As Twitchy founder Michelle Malkin wrote in her syndicated column Friday, while New York Times editorial writer David Firestone purported to investigate campaign fear-mongering, it’s independent-thinking women who give him the chills. Malkin writes:
This week, Firestone took aim at “attack ads” sponsored by the National Rifle Association. The “worst commercial,” he says, “features a rape victim describing her assault and accusing” former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg “of wanting to take away her right to defend herself.”
That rape victim has a name and a story Firestone couldn’t even bother to mention. She is Kimberly Weeks, a brave and fierce Colorado woman who testified against the Bloomberg-backed gun-control measures that beleaguered Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper now admits he passed “without basic facts” and concedes were ineffective from the get-go.
.@fstonenyt before you write such overwhelmingly dickish things about @notkimco and her story you should come to CO to meet her. #copolitics
— Kelly Maher (@okmaher) October 30, 2014
@DLoesch @fstonenyt It's fine, not like I'm a REAL person retelling my REAL story or anything… #crickets
— Kimberly Corban (@Kimberly_Corban) October 30, 2014
Why is @fstonenyt trying to shame @notkimco for being an advocate for self defense?
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 30, 2014
.@notkimco 2 maintain their anti #2A narrative, they have to shame victim. Only way they can discredit your testimony. @DLoesch @fstonenyt
— Not Hugh Hewitt (@CHOWSTL) October 30, 2014
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/527927969088802816
While Firestone and the New York Times couldn’t be bothered to acknowledge Weeks by name, she is certainly capable of telling her own story, which she bravely shares in a guest op-ed today at Revealing Politics. She also takes on Firestone’s editorial dead on.
In case the NYT is interested in my REAL story: http://t.co/4NWAC2F78C @michellemalkin @DLoesch @okmaher @theblaze @NRA @lauracarno
— Kimberly Corban (@Kimberly_Corban) October 31, 2014
Very recently, I’ve been accused of fear mongering and waging a war on women in an election season where ads about a fabricated birth control apocalypse and condom shortages are main stream. But my real-life experience is not a gimmick or a strategy, it is just a truth. I could easily be your daughter, your sister, your wife, or your mother. This makes many people uneasy; to have to imagine their loved ones in my shoes. I’m not asking you to go out and buy a gun if that’s not your choice; I know it wasn’t always mine. All I ask is that you not infringe upon my rights to do so.
@notkimco @DLoesch I'm so sorry that happened to you..
— Ryan (@Ghost0fSparta85) October 31, 2014
https://twitter.com/scojo4925/status/528292055135440896
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