NRA Fires Away at Obama-Biden on TV and Radio

[Hazcat]

September 22, 2008 2:42 PM

"Defend freedom," urges the National Rifle Association's new TV and radio ad campaign. "Defeat Obama."

The powerful gun owners' lobby today announced it is firing away at the Democratic presidential candidate with a cache of TV and radio ads in New Mexico, Colorado, and Pennsylvania.

The ads will run on cable TV in all three battleground states: CMT, CNN, DISC, ESPN, ESPN, ESPN News, ESX, FXNC, GOLFm HIST, MIL, NFL, Outdoor Channel, Speed, Spike, TBS, TNT, TWC, and Versus.

 
The ad called "Hunter" features a Virginia hunter named Karl Rusch asking about Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., "Where is this guy from? He's probably never been hunting a day in his life."

"Hunter" claims Obama supports a "huge" new tax on guns and ammo, a claim based on a 1999 story in the Chicago Defender. It says Obama "voted to ban virtually all deer hunting ammunition" (a charge based on a 2005 Senate vote for a failed amendment from Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., which would have expanded the definition of "armor-piercing") and supports a "ban on the shotguns and rifles most of us use for hunting" (a reference to Obama saying in a 2004 Senate debate that President Bush should have renewed the Assault Weapons Ban.)

 

"Veteran" features the hunter's son -- former Marine Staff Sgt. Kurt Rusch, who served in Iraq -- and takes issue with Obama's opposition in 2004 to a bill that offered legal protections to those who use firearms in self-defense, "freedoms that I fought for, that my friends died to defend," Rusch says.

The legislation originated from a 2003 incident when a Wilmette, Ill., restaurateur named Hale DeMar shot and wounded a burglar who broke into his house. DeMar was prosecuted by the town of Wilmette, which had, at the time, a ban on the possession of handguns, so some Illinois lawmakers introduced legislation to offer legal protections to individuals who use firearms in self-defense. The bill passed the Illinois state House by a vote of 86-25, and the Illinois state Senate -- where Obama voted against it -- by a vote of 39-20.

 

A third ad, "Way of Life," features Scott Siefert, a Michigan farmer, invoking Obama's infamous line from a San Francisco fundraiser in April about economically hurting small towners "cling"ing to guns, God, and bias.

"Because I believe in traditional American values, go to church, and exercise my right to own a firearm," Siefert says, "Barack Obama says I'm bitter. Well I'm not bitter, I'm blessed."

 

Then there's this fourth ad, targeted at Keystone Staters who like Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. In "Pennsylvania Values," the narrator says, "Joe Biden wants you to believe that he shares your values because he was born in Scranton. But Pennsylvania gun owners and hunters don't share his values." The ad then runs through a litany of gun control measures Biden has supported.

The NRA is also running audio attacks on 60 radio stations in Pennsylvania, 22 radio stations in Colorado, and an undisclosed number in the Land of Enchantment.

Ads at link http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/nra-firing-away.html

[brosometal]

Hear, Hear!!!!!!!! Git 'em NRA

[tt11758]

Makes me even prouder to be an NRA member!!   

[shooter32]

YES!!
Anyone in the gun,shooting,ammo,hunting busness,the big outdoor stores that have ANYTHING to do with guns. Should be throughing their hat and money in the ring to help!!!

We can't have B-Ho in the White house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ericire12]

Here is the video:

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[ericire12]

Update: FactCheck.org returns fire for Obama

Basically FactCheck.org is taking Obama at his word, and not looking at his record. Hmmmmmmm.... do they not understand he (and all politicians) will say anything to get elected?

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/nra_targets_obama.html

NRA Targets Obama
September 22, 2008

It (NRA) falsely claims in mailers and TV ads that Obama plans to ban handguns, hunting ammo and use of a gun for home defense.


Summary
A National Rifle Association advertising campaign distorts Obama's position on gun control beyond recognition.

The NRA is circulating printed material and running TV ads making unsubstantiated claims that Obama plans to ban use of firearms for home defense, ban possession and manufacture of handguns, close 90 percent of gun shops and ban hunting ammunition.

Much of what the NRA passes off as Obama's "10 Point Plan to 'Change' the Second Amendment" is actually contrary to what he has said throughout his campaign: that he "respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms" and "will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport, and use guns."

The NRA, however, simply dismisses Obama's stated position as "rhetoric" and substitutes its own interpretation of his record as a secret "plan." Said an NRA spokesman: "We believe our facts."

Perhaps so, but believing something doesn't make it so. And we find the NRA has cherry-picked, twisted and misrepresented Obama's record to come up with a bogus "plan."

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Obama's Gun Control Votes:
http://www.sportsmenforobama.org/content/view/42/

And Here:
http://www.issues2000.org/Barack_Obama.htm#Gun_Control




From his own mouth:
http://www.issues2000.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Gun_Control.htm




----> Factcheck.org is funded by the Annenberg Foundation, which also funded the William Ayers/Barack Obama Chicago Annenberg Challenge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Annenberg_Challenge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama%E2%80%93Ayers_controversy

The CAC would come under scrutiny during the 2008 Democratic Primary presidential primaries, when, during a debate with Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia, Barack Obama was asked by George Stephanopolous to explain his relation with William Ayers, with whom he served on the board of CAC from 1995-2002 and traded board chairmanship. Obama described Ayers thusly:

    This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."[6]

As a State Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama listed among his credentials, chairmanship of "The Chicago Annebery [sic] Challenge."

[WatchManUSA]

This flash is just in from the editors at FactCheck.org...

"We reject your reality and substitute our own!"

ED- FactCheck.org

 

[ericire12]

[tt11758]

"Unsubstantiated claims", my ass!!  Listen to his words and look at his freakin record, for goodness sake!!

[tombogan03884]

"Unsubstantiated claims", my ass!!  Listen to his words and look at his freakin record, for goodness sake!!

What kind of racist homophobic reactionary would even THINK of such a thing ! You must be a bitter gun and Bible clinger. ....Yeah, me to.