Tough on Guns, Weak on Brains

Mark Benjamin of Salon.com thinks frivolous lawsuits should be employed against the gun industry.

Mark Benjamin of Salon.com wants BATFU to be able to harrass dealers out of existence.

And perhaps most importantly, Mark Benjamin of Salon.com wants the government to be able to declare people terrorists and deny them their right to keep and bear arms without due process.

In other words, Mark Benjamin of Salon.com is yet another in a long line of boringly unoriginal anti-gun Establishment propagandists.

Correspondent Brian Naylor shared his letter to Salon.com with WarOn Guns. Among his pithy observations:

"You go on to raise all the VPC/Brady cornerstone spectres - 'TEC-9 submachine guns' and 'street-sweepers.' You use the all-too-familiar VPC tactic of purposefully confusing fully-automatic M-16s with semi-automatics. You fail to mention that the armor-penetrating rounds for the recently fearsome FN 5.7 are not available to the public at all.

"You continue to pretend that there is a gun show 'loophole' when there is no such thing. You even weigh in on the VPC's latest manufactured boogeyman, the .50BMG, with their canonical list of imagined horrors. As far as I can tell, the only VPC bullet points you failed to hit were the use of the phrases, 'spray bullets' and 'blood in the streets.'

"Do they actually send out a list of talking points, or did you go to the trouble to cull them all yourself? I'm not sure which would be worse."

To view "Tough on terror, weak on guns," you'll need to get a "day pass" and watch an ad.

Desperate for a Cause

GoFundMe is currently collecting money for Dallas Salon owner Shelley Luther despite the fact money raised would be outside their own Terms of Service. [More]

The faithless elector strikes again!

#StayAtHome Suprun must be bored following his own advice and desperately looking for something to snitch and bitch about.

Something about "unless such activities are expressly authorized by the appropriate governmental authority" strikes me as exactly backwards of the way things should be.

[Via Henry Bowman]

Get Back on That Plantation!

Far Left Salon Mocks Disabled Black Woman With Gun In New NRA Ad [More]

But we're the racists.

And I'd reply to Shannon and ask her what kind of cover she provided her corporate masters for the black groundskeeper who a jury concluded they'd given cancer to, but suppressing her role takes priority over having that "national conversation on guns" the grabbers keep saying we're avoiding:

And if you want to argue about glyphosate, that's not the point. The left says they believe it-- I'm merely pointing out how they give selective passes to those pushing another part of their agenda, proving they are insincere opportunists who scream bloody murder when they can smear an enemy but sweep everything under the rug when one of their own gets caught.

[Via bondmen]

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word 'Debunked' Is

This economist debunked all the right-wing talking points about the Green New Deal [More]

Just because Salon says he did?  Because when you ask specifically "How are we going to pay for a Green New Deal?" and get back that asking who is going to pay for it is "a tertiary question," what I'm seeing are weasel words and mealy-mouthed double-talk.

So when the response to that is "That makes sense," forgive me if I start to smell a shill helping with the swindle.

[Via Steve T] 

Good Money after Bad

Salon Media Announces $5 Million Sale, ‘Bankruptcy and Liquidation’ Threatened If Deal Fails [More]

Gosh. That'd be too bad.

Captain's Log

• Speaking of insane*
• Just stick your head in this safety noose here...
• We could tell you but then we'd have to kill you
• No knock. Who's there?
• What's good for one should be good for all

* Read more about the Salon subversive (sorry for the redundancy) here.

Would That It Were So

Trump and the NRA have shared anti-immigrant ... sentiments [More]

When?  Where?

Timothy "Thank you sir, may I have another?" Johnson again... this time in Salon.

His sole "proof" is a link to his own Media Matters hit piece on Ted Nugent, and we all know how that guy lived up to his tough words -- or should know.

Do they realize they just gave Fairfax cover?  It's hard to tell if liars capable of such demonstrable ignorance are savvy enough to play the controlled opposition game...

Noted Constitutional Scholars

"Television legend" Ed Asner and Ed. Weinberger act like they know best on 2A through cherry-picking, misinterpreting context, misdirection and outright lies. [More]

They do have a partial point, inasmuch as the Militia is all but ignored, but then again, they're not really for that, either. Being useful idiots writing for the useful idiots at Salon, their function is to advance the Opposite Day "progressive" argument that true egalitarian power sharing can only come through ceding a monopoly of violence to the ruling class.

Speaking of the Feedback Loop of Crazy

In other words, Moore is exactly the kind of fringe candidate that caused the Republicans to fail to win the Senate back in 2010 and 2012 after running kooks like Todd "legitimate rape" Akin  and Sharron "Second Amendment remedies" Angle. [More]

The first was a case of media apparatchiks seizing on and defining him from a gaffe, like can't all say something in a way that can be misconstrued, and the second, well, let's just say I don't think her loss was attributable to that. Right, Lairds of Fairfax...?

Besides, it's not like Digby and Salon haven't said plenty of crazy premeditated sh!+ over the years.

Dusting Off the Old Lies Again

Gun Grabbers Still Think Pro-Gun Is Pro Racism [More]

What do you expect from Salon?

The old lie keeps being brought up to a new crop that doesn't know or care about the truth, and won't find out about it anyway due to the way the search giants like Google keep it buried. As the correspoindent who sent me the main link for this post explains:

I did a search for "Deacons of Defense".  None of the articles that came up on the first page mentioned the role of the NRA.  I had to amend my search by adding "and NRA" to get responses about that.

Bury the history and control the narrative.

[Via Michael G]

The Takeaway

Amanda Marcotte and the effete handwringers at Salon would rather see you dead than armed, particularly if you're a woman. And they'll make up all kinds of weird Opposite Day "progressive" sh** to "persuade" the weak-minded and the comfortably ignorant. [More]

Consider the source.

Say, I wonder how they'd have fared against these guys?

[Via Michael G]

Reburning Waco

The screenplay was written by Mark Boal ... [More]

What, the guy who has written for The Village Voice, Salon, Rolling Stone and Playboy?

[Via Steve T] 

Truth Bending

NRA TV says the Manchester bombing happened because of “gender bending” and gun control [More]

No, that's not what they said.

But that Salon would make one aspect of a wider argument (and a true one) appear to be the central premise should not surprise anyone.

And as for the "artist" my friend Laocoön calls Areola Grande, it figures "progressives" would approve of an overprivileged "celebrity" who asserts "I hate America" while licking and spitting on donuts intended for sale to the public in a shop owned by people working their asses off.

Who doesn't Areola hate?

The people who kill her fans, apparently.

Just ask her fellow pop diva, Katy.  You know, the one all for you being defenseless who employs a "hot" bodyguard.

[Via Matt F]

What Wedge?

In June, a fighter using the nickname Abu Isma'il al-Amriki praised the Orlando nightclub massacre in another video. [More]

All I can figure is, Abu must not read Salon.

'Apolitical' My Eye

Trauma surgeons speak out about gun violence [More]

What more honest broker could we hope for than Amanda Marcotte? What more objective forum than Salon?

And by stumping for more taxpayer-funded junk science to come up with scripted conclusions, isn't Dr. Shelby Resnick basically admitting she wouldn't sign one of these because she has no qualifications...?

A Candidate We Can All Support

Salon: Maxine Waters for President [More]

Please run her.

Please.

We're the Only Ones 'Til Death Do Us Part' Enough

A former Gladstone police sergeant accused in a 2011 murder-for-hire plot involving his wife visited one of his co-defendants at least once a week, always in uniform, and would let himself into her home unannounced, according to testimony Thursday. Several witnesses spoke of the relationship between Lynn Edward Benton and Susan Campbell during the former cop's murder trial in Clackamas County Circuit Court. Benton, Campbell and Campbell's son, Jason Jaynes, have all been charged separately in the death of Debbie Higbee Benton, who was found shot, beaten and strangled inside her Gladstone beauty salon on May 28, 2011. [More]

The important thing is, he made it home at the end of his shift.

I have another development from "Only Ones" Oregon coming up in just a bit.

'Where Society and Pedophiles Can Come Together'

No pun intended...? [More]

Gosh, and before this, my opinion of Salon was so high...

Just So You Know Who the Enemy Is

You are.

White guys are killing us: Toxic, cowardly masculinity, our unhealable national illness [More]

Just ask Chauncey DeVega.

Just ask Salon.

And yes, they do in fact want you dead.

But don't worry-- every one of them is too big a pussy to do anything about it but bitch among themselves. Hence the Opposite Day "progressive" projection of cowardice, and the resentment of masculinity.

[Via Pat H]

‘Former’ Drug Dealer Wants ‘Gutless … Coward’ Gun Owners Shot

Presumably he only thinks white gun owners should be shot, because while he didn’t come right out and say so, were his “standard” to be applied as a condition of gun ownership for blacks, particularly if the cop doing the shooting were white, something tells me he wouldn’t approve. [More]

Who wants to be this moron's huckleberry? Mind if he brings some friends from the Salon editorial staff along to help him...?