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Country Music Television urges viewers to ‘wear orange’ for gun control campaign, upsetting core audience Many CMT fans said they would no longer tune into music channel
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Posted on 06/08/2021 8:12:03 AM PDT by mylife

Country Music Television – along with other networks – urged many to "wear orange" over the weekend as part of a coordinated stance against gun violence.

"We're (virtually) wearing orange today in support National Gun Violence Awareness Day and to call attention to the more than 100 lives that are lost every day to gun violence," the ViacomCBS-owned entity tweeted Friday ahead of the CMT Music Awards on Wednesday.

The campaign, citing fatal injury reports data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the years 2015 through 2019, claimed that "Every day more than 100 Americans are killed with guns." "Wear Orange" is part of Everytown for Gun Safety's gun control campaign, which is backed by Michael Bloomberg. The effort was met with intense criticism from many on social media.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cdc; cmt; music; wokegobroke
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To: mylife
I sent the the following email to 'viewerservices@cmt.com':

Regarding your Orange campaign…

As a country music loving, gun-owning Alabamian and honest, law-abiding citizen who believes all people are equal and lover of the US Constitution, I’ve just removed your CMT channel from all my cable tv line ups.

Go woke, go broke.

You’ve lost my $$$ forever.

I'll probably get a ton more spam mail, but we've all GOT to PUSH BACK!

61 posted on 06/08/2021 8:52:06 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: mylife

SHOW ME THOSE “STATISTICS”.....NOW


62 posted on 06/08/2021 8:54:09 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan

And the rest are gang related.


63 posted on 06/08/2021 8:54:12 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: mylife

ViacomCBS

Key people

*Chris McCarthy (President; MTV Entertainment Group)
*Scott Mills (President, BET Networks)
David Nevins (Chairman and CEO, Showtime Networks)
Brian Robbins (President; Kids and Family Entertainment)


64 posted on 06/08/2021 8:54:23 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Good for you! Too few are doing this! I was just sending mine too. Until we get off our asses and make an effort to let it be known nothing is going to change.


65 posted on 06/08/2021 8:56:11 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: madison10

Dixie Chicks? Are they related to the Dixie Cups?


66 posted on 06/08/2021 8:58:15 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: mylife

As long as it’s orange jail uniforms I’m good with this.


67 posted on 06/08/2021 8:58:32 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: Chode

wear RED for buy ammo friday!


68 posted on 06/08/2021 8:59:09 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: mylife

Wow, they really don’t know their audience.


69 posted on 06/08/2021 8:59:17 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

A direct result of corporations hiring SJWs into their marketing department.


70 posted on 06/08/2021 9:00:33 AM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: mylife

I’d say they just shot themselves in the foot, but that seems in conflict with their position.


71 posted on 06/08/2021 9:00:41 AM PDT by mykroar (God speed, President Trump)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Yep - always pay attention to the language, the exact words they use. It is always an unscrupulous and highly unethical way to frame an argument.

(For example) “Women’s Health Care” sounds pretty benign at worst, how could anybody be against that? And if that’s what it was actually about, maybe they’d have a point.

Harvesting baby parts for resale, that’s what they are really talking about.


72 posted on 06/08/2021 9:05:59 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: taxcontrol

Please see #64, it actually comes from the very top it’s self.


73 posted on 06/08/2021 9:08:05 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: mylife

I remember back when country music WAS country music......


74 posted on 06/08/2021 9:08:42 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: mylife
The executives at Viacom/CBS started playing 'Brokeback Mountain' and stopped playing country music a while ago.

Let hypocritical Viacom/CBS executives and staff give up their armed security both in the offices and when they're filming at locations.

75 posted on 06/08/2021 9:19:49 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

Have they reached the rap music audience? Seems the rappers and fans need to be woke to gun violence.


76 posted on 06/08/2021 9:23:07 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: dfwgator

And Clemson.


77 posted on 06/08/2021 9:25:06 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: mylife

The sad part is that these woke anti freedom leftists this k they are Bing patriotic and brave and are sacrificing for ‘the greater good when they alienate their core fans and ‘sacrifice sales’.

They are woefully misguided!


78 posted on 06/08/2021 9:26:10 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: mylife

I thought they lost most of their core viewers back when they pulled Roseanne reruns... showed their colors the


79 posted on 06/08/2021 9:43:53 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: mylife

Friggin idiots!


80 posted on 06/08/2021 10:15:39 AM PDT by Renegade
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