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The New York Times has been called out for pushing blatant lies about requirements for attendees at the NRA convention in Nashville, Tennessee. The bogus report said that the NRA required all guns brought to the convention to be non-operational. The Times didn’t mention that the requirement was only for guns displayed on the convention floor, and that properly permitted citizens can carry firearms in the Music City Center, but not in Bridgestone Arena. In other words, all requirements are based on local laws.
On the Rachel Maddow blog at MSNBC.com, the same lies were repeated (the anti-gun crowd has said it’s “ironic” that the NRA wants operational guns in schools but not at their own convention). The post (not written by Maddow) was then followed by three “updates” which basically said “nothing you’ve read above is true.”
I suppose MSNBC has provided the model. First you sell a massive lie, then you add a bunch of updates at the bottom. http://t.co/2BVnr7LcGS
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 10, 2015
These MSNBC corrections are glorious. Next, it’ll be the @nytimes’s turn, right @Sulliview. http://t.co/2BVnr7LcGS pic.twitter.com/BFSxTGsshX
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 10, 2015
HA HA HA HA HA HA #update HA HA HA HA HA #2ndupdate HA HA HA HA HA HA HA #3rdupdate HA HA HA HA http://t.co/SDW7Xrm1f1 @maddow @stevebenen
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) April 10, 2015
So far Rachael Maddow only had to correct NRA Gun Ban story 3 times – but she's on the case!http://t.co/5IVwwRo3d0@drawandstrike
— Brad Slager: It's Lt-Col-VP-Rev-Kaiser, SIR ? ? (@MartiniShark) April 10, 2015
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MSNBC journalism -where corrections are longer than original piece http://t.co/9kFeFX7Nxe @edmorrissey @adambaldwin @marksteynonline
— Phelim (@PhelimMcAleer) April 10, 2015
Instead of saying their report was bogus, the Maddow Blog claimed their initial story was “incomplete.” Those three updates have now been combined into one big “correction/update.”
Those calling the NRA leadership hypocrites for obeying local laws are missing the point, as usual.
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