NRA targets 'elites of the Godless left'
The National Rifle Association of America unleashes conservative commentator Dana Loesch to attack those they call the 'infidels of freedom'.
PT1M11S 620 349After the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, New York's Daily News deployed all of its tabloid cover in an attack on what it called America's "gun scourge" and the "cowards" – meaning the politicians, hiding "behind meaningless platitudes" instead of fixing the problem. "GOD ISN'T FIXING THIS" was the headline.
Now the National Rifle Association has fired back, with its own tabloid-vivid attack, directed at the Daily News specifically and the "Godless Left" in general.
![Guns aplenty on display in the Smith & Wesson booth at a gun expo in the US.](/web/20151217012356im_/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/l/z/w/g/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.glogon.png/1450273000361.jpg)
Guns aplenty on display in the Smith & Wesson booth at a gun expo in the US. Photo: Bloomberg
Narrated by a grim-faced Dana Loesch, and interwoven with video footage of what appear to be first responders, the NRA video leaves no stone unturned and none of its demons unscathed as it connects the dots, as the video's introduction says, between "the global alliance of elitists, media activists, Hollywood celebrities, campus radicals and political power mongers who have openly attacked sacred American values and the people who cherish them with ruthlessness, contempt and downright hatred," who share "the same fanatical fervour to tear apart the foundations of America as the terrorists who threaten our very survival".
"Only hours after an attack of radical jihadi terror on American soil," Loesch says in the video, "the New York Daily News became the loudest, vilest, most condescending voice for what many people call the Godless Left. These false prophets at this failing excuse for a newspaper claimed to enjoy special knowledge of God's plans somehow . . . even as they mocked the entire concept of religion. But they weren't alone. As a horrific act of terror unfolded in real time, the majority of Americans turned to earnest prayer for the dead, the wounded, their families and the world – while political and media elites joined forces to insult and mock and disparage them . . . and in so doing, laid bare the utter moral depravity of the Godless Left."
"The Godless Left's global alliance of elitists and media activists and Hollywood celebrities and campus radicals and political power mongers – they openly attacked sacred American values and the people who cherish them with ruthlessness, and contempt and downright hatred," she declares.
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A couple embrace following the San Bernardino shooting in early December. Photo: AP
She then manages to interconnect all of the following:
- Benghazi;
- Hillary Clinton, the "queen of the movement;"
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The front page of New York newspaper the Daily News that upset the National Rifle Association.
- The media that "whitewashed the killers' motives at the Boston Marathon and Fort Hood";
- "The unconscionable scandals at the VA";
- "The weaponising of the IRS";
- Obamacare;
- The "demonising" of Christmas and Christianity; and
- "The only religion in the world that contains a segment which condones this terrorism".
By the end, it finally gets around to guns.
"As the families of the victims in San Bernardino called out to their fellow Americans for prayer, the Godless Left launched a vitriolic attack on the twin pillars of American freedom: The First and Second Amendments."
The video is proudly sponsored by Kimber, purveyor and manufacturer of guns.
Washington Post