Despite White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's assertion
"now is not the time to talk about gun control laws", and keep we the peeps from demanding gun control legislation in wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings,
"We the People" petition site is the most popular ever.
"Immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction
of legislation in Congress," it says. "While a national dialogue is
critical, laws are the only means in which we can reduce the number of
people murdered in gun related deaths."
Does anyone really think that guns aren’t the important part of this
equation? How many people would be alive today if the possession of guns
had been tightly controlled? How many would be celebrating this
Christmas with their loved ones if the assault weapons ban hadn’t been
allowed to lapse?
How about some media control too? The media narrative is out of control. However this is the same media who enabled Bush and Company to take our troops to war based on dead wrong intelligence.....
And finally, let's get the facts right, guys, okay? Pretty much
everything reported on the shooting in the first few hours turned out
(once again) to be completely wrong. And that is not even counting
all the breathless speculation which I'm positive went out over the
24-hour news networks (which I refused to watch as the story unfolded,
just on general principles). When you're on the air non-stop, and there
is little or no information, don't try to scoop everybody else when you
have not checked your facts. The police have gotten a lot better about
refusing to release information until facts are known (and the police,
to be fair in this instance, did release erroneous information which the
media dutifully reported), but the news media itself needs to do a much
better job of policing what goes out over their airwaves in the first
few hours of any breaking story.
Grand Old White Male Party gets diversity memo. I thought republicans didn't believe in
affirmative action and quotas? Anyhoo...meet the soon to be only African American Senator serving in the United States Senate from the
red state of South Carolina,
Tim Scott (r. Tea Party).
He will do the bidding of the Good Old Boy network down there, which
should be profoundly depressing most of the time. Perhaps there will be
some hope for him somewhere down the line. He seems like a genuinely
nice person of deep religious faith who has a permanent smile plastered
on his face.
Red State Protest in the Reddest of the Red States....also known as Sweet Home Alabama. Yee Haw!
As if Mitt Romney’s 61 percent performance in Alabama wasn’t proof
enough, most of the state’s Republican electors wore red clothing Monday
to highlight Alabama’s red state status.
RedEye signing off!
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