NRA Responds to Parkland by Sending Incendiary Spokesperson Dana Loesch to Town Hall on Guns
Loesch Mocks Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Homophobia in NRA Ad
Incendiary pundit and national NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch will represent the gun advocacy organization at a CNN town hall Wednesday night featuring student survivors of the Parkland, Florida school mass shooting. Loesch has been condemned for NRA video ads she appears in, including one which some accused her of advocating violence.
CNN is calling its town hall, “Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action.” In addition to Loesch, Senator Marco Rubio, who has accepted donations from the NRA, will also attend.Â
Last August Loesch recorded a video for the NRA that some saw as an open call to violence. In the controversial video, Loesch sets up the media, Hollywood, educators, and former President Obama as intentionally inciting opposition to President Donald Trump.
“They use their media to assassinate real news. They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler. They use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again. And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance.”
“All to make them march, make them protest, make them scream racism and sexism and xenophobia and homophobia.â€Â
“To smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law-abiding until the only option left is for the police to do their jobs and stop the madness,†Loesch warned.
“And when that happens, they’ll use it as an excuse for their outrage.â€
“The only way we stop this, the only we save our country and our freedom, is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth. I’m the National Rifle Association of America, and I’m freedom’s safest place,†Loesch concludes.
The only way we save our country & our freedom is to fight the left’s violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth. via @DLoesch #NRA pic.twitter.com/n7IByT7tqO
— NRATV (@NRATV) April 13, 2017
The New York Times quoted “DeRay Mckesson, a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement,” who “tweeted that the ad was ‘an open call to violence to protect white supremacy.'”
“If I made a video like this, I’d be in jail,†Mckesson said.
CNN’s town hall begins at 9 PM ET Wednesday. Among the students expected to attend are Emma Gonzalez, Kevin Trejos, Ryan Deitsch, Alfonso Calderon, Chris Grady.
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