Category: Authorized Journalists

The Brown Bess Loophole

You ought to see the damage unregulated assault weapons from an even earlier time were capable of! And they were all “in common use at the time”!

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What can I say but “Associated Press“…?

Not for Everyone

ActBlue is on the chopping block, and the evidence coming out right now has everyone asking how a serious country can allow elections to turn into such a cesspool of scandal and lies. [More]

“Everyone“?

Why’d TDSNOw pull the page down where they were trying to portray ActBlue as Trump victims?

What do you think? After all those flaccid Krakens, will this soon become another Adventure in Baselessness?

[Via bondmen]

Everyone We Don’t Like is a Nazi

Ohio governor candidate’s event canceled over ‘pro-Nazi’ remarks [More]

That’s the narrative the media is going to run with all the way up to the primary. I can understand the restaurant backing out– most operate on such slim profit margins ait probably doesn’t take much to scare them. Nonetheless, they said a lot more than they had to trying to distance themselves.

I first ran across it in an April 3 hit piece in The Toldeo Blade (a failing rag that used to employ Homer Simpson’s dumber brother, a former ambassador calling for cordoned gun confiscation sweeps and imprisonment of defiers).

No surprise they did not even acknowledge my letter to the editor:

You don’t hate the DSM enough. Communist f_n’ bedwetters, all.

I’m not suprised that BFA ignored Vivek putting down Heritage Americans, either.

Lies of Commission and Omission

A recent news headline declared, “11,500 shootings occurred within 500 yards of US schools last year.” The obvious implication is that American school children are under daily fire on school campuses nationwide. But, as with most gun control narratives in national media written by reporters who mostly don’t understand the basics of firearms or criminal gun use, that narrative collapses under the slightest scrutiny. The first glaring red flag in this story is that Hearst Television Data Visualization Journalist Susie Webb and the WCVB Get the Facts Data Team built their agenda-driven narrative by relying on gun control advocacy site The Trace’s “School-Adjacent Shootings” dataset, which tracks Gun Violence Archive (GVA) incidents that fell within 500 yards of a K-12 school. Even that dataset warns that each row is a shooting-to-school match and must be deduplicated before anyone totals up the incidents, deaths or injuries. However, that was not done before Webb and WVTM’s story went live on several news outlets, on social media, on Hearst Television’s YouTube channel and was even—unsurprisingly—picked up by MSN. [More]

You don’t hate the DSM enough.

Wiping Off the MAP

WaPo Editor Pleads Guilty in Federal Child Porn Case… He was part of the newsroom team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for investigative reporting tied to coverage of Roy Moore’s Senate campaign. [More]

So he had three fingers pointing back at him?

What is it about WaPo award winners?

What is it about Pulitzer?

Did someone say “Morbark”?

[Via Michael G]

A Plan Comes Together

From ‘Military Machine Gun’ to .22 Replica: KIRO 7’s UZI Story Changed Fast [More]

Josh Sugarmann smiles:

“The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”

“Authorized Journalists“– is it any wonder that I love them so?

Gun Prohibitionists Using Pincer Strategy with Reports on U.S. Arms in Mexico

Fingers would be better pointed at Mexico’s pervasive corruption and tyrannical citizen disarmament edicts that have made a cartel black market both lucrative and inevitably bloody. [More]

The media pulling the same deceptions we saw before Operation Fast and Furious “Gunwalking” makes this déjà vu all over again.

Not Enough Chiefs

Let’s see, @5M in the U.S., 66% of those new immigrants after a 174% increase in 20 years… and India Today is a go-to mass influencer source for them.

No wonder they’re 83% against 2A.

And no wonder my challenge says anecdotes and isolated examples don’t measurably alter that.

You guys who disagree, you’d better step up those outreach efforts and start taking busloads to the range.

[Via Andy M]

This is CNN?

MAGA-aligned billionaires Larry Ellison and his son David have dramatically won a bidding war for CNN’s parent company—and are now on track to turn it Trumpy. [More]

So we can expect it to be less “propagandisty” (yeah, I know, not a word) or at least less steered to one faction because the mega-media conglomerates and their owners care about your and my hopes and dreams…?

I’m seeing more chatter on a global power struggle between old established banking interests and the new technocrats.

“There can be only one.”

[Via bondmen]