Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumHow The NRA Is Repackaging Its Angry, Paranoid Message For Millennials
Recently launched on the NRA's new "Freestyle" network, Noir promises to report on "the latest on firearms, fashion, pop culture and other hot topics." The show is hosted by NRA News commentator Colion Noir -- best known for his bizarre claim Martin Luther King Jr. was a gun proponent -- along with co-host Amy Robbins and is sponsored by gun manufacturer Mossberg.
Early reviews of Noir report that it reeks of inauthenticity. Indeed the 16-minute premiere episode is rife with product placements and lame pop culture and sports references, all awkwardly interspersed between features on high-powered, expensive-looking firearms.
In one cringe-worthy moment, Noir complains that the cardboard box his $5,000 rifle came in looks like "a Build-A-Bear beginning set of a homeless guy's apartment." During a glowing review of a compact Smith & Wesson handgun, Noir analogizes the pistol to Denver Nuggets guard Nate Robinson: "Sure he is small and unimposing, but the moment you drop your guard he will tear your ass up." There is also an obligatory twerking reference.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/16/how-the-nra-is-repackaging-its-angry-paranoid-m/199356
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)...how this post:
- discusses gun politics or
- gun control laws or
- the Second Amendment or
- the use of firearms for self-defense or
- the use of firearms to commit crime and violence.
I'm not alerting but I'd be surprised if someone doesn't.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Secular likes to spam this group and ignores the SOP. I think it is pretty sad since Secular is a host of another group that scrupulously enforces the SOP over there to an extreme.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)...of copy/paste that has some relevance to the SoP, some of these OPs have no relevance whatever other than containing terms like "gun", "NRA"... or occasionally something like someone's opinion of someone else who owns a gun or of some other tangential topic.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)...but I can respect it.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)an African-American not be allowed to ruin the "angry white racist" narrative so he must be discredited for "inauthenticity." The motivation is skin-deep.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)100% of the people who agree 100% with Media Matters agree with them 100%.