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| Cold Dead Hand Debate | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 10 2013, 10:36 AM (309 Views) | |
| Pasta | Apr 10 2013, 10:36 AM Post #1 |
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I have watched this debate in the US about gun control and continue to be amazed at the vitriol launched by the gun lobby at anyone who dares to question an unfettered right to own virtually any weapon. To me the journalists and defenders of the second amendment are far more beligerant and insulting than I could ever have imagined. Jim Carrey's spoof video "Cold Dead Hand" was not, in my opinion, in good taste. I can understand the motivation but it wasn't his best work. Nevertheless the criticism by supposedly professional news casters has been way way way worse. Absolute buffoons. I was thinking to myself this is what the Islamic radicals do. Shout, insult, intimmidate and resort to violence. There can never be any reason. One of the newscasters suggested that Carrey "as a foreigner should keep out of our business". What an insult to all foreigners. So non-citizens can't make comments? (The same was said about Piers Morgan by a news caster suggesting as a foreigner he should shut his fXXXing mouth). With due respect Carrey and other Canadians such as Lorne Green and Michael J Fox have done way more for expansion of US culture, way more in generation of taxes, way more in support of charitable functions than these news casters combined will ever do. I found the news casters, especially Fox (is that Murdoch or what?) to be insanely offensive and biased. Then today I ran across this rebuttal by Carrey and he says it well. http://news.yahoo.com/jim-carrey-fires-bac...-193509569.html In the latter part of the article one newscaster makes my point.
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