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Chris
04-09-2013, 03:13 PM
The rhetoric is getting thick.


Frustration is taking its toll in the liberals’ war against guns. President Obama, pushing his broad gun control agenda, said we should be ashamed if we’ve forgotten the Newtown shooting so soon. The New York Times opined that Obama is being shouted down by the “gun lobby,” even though he and Biden had been crisscrossing the country “…making a forceful case for a package of laws that would reduce gun violence.”

That, of course, is the media narrative on gun control. For every issue there is a narrative: a set of assumptions and boundaries of thought with which every story (and editorial) is tailored to agree. False narratives usually serve the left well. For over eighteen months, American politics was forced into as media narrative tat ignored everything else and focused on Obamacare which, we were told, would make healthcare cheaper and more available, the precise opposites of its effect. For months before that, we were told Obama’s “stimulus” would create tens of thousands of jobs and get our economy growing. It did no such thing, but the media narrative helped it become law.

Now the gun control narrative is equally false, and borders on the insane. It has become so wacky that it resembles the left’s hysteria on “global warming.”

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More @ Guns Responsible for Global Warming (http://spectator.org/archives/2013/04/08/guns-responsible-for-global-wa)

Chris
04-09-2013, 03:18 PM
This evening in Hartford, Connecticut, President Obama continued to argue that anyone who opposes his "common-sense gun safety reforms" is doing so only for the crassest political reasons. "There is only one thing that can stand in the way of change," he declared, "and that's politics in Washington." His motives, by contrast, are completely pure:


This is not about me. This is not about politics. This is about doing the right thing for all the families that are here that have been torn apart by gun violence. It’s about them and all the families going forward, so we can prevent this from happening again....Every once in a while, we set politics aside, and we just do what’s right.

Who could possibly disagree? In Obama's telling, only "powerful interests that are very good at confusing the subject, that are good at amplifying conflict and extremes, that are good at drowning out rational debate, good at ginning up irrational fears." That's pretty rich, coming from a man who claims that massacres like the one that took 26 lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, last December have become "routine," who falsely asserts that the man responsible for those murders used a "fully automatic weapon," and who in response to that horrible event pushes policies that could not possibly have prevented it, while citing the grief and outrage it generated as if they were arguments for the same gun control policies he has supported all along.

The choice for members of Congress, Obama says, is simple: "What’s more important to you—our children, or an A grade from the gun lobby?" Evidently this is what Obama, who emphasizes that "we have to be able to put ourselves in the other person's shoes," considers an exercise in sympathetic imagination.

@ Obama on Gun Control: ‘This Is Not About Politics’ …Unless You Disagree With Me (http://www.bastiatinstitute.org/2013/04/08/obama-on-gun-control-this-is-not-about-politics-unless-you-disagree-with-me/)

Ravi
04-09-2013, 03:21 PM
The rhetoric is getting thick.



More @ Guns Responsible for Global Warming (http://spectator.org/archives/2013/04/08/guns-responsible-for-global-wa)

The title of the piece is a false narrative. Ironic and overlooked how amusing.

Chris
04-09-2013, 04:20 PM
The title of the piece is a false narrative. Ironic and overlooked how amusing.

Is it? While the arguments over gun control and global warning are not the same, the rhetoric is, irrational, emotional. The analogy holds.

simpsonofpg
04-09-2013, 04:20 PM
your comments and subject have nothing to do with each other. What is the point? We all know liberals are nuts.

Chris
04-09-2013, 04:24 PM
Me? Marie?

Greenridgeman
04-09-2013, 04:26 PM
Me? Marie?

SOME people need to make use of the Reply With Quote feature.

Mainecoons
04-09-2013, 04:26 PM
Marie:

sim·i·le/ˈsiməlē/




Noun



A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, (e.g., as brave as a lion).
The use of such a method of comparison.











Get it now?

Dooh!

Adelaide
04-09-2013, 05:47 PM
I think it's safe to say that idiots flock to both parties and all ideologies.

Chris
04-09-2013, 07:59 PM
I think it's safe to say that idiots flock to both parties and all ideologies.

Ah, but that goes without saying!

Adelaide
04-10-2013, 05:18 PM
Ah, but that goes without saying!

Never hurts to remind people. :)

Chris
04-10-2013, 05:26 PM
OK, I think it's safe to say that idiots flock to both parties and all ideologies.