thedailybeast.com - 5/1/2009
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Gun Shows Jeff Haynes, AFP / Getty images Not everyone is celebrating Obama's 100 days. Max Blumenthal takes his cameras into America's gun shows, where paranoia, conspiracy theories-and Nazi flags-abound. Watch his report. On April 18 and 19, I attended gun shows in Antioch, California, and ...
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Gun-toting hatemongers: They're ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack
Orcinus —
... of what will happen when the real ugliness starts to break out. The Ugly Storm has been gathering for awhile. We've been reporting regularly on the increasing activities of far-right extremists, particularly the anti-Obama racism rampant throughout much of this contingent. Of course, it doesn't help when mainstream conservative media are fanning those flames, either. And it seems like it's getting close to an outright explosion. My friend Max Blumenthal went to a gun show in California and emerged with the above video and the following ...
Daily Beast Lies Again
Confederate Yankee —
Daily Beast Lies Again More outright fabrication from The Daily Beast (my bold, of course): At the gun show in Reno, I witnessed the sale of rocket-propelled-grenade launchers and bazooka guns ; I watched a California-based dealer demonstrate how rapidly he could field strip his .308-caliber sniper rifle, then stash it in a deliberately innocuous-looking backpack and a briefcase that "looks just like a camera case." Mr. Blumenthal, I'll make you a deal. Produce a functional gun show-purchased RPG-7 launcher and grenades or a functional "bazooka gun" (whatever that is), and ...
“I know you’re into this transparency thing, but I don’t need to see your nipples!”
Comments from Left Field —
... , I’m now firmly convinced that Obama should totally dump Joe Biden at the local Amtrak station and bring aboard Wanda Sykes as running mate for his 2012 reelection bid–if only to FURTHER encourage brisk firearms sales in Real America (and stimulate teh Heartland’s moribund economy without direct government intervention!) ...
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