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PBS, ‘Independent Lens’ to cover gun violence with special 2-night event
newsday.com ^ | 5/8/2016 | Verne Gay

Posted on 05/09/2016 10:17:09 AM PDT by rktman

On Monday and Tuesday, PBS will devote most of its prime-time schedule to a two-night event built around the theme “Armed in America” as part the service’s ongoing coverage of gun violence. Two films under the “Independent Lens” banner will air, followed by town hall discussions moderated by former ABC News correspondent Michel Martin (now weekend anchor of NPR’s “All Things Considered”). (Both town halls were taped April 27 at Northland Church in Longwood, Florida.)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; agitprop; allthingsconsidered; armedinamerica; banglist; defundnpr; defundpbs; florida; guncontrol; independentlens; longwood; northlandchurch; pbsnpr; secondamendment; taxbux
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ICYMI ALERT! Just so you can set your DVR to play it again and again and again. I'm sure it will be totally unbiased and factual. And I'm thinkin' the funding isn't all coming from selling collections of "The Greatest Hits of Motown" during the quarterly fund drive. Your tax dollars at work.
1 posted on 05/09/2016 10:17:09 AM PDT by rktman
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I would like to have a buck for every time they mention the NRA.


2 posted on 05/09/2016 10:22:13 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Of course there will be long interviews of several of the thousands of men and women who carry everything up to,and *including*,surface to air missiles to protect a certain disciple of a swell fella named Bill Ayers,of NY Times 9/11/2001 fame.


3 posted on 05/09/2016 10:24:51 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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The “Pure Bull $hit” network.


4 posted on 05/09/2016 10:25:49 AM PDT by beelzepug (For English press #1; for Spanish, learn English and press #1)
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NO way, ever would I watch anything these days from PBS.


5 posted on 05/09/2016 10:30:37 AM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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I saw a preview for this and it had somebody talking about ‘worshiping’ guns. I think I’ll let others here watch it and tell me about it. I have to work at that time, anyway.


6 posted on 05/09/2016 10:31:51 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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I haven’t watched PBS since “The New Yankee Workshop” went off the air.


7 posted on 05/09/2016 10:39:27 AM PDT by fredhead (Join the Navy and see the world.....77% of which is covered in water.)
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“I saw a preview for this and it had somebody talking about ‘worshiping’ guns.”

Oh mighty Smith & Wesson, hollow pointed be thy names, give us this day our daily ammunition, and deliver the trespassers unto our sights :D


8 posted on 05/09/2016 10:46:33 AM PDT by Boogieman
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This will be the precursor to an Obama executive order in the next month or so, count on it. They are going wild now, in his last year, and have no concern whatsoever as to whether their actions even appear legal.


9 posted on 05/09/2016 10:50:19 AM PDT by The Continental Op
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I expect those programs will be anti-gun propaganda. Most of the gun violence is committed by urban non-whites. Their solution? Ban whites from owning guns. F them.


10 posted on 05/09/2016 11:05:16 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: Huskrrrr

I would like to have a buck for every time they mention the NRA.
= = =

You could pay for a Lifetime Patron membership.


11 posted on 05/09/2016 11:11:17 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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They don’t just admit they are peddling propaganda.

They are bragging about peddling propaganda.


12 posted on 05/09/2016 11:29:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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“This will be the precursor to an Obama executive order in the next month or so, count on it.”

I’ve been hearing this for the last 8 years.


13 posted on 05/09/2016 11:44:05 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("Get the he11 out of my way!" - John Galt)
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I would like to have a buck for every time they mention the NRA.

So would I. It would sure move retirement up a couple of years.

But I'd pay it all to the guy at one of these "Town Halls" who stood up and said, "I'm sick and tired of the constant barrage of propaganda. No more talk. The answer is 'No'. Deal with it."

14 posted on 05/09/2016 11:48:21 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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"The “Pure Bull $hit” network."

The liberal media are pulling out all the stops..anti-gun, "Roots II", and gawd knows what else to come.

15 posted on 05/09/2016 11:59:57 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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There they go again! PBS (Permanent Bull Shit) in their drive to scare the women and timid males again. Scare them so much that they will actually think by disarming those who could protect them that it will make them safe? Something wrong here?

Notice the words “gun VIOLENCE!” Not the words “gun crime.”

The word “violence” instils visions by women and timid men of brutish neanderthals roaming the land looking to kill, maim and hurt them with their clubs and sticks. Take the clubs and sticks, castrate the neanderthals and we will have “world peace” and they will become timid themselves and we will all sail into the sunset toward “happyland” in a pink boat with flowers for sails singing kumbaya.

They won’t face the fact that CRIME is the issue and that CRIMINALS don’t obey laws. The only way to control crime is to dispatch the criminals by bullet or death in prison.


16 posted on 05/09/2016 12:22:18 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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This will be the precursor to an Obama executive order in the next month or so, count on it.

“I’ve been hearing this for the last 8 years
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His latest executive order involving firearms was just 4 months ago. I expect more before he leaves.


17 posted on 05/09/2016 12:45:22 PM PDT by The Continental Op
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I wonder if they will give accurate statistics on what percentage of gun crime is committed by properly licensed gun owners with properly registered firearms? Criminals generally don’t bother with such nonsense, after all.

And will they stress the fact that any form of registration or licensing is an infringement upon the right, and therefore unconstitutional? < /sarc >


18 posted on 05/09/2016 12:59:55 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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Yawn another ANTI-GUN sceed, one of dozens or more that have been on TV in the last fifty years.


19 posted on 05/09/2016 3:28:33 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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***I saw a preview for this and it had somebody talking about ‘worshiping’ guns.***

NOTHING new. Back around 1968-69 MAD MAGAZINE had an anti-gun spoof mocking “worshiping” guns.


20 posted on 05/09/2016 3:30:25 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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