Posted on 07/01/2017 1:08:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Take a look at the ad below and ask whether the National Rifle Association can go any lower. Ponder this flagrant call for violence, this insidious advocacy of hate delivered with a sneer, this threat of civil war, this despicable use of propaganda to arouse rebellion against the rule of law and the ideals of democracy.
On the surface this is a recruitment video for the National Rifle Association. But what you are really about to see is a call for white supremacy and armed insurrection, each word and image deliberately chosen to stir the feral instincts of troubled souls who lash out in anger and fear:
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Disgusting. Dishonorable. Dangerous. But also deliberate. Everything deplored by the NRA in the ad is committed by “they” — a classic manipulation turning anyone who disagrees with your point of view into “The Other” — something alien, evil, foreign.
“They use their media to assassinate real news,” “They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler,” “They use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again.”
“And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance.”
Well, we all know who “they” are, don’t we? This is the vitriol that has been spewed like garbage since the days of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, blasted from lynch mobs and demagogues and fascistic factions of political parties that turn racial and religious minorities into grotesque caricatures, the better to demean and diminish and dominate.
It is the nature of such malevolent human beings to hate those whom they have injured, and the NRA has enabled more injury to more marginalized and vulnerable people than can be imagined. Note how the words “guns” or “firearms” are never mentioned once in the ad and yet we know that the NRA is death on steroids. And behind it are the arms merchants — the gun makers and gun sellers — who profit from selling automatic rifles to deranged people who shoot down politicians playing intramural baseball, or slaughter children in their classrooms in schools named Sandy Hook, or who massacre black folks at Bible study in a Charleston church, or murderously infiltrate a gay nightclub in Orlando.
Watching this expertly produced ad, we thought of how the Nazis produced slick propaganda like this to demonize the Jews, round up gypsies and homosexuals, foment mobs, burn books, crush critics, justify torture and incite support for state violence.
It’s the crack in the Liberty Bell, this ad: the dropped stitch in the American flag, the dregs at the bottom of the cup of freedom. It’s a Trump-sized lie invoked to bolster his base, discredit critics, end dissent. Joseph McCarthy must be smiling in hell at such a powerful incarnation on earth of his wretched, twisted soul.
With this savage ad, every Democrat, every liberal, every person of color, every immigrant or anyone who carries a protest sign or raises a voice in disagreement becomes a target in the diseased mind of some tormented viewer. Heavily armed Americans are encouraged to lock and load and be ready for the ballistic solution to any who oppose the systematic looting of Washington by an authoritarian regime led by a deeply disturbed barracuda of a man who tweets personal insults, throws tantrums and degrades everything he touches.
Look again at the ad. Ask yourself: What kind of fools are they at the NRA to turn America into a killing ground for sport? To be choked with hate is a terrible fate, and it is worst for those on whom it is visited.
Take one more look, and ask: Why do they get away with it? What is happening to us? How long do we have before the fire this time?
Well, he is a progressive communist.
They can find outrage from a rock.
More REAL FAKE NEWS
No they are not. (I agree with everything in the video, by the way.) They are liberal morons, or are themselves fascist that support the lefts fascist activities. Everything that they accuse the NRA of... they are.
And yet it was one of “theirs” who shot up a baseball field full of congressmen...
What is the quote about having the courage to tell the truth in the face of tyranny? IMHO, LaPierre should have never backed off on “jack booted thugs”. The NRA has been a rock in a crap storm of insanity for decades if you ask me.
That's redundant, AFAIU, because what is he progressing toward? ... Yeah, you got it ...
Bill Moyers. I thought he was dead. One of LBJ’s butt-lickers.
So now they are picking on a Native American Woman?
How much lower can they go?
No, he’s just counting on his readers not to watch it but just to take his word for it because he is saying what they expect and want to hear.
Venezuela is the destination of Leftist “Progress” .
All of Governor Sarah Palin’s children are tribal members.
That’s not what I saw but if they do ever make that call, you can be sure I’ll be right there ready to go.
Moyers is also the man who turned the Peace Corp into a political arm of the government, seeking only people who could be led like sheep.
Bill Moyers an his boyfriend are conveniently obfuscating the irrefutable fact that ALL the ACTUAL violence is coming from the left.
Moyers and Winship are completely disconnected from reality. This editorial is complete idiocy, and shows that the authors have no understanding of the validity of the statements in the NRA’s recruiting ad. There’s no hatred in this ad, and no call to violence. It’s just a call for people to stand up for our rights. As liberals become increasingly disconnected from reality, the democrat party will lose more and more elections and become an increasingly marginalized party of neurotic ultra-left-wing crazy people.
It’s Bill Moyers, the democrat sycophant
Absolutely, totally, completely, 💯% yes.
Yet another organized attack of the NRA by the lock leftest media. Pretty much simultaneously, every leftist columnist/commentator issued a statement or article on this ad and used the same over-the-top language. Leftist talking points much?
I googled “NRA Ad,” and just read the headlines. Highly entertaining!
I think the ad speaks the truth and it is a call to arms for the civil war
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