MSNBC Continues Smear of 'Racist' NRA; Alex Wagner Hits Wayne LaPierre as Afraid of 'Dark People'

NewsBusters.org ^ | February 14, 2013 | Scott Whitlock

[Kaslin]

MSNBC, for the second time on Thursday, smeared the National Rifle Association as racist, trashing the gun group's president as appealing to bigotry. Now host Alex Wagner read from an op-ed by Wayne LaPierre in which he argues that owning a gun is the only real protection from crime, looting and riots. Specifically, LaPierre mentioned the aftermath to Hurricane Sandy and looting in Brooklyn.

Wagner quoted LaPierre: "Hurricanes, tornadoes, riots, terrorists, gangs, lone criminals, these are the perils we are sure to face. Not just maybe. It's not paranoia to buy a gun. It's survival." She then sneered, "There's also a lot of racial– racism imbedded in that full statement." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Novelist and guest Kurt Andersen mocked, "There were, not only not looters in south Brooklyn. Everybody was out helping everybody else...It was the opposite of that description." Except that there was looting in Brooklyn during Hurricane Sandy.

MSNBC Continues Smear of 'Racist' NRA; Alex Wagner Hits Wayne LaPierre as Afraid of 'Dark People'

The Huffington Post featured pictures. Writer Andy Campbell explained:

At about 8 a.m. on Tuesday, workers arrived at Mega Aid Pharmacy to find that not only had Hurricane Sandy obliterated the building's interior the night before, but thieves had broken in and gone through more than 10,000 pharmaceutical items. Most of the stolen goods were prescription meds.

The New York Post documented looting there, too.

Wagner actively distorted what LaPierre said, describing his words as "dark nights with dark people in Brooklyn."

Earlier, on Morning Joe, so-called conservative Joe Scarborough ranted about LaPierre's "racial overtones."

A transcript of the February 14 segment is below:

ALEX WAGNER: His press conference in the wake of the Newtown tragedy constituted one of the most tone deaf events in repeat memory. Now, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre is taking it to a new lunar level of insanity with a screed on the conservative Daily Caller website, writing, "Hurricanes, tornadoes, riots, terrorists, gangs, lone criminals, these are the perils we are sure to face. Not just maybe. It's not paranoia to buy a gun. It's survival." LaPierre continues, "After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water, or electricity, and if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark or you might not get home at all." The finale: "We will not surrender. We will not appease. We will buy more guns than ever." Kurt, as a resident of south Brooklyn, was that– Was that your utopia?

KURT ANDERSEN (Author, True Believers): Fortunately, I have guns, so I was able to-- no. Why should I be alarmed and amazed at the factual profound factual inaccuracies here. There were, not only looters in south Brooklyn. Everybody was out helping everybody else. It was morning in America. Yes, there was no electricity for a while. But, you know, it was the opposite of that description, if he wants to have some post-on post-apocalyptic nightmare. That line of "and we will buy more guns" to me is the most bonkers much the whole thing. I mean, because it bespeaks of fetishism of "I need more guns."

WAGNER: It's like a child beating its hands.

ANDERSEN: And, by the way, to the degree the NRA is a gun industry organization, that's just, yes, buy more guns.

WAGNER: Joy, there's also a lot of racial– racism imbedded in that full statement. He goes on to impugn Latin America as these kind of dark nights with dark people in Brooklyn.

JOY REID: That's right. I don't know how he missed the zombies because there were also zombies. And you know, I don't understand how they even survived in south Brooklyn. I think he was talking about south Brooklyn of the 1980s. He has this vision of brown and black people running around looting and burning and we have to get guns to shoot them.

[Bryan]

Excellent post. I couldn’t agree more.

When you mentioned the ways in which left-wing partisans are indoctrinating people and bringing them into their “family,” you neglected to mention public education. This is probably the most insidious, since it uses conservatives’ tax money to brainwash the children of conservatives into becoming left-wingers.

[Alaska Wolf]

"dark nights with dark people in Brooklyn."

I can take you to dark places with dark people in any city in the USA and drop you off if that will help with your research, Alex.

[Kaslin]

I saw it. She was good

[SeminoleCounty]

The Black Racists want to disarm whites.....that is fact. Nowhere more apparent than in the George Zimmerman case

Blacks are the racists in the gun control issue. Taking guns away from whites makes it easier for Blacks to commit crimes on whites

[lentulusgracchus]

It seems to be the new leftist meme....everyone that has remotely conservative beliefs is attacked as a racist.

This is straight-up abuse of belief, and the deliberate withdrawal of toleration and civility.

I think the reason is, Obama has passed the word, to tiger down and destroy the Right. Pressed as Solzhenitsyn described, this will end up in concentration camps and death camps.

[1010RD]

So the party of slavery, uncontrolled rage and violence is anti-gun? What will Democrats think up next?

[Brooklyn Attitude]

I was channel surfing past CNN last night and saw Chrissy Mathews in full attack on Wayne Lapierre and the NRA. Words like insane, commitible, extremist, racist etc., because of Lapierre’s Stand and Fight note to the members. Chrissy was foaming at the mouth so good I sent the NRA another $100.

[kearnyirish2]

“It was over in the mid 60s when immigration was favored to non whites. And all the civil rights legislation which should have stopped simply with the right to vote being enforced. Period”

I think liberal whites are much more of the problem than non-whites; they bankrolled Obama to push their own agendas, and voted for him in sufficient numbers to win twice (non-whites don’t have nearly enough votes to win a national election YET).

Immigration wouldn’t even be on the table if whites would breed; welfare reform was enacted in 1996 because a lot of poor whites started breeding like urban blacks, and were expecting the same freebies; the country could write off/subsuduze 10% of the population, but not 30% (which is where they are now, with very noticeable inflationary consequences). Whites can’t “put it away” and assume the government and businesses will die the slow death of Japan; those entities will find their “replacement Americans” elsewhere, and ship them here.

[trebb]

Heck, with the Black-on-Black murder rates, even Dark People need to be afraid of Dark people . . . unless they’re at least as well-armed as those who do the killings...

[kearnyirish2]

“Already within the 35 and younger age group homosexuality is totally accepted, and I was telling someone that in another decade gun control will similarly be accepted.”

I agree about the deviants, but that only holds true with “American” 35 year-olds (who are fading away anyway). The imported “replacement Americans” have little such tolerance. As for gun control, as long as our feral youths rampage, there will never be much support for gun control that doesn’t allow working “makers” to protect themselves from the bastard offspring of “takers”.

“It is all inward looking, and while it makes for strong(er) conservatives it is basically not bringing in growth.”

In other countries the various forces of the right band together on their common ground; until Americans with something to lose do so they will be divided along such divisions as race, gender, etc. I’ll use white females as a case in point (I know the married ones tend to be conservative): they will support libs because they are paid to do so with affimative action jobs and education freebies, without connecting it to their inability to find mates (due to their lack of access to education and jobs). They’ll continue voting this way until they are extinct, and they will be extinct; all of my sons are in school with classes that have a disproportionate number of boys. Just the difference in voting patterns between “Giuliani republicans” (social liberals, fiscal conservatives) and midwestern/southern republicans (conservative on both ends) demonstrate this.

“Rush is great, but he will never bring in ONE VOTER who would not have voted for a Republican (or Conservative Independent) anyways. Not one. As for the Liberals - there is a reason Obama was having a number of his ads coming during programming aimed at late teens/early twenties.”

Rush will bring in voters during tough times, and Obama’s commercials towards the young people only worked once; he didn’t do nearly as well when those same people were four years older and poorer.

“However, the Left will keep using their machinery to push the issue, and they will use TV shows where you will see characters similar to what the average person considers NRA members to be like.”

The left has to be concerned that a growing number of Americans don’t turn on the TV anymore after supper; they turn on a PC. The NRA will experience progressively stronger growth as the country slides further down the toilet; people know their government either won’t (as in the case of the LA riots) or can’t (as in NJ cities/suburbs that have laid off many of their cops) protect them. I was an NRA member for many years without even owning a gun.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Wayne should have learned long ago from the left to attack rather than to defend. If he had structured his first statement about the history of gun control as an effort of powerful white racists to disarm blacks, he could have loudly concluded that today’s efforts at gun control are just a continuation of a racist fear of armed blacks.

[capt B]

Blacks kill 7X more than Whites kill. Blacks kill Whites 20X more than whites kill Blacks. Google “Color of Crime” for more “stunning” stats

[Red in Blue PA]

Between 1976-2005, blacks represented 12% of the US population yet 52.2% of all homicides committed.

Those are DOJ stats!

[Red in Blue PA]

Between 1976-2005, blacks represented 12% of the US population yet 52.2% of all homicides committed.

Those are DOJ stats!

[LucyT]

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Jesse Jackson said a few years ago, “There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”

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[Josa]

In a moment of honesty, Jessie said aloud what every person thinks of in that situation....black or white.

[MaxMax]

She is the racist for implying that only Blacks riot and are the criminals.
How dare the NRA say protect yourselves from riots. And the other stuff.

MSNBC and the idiot medias could spin a turd into being a delightful chocolate candy with a crunch.