Wow!! Lawrence O'Donnell just called out Tom Selleck and called him a coward.

[madinmaryland]

A FUCKING COWARD.

We'll see what happens.

[bullwinkle428]

1. I'll rec each one of these threads!

[CherokeeDem]

2. Lawrence O'Donnell is one bad-assed Democrat

and I love him....

[Rockyj]

43. Me too!

I didn't know Tom Selleck was on the NRA board!
BOYCOTT his show, "BLUE BLOODS" until he comes out & disagrees with the way the NRA handled the murder of innocent children by a semi-automatic weapon!

[Archae]

3. Why?

What did Tom Selleck say or do?

[ReRe]

9. FYI...

..... Tom Selleck is on the board of the NRA. But, after all, he's a Republicon', don't cha know.

[okaawhatever]

13. He stays he has an "anarchist streak" there is a fantastic

website against the nra and it shows all of their boards of directors and quotes/crimes/bios everything. Its called meetthenra.com

[ReRe]

20. Thanks...

...okaawhatever! I will check out that website...

[defacto7]

24. great site!

The search page is very enlightening...

[UnrepentantLiberal]

35. meetthenra.org

http://meetthenra.org/

[Fantastic Anarchist]

42. He ain't no anarchist. He's a reactionary.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

15. Then, he should've been blacklisted a long time ago!!!!!

[okaawhatever]

23. Yeah, but you have to remember the NRA was different even then. They used

to not take ANY money from manufacturers. They didn't lobby, and when they 1st started lobbying it wasn't that radical side lobby they have now. It was just basic gun stuff. The whole guns don't kill people, people kill people started out as their gun safety mantra for training. It was to teach their members that the only way a gun could hurt something is by purpose or by carelessness. The idea that they twisted that makes me sick. That's why so many have fallen under their spell. They hijacked a mainstream org that was around for 150 yrs. alot of their members still have no idea where the money comes from or what they're lobbying for.

[dballance]

34. Back When He Was Staring in Magnum PI The NRA was Different

It was still an organization that represented its members, not the manufacturers. In fact, they brought in a whole gun safety course to my high school to aid the gym teachers with teaching gun safety. It was a good course and probably the first time many of my peers had ever touched a gun. I'm not sure when they and how they turned in the evil people they are now. Somewhere along the lines of when they became a lobbying organization of course. I bet their DC staff makes great money.

[okaawhatever]

37. It seems to have changed course late 90s early 2000. Mid 2000 there was a fallout w/LaPierre and

they were going to fire him. Somehow, he kept his job and they put him on probation. About that time 3 board members left. It seems that was the tipping point. Sadly, so many people have no idea that they started atleast 2 lobby's, taking all this money from manufacturers, getting into other subjects like voting laws, it's a mess. But everyone still has the vision of them from the past. The money is sick. I know Chuck Norris makes 1 million per year as spokesperson for them. I think LaPierre makes over a mil. It's just gross. That website you see listed above has their salaries.

[patrice]

4. Must see!

[SunSeeker]

5. Lawrence O'Donnell is on fire.

Man did he show Selleck to be the cowardly, bought and paid for by the NRA turd that he is!

[Cha]

6. So what did Selleck say to precipitate getting called

out as said "coward"?!

Thanks madinmaryland

[roguevalley]

41. for one he hasnt denounced the ad with sasha and malia. he probably voted to approve it

[JI7]

7. who ?

[Iwillnevergiveup]

8. Tom

has been an NRA member for some time and apparently ran ads for them. Now he's on the board of directors and has not said one word about all the mass shootings. Lawrence said he's a decent man, and now it's time for him to do the decent thing - BAIL out of the NRA.

It was pretty powerful - referred to the NRA as "blood drenched."

[Iwillnevergiveup]

10. Here's the link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755883/ns/msnbc-the_last_word/#50502480

[grantcart]

19. wow O'Donnell at his best.

[RichGirl]

11. He showed Selleck as guest on Rosie O'Donnell show....

Fourteen years ago, right after Columbine. Selleck had done an ad for NRA where I says "I am the NRA". Rosie went at him to the point that he looked like he was about to cry. He said...are you questioning my humanity? She said NO. But Lawrence O'Donnell said he WAS questioning his humanity and if he, Selleck, is silent...we'll know where he stands.

My guess is the NRA is giving him BIG MONEY. I can't imagine another reason why he would be so loyal to them and never speaks out.

[Isoldeblue]

12. Here are some helpful links:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-30-1999/a-hastily-thrown-together-editorial---tom-selleck

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/17/odonnell-it-is-time-to-question-tom-sellecks-humanity/


http://www.nrawinningteam.com/norosie.html

Up until now I've been a big fan of Tom Sellecks. I did not know he'd been a member of the NRA for 14 years and is now on the board today. He has remained silent about his views about the past mass shootings.

Now I feel dirty and feel like I need a shower after having watched so many of his Stone movie series and his current TV show, Blue Bloods.

I urge boycotting him and everything he is involved in.

[cynatnite]

18. I knew he was a gun nut and a repub, but I didn't know about the NRA stuff...

Thanks for the important info.

[CreekDog]

14. I don't get what Monica saw in him

[juajen]

16. Well, I certainly see what Monica saw in him.

That breaks my heart.

[MotherPetrie]

22. Me too. Loved him as Richard. Sigh.

[triplepoint]

17. NRA Board of Directors--Here's the List

Here is the current Board of Directors for the NRA (has non-profit status at present). Time to "reel them in" with the long arm of the Law. Call them out. Birds of a feather flock together...so to speak...

Joe M. Allbaugh
William H. Allen
Dr. Thomas P. Arvas
Scott L. Bach
William A. Bachenberg
Frank E. Bachhuber Jr.
M. Carol Bambery
Bob Barr
Ronnie G. Barrett
Clel Baudler
David E. Bennett
J. Kenneth Blackwell
Matt Blunt
Dan Boren
Robert K. Brown
Pete Brownell
Dave Butz
J. William "Bill" Carter
Ted W. Carter
Richard Childress
Patricia A. Clark
Allan D. Cors
Charles L. Cotton,
David G. Coy
Larry E. Craig John L. Cushman
William H. Dailey
Joseph P. Debergalis Jr.
R. Lee "The Gunny" Ermey
Edie P. Fleeman
Joel Friedman
Sandra S. Froman
Tom Gaines
James S. Gilmore III
Marion P. Hammer
Maria Heil
Graham Hill
Stephen D. Hornady
Susan Howard
Roy Innis
H. Joaquin Jackson
Curtis S. Jenkins
David A. Keene
Tom King
Herbert A. "Herb" Lanford Jr.
Karl A. Malone
Carolyn Dodgen Meadows
John F. Milius
Bill Miller
Owen Buz Mills
Cleta Mitchell Grover G. Norquist
Oliver L. North
Robert "Bob" Nosler
Johnny Nugent
Ted Nugent
Lance Olson
Timothy W. Pawol
James W. Porter II
Peter "Jay" Printz
Todd J. Rathner
Wayne Anthony Ross
Carl T. Rowan Jr.
Dr. Don Saba
Robert E. Sanders
William H. Satterfield
Ronald L. Schmeits
Tom Selleck
John C. Sigler
Leroy Sisco
Dwight D. Van Horn
Linda Walker
Howard J. "Walt" Walter
J.D. Williams
Robert J. Wos
Don E. Young

[Isoldeblue]

21. K & R

[okaawhatever]

25. For Bio's on these guys including press statements, money, legislation

and criminal behavior. (I promise you'll be amazed/disgusted) look up
meetthenra.org Its a website/fact finding site funded and run by
Education to stop gun violence organization

They even have their facebook posts. I guess they are all over them. It's no suprise that many of them are radical anti-environmentalists, mysoginist, bigots. You also see alot of collusion between them on issues like the Northern Mariana Islands, anti-abortion legislation, and nicaragua.

[hrmjustin]

26. Thanks for posting these names.

[Contrary1]

28. Ted Nugent...

No one with any self respect would be on a board of directors with this ass clown.

But then again...maybe they have none.

[trublu992]

31. This list reads like a bunch of has beens and who the hell is that.

[stlsaxman]

39. Matt Blunt. Thanks for the list.

[chemenger]

40. I see that Grover Norquist and John Bolton are also on this list.

Some of the names on this don't surprise me ... the "Nuge", Oliver North, R. Lee Ermy, and Chuck Norris. But Norquist and Bolton are a bit of a suprise.

[YOHABLO]

27. Hmm I never thought about "Magnum P I" I always thought that "Magnum'' was about something..

entirely different. That was until I found a nude picture of T.Selleck .. not so much "Magnum'' as maybe ''Pistol''... if that.

[JoeyT]

33. I think the word you're looking for is "derringer" n/t

[ReRe]

30. Dayam!

If Sellick doesn't come forward and resign from the Board and denounce the NRA, his movie career is over. That was one scathing indictment, right there.

I never trusted him. He flunked my "too purdy" test. I was more of a Joe Namath gal.

[eShirl]

32. Magnum P. U.

[deutsey]

38. LOL

[Sheldon Cooper]

36. I think it's fine to call him out, but really, is Tom Selleck relevant anymore?

Other than a short-term stint as Monica's boyfriend on Friends, has he done anything noteworthy since Magnum, PI? Lawrence states that all of America is waiting for Tom's response to the latest NRA bullshit, but I kinda doubt that anyone in America is awaiting Tom's response. Doesn't negate Lawrence's overall point, Tom should denounce the NRA,but I just can't see it being all that important one way or the other.

[MinM]

44. Lawrence O'Donnell was on the right track here...

The pressure on public figures, like Selleck, needs to be sustained though. At least until there are some high level defections from the NRA.