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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

Where can I get underpants in Hunter Orange?


81 posted on 06/08/2021 10:18:51 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: mylife

Country music sure has gone in the toilet.


82 posted on 06/08/2021 10:23:31 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Except bears. Bears will definitely kill you.h)
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To: mylife

Should run on BET instead.


83 posted on 06/08/2021 10:24:09 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: mylife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJe754cLbok


84 posted on 06/08/2021 10:31:03 AM PDT by apostoli (“Violence has no place...” Then stop re-naming our streets after people that burn down cities!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

LOL


85 posted on 06/08/2021 10:38:35 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: mylife

I don’t watch CMT -
CMT is an American pay television channel owned by ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks


86 posted on 06/08/2021 10:38:43 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan

My brother and sister both killed themselves.

Neither used a gun.


87 posted on 06/08/2021 12:18:32 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (I'm changing my name to 'Spike Protein'!)
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To: mylife

The Bush Rule: “Attacking your base is not a winning strategy”


88 posted on 06/08/2021 12:40:13 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Mr. Mojo

Could this be indicative of the actual political affiliations of the CMT senior staffing? I’m thinking yes. Disturbing they don’t know their own audience, but their propensity to lib lean is irresistible. This tells us all we need to know about the median age within CMT as well.

This is something that might be expected from a more general interest music platform such as Spotify, yet their logo remains the same, not ‘rainbowed’ at least not while I was listening at lunchtime today.


89 posted on 06/08/2021 1:53:38 PM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of the American Republic as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: dfwgator

U of Texas uses “burnt orange”. Bright orange is Tennessee. I know it is a slight difference. Syracuse uses the same orange but they aren’t located in the heart of CW music.


90 posted on 06/08/2021 3:57:19 PM PDT by vetvetdoug (,)
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To: mylife

I’m a big fan of country music but I don’t think I’ve ever watched CMT. I mean ever. If I want to listen to country music, I have at least six stations on Sirius/XM that play it exclusively commercial free. Then I always have my massive music library to fall back on.


91 posted on 06/08/2021 4:00:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

My firearms self identify as cordless hole punchers. And they don’t need batteries or recharging so they’re ECO FRIENDLY!


92 posted on 06/09/2021 10:17:12 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: mylife

The first gun control laws in the US were enacted to thwart Blacks, particularly freed slaves from accessing firearms. So gun control is a RACIST DOG WHISTLE


93 posted on 06/09/2021 10:23:43 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: mylife

Leftists **** up every single thing they touch.

L


94 posted on 06/09/2021 10:25:05 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: mylife

Obviously CMT needs a new staff of researchers that have even a slight inkling of what their target audience ie:Country folks are comprised of. They might be surprised its Not a bunch of classified city clickers.


95 posted on 06/09/2021 10:27:55 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: packagingguy

And maybe Oregon. They’ve got something like 30 units to choose from. Certainly they’ve got an orange uni in there somewhere.


96 posted on 06/09/2021 10:40:46 PM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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