The Notebook

Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed:

No wonder gun control advocates all sound as if they’re talking from the same playbook. They are.

Thank GOD they’re not getting their sample talking points and draft legislation from a special interest group like ALEC. Because that would be wrong.

Joe doakes

Five’ll get you ten this campaign is financed in large part by the Joyce Foundation, which, along with victim-disarmament groups like “Protect Minnesota”, funds the “objective journalists” at MinnPost.

UPDATE:  The original version of this post – complete with comical typos – shows the danger of trying to blog before one’s first cup of coffee.  In the bathroom.  On an iPhone.

13 thoughts on “The Notebook

  1. Jeez. Thanks for the visual of you blogging on the can via an iPhone.

    Although, that’s basically how I imagine most Strib editorials are written.

  2. I heard NPR reporting on the trial of Nidal Hasan last night. Islamic terrorism was not mentioned, the fact that the soldiers Hasan killed were unarmed because they were forbidden to carry guns was not mentioned. What was mentioned were the high capacity magazines in Hasan’s guns.
    Message: the soldiers were not killed because of Islamic terrorism. The soldiers were not killed because they were unable to protect themselves from a religiously inspired mad man.
    The soldiers were killed because of high capacity magazines.

  3. I too listened to NPR on Sunday’s Weekend Edition on your local station: KHPH.

    /”This week, Army Major Nidal Hasan goes on trial. He’s the officer who opened fire at a processing center in Fort Hood, Texas in November of 2009. He killed 13 people in that attack and wounded dozens more. U.S. intelligence officials say Hasan was directly inspired by Anwar al Awlaki, the leader of al-Qaida’s affiliate network in Yemen.”/

    You may have missed it.

    http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2013/08/20130804_wesun_04.mp3?dl=1

  4. Yes, I see your point. How would anyone be able to associate; Anwar al Awlaki, and al-Qaida with ‘terrorism” and “Islam” without a reference.

  5. Read again, Emery:”You don’t think this was just an oversight, do you?”.

  6. Guess you don’t pay taxes, Emery. The only media outlet I would like to see forced off the air is NPR and public television. I’m an American, they are spending my tax dollars. Screw the elitist bastards.

  7. Emery said:

    “It’s not as big an issue to me, as it apparently is for you.”

    If it’s not that big an issue for you, why comment?

  8. The reason it should be a big deal to you, Emery, is because of elections.

    30% of the population will always vote straight-ticket Republican and 40% will vote Democrat. They pay attention to politics and their minds are made up. It’s that “independent” 30% in the middle who get their political news from television in the last few weeks before the election, who decide the result.

    But television is lying to them. Major Hassan stood in open court and proudly proclaimed that he was a warrior for Islam and his attack was jihad. But the Obama Administration and the media are claiming this was “workplace violence” just like the Accent Signage incident. That’s a flat-out lie to disguise the fact that Islamic terrorists are active among us, a fact that might make Independent voters wonder why the Obama Administration’s approach to Islamic terror is working and speculate that perhaps we ought to try a Republican approach for a change. That could cost Democrats the election and must be avoided.

    So the media is complicit with the Administration in lying to the public about the threat of Islamic terror in America, and that bothers us. Why doesn’t it bother you?

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