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Hypocrites & Wackos Top NRA Rosie Awards List
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A collection of hypocritical politicians and just plain wackos
are featured in the National Rifle Association’s first annual
Rosie awards, given to what the NRA calls the most hypocritical
enemies of the Second Amendment.
Named for talk show hostess Rosie O’Donnell, who demanded a
complete ban on handguns and then backed her own bodyguard’s
application for a permit to carry a concealed handgun, the
awards were announced in the February issue of the NRA’s
America’s Freedom magazine.
Topping the list is President Bill Clinton, who the NRA said did
more than any other president to erode America’s gun rights
while at the same time insisting he had no desire to interfere
with the rights of hunters and recreational shooters.
Second on the list is former Vice President Al Gore, who the NRA
charged spent eight years "spewing antigun rhetoric at every
opportunity" and then spent the last few weeks of the
presidential campaign "trying to reassure hunters that he didn’t
want to take away their guns."
Among the other winners of this dubious honor are such liberal
stalwarts as:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, who joined the gun-grabbers in an effort to
ban so-called assault weapons while at the same time maneuvering
behind the scenes to have those made by Colt - which is
headquartered in Connecticut, his home state - excluded from the
blacklist.
Andrew Cuomo - described by the NRA as the Clinton-Gore point
man on several anti-gun initiatives - attempted to disarm some
of the nation’s poorest and most at-risk citizens, those living
in government-subsidized housing, on the grounds that as
secretary of Housing & Urban Development he had the dictatorial
authority to do so. The NRA notes he was also the government’s
"attack dog" on the government’s agreement with Smith & Wesson.
Martin Sheen, described as being "symbolic of most of Hollywood
in its gun hypocrisy," and having spent much of his career
making a fortune by glorifying gun violence, had the gall to
appear in a commercial sponsored by Sarah Brady’s Handgun
Control Inc. attacking George Bush’s history as a supporter of
Second Amendment rights.
Million Mom March - When the NRA put up a million dollars to
start a fund to introduce a program to teach younger
schoolchildren not to touch guns, the Million Mom Marchers
refused a challenge to join NRA and put up their own million
dollars, showing that their agenda does not include child
safety, but merely gun-grabbing.
Among the wackier recipients of honorable mention:
Linda Strong, a New Mexico sculptress who altered her statue of
a water pistol fight to eliminate the squirt gun because she
realized it is a symbol of violence.
The Tahunanui Kindergarten in Nelson, New Zealand, where the
head teacher instituted a program requiring her 4-year-old
students to apply to the school for a permit before they can use
their fingers as imaginary guns and "shoot" them in the
playground.
Cynthia Carter, an Annapolis, Md., alderman who called for a
government "buyback" of toy guns and for making the
manufacturing of toy guns a crime. She said God told her to do
it.
Associated Black Charities of Baltimore, which rejected a a
mural of abolitionist Harriet Tubman because it depicted her
accurately as carrying a gun. "We feel that in the year 2000 it
is inappropriate for a piece of artwork depicting guns and
violence to be displayed on our wall in Baltimore, which had
more than 300 murders last year," said Donna Jones-Stanley, the
group’s executive director, who, the NRA suggested, is unable to
differentiate between murder and self-defense.
newsmax.com/showinsidecov.../27/112633
“Americans are so enamored with equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
WarLady1
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Re: Hypocrites & Wackos Top NRA Rosie Awards List
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The elitist leftists only care about their own skins. The reason I despise liberalism as much as I do is they want to impose their diseased emotional knee-jerk reactionary politics on the rest of us which includes ME AND MY FAMILY!
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? --Thomas Jefferson (Memo to Ted Kennedy)
TaskMaster
posts: 259
(1/28/01 1:03:07 pm)
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Hypocrites & Wackos Top NRA Rosie Awards List
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A collection of hypocritical politicians and just plain wackos
are featured in the National Rifle Association’s first annual
Rosie awards, given to what the NRA calls the most hypocritical
enemies of the Second Amendment.
Named for talk show hostess Rosie O’Donnell, who demanded a
complete ban on handguns and then backed her own bodyguard’s
application for a permit to carry a concealed handgun, the
awards were announced in the February issue of the NRA’s
America’s Freedom magazine.
Topping the list is President Bill Clinton, who the NRA said did
more than any other president to erode America’s gun rights
while at the same time insisting he had no desire to interfere
with the rights of hunters and recreational shooters.
Second on the list is former Vice President Al Gore, who the NRA
charged spent eight years "spewing antigun rhetoric at every
opportunity" and then spent the last few weeks of the
presidential campaign "trying to reassure hunters that he didn’t
want to take away their guns."
Among the other winners of this dubious honor are such liberal
stalwarts as:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, who joined the gun-grabbers in an effort to
ban so-called assault weapons while at the same time maneuvering
behind the scenes to have those made by Colt - which is
headquartered in Connecticut, his home state - excluded from the
blacklist.
Andrew Cuomo - described by the NRA as the Clinton-Gore point
man on several anti-gun initiatives - attempted to disarm some
of the nation’s poorest and most at-risk citizens, those living
in government-subsidized housing, on the grounds that as
secretary of Housing & Urban Development he had the dictatorial
authority to do so. The NRA notes he was also the government’s
"attack dog" on the government’s agreement with Smith & Wesson.
Martin Sheen, described as being "symbolic of most of Hollywood
in its gun hypocrisy," and having spent much of his career
making a fortune by glorifying gun violence, had the gall to
appear in a commercial sponsored by Sarah Brady’s Handgun
Control Inc. attacking George Bush’s history as a supporter of
Second Amendment rights.
Million Mom March - When the NRA put up a million dollars to
start a fund to introduce a program to teach younger
schoolchildren not to touch guns, the Million Mom Marchers
refused a challenge to join NRA and put up their own million
dollars, showing that their agenda does not include child
safety, but merely gun-grabbing.
Among the wackier recipients of honorable mention:
Linda Strong, a New Mexico sculptress who altered her statue of
a water pistol fight to eliminate the squirt gun because she
realized it is a symbol of violence.
The Tahunanui Kindergarten in Nelson, New Zealand, where the
head teacher instituted a program requiring her 4-year-old
students to apply to the school for a permit before they can use
their fingers as imaginary guns and "shoot" them in the
playground.
Cynthia Carter, an Annapolis, Md., alderman who called for a
government "buyback" of toy guns and for making the
manufacturing of toy guns a crime. She said God told her to do
it.
Associated Black Charities of Baltimore, which rejected a a
mural of abolitionist Harriet Tubman because it depicted her
accurately as carrying a gun. "We feel that in the year 2000 it
is inappropriate for a piece of artwork depicting guns and
violence to be displayed on our wall in Baltimore, which had
more than 300 murders last year," said Donna Jones-Stanley, the
group’s executive director, who, the NRA suggested, is unable to
differentiate between murder and self-defense.
newsmax.com/showinsidecov.../27/112633
“Americans are so enamored with equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
WarLady1
Owner/Op/Moderator
posts: 914
(1/28/01 5:03:44 pm)
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Re: Hypocrites & Wackos Top NRA Rosie Awards List
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The elitist leftists only care about their own skins. The reason I despise liberalism as much as I do is they want to impose their diseased emotional knee-jerk reactionary politics on the rest of us which includes ME AND MY FAMILY!
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? --Thomas Jefferson (Memo to Ted Kennedy)