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Fox News has offered arguments both for and against this legislation.
But not so CNN or MSNBC.
And the politicians aren't reluctant to acknowledge where their support is coming from: Players in the industry whose job is to question government and keep them in line.
Pro-Gun Control Senator to CNN Anchor: 'We Appreciate Your Support'
by John Nolte
11 Apr 2013, 6:26 AM PDT
None of this is should come as a surprise. Tuesday, CNN came out of the closet with an open declaration that "The Most Trusted Name In News" would use two full days of programming as a propaganda push for legislation tightening background checks. Wednesday morning on "Starting Point," anchors John Berman and Christine Roman hosted Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), one of the two senators responsible for the compromise legislation on background checks.
The segment was disgraceful.
Neither anchor challenged the Senator about a single concern Second Amendment activists have with the legislation. Instead we saw clips of Newtown families (on Piers Morgan, naturally) pleading for gun control and Roman using the old "some say" ploy to claim the legislation wasn't tough enough. The only mention of the NRA was their opposition to the bill.
Berman: Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, you've been working around the clock for a compromise deal. I think you have a very busy few weeks ahead of you still.
Manchin: We appreciate your support, too, this is very, very important.
Or maybe Manchin was thanking the CNN network as a whole?
By the way, Berman didn't even flinch after being thanked for taking a side.
Any time a gun control article is posted on yahoo, Bloomberg news (lol) or other media that allows user comments 95% of those comments blast gun control, so that says something.
Because CNN will continue to feed softballs to politicians they agree with; is that what being a journalist means?
have you actually watched CNN, the field softballs to everyone one. Liberals deplore CNN anchors all the time for asking easy questions to Republicans.
CNN is probably the only network that can call themselves fair and balanced and it be at least partially true.
As much as I'd like to see the Senate's legislation defeated in the House, I'm personally straining to see the passage of this agreement between Toomey and Manchin as a push off the edge of a slippery slope.
And even if this legislation does succeed in the House, here's one possible benefit: There may very well be enough people in this country who will believe, for the time being, that the "gun show loophole" has been effectively closed and that all private transactions will now be monitored scrutinously (LOLOLOLOLOLOL).
But maybe I'm being too apathetic here?
I don't know...when (not if) the AWB is re-packaged and pushed by Senate and House Democrats, I'll be worried. For now, though, I'm not feeling too threatened.
Any time a gun control article is posted on yahoo, Bloomberg news (lol) or other media that allows user comments 95% of those comments blast gun control, so that says something.
Y'know, since I do not plan to buy any guns, nor do I plan to sell any, the background check is a non-issue for me.
As I understand what it said in the paper this morning, the "private party back ground check" only applies to "for profit" sales, so if I sell a used gun for LESS than I paid for it, there is NO profit, and a background check is not necessary.
IF that is true, and knowing how often the news media is wrong, I'm not about to say it is or isn't, then the private party background check is TRULY a non-issue!
As has been repeatedly said, it appears to be a stupid feel-good law that has no basis in reality!
Y'know, since I do not plan to buy any guns, nor do I plan to sell any, the background check is a non-issue for me.
As I understand what it said in the paper this morning, the "private party back ground check" only applies to "for profit" sales, so if I sell a used gun for LESS than I paid for it, there is NO profit, and a background check is not necessary.
IF that is true, and knowing how often the news media is wrong, I'm not about to say it is or isn't, then the private party background check is TRULY a non-issue!
As has been repeatedly said, it appears to be a stupid feel-good law that has no basis in reality!
Can you name a single law enacted by Democrats that was not "a stupid feel-good law that has no basis in reality?" So what makes you think this would be any different?
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