{"id":28325,"date":"2017-06-30T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28325"},"modified":"2017-06-30T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T20:11:50","slug":"nra-ad-goes-overboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/nra-ad-goes-overboard\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA Ad Goes Overboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lest Republicans accuse me of being anti-gun, let me start by setting the record straight.&#160; Although I own no guns now, I have for most of my life.&#160; In my youth I hunted for food.&#160; I was even a member of the NRA, and I earned my Sharpshooter ranking with nine bars.&#160; This was back when the NRA was a fine public service organization dedicated to gun safety, education and training, and if they were to return to what they were then, I would happily support them again.&#160; I oppose them now because they have become a lobbyist for gun manufacturers and a spokesman for GOP Ammosexuals, political violence, and racial hatred.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0630NRA\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0630NRA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0630NRA.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the ad below and ask whether the National Rifle Association can go any lower. Ponder this flagrant call for violence, this insidious advocacy of hate delivered with a sneer, this threat of civil war, this despicable use of propaganda to arouse rebellion against the rule of law and the ideals of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface this is a recruitment video for the National Rifle Association. But what you are really about to see is a call for white supremacy and armed insurrection, each word and image deliberately chosen to stir the feral instincts of troubled souls who lash out in anger and fear:<\/p>\n<p>Disgusting. Dishonorable. Dangerous. But also deliberate. Everything deplored by the NRA in the ad is committed by \u201cthey\u201d \u2014 a classic manipulation turning anyone who disagrees with your point of view into \u201cThe Other\u201d \u2014 something alien, evil, foreign&#8230;&#160; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/right-wing\/new-low-nra\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PrnIVVWtAag?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Need I say More?<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest Republicans accuse me of being anti-gun, let me start by setting the record straight.&#160; Although I own no guns now, I have for most of my life.&#160; In my youth I hunted for food.&#160; I was even a member of the NRA, and I earned my Sharpshooter ranking with nine bars.&#160; This was back <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/nra-ad-goes-overboard\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}