I Could Not Raise Money this Way

Sorry, but this just isn't very good -- from the phony forced announcer voice to the breathless narrative, to no compelling story, to stock photos and a script overlay instead of interesting visuals ...  [Watch]

If gun groups are going to compete in this realm, they need to understand that the Bloomberg machine employs the finest professional illusionists money can buy. That shows in the production value quality of the work and the elegant simplicity of the propaganda they're planting in viewer's minds. Forget they're spinning fantasies and lies -- what successful commercials don't?

This screams "on the cheap" because it's obviously targeted solely at a relied-upon segment of gun owners under the same philosophy as hysterical list "fax blast" emails and the like -- while most will ignore it, enough will respond with a donation to make the effort pay off.

The other thing that irritated me enough to comment was this bit of breathless and offensive hyperbole:

If Obama follows through with his executive fiat now, it will lead to the loss of our Second Amendment rights by the time he leaves office. 

That is just crap.  No it will not either. Stop talking to gun owners like they're a bunch of goddamn cowardly idiots who will give up as readily as you apparently will.

Stop distracting them from their birthright and the level of commitment it will take to keep it.