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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Sun Jun 5, 2016, 09:54 PM Jun 2016

What These Gun Nuts Actually Told Katie Couric Is Ten Times Worse Than 'Deceptive' Silence

Katie Couric didn't hurt them, she helped them.

To hear conservatives tell it, Yahoo News anchor and executive producer of the documentary Under the Gun Katie Couric committed high crimes and misdemeanors against gun-nuttery when one of her editors followed a question about background checks with eight seconds of silence, when in reality, the group of gun enthusiasts had given immediate responses. Couric has apologized, because of course she has, but it doesn’t seem like anyone has actually stopped to listen to the answers Couric’s editor cut out of the film, because if anything, she should be apologizing to the families of all the gun violence victims, not the gun nuts. She did the cause of unfettered access to guns a huge favor.

Really, she did them several favors, because not only did that edit cover up the completely insane and stupid answers these people gave, Couric also failed monumentally even in the interview. Here’s the audio of the two minutes following that fateful question, which was, “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorist from walking into, say, a licensed gun dealer and purchasing a gun?”

Listen to what these idiots said, and tell me that eight seconds of silence isn’t a huge improvement:

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/05/what-these-gun-nuts-actually-told-katie-couric-is-ten-times-worse-than-deceptive-silence/
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What These Gun Nuts Actually Told Katie Couric Is Ten Times Worse Than 'Deceptive' Silence (Original Post) SecularMotion Jun 2016 OP
is this waste of elections owned by Gawker? gejohnston Jun 2016 #1
Then why did she try to hide it??? ileus Jun 2016 #2
Then why cut it out Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #3
Are you fucking serious? Puha Ekapi Jun 2016 #4
A favorite line from a favorite movie discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2016 #5
The more they... Puha Ekapi Jun 2016 #6
A sign of getting old is not crapping your pants... Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #12
Now that is some funny stuff right there DonP Jun 2016 #7
Thanks for confirming that stupid liars will defend stupid liars SecMo! pablo_marmol Jun 2016 #8
So now lyin-kat&Co is telling us she did it to make VCDL look good....WTF really? ileus Jun 2016 #9
Not sure what the original poster believes... theatre goon Jun 2016 #10
BSJ "BUY-BACK?" So, the Dailybanter releases a horde in its bitches as well.... Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #11
I would like to nominate this article sarisataka Jun 2016 #13
Time to paste & run, but no time for any real activism - eh SecMo? pablo_marmol Jun 2016 #14
Par for the.... Puha Ekapi Jun 2016 #15
Ha! Love the image! NT pablo_marmol Jun 2016 #16

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
1. is this waste of elections owned by Gawker?
Sun Jun 5, 2016, 10:00 PM
Jun 2016

What a sophomoric piece of shit. I'm betting Sarah Palin has a column there.

Puha Ekapi

(594 posts)
4. Are you fucking serious?
Sun Jun 5, 2016, 10:32 PM
Jun 2016

Now lies and deception are *good*...."doing someone a favor" in gun control land.

Thanks for admitting to the bankruptcy of your position....

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,470 posts)
5. A favorite line from a favorite movie
Sun Jun 5, 2016, 10:39 PM
Jun 2016

"...what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
7. Now that is some funny stuff right there
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 12:05 AM
Jun 2016

Gotta be scrapin' the bottom of the barrel for that post from Mom's basement.

Applauding the lies and now trying to blame the victims of her scam ... that turned out to be a lot smarter than she gave them credit for.

I'm assuming this poster approves of all of O'Keefe's little misadventures in "journalism" too.

pablo_marmol

(2,375 posts)
8. Thanks for confirming that stupid liars will defend stupid liars SecMo!
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:38 AM
Jun 2016

"Listen to what these idiots said........."

Nobody who credits the lifting of the "assault weapons" ban for a rise in gun violence is entitled to call anyone else stupid, given the well-known fact that long guns of all types are used in only a very small fraction of gun crimes.

There's plenty of other nonsense to deal with in this article, but it's really not worth my time.

ileus

(15,396 posts)
9. So now lyin-kat&Co is telling us she did it to make VCDL look good....WTF really?
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 06:46 AM
Jun 2016

Who is dumb enough to believe this???

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
11. BSJ "BUY-BACK?" So, the Dailybanter releases a horde in its bitches as well....
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 01:59 PM
Jun 2016

A whole swath in the anti-gun media apparently has got religion and went to a BSJ "buy-back," and gotta a diploma mill-issued degree in advertising or fiction writing.

And to think: this source is acceptable in DU because it fits da Narrative®.

pablo_marmol

(2,375 posts)
14. Time to paste & run, but no time for any real activism - eh SecMo?
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 07:59 PM
Jun 2016

"California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a candidate actively campaigning for the Senate seat that is opening up with Barbara Boxer’s retirement, recently made the news when she tried to shame members of Congress for refusing to enact unconstitutional and counterproductive gun-control laws. “They should have closed the chambers of Congress on the House and the Senate side, and said all you members go in there, only you, and spread out the autopsy photographs of and them to look at those photographs. And then vote your conscience,” Harris said at Politicon, a political convention held in Los Angeles.1

Wow! That’s some pretty extreme rhetoric. But is the pot calling the kettle black here? Harris is the highest level law enforcement officer in California, and the head of the Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ is responsible for maintaining criminal records, mental illness records, records of those who have become ineligible to possess firearms, and all of the databases used to perform background checks on gun buyers, to register firearms, and to take firearms away from people who are prohibited from possessing them but who still have firearms registered in their name.

Those records, and the related databases, are a hot mess."

http://213ajq29v6vk19b76q3534cx.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Special-Feature-K-Harris.pdf

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