USMA-82
NES Member
For those of you who missed it tonight, the format was questions asked of the candidates via YouTube videos from "Mr and Mrs America." It was the usual Bush-bashing, Republican-Trashing fare, but I had to watch to see if guns or the Second Amendment would be addressed. Sure enough - there was one video question.
Here's how the gun-loving folks at CNN probably came up with their pick:
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Scene: Two weeks ago in the executive offices of CNN
“OK, folks. We’re almost done. The last topic we want to present at the Presidential Debate is gun control. Granted, we’d rather not talk about it, but I think some small, but loud segment of the country will want to hear something.”
“Well, obviously, we need to give anything connected with guns a negative spin. What exactly are we looking for?”
“In the best of all possible worlds: a barely coherent video, preferably staring a younger male (to create reminders of Cho and Virginia Tech), hopefully living somewhere that can be associated with gun nuts like militia members (maybe, Michigan?), and holding an evil assault weapon of some kind (to remind voters why we need to bring back the Assault Weapons Ban), and saying something really stupid… like referring to his guns as “his babies.”
“Yeah, right. Like we’re going to find something like that out of the 3,000 videos we’ve collected…”
“Wait a minute, guys. Check this one out……”
(in unison) “SCORE!”
Here's how the gun-loving folks at CNN probably came up with their pick:
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Scene: Two weeks ago in the executive offices of CNN
“OK, folks. We’re almost done. The last topic we want to present at the Presidential Debate is gun control. Granted, we’d rather not talk about it, but I think some small, but loud segment of the country will want to hear something.”
“Well, obviously, we need to give anything connected with guns a negative spin. What exactly are we looking for?”
“In the best of all possible worlds: a barely coherent video, preferably staring a younger male (to create reminders of Cho and Virginia Tech), hopefully living somewhere that can be associated with gun nuts like militia members (maybe, Michigan?), and holding an evil assault weapon of some kind (to remind voters why we need to bring back the Assault Weapons Ban), and saying something really stupid… like referring to his guns as “his babies.”
“Yeah, right. Like we’re going to find something like that out of the 3,000 videos we’ve collected…”
“Wait a minute, guys. Check this one out……”
(in unison) “SCORE!”