Gene Berardelli announces a January 9th interview with NRA President on the Brooklyn GOP's own blog-talk radio program in a post on the "Brooklyn GOP Radio -Official- Show Blog"
Mr. B portrays his first show of 2013 as if it's a major "get" because he and Russell Gallo will be interviewing NRA President David Keene.
I've done a quick computer search on Mr. Keene; and it looks like his post Newtown-Sandy Hook School comments have been one version or another of the Wayne LaPierre-NRA talking points about avoiding similar incidents by instituting a permanent lock-down with armed guards at all schools and how the media is again using the recent "gun-nut" disaster for a "witch hunt" against lawful gun owners.
One doubts that there will be any incisive questioning of Keene by Gallo and Beradelli, The best that can be hoped for is that somebody will say something comically or frighteningly outrageous on the 9th. On the other hand the show might make a good drinking game with the magic phrases being either "Guns don't kill people..." or "the Second Amendment..."
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GUESS WHAT'S HAPPENING AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME AT A CLASSIER VENUE ! ! !
Who/what: Brooklyn Young Republican Club’s January Social
Where: reBar, 147 Front St, Brooklyn ( DUMBO )
When: Wednesday, January 9, 6:30-9:00pm
Your first drink is on Brooklyn Young Republican Club if you become a new member or renew your 2013 membership (or even if you already have).
Maybe I'll see you there....
ARE THE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF "SICKO" GUN OWNERS PROTECTED BY OBAMACARE ?
Maybe Russell-Gene Barn-gallows can ask Mr. Peachy-keen gun-runner about this:
Strangely hidden away deep in the sprawling text of President Obama’s health-care law, Obamacare, are the following “gun rights.” Under the headline “Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights” is a a provision that restricts the ability of doctors to gather data about their patients’ gun use. That’s a very strange item in Obamacare, because it’s a significant hurdle to a movement in the American health care community to treat gun-shot injuries and deaths as a significant aspect of public health.
Now, it's been disclosed that this language had been pushed by the NRA in the final weeks of the 2010 debate over Obamacare. It supposedly was only “discovered” in recent days by some anti-gun-rights lawmakers and medical groups. It is now drawing significant criticism in the wake of December’s schoolhouse massacre of 20 children and six educators in Newtown, Connecticutt. Some public health advocates, worried that the measure will hinder research and medical care, are calling on the White House to amend the language as it prepares to launch a gun-control initiative in January.
According to a report in the Washington Post, “NRA fingerprints in landmark health-care law” by Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger, 12/30/12:
“NRA officials say they requested the provision out of concern that insurance companies could use such data to raise premiums on gun owners. The measure’s supporters in the Senate say they did not intend to interfere with the work of doctors or researchers. *** But physician groups and researchers see the provision as part of a decades-long strategy by the gun lobby to choke off federal support for studies of firearms violence.” [http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nra
-fingerprints-in-landmark-health-care-law/2012/12/30/e6018656-5066-11e2-950a-7863a013264b_story.html ]
Here’s a few pointed questions for Gallo or Berardelli to put to Mr. Keene, “Was this a sell-out; did the NRA alter its position on Obamacare in any way in exchange for the insertion of this language into the Obamacare Bill (now Law) ?” --- "Didn't the NRA foresee that language like this was at best a temporary accommodation to get Obamacare passed; and that it would immediately become an opportunistic target for removal once the health care law was passed?”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/preacher-bernard-weighs-run-mayor-article-1.1233586
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