Posted on 01/16/2013 6:28:51 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Have a look at the screengrab: it shows Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, she holding chin in hand, he hanging head. Their melodramatic reactions come in response to an NRA ad decrying the hypocrisy of political and media elites who want "gun free zones" in the schools where most Americans send their children, while sending their own children to schools with armed guards.
The panel's reaction was one of collective hyperventilation. Mike Barnicle called the ad "political pornography." Donny Deutsch said it's "one of the grossest things I've ever seen in my life." Scarborough asked Mika "what's wrong with these people?" Brzezinski replied that some of the people running the NRA are "sick in the head" and that she is "embarrassed for our country." But what of the substantive point made by the ad?
View the video, including the ad, here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Yes, I went to the school’s directory and found this.
John Kenyon, Jr.
Director of Campus Safety, Security
(703) 556-8237 jkenyon@madeira.org
Thanks for the transcription. I’m glad to see that cooler heads prevail over there at MSLSD ;-)
I still have vestiges of liberalism in me, but I saw this segment this morning and found NOTHING offensive about the ad. What I did find offensive is the double standard put forth by all the people on Morning Joe.
If you are going to advocate for the entire country then YOUR family had better be the first to follow the lead, but we know that is never the case.
The older I get I find that hypocrisy is the one thing that chaps me beyond all others. Especially when it is done w/ such false righteous indignation.
I still have vestiges of liberalism in me, but I saw this segment this morning and found NOTHING offensive about the ad. What I did find offensive is the double standard put forth by all the people on Morning Joe.
If you are going to advocate for the entire country then YOUR family had better be the first to follow the lead, but we know that is never the case.
The older I get I find that hypocrisy is the one thing that chaps me beyond all others. Especially when it is done w/ such false righteous indignation.
Hmmm...
I see a lot of name calling in their “rebuttal”,
but no addressing of the concept of why this is OK.
I guess it’s “obvious” to them that the elite need special treatment.
It’s also obvious to them that people will take offense if they actually admit this is their viewpoint on the issue.
Sorry for the double post.
EXACTLY!
Here in the UK I had a furious argument over the weekend with some typical limp-wristed Guardian readers.
I furiously blamed liberal gun-control policies for turning U.S. schools into gun-free target zones. I made the point about police stations never being the targets for killing sprees. And I quoted the statistic about violence in the UK being 2.5 times what it is in the States.
All they could do was blink in amazement. They had no answer. It was the damnedest thing.
hee hee...
As I was reading this I thought “This has got to be Laz...”
LOL- you nailed it again bro
So this Democrat believes that the murder of children is a “GOOD THING”?
Ed Rendell on MSNBC: Boosting Gun Control is the ‘Good Thing’ About Sandy Hook
Like the radical greens and agenda 21; they say the world population has to be limited. Why don't they set the example by killing themselves?
Thanks, Joe: will do.
People who watch MSNBC are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
It's a tough thing to glimpse the fact that the proverbial "useful idiot," is oneself.
The ad wasn’t very well done but the point it makes is perfectly fair. Obama is an elitist, and he shamelessly flaunts a double standard.
An incidental point of information: people who want to make a point about an eleven person security staff at Sidwell should be aware that Sidwell has two separate campuses (lower school and middle/upper school), and that both are multi-building complexes with associated gyms and athletic fields. They are very nice campuses, and it is an undeniably great school. Sidwell’s reputation is well earned.
My experience of Sidwell is limited to carting my daughter to the upper school campus to soccer games, and one winter to practices in the middle school gym (rented space for her club team). But from that point of observation, I’d say that the campus is very actively used until well into the evenings for sports teams, clubs, etc.
So ... if security arrives at 7 a.m. and stays until 9 or 10 p.m., at two campuses, both multi-building sites, we are not talking about an especially heavy presence. It translates into someone near the entrance, whose primary job is to keep undesirables (of whom we have an abundance in DC) from strolling through the gate, plus someone strolling the grounds. Two people times two locations times two shifts is eight of the eleven security slots right there. A security director makes nine. How many are full time, how many part time, and whether there is any weekend or night watchman coverage, I have no idea.
I don’t actually know how Sidwell deploys their people, but posters on some threads seem to have the impression of intensive security. Not so. Yes, there is security, and at Sidwell’s price tag there ought to be, but it’s hardly an armed camp with a SWAT team at the ready. It looks and feels more like a small college campus minus the dorms, except that the college would have more campus police to deal with drunken students on Friday and Saturday nights.
Ha ha! Feels good to win once in a while, doesn’t it? But I am amazed they he/she didn’t just go into a scream-in-your-face rage which is what usually happens when you out-argue a liberal.
It’s happened to me.
THIS has now been added to the article!
Note: A reader has alerted me to the fact that the tony Madeira School, that Mika attended, also has a campus security detail. From an article on appointment of the school’s new safety director:
“Kenyon is in charge of guarding a high school, yes, but this is a school whose boundaries extend far beyond McLean. Many Madeira students, past and present, come from powerful families ranging from D.C. power players to national and international CEO’s, figureheads, and moguls. Many Madeira girls go on to become women of distinction in their chosen fields; actress Stockard Channing is an alumna; so is the late publisher of The Washington Post Katharine Graham.”
BTTT
That show is a joke.
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