I re-watched that PBS Frontline episode. MrScorpio

[CC27]

Star Member MrScorpio (63,633 posts)

I re-watched that PBS Frontline episode on the NRA again last night…


And one thing it struck me was how invested wingers are in their own fears and delusions and how much it keeps them involved politically, throughout the season and not.

With us, we wait for presidential election years, operating under some impression that this is the only important time there is.

Say what you will about right wing paranoia; it keeps those mother****ers on their toes. Fed a daily dose of scary horrors, delivered by obtuse, cookie-cutter blondes and bloated, blowhard bloviators, there's no end to their fears. Everything is something to be afraid of, no ridiculous lie to be left unexploited.

If you're going live in the real world, you just don't have enough time and blind stupidity to give a royal **** about shit like coffee cups and the "Caliphate."

These assholes are tiring, but it doesn't make them right. It's makes them insufferable and, frankly, I wish that half of us would take the time and effort used up in aggravating ourselves over whomever should be our nominee (I still haven't made up my mind, by the way), to relegate the far right wing to the trash heap of history.

Do not forget who our adversaries are, they all will never forget about us.

Nice projection there DUmmie.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027336707

[txradioguy]

And one thing it struck me was how invested wingers are in their own fears and delusions and how much it keeps them involved politically, throughout the season and not.

You mean like still Blaming Bush for everything that's happened since Obama took office?

That we invaded Iraq for the oil?  Or was that Afghanistan?

Or maybe it's the whole MIHOP/LIHOP section you have going over there.

Scorpio X needs to work at the local Cineplex...he'd be the best damn projectionist they ever hired.

[Chris_]

Frontline, another purely unbiased source of information. 

[VelvetElvis]

Star Member MrScorpio
<snip> If you're going live in the real world, you just don't have enough time and blind stupidity to give a royal **** about shit like coffee cups and the "Caliphate."

That's right, there's all those really scary things out there to be freaking out about instead, like contrails, MIHOP, cops in the bushes, white privilege, BFEE, global warming /cooling/darkening /lightening/flavor-of-the-week, etc.!!!

[USA4ME]

Fed a daily dose of scary horrors, delivered by obtuse, cookie-cutter, bloated, blowhard bloviators, there's no end to their fears. Everything is something to be afraid of, no ridiculous lie to be left unexploited.

If someone were to provide a definition of the type of individuals who hang out at pol sites like Skin's island or the DailyKooks, and/or watch the evening TV programming of PMSNBC, and/or read kook publications like alternet, america.aljazeera, billmoyers, businessinsider, commondreams, crooksandliars, huffingtonpost, mediamatters, motherjones, newrepublic, politicususa, rawstory, salon, slate, talkingpointsmemo, thedailybeast, thenation,  and thinkprogress, I would be hard pressed to come up with one more accurate than the basic version the boy primitive provided.

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[franksolich]

Hmmmm.

I see Lamond's still stalling, hoping that we'll forget he promised to find the culprit who wrote that threatening letter to bravenak.....or barring that, hoping that if he continues ignoring us, we'll get tired of reminding him of his promise, and quit mentioning it.

In the meantime, a Bernie bully runs free and unhindered, ready to jump on the back of the defenseless bravenak any time now, with no one stopping him.

<<<doesn't plan to forget, doesn't plan to quit mentioning it.

[Ken8521]

Bonhomme Richard (8,570 posts)
2. Frankly, I don't think anything is going to change regarding the gun atmosphere...

until we do something about the economy. The current stage of our economy feeds despair and hopelessness which contributes to the paranoia that drives the gun nuts.

Much as I hate to say it, I think there is some truth to this post (w/o the name calling of course). I don't think it's the politically active gun owner however, that has this mindset (at least not anymore)... It's more the Fudds that are this way now.  The economy was doing well under Clinton, and he got a couple of whoppers in on us w/ the Brady Bill and the '94 Assault Weapons Ban.  The Brady Bill passed in early '94.. "Oh, it's no big deal, I'm not worried about background checks.." etc. 

Then barely 6mo later, we got hit w/ the AWB.  THAT woke up a lot of non-fudd type gun owners.  Magazine capacity limits, banning certain rifles just based on some silly cosmetic features, etc.  Thankfully Republicans were running things when the bill's sunset clause kicked in, and it simply died a quiet death.  However, I think it's going to be a LONG time before something like that gets slipped in (on the national level) on gun owners again... but a roaring economy might be the vehicle that could do it.

We're honestly very lucky we've been able to keep Obama's gun control agenda in check.. because you can bet he wanted to go after it, but many of his supporters in Congress knew it was political suicide.

[BlueStateSaint]

Much as I hate to say it, I think there is some truth to this post (w/o the name calling of course). I don't think it's the politically active gun owner however, that has this mindset (at least not anymore)... It's more the Fudds that are this way now.  The economy was doing well under Clinton, and he got a couple of whoppers in on us w/ the Brady Bill and the '94 Assault Weapons Ban.  The Brady Bill passed in early '94.. "Oh, it's no big deal, I'm not worried about background checks.." etc. 

Then barely 6mo later, we got hit w/ the AWB.  THAT woke up a lot of non-fudd type gun owners.  Magazine capacity limits, banning certain rifles just based on some silly cosmetic features, etc.  Thankfully Republicans were running things when the bill's sunset clause kicked in, and it simply died a quiet death.  However, I think it's going to be a LONG time before something like that gets slipped in (on the national level) on gun owners again... but a roaring economy might be the vehicle that could do it.

We're honestly very lucky we've been able to keep Obama's gun control agenda in check.. because you can bet he wanted to go after it, but many of his supporters in Congress knew it was political suicide.

If you listen to HilLIARy, you'd think that she didn't get that memo.

[zeitgeist]

Never Forgive, Never Forget: Dan Rather and “The Guns of Autumn”
by David E. Petzal and Phil Bourjaily

So great was the howl from hunters that CBS felt compelled to do a sequel called “Echoes of the Guns of Autumn,” which attempted to justify the first show. Since then, the network has not gone near the subject.  As Ed Zern put it, “Now we know what the BS in CBS means.”

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http://www.fieldandstream.com/pages/never-forgive-never-forget-dan-rather-and-%E2%80%9C-guns-autumn%E2%80%9D

[Carl]

Yet every day these dolts scream the world is doomed via gloBULL warming.

[jb2u11]

Yet every day these dolts scream the world is doomed via gloBULL warming.

and don't forget the 1%ers, Koch brothers, KKK, fundies, tea party terrorists, pro lifers, Christians etc..... they are the most terrified group of idiots I know.

[98ZJUSMC]

and don't forget the 1%ers, Koch brothers, KKK, fundies, tea party terrorists, pro lifers, Christians etc..... they are the most terrified group of idiots I know.

Oh, exactly.  CC27, right off the bat.  The projection just jumps off the monitor. Every single thing they have gone for with O-blame-O has slipped down the slippery slope that, WE TOLD THEM EXACTLY what would happen.  That's not paranoia, (D)oUchebags, that's common sense, understanding human behavior, knowing the game plan of the Left and being able to do Math!!!

Here, you infants:



Practice up.