CNN: Even With Obama Gun Control Agenda, Gun Owners 'Might Even Be Paranoid'

NewsBusters.org ^ | 3/30/2009 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

During a segment on Friday’s Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull program, CNN tried to perpetuate left-wing stereotypes about gun owners, and sent mixed messages about whether or not President Obama and his administration is pushing for gun control. Correspondent Sean Callebs interviewed two Texas professionals who owned guns and concluded, “A nurse, an attorney -- not the usual portrait of Second Amendment diehards.” After asking a gun store owner if he was “profiting on this fear” of new gun control measures, Callebs expounded on the concerns of gun owners: “In fact, it may not be rational at all. It might even be paranoid. But one thing is certain. Many gun owners believe this president is somehow out to curb their rights and they’re stocking up just in case.”

Both Callebs and CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin tried to assure their viewers that gun control was “way off the agenda right now” of the Obama administration, despite the fact that a graphic on the news crawl stated plainly that President Obama “wants to make expired Assault Weapons Ban permanent.”

The CNN correspondent traveled to Tyler, Texas, “one of those places all over America where a kind of quiet call to arms is getting louder and louder,” as he put it. Besides interviewing the lawyer and the nurse, he visited a local gun store, where he skeptically asked one of the employees of the store, “Why would someone own a semiautomatic weapon like this? I mean, is saying it’s my right, is that enough?”

[a fool in paradise]

That was a good movie (the first pic)—i can’t remember the name of it or the main character—a wrestler...

The movie was John Carpenter's "They Live". Street punk graffiti artist (hired by the Obama campaign to illegally post campaign agitprop) Shepherd Fairey appropriated the messages of "OBEY" and "THIS IS YOUR GOD" from the film.

"Ironic" that he now serves as a propaganda minister for someone who is NOT to be questioned and worshipped as a new god.

[Freedom2specul8]

LoL it was about aliens..main character was former wrestler rowdy Roddy—they used mind control via satellite..only special glasses could see the hidden codes that controlled the minds of the masses. The glasses were created by an underground movement whose mission was to expose the evil creatures for what they were. The hero (who obtained a pair if the special glasses) died in the end of the movie..by destroying the satellite, which thereby removed the hypnotic trance of the world populace. He saved the world.

Oh wait... What was the name of the control center? CNN or MSNBC?

;-)