Posted on 04/05/2013 7:35:17 PM PDT by sickoflibs
Tonight (4/5/2013) clever MSNBC Maddow was playing clips of NRA Wayne Wayne LaPierre responding to the question:
‘What is wrong with these different proposed gun laws like background checks and magazine sizes?’ (clip of Megan Kelly question )
with ‘Because criminals won’t follow them only law abiding citizens will’(LaPierre response) .
Now I could easily come up with arguments pros/cons of using that as a general guideline for rejecting laws.
But then Maddow throws in her punch line :
”No one else but the NRA uses that argument against laws to be passed, that we shouldn’t pass laws that won’t be followed.”
So immediately an example came to mind:
How about liberals very frequently used argument that we cant pass laws against abortions because pregnant women will find a way to get them anyway and that will be dangerous for them to do.
Or Restated libs including Maddow argue
: PREGNANT WOMEN WON’T FOLLOW ABORTION LAWS SO WE SHOULDN’T PASS THEM.
Boom!
Men can’t get preggers silly.
Good point sick - It would be nice to have a political activist channel for our side too...
This is my serious conclusion after years of watching and analyzing these two networks.
At a gym I go to here both FNC and MSMBC are both on side by side which is what I want to see.
MSNBC is the progressive (Lean Forward) activist channel
We need a regressive activist channel that champions age old time and tested ideas like traditional Mom and Dad families (being killed the past decades) and why they are best for society.
Ideas that many immigrants coming here believe in that American popular culture is killing.
MSNBC was much more fun when Keith Olbermann was around. Watching him have a meltdown when the GOP took control of the House was classic entertainment.
I disagree somewhat.
MSNBC and their hosts are obsessed with Conservative Republicans to the point that is all they talk about.
Sure, the talk is smearing, degrading and mocking them, but that is what they do - the Alinsky tactic of making it personal; and then destroying the person.
There is little to no talk about Liberal solutions to problems, just maintaining the status quo.
No, it is all part of their political activist strategy.
In POTUS election years especially 2012 this ‘they are coming for YOU’ message is especially effective in getting non-whites out to vote against the GOP.
That is what you are seeing.
Off year elections like 2010 and 2014 it is less effective,
Dems now outnumber Republicans so its ‘get out the vote’ game.
” I watch Cavuto daily and sometimes Baur and Megan Kelly is entertaining. No Hannity, O Reilly or Greta for me and F+F is terrible “
Yep to all.
I find Fox to be boring. All they do is invite a GOP Congresscritter and let him/her recite the latest talking points for 5 minutes.
Chris Matthews and Lawrence O’D are arrogant jerks. Can’t stand them. However, Chris Hayes try to assemble a liberal panel to talk about an issue for an hour. It can be interesting. Rachel Maddow is good at opposition research and zeroing in on Republican weak spots.
LOD was especially obnoxious when he was a guest before he had his show, in 2004 on the Scarbouro night-time MSNBC show he shouted down Jim O Neill (Swift Boat) when Buchanan was guest host, repeatedly calling him ‘liar’.
But unfortunately many times he nails down exactly what is going on and how it will play out on his show.
He nailed down the Palin run in early 2011 pointing out how she had a commentator contract with FNC and wasn't planning a run(per campaign law) . Meanwhile FNC whose top execs knew she wasn't running (per law) still encouraged their ‘newscasters’ to tease their audience with a possible election run segment after segment for $$$, esp Greta.
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