WH's massacre talking points leaked to NBC news

[Tanuki]

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/read-the-leaked-white-house-talking-points-crafted-in-response-to-the-las-vegas-massacre/amp/

"NBC news has revealed secret White House talking points on the mass shooting massacre at the Mandalay Hotel in Las Vegas.

The talking points produced by the White House communications department add context to the comments President Trump’s administration has made since the shooting.

Early Tuesday President Donald Trump vowed to look at gun laws, “as time goes by.”

The secret White House talking points have a similar message, stating, “let’s gather the facts before we make sweeping policy arguments for curtailing the Second Amendment.”

Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders deflected questions by invoking Chicago.

The secret talking points also have a similar message, suggesting White House supports cite, “some of America’s cities with the strictest gun laws have the highest rates of gun violence.” The talking points specifically recommend referencing Chicago and Baltimore.".....(more)

(Photo is WH Communications Director Hope Hicks deplaning Air Force 1)

[HipChick]

1. Is that what passes for office attire these days?

or is that side-chick wear?

[LonePirate]

2. Igor Volsky has countered each and every one of those talking points.

Link to tweet

[Hoyt]

7. Great rebuttal to white wing BS.

[guillaumeb]

3. Is Hope Hicks the futire Mrs. Donald Trump?

She fits the profile.

[renate]

4. I was just about to ask whether that was Melania because I've never seen her smile

But actually I think I saw her smiling at her son in quite a few pictures, so it was the context plus the smile that threw me.

And right I was, since this isn't her.

[riversedge]

5. Hardball had several of the Repugs parroting these talking points a bit ago.

[tanyev]

6. Of course, he's got no problem with sweeping calls for curtailing the First Amendment.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Embracing all the false, illogical and childish excuses and deflections of NRA/ISIS. Fuck them all.