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Brokaw: Silence On Gun Violence Akin To Failing To Oppose Segregation in 60s
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/17/2013 5:02:30 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Talk about your strained analogies . . . Tom Brokaw has analogized people unwilling support measures aimed at limiting gun violence to those during the 1960s who were unwilling to speak out againt the likes of Bull Connor.

Brokaw made his remarks on today's Morning Joe. While asserting that he favored a "holistic" approach to gun violence, including addressing video games and the coarsening of the culture, Brokaw did remark that "guns are the endgame."

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: civilrights; guncontrol; morningjoe; secondamendment; tombrokaw
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1 posted on 01/17/2013 5:02:46 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Brokaw’s idiotic analogy. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 01/17/2013 5:03:52 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Brokaw’s idiotic analogy. Ping to Today show list.


3 posted on 01/17/2013 5:04:37 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

These old commies come up with the most drastic bullsh&. “Republicans want to burn your Mother alive at the stake”. “People who follow the constitution want to bring back slavery”. Unreal!


4 posted on 01/17/2013 5:06:18 AM PST by albie
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Brokejaw: Silence On Gun Violence Akin To Failing To Oppose Segregation in 60s
5 posted on 01/17/2013 5:07:43 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Better safe than sorry.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mr Brokejaw - Bull Connor was a Democrat.


6 posted on 01/17/2013 5:08:30 AM PST by JacksonCalhoun (CT Yankee in NC Exile - the only swing state to flip (barely))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Silence On Gun Violence Akin To Failing To Oppose Segregation in 60s"

I thought that's what being against homosexuality was.

I can't keep up with all of the media elite's whack drama antics.

7 posted on 01/17/2013 5:09:12 AM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

lemme see if i get it...failure to oppress a segment of the population (gun owners) is akin to oppressing a segment of the population (blacks).

is that it?


8 posted on 01/17/2013 5:11:27 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
liberals/democrats like this scum are sick pieces of crap

The media is full of these vermin

the hypocrites they want to make the already too powerful government more powerful and so at the same time the small person have less rights. This is the reason democrats do everything including going on about this statistically nonexistent event , this mass shooting

9 posted on 01/17/2013 5:11:59 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Jeez, is he still around?
Can’t he just go away?


10 posted on 01/17/2013 5:12:16 AM PST by servo1969
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Gun control was firmly planted in racism and grew from there.

Democrats doing what democrats have always done. Just keeping the slaves in their place.


11 posted on 01/17/2013 5:15:22 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Ironically the right to own guns for self defense was something the oppressed blacks desired greatly. And it was one of the things they won in their quest for freedom and equality.


12 posted on 01/17/2013 5:16:02 AM PST by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Full court press by Morning Joe Stalin and his merry gang of gun grabbers.


13 posted on 01/17/2013 5:17:23 AM PST by Third Person (I'm in my prime.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I bet Brokaw has armed security protection.


14 posted on 01/17/2013 5:19:06 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Palin was correct!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Another old Democrat presstitute who should have been put out to pasture about 20 years ago.


15 posted on 01/17/2013 5:19:42 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

How long has Brokaw been white headed?


16 posted on 01/17/2013 5:22:30 AM PST by TYVets
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To: txrefugee

The old drunk is now just babbling incoherently.


17 posted on 01/17/2013 5:22:58 AM PST by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Brokaw: Silence On Gun Violence Akin To Failing To Oppose Segregation in 60s”.

He means like how the democRATS fought against desegregation, right? People don’t realize that prior to the 80’s, all of the south and most of the east were democRATS. There were no, or very few republicans, except for the few who fought against segregation. You also remember that the Klan was exclusively democRATS, right? You do know that, don’t you?
I like how Obummer is wrapping himself in Lincoln (republican) and MLK (another republican)garb as he lies his way back as protector of our constitution.
The sheeple will be led to the slaughter by someone waving the Obummer or similar socialist flag......


18 posted on 01/17/2013 5:23:27 AM PST by 9422WMR (Life is not fair, just deal with it)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Didn’t take long to go ‘there’?

I wonder what they compared everything to BEFORE the Civil Rights Movement?

EVERYTHING is compared to the CRM....

Gays in Military
Women in Combat
Same Sex Marriage
Birth Control
Wearing of beards.
Using of beards.
Toenail residue
Gang Control
Recycling
Global Warming
Immigration Control AND lack of same.

At one point or another, each of the above was compared to the “Civil Rights Movement” - as a way to ‘silence’ the antis -—once the opposition stood up to be heard.


19 posted on 01/17/2013 5:24:04 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

K, Tom, here’s your answer to “Gun Violence”:

Quit hiding God from public view.

Quit promoting gangsters as role models.
(as Obama has by making gang signs, and inviting rappers to the White House)

Prosecute gang bangers, thugs, and drug dealers, and enforce the sentences.
(consequences change behavior)

Quit pretending that 55 million abortions don’t cheapen the perception of the value of human life.

Provide true mental health support for those in need.
This includes institutions for those unable to safely function in a free society.)


20 posted on 01/17/2013 5:25:06 AM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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