Media Matters head doesn't believe in guns for you, only his bodyguards

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Ah, the hypocrisy never ends!




http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...edia-matters-boss-as-took-400000-gun-control/




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Brock and the Glock: Armed men guarded Media Matters boss as he took $400,000 gun control donation

By Perry Chiaramonte

Published February 16, 2012

| FoxNews.com


The recent revelation that the head of Media Matters walked the streets of Washington with a Glock-toting personal assistant acting as a bodyguard may make it a little awkward for the group the next time it seeks a donation from a gun control advocacy group.

Media Matters reportedly took more than $400,000 from the Joyce Foundation specifically earmarked to promote a $600,000 initiative on "gun and public safety issues." At the same time, Media Matters' gun-guarded boss David Brock reportedly obsessed over his own security.

"But it is a gray area in terms of public relations. Since (Media Matters) is so anti-NRA, to have their members packing heat leaves them open to criticism," he said.
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I may be mistaken, but I heard something on the news the other day about his assistant not just carrying, but ILLEGALLY concealing the pistol.
 
How does "bodyguard" carry work in D.C.? Is there some special permit "bodyguards" have access to that no one else does? I would imagine that for a company that does protection work, they'd have to have their employees get carry permits, but how does that work for areas that don't allow carry?
 
His bodyguard was only carrying because there are so many criminals armed with illegal weapons. That is why we need to ban all guns, dontcha know? So his bodyguard won't need a gun and be forced to break the law. :rolleyes:
 
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How does "bodyguard" carry work in D.C.? Is there some special permit "bodyguards" have access to that no one else does? I would imagine that for a company that does protection work, they'd have to have their employees get carry permits, but how does that work for areas that don't allow carry?
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The laws for carrying as a function of your job at a corporation are usually different than carrying as a private citizen.

As to hypocrisy of this sort, I've been desensitized at this point by people who decry the very government programs that they depend on to survive.

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So, when he went to pick up his gun ban money, he had to have one of his gun ban buddies bring a gun, because his gun ban wasn't working? :uhoh:
 
Does anybody know how many armed bodyguards Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has watching over him and his family, or Rahm Emanuel in Chicago, or the mayor of Washington DC? Somebody in the media needs to find out and write an expose on these hypocrites!
 
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Hey! Those armed guards are performing an important and legitimate function--protecting a very important person. Self defense is not a legitimate function because the average citizen is not an important person to them (except when voting and people who want to carry guns aren't going to vote for them anyway)
 
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Hey! Those armed guards are performing an important and legitimate function--protecting a very important person. Self defense is not a legitimate function because the average citizen is not an important person to them (except when voting and people who want to carry guns aren't going to vote for them anyway)
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What is wrong with protecting elected officials in a democracy? Democracy falls apart if one person can override the ability of the people to decide who represents them.

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^ David Brock is not an elected official, but he is a very self-important person. He is a partisan character assassin (formerly "right-wing" now "left-wing") running a cabal of character assassins. In his own mind he is so important he's being stalked by snipers and assassins. But not so dangerous snipers or assassins that he dismissed his armed bodyguard out fear of offending his patron George Soros.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/i...on-with-white-house-and-news-organizations/1/
Tucker Carlson, Vince Coglianese, et al., "Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations", The Daily Caller, 15 Feb 2012.
 
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^ David Brock is not an elected official, but he is a very self-important person.
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Which is altogether irrelevant to the absurd hyperbole that I was replying to, in which the protection of politicians was implied to not be important to democracy.

Private citizens should not be able to purchase means of protection which are artificially restricted from other private citizens.

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absurd hyperbole that I was replying to, in which the protection of politicians was implied to not be important to democracy.
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In a true democracy, politicians are a detriment. O course, we do not live in a true democracy, but some politicians are still a detriment.

Should office holders be protected? Yes, but not to the detriment of the legitimate rights of the average citizen.
 
Sorry folks, but 93% of my kidz teachers at the private school they attended for (a combined 23 years) were much more important than any politician this side of the POTUS....
 
I love it when they become a walking load of steaming hypocrisy. They prove our point about guns being necessary for common defense for us.
 
Hah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
 
What is wrong with protecting elected officials in a democracy? Democracy falls apart if one person can override the ability of the people to decide who represents them.
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Oh, please. Allow me.

Are we no less important to the people dependent on us...albeit on a smaller scale...than those elected officials are to their constituents? How many families have become destitute after the death of the father or mother? I know of several personally. Homes lost. Lives permanently disrupted.

Indeed, sir. I would say that if anything, we're more important. If an elected official is assassinated, another one will step forward to take his place within days. If the father or mother to 3 or 4 children is murdered during a robbery, a replacement isn't nearly as easy to arrange...if ever.

When these elected officials start to line up with the notion that the rest of us have an unrestricted right to the same level of protection that their office affords them...then we'll stop crying "hypocrite" whenever something like this comes up.
 
Every time I hear something like this it brings to mind my Grandmothers favorite saying "A dodging dog needs a lick". By extension then - I guess these creatures have done things to make them think that they ought to be shot?
 
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