Posted on 02/01/2012 7:42:28 PM PST by neverdem
Never mind those Ferris Bueller and Star Wars-themed Super Bowl ads. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has shot a Super Bowl ad, too, and he thinks it is pretty funny, though with a serious message.
The half-minute ad features Mr. Bloomberg and Bostons mayor, Thomas M. Menino, ribbing each other as they cheer for their respective teams and cities. But then they turn to the purpose of their spot, declaring that one thing they agree on is the need for stricter federal gun control laws.
The two mayors are longtime allies on gun control and founders of a group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which has pushed for a stronger federal background check system.
Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Menino shot the ad in New York early Tuesday. And, just as big Super Bowl advertisers like Honda and Volkswagen have been promoting their ads with previews on YouTube, Mr. Bloomberg publicized his at an appearance later Tuesday morning.
It was very funny; you should take a look at it, he told reporters in a news conference at the Pershing Square Signature Center, the new home of the Signature Theater.
Mr. Bloomberg then mentioned the ad on Twitter.
We disagree on wholl win the #Superbowl, but @MayorTomMenino & I agree on fighting illegal guns. Tune in Sunday, the mayor (or one of his Twitter surrogates) wrote, attaching a photo of the shoot. In the picture, the mayors are sitting on a couch as though they are watching the game, with Mr. Bloomberg wearing a New York Giants jersey and Mr. Menino a...
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On a coffee table before them are strewn several Giants and Patriots hats, as well as bowls of popcorn and chips the kind of salty snacks that Mr. Bloomberg is known for publicly deploring but privately adoring...
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It was very funny; you should take a look at it, he told reporters in a news conference at the Pershing Square Signature Center, the new home of the Signature Theater.
Ask me why I am not laughing...And why, when we are over at a friends house to watch this sports spectacular event, why mu Barrett .50 cal will be poised upon its bipod on the floor, right in front of that very TV, in response to his nonsense...
These anti-freedom asshats are going to seriously mis-calculate our resolve to protect this inalienable right...
They do not believe we’ll fight at all...
They will never be that sorry again...
I would only worry about the part of the commercial that Bloomberg speaks. No one is going to understand one thing that comes out of “Mush Mouth” Menino.
The Left keeps pushing this very steadily, through their indefeasible networks held together and propped up with graft money and Soros money. And I include in "graft" all the program moneys the Left has managed to get budgeted over the years for federal programs staffed by veterans of their favorite NGO's. These partisan excrescences on the U.S. Government need to be lopped off and the moneys rededicated to other purposes, like deficit reduction.
Billionaire Bloomberg and his anti-gun cronies at “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” (MAIG) simply blame others for their failure and refusal to deal effectively with violent crime and criminals. Bad people, not inanimate objects (like firearms) which are incapable of committing crime, are the problem. Fortunately, violent crime rates have dropped to record low levels in recent years while Congress and state legislatures are protecting and even restoring the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
While MAIGs claim to support laws that will lead to a reduction in crime rings hollow, perhaps a better expenditure of their time would be to focus their crime-fighting efforts on their own members.
Among MAIGs members, many have run afoul of the law themselves, having been indicted, arrested, or convicted of crimes ranging from obstruction of justice and resisting arrest, to extortion, to assault, to bond violations, to bribery, and theft.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, sums this up well when he recently noted, A recent study found that mayors belonging to Bloombergs group have been arrested at a much higher rate than Tennessee handgun-carry permit holders, for crimes ranging from perjury and embezzlement to child sexual assault. But theres no background check for politicians. There probably isnt time prior to Sundays big game to revamp the ad, but if Bloomberg and MAIG truly want to take a bite out of crime, perhaps they should first police themselves.
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