{"id":9794,"date":"2012-12-22T09:53:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T17:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9794"},"modified":"2012-12-22T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T18:28:57","slug":"murdochs-new-york-post-nras-lapierre-a-gun-nut-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9794","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch&#8217;s New York Post: NRA&#8217;s LaPierre a &#8216;GUN NUT!&#8217;, &#8216;Loon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we noted yesterday, the press conference held by the NRA&#8217;s Con-Man-In-Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9793\">did not go well<\/a>.  But, of course, as we&#8217;ve been told by many an NRA-stooge commenter long taken in by the NRA racket, we&#8217;re just &#8220;anti-gun nuts&#8221;, right?<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s not entirely surprising to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/22\/opinion\/the-nra-crawls-from-its-hidey-hole.html\"><i>New York Times<\/i> editorial board deride<\/a> LaPierre&#8217;s proposal yesterday, writing unambiguously that they &#8220;we were stunned by Mr. LaPierre&#8217;s mendacious, delusional, almost deranged rant,&#8221; how about those &#8220;anti-gun nuts&#8221; over at <i>Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s<\/i> <i>New York Post<\/i> today?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/NYPost_NRALaPierre_GunNut_122212.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And, just for good measure, here&#8217;s the review from the not-nearly-as-Rightwing <i>New York Daily News<\/i>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/NYDailyNews_NRALaPierre_CraziestMan_122212.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, uh, apparently it&#8217;s not <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9793\">just us<\/a>. (For a pleasant change.)<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, while we have been describing the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9426\">NRA as a &#8220;racket&#8221;<\/a> for some time, even George W. Bush&#8217;s former White House ethics attorney (yes, they had one!) is calling them the very same thing now, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/20\/opinion\/the-nra-protection-racket.html?_r=1&#038;\">in the <i>New York Times<\/i><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we noted yesterday, the press conference held by the NRA&#8217;s Con-Man-In-Chief did not go well. But, of course, as we&#8217;ve been told by many an NRA-stooge commenter long taken in by the NRA racket, we&#8217;re just &#8220;anti-gun nuts&#8221;, right? While it&#8217;s not entirely surprising to see the New York Times editorial board deride LaPierre&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,118,111,255,148,489,551],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-connecticut","category-new-york","category-new-york-post","category-new-york-times","category-news-corp","category-nra"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}