Virginia Tech Shooting
Wash Times: An Anti-Gun Column Filled With Lies
May 14th, 2007 3:28 AM
What is it about anti-gunners that they just have to lie in their advocacy against guns? Do they lie because they know the facts makes them look so bad? This time it's the Washington Times' turn to publish an anti 2nd Amendment piece based on several lies. This one, penned by an Alex Gerber, worries that gun control will "apparently be glossed over again" and claims that the evil "American gun…
In 'Newsweek,' Eleanor Clift Applied Recycled Gun Ban Myths to Virgini
May 1st, 2007 4:17 PM
Newsweek’s April 30 article by Eleanor Clift recycled old gun-control mythology and misleading statements with a renewed call for something to be done in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting. The article mixed the usual anti-gun talking points with some subtle pining for the good ol’ days of President Clinton’s Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) that supposedly made the streets safer by taking…
ABC's Donaldson: Gun Owners Will Just ‘Shoot the Paperboy
April 25th, 2007 5:55 PM
During a roundtable conversation on the April 22 edition of "This Week," veteran ABC journalists Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson echoed boilerplate liberal positions on two separate issues. Discussing the recent Supreme Court decision upholding a congressional ban on partial-birth-abortion, Roberts said she found it "offensive as a woman." But first, George Will spoke about the Virginia Tech…
Bozell Column: Debating The Shooter's Publicity Kit
April 25th, 2007 2:56 PM
-- So, you think NBC shouldn’t have aired that Cho Seung-Hui video, do you?-- NBC has a new definition for its initials: the Narcissism Broadcasting Company. How fitting it is that their logo is a peacock. It’s bad enough that this monster gunned down 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech. But in between murder sprees this vicious, calculating killer calmly went to the post office and sent an…
Politico's Simon to John Edwards: Less Jesus, More Gun Control
April 23rd, 2007 5:55 PM
Update at bottom of post: other bloggers reactions.In a column this afternoon, Politico's Roger Simon took a swipe at Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) for giving a public prayer for the victims of the Virginia Tech gunman "in Christ's name.":Does John Edwards include Jews in his prayers? Or Muslims? Or Hindus? Or any other non-Christians?He didn’t the other…