Playing the Credibility Card
Anytime a politician starts telling you how much he's like you in some old-fashioned Americana kind of way, you might want to check his agenda, because usually he tells you that right before he tries his damndest to yank away whatever liberty on which he's just waxed nostalgic.
Enter our favorite New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg. Only in a place like New York could such a man be considered a Republican, because he sure as hell isn't a conservative. Bloomberg has been leading a tireless campaign of late to find a way to extend New York's virtual gun ban to the rest of the United States and next week he's sought to meet with the mayors of several major U.S. cities to try and "join forces" against our liberties and lobby Congress against the bulk of the American citizenry.
Such a move might put him at an awful credibility disadvantage. I mean, here he is, more liberal than "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani, who's also for gun control, and he's got to establish his bona fides with middle America. Hard to do that when you're seen as an elitist snob by even some of your own citizens in New York, right? What to do? Play the Credibility Card of course!
See, Bloomberg's just like us in the Midwest. He was a boyscout who once fired a .22 rifle! Here him speak his homespun "pass the biscuits" wisdom on the issue of gun rights and why we have nothing to fear.
"You want to go hunting and have a gun - you know, I'm not opposed to that," he said.
The 64-year-old mayor, who grew up in Medford, Mass., and occasionally refers to fond memories of Boy Scout camp, said he participated in riflery there and owned a .22 caliber rifle for target practice on a shooting range.
"I see nothing wrong with people having guns, but that doesn't mean you can have a gun every place, and concealed weapons - or even weapons out in the open in big cities on city streets - does not make a lot of sense to me," he said.
Sends a chill up your spine, doesn't it? It's like he's a good ole farm boy who un'erstan's what us'in kountree bumpkin's in 'Murka thinks 'bout gunz. Give me a break. If anything, he comes off as more of an elitist snob, only add condescending to boot. He grew up in Massachusetts in a different time and now that very state he speaks of would probably not enjoy being identified as a gun haven for renegade Jesus-freak Boy Scouts. Granted, I'm just trying to put the proper spin on it for Mayor Bloomberg's constituency.
This man knows just short of nothing about what it takes to live in the rest of the country outside of New York. He's living in his little bubble, the tiny microcosm of Manhattan, assured that if only the rest of us could just be made to see how much smarter and wiser he is than us, we would surely submit to his revolutionary anti-rights policies.
And you know, if New Yorkers are happy with the likes of Bloomberg, hey they made their bed. But don't try and infect the rest of the U.S. with your diseased philosophy of no legal guns=peace in our time. I've seen the murder rates from cities that have gone that route including New York and I've seen the curtailment of freedoms in those cities as police try to retain some semblance of order, and I don't want it. Neither do the sane folk who live outside the Boroughs.
Enjoy the tiny island of fascist utopia you think you've created with the likes of Captain Bly Bloomberg at the helm. Just don't try an spread your idiotic ideas into our little corner of the woods, and please don't act like you understand us. I think it was better when you didn't know we existed.
Anytime a politician starts telling you how much he's like you in some old-fashioned Americana kind of way, you might want to check his agenda, because usually he tells you that right before he tries his damndest to yank away whatever liberty on which he's just waxed nostalgic.
Enter our favorite New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg. Only in a place like New York could such a man be considered a Republican, because he sure as hell isn't a conservative. Bloomberg has been leading a tireless campaign of late to find a way to extend New York's virtual gun ban to the rest of the United States and next week he's sought to meet with the mayors of several major U.S. cities to try and "join forces" against our liberties and lobby Congress against the bulk of the American citizenry.
Such a move might put him at an awful credibility disadvantage. I mean, here he is, more liberal than "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani, who's also for gun control, and he's got to establish his bona fides with middle America. Hard to do that when you're seen as an elitist snob by even some of your own citizens in New York, right? What to do? Play the Credibility Card of course!
See, Bloomberg's just like us in the Midwest. He was a boyscout who once fired a .22 rifle! Here him speak his homespun "pass the biscuits" wisdom on the issue of gun rights and why we have nothing to fear.
"You want to go hunting and have a gun - you know, I'm not opposed to that," he said.
The 64-year-old mayor, who grew up in Medford, Mass., and occasionally refers to fond memories of Boy Scout camp, said he participated in riflery there and owned a .22 caliber rifle for target practice on a shooting range.
"I see nothing wrong with people having guns, but that doesn't mean you can have a gun every place, and concealed weapons - or even weapons out in the open in big cities on city streets - does not make a lot of sense to me," he said.
Sends a chill up your spine, doesn't it? It's like he's a good ole farm boy who un'erstan's what us'in kountree bumpkin's in 'Murka thinks 'bout gunz. Give me a break. If anything, he comes off as more of an elitist snob, only add condescending to boot. He grew up in Massachusetts in a different time and now that very state he speaks of would probably not enjoy being identified as a gun haven for renegade Jesus-freak Boy Scouts. Granted, I'm just trying to put the proper spin on it for Mayor Bloomberg's constituency.
This man knows just short of nothing about what it takes to live in the rest of the country outside of New York. He's living in his little bubble, the tiny microcosm of Manhattan, assured that if only the rest of us could just be made to see how much smarter and wiser he is than us, we would surely submit to his revolutionary anti-rights policies.
And you know, if New Yorkers are happy with the likes of Bloomberg, hey they made their bed. But don't try and infect the rest of the U.S. with your diseased philosophy of no legal guns=peace in our time. I've seen the murder rates from cities that have gone that route including New York and I've seen the curtailment of freedoms in those cities as police try to retain some semblance of order, and I don't want it. Neither do the sane folk who live outside the Boroughs.
Enjoy the tiny island of fascist utopia you think you've created with the likes of Captain Bly Bloomberg at the helm. Just don't try an spread your idiotic ideas into our little corner of the woods, and please don't act like you understand us. I think it was better when you didn't know we existed.
posted by Rob Beck | 7:07 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home