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Topic: Tom Brokaw Compares Silence On Gun Violence To Not Speaking Out Against Segregation In 1960s |
Tom Brokaw Compares Silence On Gun Violence To Not Speaking Out Against Segregation In 1960s
Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/17/2013 11:42:08 AM
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| Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, NBC’s veteran newsman Tom Brokaw called for a “holistic” approach to addressing gun violence, and said that remaining silent on the issue is akin to not speaking out during racial segregation in pre-civil rights America. (Snip)“It reminds me a lot of what happened in the South in the 1960s during the civil rights movement,” Brokaw explained. “Good people stayed in their houses and didn’t speak up when there was carnage in the streets and the total violation of a fundamental rights of African-Americans as they marched in Selma, and they let
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
RightShoe, 1/17/2013 11:52:59 AM (No. 9122138)
We are not silent on gun violence! We have never been silent on gun violence! It it because of gun violence that residents of the city of Chicago sued the city over their right to possess guns.
Brokaw is a liar.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/17/2013 11:53:39 AM (No. 9122139)
The silence is deafening with regard to the five hundred black youngsters murdered in Chicago.
What say you, Brokaw???
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
STLstudent, 1/17/2013 11:55:47 AM (No. 9122146)
Is it not time to put the question before the liberals in the federal government? That question is, "How many Americans are you willing to kill in order to implement your vision of gun control?"
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
aasilver, 1/17/2013 11:59:43 AM (No. 9122164)
Mediate (Soros) is not a legitimate news source.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fljack, 1/17/2013 12:00:34 PM (No. 9122168)
He is as relevant and Dan "what´s the frequency, kenneth" Rather.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 1/17/2013 12:21:05 PM (No. 9122220)
Of all the state run media two-faced phony propagandists, democrat operatives, I find brokaw the most insufferable of them all. brokaw is a liar. He´s an elitist hypocrite.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45, 1/17/2013 12:26:37 PM (No. 9122231)
Another aged, over-the-hill Marxist twit weighs in.
Nothing to see here, folks....move on.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99, 1/17/2013 12:43:11 PM (No. 9122269)
Um, Tommy, who was it exactly that stood in the way of the civil rights act? Who was it exactly that was firehosing people in the street? Who was it exactly that was setting fire to black churches? Admit that it was democrats and clean up your own house first. Start with the welfare dependency you created which is causing all of the inner city black deaths and then maybe we´ll listen to what you have to say. Or not.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Doctor P, 1/17/2013 1:15:44 PM (No. 9122334)
He might want to see where Condi Rice speaks about her dad sitting on the porch with a shotgun to prevent the racists from attacking.
Or learn about why the 14th Amendment was passed to ensure that freedmen had access to weapons.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
uno, 1/17/2013 1:15:59 PM (No. 9122335)
Someone needs to ask Tom Blowchow who exactly has prevented him from doing stories on the gun violence that´s happened every day in Chicago and New York and Detroit and Philidelphia and LA and etc, etc. for the last few decades!!! The silence is on the part of Party hacks and knee-pad urinalists like Blowchow who won´t tell you that the problem in in democrat strongholds. Urinalists like Blowchow who will gladly pee on yer head and tell you it´s just raining.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/17/2013 1:29:23 PM (No. 9122362)
So Tom tell us about the mass murder obama is responsible and wanted! in Mexico with those thousands of weapons he had sold to the drug cartels.
Tom: " crickets "
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mr. Know-It-All, 1/17/2013 1:32:44 PM (No. 9122371)
Who´s being silent?
"I am 100% against gun violence!"
There I said it. Or in this case, typed it.
What he really is trying to do is equate those who don´t agree with his liberal point of view (e.g., further errosion of the 2nd amendment) with racists and klan members.
Take a hike, brokejaw.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 1/17/2013 1:35:39 PM (No. 9122380)
A smooth, practiced and very experienced liar...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
GringoinQuito, 1/17/2013 1:36:43 PM (No. 9122384)
Speak to the masses in Chicago, Detroit, DC, Camden, Philadelphia, Oakland. Tell them to raise young human beings instead of animals!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
kono, 1/17/2013 1:38:51 PM (No. 9122386)
Brokaw´s been part of a decades-long practice among the MSM to report every incident of gun violence they can scrape up, no matter how vague the details are, no matter how far away it might have occurred. (And to ignore every incident where someone lawfully exercising his/her Second Amendment rights prevented a violent crime from taking place.)
They never seem to note that a foreigner who commits a violent act here is an illegal immigrant, and they never seem to note that gun violence involved illegal guns. So gun ownership, itself, is at the root of all violence, all gun owners are threats to law-abiding citizens, and there is no moral distinction between legal or illegal...
Brokaw´s been a leader in this Leftwing propaganda machine for years. No surprise to find this latest excremental reflection by him.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/17/2013 2:03:47 PM (No. 9122433)
Tommie boy, please quote to us WHO passed Civil Rights? Hint, it was NOT the Democraps!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
reilly, 1/17/2013 2:08:22 PM (No. 9122447)
Media news turns people´s brains to mush. Why doesn´t he read John Lott? Why?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NYbob, 1/17/2013 2:19:03 PM (No. 9122472)
Tell it to Suzanna Gratia Hupp you oily creep.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mws50, 1/17/2013 2:48:41 PM (No. 9122549)
Thanks Tom Brokaw, for providing more proof that journalism has devolved into the dumbest profession on our planet. Comparing attempted violations of our US Constitution rights to the civil rights movement is dumber than dirt.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Marzon, 1/17/2013 4:29:02 PM (No. 9122714)
This is pure propaganda and BS. Alot of the earliest gun control laws were expressly designed to keep blacks from ownin guns to fight back against the KKK. And if I was a black man confronted by a gang of sheet heads intent on my lynching I sure as heck would want more than a 10 round magazine!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bpl40, 1/17/2013 4:32:36 PM (No. 9122717)
As long as "We are winning"!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Calico Al, 1/17/2013 4:59:29 PM (No. 9122773)
FTA:Good people stayed in their houses and didn’t speak up when there was carnage in the streets and the total violation of a fundamental rights-------It seems tom is making the case for The oppressed to have guns.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/17/2013 9:10:28 PM (No. 9123248)
"and said that remaining silent on the issue is akin to not speaking out during racial segregation in pre-civil rights America"
Don´t know where you were back then Tom, but nobody was silent. Intergregation said my six year old had to get on a bus, travel from a surburban area across town to a ghetto to keep the gov happy. Needless to say, I had to pay for private school.
Trust me, Mrs King laughs all the way to the bank about her cheating husband becoming a martyr.
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