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Katie Couric Gun Control Film Leaves Four-Hour John Lott Interview on Cutting Room Floor
breitbart.com ^ | 5/16/2016 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 05/17/2016 8:35:39 AM PDT by rktman

Katie Couric’s gun control documentary “Under the Gun” was released May 15 without any portion of a four-hour interview conducted with John Lott, Jr.

Lott is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and a known gun scholar whose seminal work is More Guns, Less Crime.

On May 6, Lott tweeted that he had been “interviewed for 4 hours” for Couric’s film and he “bet” that four hours would be reduced to a “select few minutes” of actual screen time. The reduction happened alright. But instead of using those select few minutes, Couric and director Stephanie Soechtig cut Lott’s interview altogether.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; banglist; couricguncontrol; guncontrol; johnlott; secondamendment
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Well yeah. Geez John, you must not have gotten the memo that "debunkerizing" will not be included in this fair and balanced "report" looking at both sides of the issue. Now back to kady's colon where we find her head firmly implanted.
1 posted on 05/17/2016 8:35:39 AM PDT by rktman
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Not one word of anything Mr. Lott would have to say would be supportive of anything Ms perky would have to say.


2 posted on 05/17/2016 8:37:19 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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But I thought they wanted “a conversation”


3 posted on 05/17/2016 8:39:08 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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I’m shocked!

Shocked, I tells ya!

Cue the pic of Captain Renault.


4 posted on 05/17/2016 8:39:19 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: thorvaldr

Lol!
They want you to die! They just pussyfoot around it.


5 posted on 05/17/2016 8:40:48 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: rktman

Classic “we interviewed both sides of the issue and this is what we came up with” approach, AKA “all the news that fits”. I see from this and the story on the Brady Campaign pressuring Schumer that there will be a major gun control push this summer tied to the Hillary campaign. I’m just fine with that.


6 posted on 05/17/2016 8:41:02 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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It is nothing but a Mockumentary, not a Documentary.

The Premise is set before the Filming begins.


7 posted on 05/17/2016 8:41:29 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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Cheerleaders can’t be bothered by facts


8 posted on 05/17/2016 8:45:07 AM PDT by TYVets
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Evidently, Mr. Lott made some really good but inconvenient points.


9 posted on 05/17/2016 8:49:12 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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John Lott did a great job if in four hours of questioning he never said anything that could deceive the public when taken out of context.


10 posted on 05/17/2016 8:49:38 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: rktman

a very unusual recent Rumour has it that one of the frequent visitors of orgy island with Bill Clinton was Katie Couric..!


11 posted on 05/17/2016 8:52:25 AM PDT by gaijin
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I SUPPORT GUN CONTROL

Any person or persons that have in their employ, or employed on their behalf a person or persons that have been granted a “privilege” to “keep and bear arms without being infringed” who acts in anyway to protect them from harm, Shall be Guilty of a Felony, Punishable by not less than 25 years in Prison and 100% Civil Asset Forfeiture.

If it is a RIGHT NO CRIME has been committed
If it is a PRIVILEGE, YOU GO TO PRISON!


12 posted on 05/17/2016 8:54:40 AM PDT by eyeamok
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I hope part of his “I’ll do it, IF...” clause says he gets a copy of the interview. Then, he can post it up for the world to see.


13 posted on 05/17/2016 9:08:31 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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>>But I thought they wanted “a conversation

They do. If you agree with them, you can talk too.


14 posted on 05/17/2016 9:12:32 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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LOL, the NY Times, Katie, etc. All the libs either fabricate stories ore leave stuff out.

The media is corrupt, just like Trump has been saying. Now they hate him and run lopsided reports as news and the public sees this and Trump gets more support.

I wonder if Trump planned that out?


15 posted on 05/17/2016 9:15:11 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Ping


16 posted on 05/17/2016 9:19:16 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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It’s not a rumor here it is in print:

Epstein has relationships with other power players, including former Clinton Press Secretary George Stephanopoulos, Britain’s Prince Andrew, TV personality Katie Couric, actor Kevin Spacey, and filmmaker Woody Allen (himself accused by his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow of sexually abusing her, and is married to former step-daughter Soon Yi).

Also, this is a powder keg just waiting for a match! Trump has to bring this up himself on Twitter and in debates:

Interestingly, in 2015 it was revealed that Epstein had allegedly transferred 3.5 million dollars from his Swiss bank account to the Clinton Foundation just as the FBI began its investigation into his activities.

http://anonhq.com/bill-clinton-flew-26-times-convicted-pedophile-epstein-lolita-express/


17 posted on 05/17/2016 9:19:43 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (#NeverHillary)
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We all know this is not John Lott’s first rodeo in dealing with the media and their agenda. I’m surprised he didn’t create some ground rules. In his case, I’d have had my own camera crew or even just an innocuous camera in the corner of my office. Also, always do such interviews on your own ground, not their studio.


18 posted on 05/17/2016 9:20:50 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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But I thought they wanted “a conversation”

They do!

Them: SHUT UP!

Us: Ok.

19 posted on 05/17/2016 9:24:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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To: rktman

Nominated for the Winston Smith Award for Censorship.


20 posted on 05/17/2016 10:19:45 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 15 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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