http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/25/nras-wayne-lapierre-just-plagiarized-himself/199036
National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre took the stage today at his organization's most important event of the year and delivered a paranoid rant virtually identical to the one he gave to conservative activists last month.
LaPierre was speaking during the Leadership Forum at the NRA's Annual Meeting and Exhibits. Thousands of NRA members pay $10 to see LaPierre and other NRA and Republican leaders at what is billed by the groupas "one of the NRA's premier events of the year."
But LaPierre apparently could not be bothered to come up with a new pitch for his members, instead delivering a speech virtually identical to the one he gave at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 6.
During the CPAC speech, LaPierre acknowledged that some attendees might not be NRA members and urged them to join. During the NRA speech, he responded to a recent development. The remainder of the speeches were word-for-word the same.
During his NRA speech, LaPierre responded to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg'sannouncement earlier this month that he will spend $50 million on gun safety efforts this year, playing a video that asked members to donate to the NRA. Text that did not also appear in his previous CPAC speech is bolded:
this mindset has always been with those who perfer cold steel to the warm touch of their own child, i think since Pres. was elected twice the right wing White guys have been emboldened from the first rant of "YOU LIE" at the first state of the union and from there they have constantly pushed the envelope and continue to this day, not Pres.'s fault but it is right wing racist and bigot's.But mark my words. The NRA will not go quietly into the night. We will fight.
Now, some of you may have heard about Michael Bloomberg. Last week, he gave a big interview to The New York Times and the Today show.Bloomberg vowed to spend $50 million to beat us in November. He said he would do everything he could with all of his $50 million to confront and defeat the NRA. Well, here's our response.[VIDEO ROLL]This election will be won or lost on every street, every corner, in every coffee shop or store or church in America -- where every NRA member lives and works and volunteers and campaigns.
there is nothing new to bring they are all right wing extremist even those who aren't rabid still caucus and vote that party line, birds of a feather are duplicitous. what amazes me are those members who have families allow themselves to turn a blind eye to the death and destruction guns cause, doe going out in the woods and shooting a rabbit with a AR-15 more important to them then the welfare of their own families? is there a point where they concede the need for better regulations or will the continue to watch kids die by their PARENTS GUNS AT HOME?
there is no such thing as a good guy vwith a gun the gun makes any perceived good guy a potential murder intentional or by accident the end is stuill permanrnt loss.
