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Giffords Sums Up Her Disgust With Congress in a Scathing Op-Ed: “Shame on Them.”
Wednesday evening, shortly after Senate Republicans used a filibuster to derail an already watered-down compromise on extending background checks, President Obama used a Rose Garden address to blast the lawmakers behind the effort, saying they “caved to the pressure” from the gun lobby, which itself “willfully lied” about the legislation. Surrounded by Newtown families and Gabby Giffords, it was as visibly angry as many have seen the president. This morning, Giffords, who still struggles speaking aloud since being shot in the head in early 2011, had her say in an emotional op-ed in the New York Times. She didn’t pull any punches either. Here’s a snippet: Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who survived the massacre must feel every time they remember their teachers stacking them into closets and bathrooms, whispering that they loved them, so that love would be the last thing the students heard if the gunman found them. … Some of the senators who voted against the background-check [...]
Obama says NRA ‘lied’ as Senate fails on gun safety – VIDEO
This was a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said an angry President Obama after the Senate voted 54-46 against a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks for gun purchases. It needed 60 votes to pass. He spoke in the Rose Garden with families of murdered Newtown children and injured former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at his side. Opponents of the bill “caved to pressure,” he said. With no rational arguments against the bill, their vote “came down to politics—the worry that a vocal minority of gun owners would come after them in future elections.” msnbc read more
Who voted against gun control? Joe and Mika read their names
From Morning Joe: The morning after the Senate failed to pass a bipartisan agreement on gun control, the Morning Joe crew called out those 45 senators, including the four Democrats, who voted “No.” (Photo credit: Morning Joe) msnbc
Scarborough Goes Off On GOP For Voting Against Background Checks: ‘This Party Is Moving Toward Extinction’
As was expected by anyone who’s seen more than five minutes of Morning Joe in the past couple months, Joe Scarborough was upset this morning after the Senate failed to pass a measure that would expand background checks for gun purchases. Calling out those who voted against it, Scarborough emphatically stated that this Republican Party is headed toward “extinction” — and a new one will take its place. Most of the times, “when you lose, you lose,” Scarborough said. But this time is different. “This is just the beginning” — and the fight won’t end until we have a better background check system. Mike Barnicle agreed with Scarborough, noting that President Obama wasn’t the one who lost yesterday. “The president did not suffer a defeat,” he asserted. “The American people suffered the defeat yesterday in the United States Senate.” As Barnicle went on to illustrated how the Senate is a “broken” institution, the discussion turned toward filibuster reform, and how the talk about it didn’t result in any action. If Democrats had pushed to change the rules, Scarborough posited, this bill would have passed. “You do not ignore 90 percent of the American people on an issue of public safety,” [...]
Jon Stewart Tears Apart CNN For ‘Completely Fucking Wrong’ Boston Reporting: ‘Human Centipede Of News’
Jon Stewart let CNN have it over its erroneous reporting that an arrest had been made in the case of the Boston Marathon bombing. Stewart mocked how much CNN kept boasting of its “exclusive reporting,” which turned ot to be exclusive “because it was completely fucking wrong,” and was even more blown away by how CNN was subsequently backing away from and questioning that very report. Stewart described this as the network “shit[ting] in their own mouths,” christening CNN “the Human Centipede of News.” RELATED: Jeff Zucker Attributes CNN Criticism To Jealousy: ‘Just Because Jon Stewart Makes Fun Of It Doesn’t Mean He’s Right’ Stewart played a variety of clips in which Wolf Blitzer touted the network’s “exclusive reporting” on the arrest. Stewart said, “It’s exclusive because it was completely fucking wrong!” He also got in a veiled swipe at new CNN head Jeff Zucker for claiming Stewart to be a jealous competitor. Stewart asked, “Did any of your sources end their tip-offs to you with the phrase ‘Ba ba booey?’” And when CNN just dropped the story altogether, Stewart called it a “news story as imagined by M. Night Shyamalan.” But perhaps the best part for Stewart was the [...]
Colbert Rips Cable News For ‘Breakthrough’ In Reporting Everything ‘We Don’t Know’ About Boston Bombing
When it came to informing the public about developments in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, yesterday wasn’t a great day for cable news (save for MSNBC, which had a more cautious Pete Williams reporting on the story). CNN in particular has seen the brunt of the criticism (that Obamacare verdict didn’t help), with Jon Stewart deeming the network the “human centipede of news.” His Comedy Central colleague Stephen Colbert, too, chimed in last night. Colbert began with a different story, discussing the ricin letters sent to Sen. Roger Wicker and President Obama. Starting with being unaware of Sen. Wicker’s existence, Colbert detailed the many things yet unknown about the case. “Roger Wicker does not sound plausible as a senator,” Colbert quipped, noting it “sounds more like a patio furniture store.” Similarly, in Boston, 48 hours after the marathon bombings, “there has been a major breakthrough in the reporting of all the other things we don’t know.” With that, he cued up a montage of cable news clips offering contradictions amid their reporting and many instances of the phrase, “We don’t know…” “So, no arrest,” Colbert remarked, “but at least we have not wasted any precious time not being suspicious of [...]
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