involved with some of the creepier anti-communist groups of that period. Those included the American-Chilean Council -- which was created as a covert front group to defend the Pinochet dictatorship -- and the Council for Inter-American Security, which had close ties with Latin American neo-fascists and U.S. racists.

Larry Pratt, the creep who now heads Gun Owners of America, was a co-founder of the Council for Inter-American Security and served as its secretary. So Keene's ties with this sort of crap go way back.

[Hoyt]

4. Gun owners are responsible - Keene's son was convicted of shooting in a road rage

incident. These people are lunatics and are carrying guns on our streets every day, while encouraging more to do the same. They are bringing up their children in the gun culture. The next generation will be worse.

[tularetom]

5. And she probably giggled and tittered as he spoke

You know she ain't going to ask the tough questions.

Except if she's interviewing a Democrat.

[zbdent]

6. She was probably turned on by the size of his

rifle ... his "gun" was much, much tinier in truth ...

[doc03]

7. I was thinking if 25 years from now someone invents a

weapon like the Star Trek Phaser it would be legal to carry one according the NRAs interpetastion of the the 2nd Amendment. Someone gets pissed off you could just vaporize an entire school.

[Angry Dragon]

9. he sure has a lot of losers in his resume ...............

[spanone]

11. wrong side of every issue, in my book.

[upaloopa]

10. Do DU gunners care that these are the fucks

that they support when they post the NRA and GOA talking points?

[Skittles]

24. no

as long as they get to cling to their guns the cowards do not care

[patrice]

13. These are the people with Rand Paul who don't care that the flow of weapons out of America into

troubled countries like Libya CAN start something that American troops will have to clean up. That's why they have legislation, a Grover Norquist style pledge of allegiance to the NRA, in the Senate to prevent the consideration of UN treaties controlling arms sales to 3rd world countries.

[patrice]

14. This goes under the general heading of AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM, a.k.a. Un-Ending WAR. nt

[malaise]

16. He's a full blooded

ReTHUG

[ThoughtCriminal]

17. A career built on losing

Agnew (Resigned in disgrace)
Reagan (1976 lost to Ford)
Bush (1980 lost to Reagan)
Dole (1988 lost to Bush, 1996 lost to Clinton)
Romney (2008 lost to McCain)

Bet on whoever is running against this guy's candidate - at least in the year he's backing them.

[LAGC]

19. Yeah, no kidding.

Not exactly a winning track record.

Wonder why the NRA picked him? You'd think they'd at least look for someone who had some victories under their belt.

[spanone]

20. i think it's his ability to talk 'political talk'. he talks like a well heeled politician...

he speaks in certitudes...like everything he says is true...

it's show business, baby!!!!

[samsingh]

22. nra is stupid