The Strangest NRA Story Yet

nhboy

Ubi bene ibi patria
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"One of the sure markers of the paranoid mind is the urge to keep lists. In particular, lists of enemies, subversives, no-goodniks; the pestilential nuisances, as Sir W.S. Gilbert famously put it, who never would be missed. It virtually goes without saying that the keepers of such lists are always the bullies who survive by fomenting hatred and making sure that their constituents stay in a state of constant agitation.

And so it was no surprise to learn over the weekend, via Josh Marshall, that the National Rifle Association has a little list of 497 people and organizations who are in some way, shape, or form anti-gun. It makes for hilarious reading, although it’s sort of frightening to think about the demented minds of the people who assembled it.

The list consists of 141 organizations, 228 celebrities, 27 “national figures” who are somehow different from celebrities, 37 journalists, 41 corporations and/or corporate CEOs, and 23 media outlets, all of whom are out to pry that Bushmaster from your warm, live hands. Some of the organizations make perfect sense. The American Civil Liberties Union. Sure. The American Trauma Society. I have no idea what precisely they do, but okay, it stands to reason that if trauma is their racket, they’re probably not big on people amassing large numbers of automatic weapons. Women Strike for Peace. You don’t say!"

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"Conservative readers will have started in that last paragraph muttering about Obama’s “enemies list.” This, if you’ve never heard about it, is a story or a series of stories right-wingers made up last year because an Obama campaign website listed the names of eight men who were donating large amounts of money to anti-Obama efforts. Apparently they got hassled by some bloggers, and this constituted Chicago-thug-style politics, you see. In truth, as I wrote last year, Republicans tried to hype the story of an Obama’s enemies list for the very specific purpose of trying to build public support for nondisclosure on campaign finance.

The good news is that paranoid psychotics usually do themselves in. McCarthy and Nixon certainly did. I know everyone keeps talking about how powerful the NRA is, and that’s true. But the more they’re in the spotlight, the worse they look. Americans get it. It just needs someone to give the boulder a push. Vinny?"
 

aps45819

24/7 Single Dad
"One of the sure markers of the paranoid mind is the urge to keep lists. In particular, lists of enemies, subversives, no-goodniks; the pestilential nuisances, as Sir W.S. Gilbert famously put it, who never would be missed. It virtually goes without saying that the keepers of such lists are always the bullies who survive by fomenting hatred and making sure that their constituents stay in a state of constant agitation.

:yay: Glad to see you understand why national gun registration is a bad idea
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
"One of the sure markers of the paranoid mind is the urge to keep lists. In particular, lists of enemies, subversives, no-goodniks; the pestilential nuisances, as Sir W.S. Gilbert famously put it, who never would be missed. It virtually goes without saying that the keepers of such lists are always the bullies who survive by fomenting hatred and making sure that their constituents stay in a state of constant agitation.



Awesome ....

.... how many lists to various Progressive Groups have of various Conservatives / Conservative Organizations ?


how many people have been targeted by the left ?

MMfA, Daily KOS, Crooks and Liars .........
 

glhs837

Power with Control
So, you can get a feel for when the Obama "campaign" machine cares enough a subject to spend money, simply by when they unleash the NHboys of this world.
 
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