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Scarborough rips NRA for new ad ‘shading’ Obama like O.J. Simpson mug shot
Source: MSNBC via Raw Story
Conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Thursday paused for seven seconds of silence to shame the National Rifle Association (NRA) after he decided that the lobbying group’s new advertisement had unfairly darkened a photo of President Barack Obama the same way that Time magazine “shaded” O.J. Simpson’s mug shot in 1994.
In a new 30-second ad attacking West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) for supporting expanded background checks, the NRA shows the senator with two photoshopped images of Obama, who is black, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is Jewish.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/13/scarborough-rips-nra-for-new-ad-shading-obama-like-o-j-simpson-mug-shot/
In a new 30-second ad attacking West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) for supporting expanded background checks, the NRA shows the senator with two photoshopped images of Obama, who is black, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is Jewish.
--more, including video--
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/13/scarborough-rips-nra-for-new-ad-shading-obama-like-o-j-simpson-mug-shot/
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