Liberal Media Push for More Gun Control, Smear Gun Owners As Villains, 'Nazis'
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WatchdogThe t h e m r c ’ s m o n t h l y m e m b e r s ’ r e p o r t CREATING A MEDIA CULTURE IN AMERICA WHERE TRUTH AND LIBERTY FLOURISH Vol. 20 • Issue 2 • February 2013 Liberal Media Push For More Gun Control, Smear Gun Owners as Villains, ‘Nazis’ MRC Headquarters • Alexandria, Va The liberal media are exploiting using all of our MRC divisions, as well as the horrible mass murder at the Sandy through our e-newsletters, our grassroots Hook Elementary School to push for MRC Action network, on Facebook and radical restrictions on gun ownership Twitter, and through national media by law-abiding citizens. They are in appearances by our experts on talk radio INSIDE lockstep with the left and the Obama and certain TV shows, such as Fox’s administration on this issue, and they are Hannity. smearing law-abiding The attacks by the PAGE 3 supporters of the 2nd leftist “news” are MRC Message Amendment as villains, unrelenting. Let’s look ‘Reach’ Hits even likening them to at some examples. 168 Million — Nazis. CBS’s Bob Schieffer Every Week It’s straight out of actually compared the far left’s playbook: opponents of more PAGES 4-5 twist the facts and use gun control laws to The 25th Annual character assassination the Nazis. Opining Awards for the Year’s against your opponents. after the president’s Worst Reporting and These are the same CBS’s Bob Scheiffer equates Jan. 16 speech on gun Quote of the Year big government battles against liberal media who almost regulations, Schieffer, in law-abiding 2nd Amendment never report on heroic a live CBS News Special PAGE 6 supporters to the U.S. defeating Americans using guns to the Nazis in WWII. Report, lectured, Brent Bozell’s protect themselves from “[W]hat happened in Nationally Syndicated criminals. These are the Newtown was probably Column: same “news” outlets that The Media’s Favorite the worst day in this Fake Republicans never called for banning country’s history since airplanes after 9/11, or 9/11. We found Osama aluminum pipes after the PAGE 7 bin Laden. We tracked Unabomber, or fertilizer him down. We changed MRC in the News after Timothy McVeigh the way that we dealt blew up a federal build- with that problem. PAGE 8 ing in Oklahoma City. Surely, finding Osama Join the MRC’s These are the same lefty journalists bin Laden; surely, passing civil rights “Patriots Fund” who say nothing about the extremely legislation, as Lyndon Johnson was able and Help Fight violent culture promoted by Hollywood, to do; and before that, surely, defeating the Liberal Media certain video games, and the so-called the Nazis, was a much more formidable media research center AMERICA’S MEDIA WATCHDOG entertainment industry. task than taking on the gun lobby.” They are silent on those obvious In other words, defeating law- www.MRC.org points because their target is law-abiding abiding Americans who support the 2nd gun owners and the 2nd Amendment. Amendment shouldn’t be harder than We’ve documented, exposed, and defeating the Nazis or opponents of civil media research center AMERICA’S MEDIA WATCHDOG neutralized that blatant left-wing bias Continued on page 2 The 2 Watchdog FEBRUARY 2013 Continued from page 1 rights in the 1960s South. Nazis and racists, got it? Also, by “gun lobby,” Schieffer means “gun owners.” But he won’t use those words because it’s politically more effective to frame his enemy as a “lobby.” Echoing Schieffer’s civil rights and racism angle was MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. On the Jan. 17 Hardball, Matthews equated supporters of gun rights in Congress with the racist Dixiecrats. “Well, to win in today’s Republican Party, which began displacing the Dixiecrats a half century ago, you have to be the farthest out there backing guns,” thumped Matthews. “Show moderation, you get your NRA badge ripped off you. Agree to any rule on gun safety and A CNSNews.com report on Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) you’re marked as a traitor for life.” smearing the NRA as racist was picked up by Fox’s Hannity on two shows, reaching a total audience of more than 7 million. Matthews’ MSNBC cohort Martin Bashir slammed gun owners concerned over oppressive government, railing that “if anyone deserves to be equated with Hitler on the deer with two shots, you … shouldn’t be out there the issue of firearms, then it’s not the president. It’s the shooting.” NRA.” The “news” coverage about Sandy Hook and guns Over at CNN, five days after the Dec. 14 shooting has been 100% myopic: ban certain guns completely and at Sandy Hook, host Piers Morgan (a British citizen) make it nearly impossible to buy guns in general. Give pretended to interview Gun Owners of America President the government more control over people’s lives and Larry Pratt. As Pratt explained how freedom. most gun owners in America are Bear in mind, all this “news” law-abiding and responsible with and lawmaking has occurred before their firearms, and that criminals the police report on Sandy Hook fear armed citizens, Morgan ranted, and the toxicology report on the “You are talking complete and utter killer have been completed (they nonsense. … You’re an unbelievably were still not complete as this let- stupid man, aren’t you? … It’s down ter went to press). to idiots like you, Mr. Pratt. … You are The liberal media, however, a dangerous man.” don’t care about that. Their target In another rant on Jan. 9, Morgan is not the murderer responsible mis-reported that semi-automatic CNN’s Piers Morgan attacks Gun Owners for the crime but law-abiding firearms are “machine guns” — of America President Larry Pratt as an gun owners. Make no mistake, fully automatic machine guns have “unbelievably stupid man,” an idiot, and liberals can’t stand an armed been illegal since the 1930s — and “a dangerous man.” citizenry because the gun is a tool declared that a “humane society” of freedom. It means, to some would remove such “guns from the streets of America degree, that people can take care of themselves. They and from civilian hands.” don’t need a federal nanny. CNN re-aired that tirade throughout the day on We continue to expose the left-wing coverage of this different programs. These are the same liberal media topic round-the-clock, neutralizing the liberal media’s who are constantly lecturing conservatives to be civil and advocacy. Your support is vital in this battle, and I ask polite when arguing issues. that you make a donation to the MRC today. CNN was relentless. On Jan. 15, throughout the day, What happened at Sandy Hook was a horrific crime: it interviewed 13 liberal gun-control activists and only 2 26 people died, including 20 children. That same day, pro-2nd Amendment supporters. like every day in America, 3,000 children were slaugh- Also, on the Jan. 18 Anderson Cooper 360, CNN’s tered by abortion, and the liberal media said … nothing. Cooper interviewed only one guest: liberal anti-gun Sincerely, advocate Mayor Michael Bloomberg (who himself is provided with armed security 24/7.) CBS’ This Morning had done the same on Jan. 17, L. Brent Bozell III giving a platform solely to Bloomberg to smear the NRA as “stupid” and to lecture hunters, “If you can’t shoot Founder and President FEBRUARY 2013 3 MRC Message ‘Reach’ Hits 168 MILLION — EVERY WEEK he Media Research Center is of MRC content reaching millions of of breaking the mainstream media’s TAmerica’s media watchdog, Americans everyday. monopoly. Congratulations to Brent hands down. Nobody does what it Commenting on the success of Bozell and the Media Research Cen- does as well as it does, and this is the MRC, conservative talk-radio ter on their 25th anniversary of vigi- abundantly obvious in looking at how titan Rush Limbaugh — whose daily lance and excellence in shining the many times the MRC message about audience is 12 million — said in light of truth on the liberal media.” liberal media bias is viewed or heard September, “Liberals hate or “networked” each week. Brent Bozell. And in this That “reach” is a startling 168.8 business, that’s a badge of million. honor. Liberals hate Brent That’s what the numbers for Bozell because he’s been 2012 show. This means that, on effective. He documents average, there are 168.8 million their excess, their idiocy “impressions” of the MRC every and their bias. week made by people and media and “The Media Research social networks. The “impressions” Center is relentless in include how many times people visit documenting virtually every the MRC website and the sites of characteristic and example its various divisions: NewsBusters, of media unfairness, agenda CNSNews.com, MRCTV, BMI, CMI, movement, false narratives TimesWatch and MRC Action. — whatever it is the left is The “impressions” also include doing — Bozell and his team the reach of the TV, radio, and print document it. appearances (and mentions) of MRC “Let’s face it, we have experts, as well as the reach of the some cowards in the conserva- e-newsletters, grassroots action, tive media inside the Beltway. and social networking of the MRC Brent Bozell is not one of message on Facebook and Twitter. them. He’s fearless. And along In 2012, some of the most far- with all of us in talk radio, he reaching MRC work included the has been on the cutting edge “Tell The Truth!” campaign about left-wing news coverage of the presidential race; the grossly biased attacks on Chick-fil-a because of its owner’s support for traditional marriage; a NewsBusters post about actor Jamie Foxx calling President Obama “Our Lord and Savior’; and a CNSNews.com story about the DNC chair- woman describing the GOP as “whiter and more male.” There are literally thousands of examples The 4 Watchdog FEBRUARY 2013 The 25th Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting The liberal media smugly pushed their leftist agenda in election year 2012.