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Thu Sep 12, 2013, 01:53 PM Sep 2013

Another example of how CNN has become a joke...

A sick joke in journalism.

CNN hosted Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt -- who has suggested the government may have been behind a recent mass shooting -- to discuss the status of the national gun debate following the recall of two Colorado state senators over their support for stronger gun laws.

During his September 11 appearance on CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper, Pratt expressed opposition to background checks on any gun sale and suggested that fellow guest Jim Kessler, the co-founder of centrist think tank Third Way, "like[s] bodies piling up," because of Kessler's opposition to guns in schools:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/12/cnn-mainstreams-gun-extremist-larry-pratt/195848

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Another example of how CNN has become a joke... (Original Post) Archae Sep 2013 OP
Ah, yes...the Gun Owners of America Blue_Tires Sep 2013 #1
And Turd Way too, the group whose very raison d'etre is being "ideological softies & wimps". Erose999 Sep 2013 #2

Blue_Tires

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1. Ah, yes...the Gun Owners of America
Thu Sep 12, 2013, 01:57 PM
Sep 2013

a.k.a. the group who thinks the NRA are a bunch of ideological softies and wimps

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