Florida: Broward sheriff's role in CNN gun show upsets NRA ["honest misunderstanding"]

Sun-Sentinel ^ | May 21, 2003

[george wythe]

FORT LAUDERDALE · Gun activists say it was a demonstration of "agenda journalism." The Broward Sheriff's Office says it was an honest misunderstanding

Sheriff Ken Jenne drew the ire of the National Rifle Association last week when he appeared on a CNN segment about the 1994 assault weapons ban. The NRA says Jenne and CNN misled viewers by demonstrating the power of guns the ban doesn't prohibit.

"I think CNN and the sheriff got together for a show on agenda journalism," NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said Monday. "How could he not have known those weapons weren't part of the assault weapons ban?"

The segment, which aired Friday, showed a deputy firing rounds from an automatic AK-47 rifle into concrete blocks -- something the lobby said misled viewers because fully automatic weapons were not included in the 1994 law. The NRA also said video showing an AK-47 round piercing a bulletproof vest was misleading because the vests are designed to protect officers from handguns, not rifles.

[longtermmemmory]

broward has 26 cities and Jenne has been working to eliminate local police departments and put them under his sherrif's control.

[SteveH]

CNN TEST PATTERN

CNN TEST PATTERN

PLEASE STAND BY

[Squantos]

So dictator should have been spelled dick-tater.........ya'll gotta get rid of the monopoly yesterday..........Good Luck in your efforts.

Stay safe !

[Blood of Tyrants]

You have to be honest to have an honest mistake. There were so many levels of deception, from the full auto AK-47 to the bullet proof vest designed for handgun rounds to the deliberate representation of the post ban AK, that there is no way that it could have been accidental.

[Joe Brower]

LOL!

[Walnut]

Ive also got lake front property in Arizona.
Honest I do. I wouldn't lie to you.

[Djarum]

The media regularly practices these sorts of deceptions when 'reporting' on firearms, yet this is the first time I can think of that they have been exposed for lying. Is this an anomaly, or a sign of change?

[timestax]

CNNLIES

bigtime liars

[harpseal]

Just shows that a Democrat politician as shreriff is still a lying RAT.

[demosthenes the elder]

only because I lived many years in Louisiana did I understand what you meant about HPL.
very clever way to state that opinion.
kudos.

[demosthenes the elder]

*crossing all fingers and making fervent prayers that this shall be but the merest beginning of a consistent and savagely critical trend.*

[demosthenes the elder]

well, look at Dekalb County 2-3 years ago for true bananna-republic dick-tater shenanigans.
google: "Derwin Brown"

[montag813]

I rarely watch CNN, but happened to catch both the original report and then Wayne LaPierre's brilliant offensive against the CNN bimbot. This is truly LaPierre's finest hour...putting the media completely on the defensive. Let's build on this while we still have momentum.

[wku man]

"I bet people who know little about guns bought the whole CNN package."

And there's the rub...an ever-decreasing minority of the people of this nation know a doggone thing about firearms. Heck, so-called "assault weapons" might as well be phasers, as much as the average Joe Six-Pack knows. What makes it worse is that many who call themselves Republicans and (neo)Conservatives not only don't know anything about their RKBA, but they don't seem to care one bit, either.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Travis McGee]

Hehehe....

[PJ-Comix]

"It was never our intention to mislead anyone," Leljedal said Tuesday. "We only intended to demonstrate the firepower of assault weapons in general."

So who provided the blanks for the firing of the legal assault rifle? Sheriff Ken-Ken or CNN? A frame by frame analysis by the Media Research Center showed NO muzzle flashes coming out of the legal rifle.

[PJ-Comix]

There were so many levels of deception, from the full auto AK-47 to the bullet proof vest designed for handgun rounds to the deliberate representation of the post ban AK, that there is no way that it could have been accidental.

Plus the fact that a frame by frame analysis of the video by the Media Research Center showed NO muzzle flashes by the legal rifle. So were blanks used and if so, who provided them?

[perfect stranger]

Contact the Broward Sheriff's Office

Ken-Ken needs to hear from you.

[George W. Bush]

Eaker: Did you click on the provided link?

Redbob: You want to read the whole article, you click on the link,

I wanted to read it. But not enough to click through and help generate ad revenue. Naturally, in the course of a few years, this thread will most likely be useless if it does not contain the entire text of the article.

Posting excerpts is Free Republic spam. It increases the advertising revenue of liberal press outlets and it reduces the value of our archives, a free research source that, in the course of a year or so, may be the only place online where the original text of the article may be found. The news sites don't keep their articles online very long.

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Excerpts are generally contrary to the spirit of FR (exceptions: WP & LAT).

If it's worth posting, post the whole article. Otherwise, don't post it. That way, someone else will have a chance to post the entire article instead. Posting an excerpt blocks others from posting the entire article.

[george wythe]

A frame by frame analysis by the Media Research Center showed NO muzzle flashes coming out of the legal rifle.

In the first of the two segments that aired Thursday, a Broward County detective fired the AK-47 in semiautomatic mode, and the camera showed bullets hitting a cinder-block target.

The detective then fired a legal semiautomatic weapon, and CNN showed a cinder-block target with no apparent damage. On Friday, CNN admitted that the detective had not been firing at the cinder block.

Washington Times

It seems that they were caught redhanded, and they had to admit to being liars, both CNN and the Broward Sheriff.

How can these people sleep at night knowing that they lie for a living?