{"id":37932,"date":"2013-08-22T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37932"},"modified":"2013-09-24T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T17:00:20","slug":"watching-the-defectives-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37932","title":{"rendered":"Watching The Defectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like smacking an MSNBC host like a pi\u00f1ata.\u00a0 A Pi\u00f1ata full of crap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZl5lYrd1uw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn this case, it&#8217;s MSNBC contrib Joy Reid, who said on the air:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s this sort of neo-Confederate thread that runs through this pro-gun movement and NRA movement,\u201d she said this afternoon while discussing the recall elections for Democratic state lawmakers in Colorado that were spurred by their support for gun-control legislation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/article_detail\/images\/articles\/RTR2P7FM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Confederate Soldiers! This photo (courtest of the Joyce Foundation-supported MinnPost &#8211; is what the Big Left thinks you, the law-abiding gun owner, are. Hey, it was in the MinnPost &#8211; and they&#8217;re Real, Badge-Carrying Journalists!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Reid also argued that gun-rights advocates and the National Rifle Association are hypocrites because they oppose the new restrictions on gun rights signed into law by Colorado governor John Hickenlooper while advocating for states\u2019 rights and the Tenth Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps someone could explain to the ingenious Ms. Reid that it was Coloradans that are voting on the pushback against Hickenlooper are, well, from Colorado.\u00a0 The NRA is a private organization; the Tenth Amendment doesn&#8217;t regulate its activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s great to see an MSNBC drone invoke the Tenth Amendment!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe NRA will come in, helicopter in and undo [those laws],\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the NRA had the power to make and unmake the law, this <em>might <\/em>be a better nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not actually the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like smacking an MSNBC host like a pi\u00f1ata.\u00a0 A Pi\u00f1ata full of crap.\u00a0 In this case, it&#8217;s MSNBC contrib Joy Reid, who said on the air: \u201cThere\u2019s this sort of neo-Confederate thread that runs through this pro-gun movement and NRA movement,\u201d she said this afternoon while discussing the recall elections for Democratic state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,263,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media","category-narrative-for-sale","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38570,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37932\/revisions\/38570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}