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Mika on Church Shootings: 'Inane' To Think Armed Citizen Can Make a Difference
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/11/2007 7:00:29 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Don't confuse Mika Brzezinski with the facts. She's anti-gun and is not about to let some stunning counter-evidence change her mind.

If ever there was an illustration of how an armed citizen can make a difference, it is the case of Jeanne Assam, the brave woman who took out the killer at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs. And yet . . .

On today's Morning Joe, Mika -- in newsreader mode -- dutifully reported the incident. But when Joe Scarborough sought to draw the obvious implication, Mika put her anti-gun foot down.

View video here.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: assam; banglist; guns; joescarborough; mikabrzezinski; newlifechurch
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To: Congressman Billybob

Thanks for the link to your very pertinent, outstanding article. BTTT!


41 posted on 12/11/2007 7:55:05 AM PST by PGalt
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To: cubreporter

(sarcasm on)

Mica was not hired for her brains.

Mica was not hired for her work experinence as a journalist.

Mica was hired the old fashioned way.

she had sex with the right people.

it is the only logical explanation.

(sarcasm off)


42 posted on 12/11/2007 7:56:12 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Eye of Unk

This bimbo’s daddy was National Security Advisor to the mot incompetent POTUS of my lifetime, and that qualifies her to sit in front of a tv camera and make an arse of herself day after day. And get paid for it!


43 posted on 12/11/2007 7:57:14 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: svcw

no seriously, the left is REALLY that stupid.

REALLY not connected to reality.

Mica is having a “let them eat cake” moment.

These are the same people who have no clue how truly hard and cruel and ugly the world outside the USA can truly be.


44 posted on 12/11/2007 7:58:20 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Jeff Head

Great post.


45 posted on 12/11/2007 8:02:54 AM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: george76

Hillary Clinton supported the one on the left.


46 posted on 12/11/2007 8:07:07 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: EDINVA

Hopefully history won’t repeat itself and we get another you know who in office.


47 posted on 12/11/2007 8:07:27 AM PST by Eye of Unk
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To: From One - Many
Hundreds didn't die....Mika would, I suppose prefer the story of hundreds dead rather than a story of a Hero who protected.

Mika, most of the rest of the bloodthirsty media and ALL of the "anti-gun" (really anti-anyone-else's gun) movement. Notice how they always dance upon the graves of the recently murdered? Sometimes they don't even wait for that - the VT shooting earlier this year is the most disgusting example of this, when bodies were still warm they started their dancing, along with requests for money, of course.

They can all rot in Hell.

48 posted on 12/11/2007 8:08:03 AM PST by Ancesthntr
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To: EDINVA
Or is it all, just another step on the path of the plan?

Works out well, if the planners have people in place to deliver the plan to the unsuspecting sheeple, to gobble up. Who knows, but suspicion of the who, what, where, and to what extent, was what our Forefathers and Fore-mothers intend to leave our nation. Our Founders' intent is perhaps countering the plan?

49 posted on 12/11/2007 8:08:50 AM PST by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk. I Will Be Voting for Mr. Duncan Hunter, fellow FReepers.)
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To: purpleraine
Can people be that wrong or just stupid? MSNBC must lobotimize their employees.

Nope, pre-lobotomized is a requirement to even receive an application.

50 posted on 12/11/2007 8:09:17 AM PST by Ancesthntr
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To: Ancesthntr

This is a MSM nightmare. God and guns viewed positively in the same story.


51 posted on 12/11/2007 8:12:45 AM PST by purpleraine
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To: TXFireman

This is too funny!


52 posted on 12/11/2007 8:19:43 AM PST by Jonx6
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To: Jeff Head

I seem to remember a recent mall shooter who was stopped by an armed off duty police officer. Does that ring a bell?


53 posted on 12/11/2007 8:20:55 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: purpleraine
Can people be that wrong or just stupid? MSNBC must lobotimize their employees.

Cognitive Dissonance

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term describing the uncomfortable tension that may result from having two conflicting thoughts at the same time, or from engaging in behavior that conflicts with one's beliefs.

In simple terms, it can be the filtering of information that conflicts with what one already believes, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce one's beliefs. In detailed terms, it is the perception of incompatibility between two cognitions, where "cognition" is defined as any element of knowledge, including attitude, emotion, belief, or behavior. The theory of cognitive dissonance states that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions. Experiments have attempted to quantify this hypothetical drive. Some of these have examined how beliefs often change to match behavior when beliefs and behavior are in conflict.

54 posted on 12/11/2007 8:21:29 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

Yeah, it was at the Trolley Square Mall, where firearms are prohibited.


55 posted on 12/11/2007 8:22:03 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The last comment from BRZEZINSKI: You know, that is the most inane statement I have ever heard.

Comment from Arrowhead1952: Mika, you are an INSANE IDIOT. Do you have a lifetime prescription for stupid pills?

56 posted on 12/11/2007 8:22:35 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I've been too busy for FR this weekend, because I did the things I refuse to let the invaders do.)
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To: AppyPappy

‘Exactly. Her biggest fear is that the little people will be able to take care of themselves. Our independence lessens her influence.’

Yep.

You know whats really amusing about little Mika?

She admitted not long ago the only reason she was accepted into college was her last name, not her grades.

I keep this in mind whenever Scarborough asks her what her ‘must reads’ are each morning.


57 posted on 12/11/2007 8:25:07 AM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Don’t worry Mika. I’d never pull my weapon to save your sorry a$$.


58 posted on 12/11/2007 8:26:47 AM PST by Niteranger68 (Questions are free. Answers are $1. Correct answers are $5.)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666
That would be the "Utah Mall" incident I refered to.

There, an off duty police officer who happened to be shopping, used his gun to stop the killer...in that case a lone jihadist.

As far as I am concerned, that police officer was just a US citizen out shopping who happened to have a conceal carry permit as a part of his job. Although that foolish mall policy restricted guns (and it is interesting to note that Utak State law does not...in Utah you can carry in the open by law), a citizen with a gun saved countless lives that day too.

...and that is the point. Armed citizens rise up and stop this kind of thing, preventing the killer fomr just having their way for much longer periods of time where they kill and maim many, many more people.

59 posted on 12/11/2007 8:27:57 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Inane? Are you SERIES? This is HUGH!


60 posted on 12/11/2007 8:28:33 AM PST by RockinRight (Bill Clinton + Jimmuh Carter + Pat Robertson + Barack Obama + Gomer Pyle = Mike Huckabee)
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